The Woman in White and my iPad

The version I read on my
iPad looks so different!

Good golly! We haven't had a book review on here in months. For shame...I know Isabug and I have had a few posts on our regular blogs but really, has no one read a book worth mentioning?

I confess that I spent about a month listening to A Breath of Snow and Ashes (unabridged 50!! hours) by Diana Gabaldon in the crazy Outlander series. Get a life I say to myself but it was great and had a super surprise ending that I'd love to talk about with someone. Is anyone that far yet? Grandpa? I'm going to take a short break before I start in on the seventh and final (so far) book of the series.

I also have started reading real, electronic books on my Christmas iPad. I just finished The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins that I cannot say enough good stuff about. I loved it. I loved it so much that I might have to go to the effort to update my Facebook "favorite books" in appreciation only Wilkie Collins is long dead so I don't know how much he'll appreciate. He is, in fact, so long dead that his books are free in public domain. I loved this book so much that I wish I had read it and written a paper on it in my college 19th century British novels class. Instead, I will merely write this love post to it which will not be graded.

In addition, to loving The Woman in White, I love my new iPad. I really didn't think that I would like reading books on it but lying in bed at night with the lights out reading under the covers, I have found myself trying to turn non-existent pages on my iPad because it feels so real, and so book-like. And, yet, I don't have to have a flashlight/booklight to read my book. So far I have finished, the aforementioned Women in White, Mini-Shopaholic (from the library) and am almost through My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum (also from the library and hilarious). There are times when I wish I could fold the corner of a page down and underline something wonderful that I just read but I'm getting over it because I couldn't/shouldn't do that in a library book anyway --although, I must admit a fondness for a gently underlined by someone else book. It always makes me feel a connection to this anonymous person and wonder why they found those words so special.