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I'm getting an ebook reader for Christmas, the Kobo one that Chapters/Indigo sponsors (and Barnes and Noble sells in the US). It will read ePub books which is the standard for ebooks as well as pdf files. I will be able to borrow from the library if i want as well. I also did some judicious searching online and have found a few downloads of ebooks, many hundreds and after weeding through them to discard the ones i defiinitely don't want, i still have nearly 1000. I doubt i will read them all, there are many that may not really be my thing but there's a lot that i probably will read. Not all older classic books either, there's some newer ones and many of the books or authors are ones i though i might like to read or re-read. I'll have a good library to pick at when i've read any that i've bought or borrowed from new releases.
I officially get the ereader tomorrow night when gramie_dee and i exchange our Christmas gifts at our annual webcam "party". I'll get my annual song t hen as well. Stay tuned here and on Facebook as well for a link when it's ready for public listening. He's quite pleased with the results of this one this year so i expect great things!
We had our office Christmas lunch and afternoon do on Friday. The food was really good, done at a local hotel. The organizers did up some little games like a Bingo sort of thing and another one where you get snippets of songs or dialogue from movies or tv shows and you had to guess which ones they are. I suck at Bingo so i didn't do very well there. I did ok on the guessing game but missed out by one in participating in the tie breaker. Ah well. I'm working this week up to Friday noon when the offices close down and then am off for a week.
I had a visit from my best friend J. today. She drove down from Moncton. My other friend, T, who makes up the third side of our triangular bestfriendship wasn't able to be there, in fact, i think they probably passed each other on the highway as T. was off to Moncton to her partner's family's Christmas get together. T and I will meet up on Thursday and exchange our gifts. J and I had a lovely long chat all afternoon. She moved east from Edmonton in the summer so we will get to see each other a bit more now as Moncton is only about 3 hours' drive or a little less if it's not winter.
2010 books
33 was that one about Catherine de Medici that i mentioned in the last book post.
34: The Sign by Raymond Khoury This was good. We start at a remote location where there is a scientific research crew. The head of the crew argues with someone and is killed and a witness is chased as he runs away. It seems as though he drives over the edge of a cliff in his hurry. Two years later, we are in the Antarctic where a news crew is covering the disintegration of an ice shelf as part of the larger environmental disaster the world is hurtling towards. Suddenly a glowing symbol appears in the sky. The news crew gets the scoop but nobody really knows what this symbol means. It happens again shortly after over Greenland where another environmental problem is ongoing. Is this sign religious? nobody knows. We move to Egypt where a monk, a very well known religious man, is in a cave in the mountains and has covered the walls with a drawing of this same symbol, but he's been doing that for months, long before the symbol appeared in the sky. We also follow the brother of the man that presumably died and he is on a mission to prove that his brother didn't die and might have something to do with this sign, whatever it is. Slowly we discover that the sign is being projected or man-created. There's good guys and bad guys, people that use and get used. It was a good read. I'd read more of this guy's books. I think i did read one of the ones he wrote about the Templars as it happens and he's done a few more.
35: Official 50th anniversary book of Coronation Street - Sean Egan. Lots of pics, focuses on many of the individual actors, brief summaries of the major storylines up to mid 2010.
I officially get the ereader tomorrow night when gramie_dee and i exchange our Christmas gifts at our annual webcam "party". I'll get my annual song t hen as well. Stay tuned here and on Facebook as well for a link when it's ready for public listening. He's quite pleased with the results of this one this year so i expect great things!
We had our office Christmas lunch and afternoon do on Friday. The food was really good, done at a local hotel. The organizers did up some little games like a Bingo sort of thing and another one where you get snippets of songs or dialogue from movies or tv shows and you had to guess which ones they are. I suck at Bingo so i didn't do very well there. I did ok on the guessing game but missed out by one in participating in the tie breaker. Ah well. I'm working this week up to Friday noon when the offices close down and then am off for a week.
I had a visit from my best friend J. today. She drove down from Moncton. My other friend, T, who makes up the third side of our triangular bestfriendship wasn't able to be there, in fact, i think they probably passed each other on the highway as T. was off to Moncton to her partner's family's Christmas get together. T and I will meet up on Thursday and exchange our gifts. J and I had a lovely long chat all afternoon. She moved east from Edmonton in the summer so we will get to see each other a bit more now as Moncton is only about 3 hours' drive or a little less if it's not winter.
2010 books
33 was that one about Catherine de Medici that i mentioned in the last book post.
34: The Sign by Raymond Khoury This was good. We start at a remote location where there is a scientific research crew. The head of the crew argues with someone and is killed and a witness is chased as he runs away. It seems as though he drives over the edge of a cliff in his hurry. Two years later, we are in the Antarctic where a news crew is covering the disintegration of an ice shelf as part of the larger environmental disaster the world is hurtling towards. Suddenly a glowing symbol appears in the sky. The news crew gets the scoop but nobody really knows what this symbol means. It happens again shortly after over Greenland where another environmental problem is ongoing. Is this sign religious? nobody knows. We move to Egypt where a monk, a very well known religious man, is in a cave in the mountains and has covered the walls with a drawing of this same symbol, but he's been doing that for months, long before the symbol appeared in the sky. We also follow the brother of the man that presumably died and he is on a mission to prove that his brother didn't die and might have something to do with this sign, whatever it is. Slowly we discover that the sign is being projected or man-created. There's good guys and bad guys, people that use and get used. It was a good read. I'd read more of this guy's books. I think i did read one of the ones he wrote about the Templars as it happens and he's done a few more.
35: Official 50th anniversary book of Coronation Street - Sean Egan. Lots of pics, focuses on many of the individual actors, brief summaries of the major storylines up to mid 2010.