Books on my Kindle!

I got a Kindle for Christmas from my loving husband and son.  For a long time I was adamant that no, I did not want a Kindle, I wanted to hold my books in my hand, turn the pages, smell the ink.  But then something in me shifted, and I decided I wanted one.  What a great, well, gadget is too trite a word, innovation?  I find that I read more, read in more places, and read more widely with my Kindle.  I read more because it's easy to carry around - I can have 4 or 5 books started, read what I'm in the mood for, and then put one small, tiny thing back in my bag.  I can read everywhere, because I take my Kindle everywhere.  I don't have to remember to pick up a book from my bedside stand and take it.  I have read more widely thanks to Amazon's Free Kindle Books - the word "free" makes it easy to download something that I wouldn't necessarily buy.  I am therefore exposed to new authors and genres (I tend to be an author/genre snob).

Kindles also hold games, and I have a few, but I find that I don't spend much time playing them.  I'd rather read!

My kindle:

As you can see, I have also succumbed to the "skin" phenomenon and have covered my Kindle in a skin from DecalGirl (Decal Girl website).  Even though my Kindle is in a lighted case, and yes it was expensive, probably too expensive, I like the idea of the skin - it makes it much more soothing to me!

So, what do I have on my Kindle (in no particular order!)

FANTASY/HISTORICAL
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
A Dance of Cloaks by David Dalglish
The Half-Orcs by David Dalglish
The Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Acacia:  The War with the Mein by David Anthony
Shatter (The Children of Men) by Elizabeth C. Mock
The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick
The Glass Virgin by Catherine Cookson
North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

STIEG LARSON
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest


NONFICTION
Everest:  The West Ridge by Thomas F. Hornbein
A Child al Confino by Eric Lamet
The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
The Jacobite Rebellions by James Pringle Thomson
South:  The Story of Shackleton by Sir Earnest Henry Shackleton
Folklore and Legends of Scotland
Admit One:  My Life in Film by  Emmett James


CLASSICS
Works of Thomas Hardy
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Girl of the Limberlost  by Gerne Stratton-Porter
The English Orphans by Mary Jane Holmes
The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes  by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Grimm's Fairy Stories by Jacob Grimm


CONTEMPORARY FICTION
The Necromancer by Pamela Richter
Roseflower Creek by Jackie Lee Miles
Don't Die, Dragonfly by Linda Joy Singleton
The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
Invisible (Ivy Malone) by Lorena McCourtney
The Grove by John Rector
The Traitor's Wife by Susan Higginbotham
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson