What Do You Read?
June 10th, 2008. Filed under: Tuesday's Tempting Reads.I love to read. Anything. Any time. Cereal boxes or the great American novel. If it’s the printed word, I will read it. I keep my local library busy with all my requests, but have learned how dangerous a place it can be when I walk through the door. I try to avoid book stores. I can spend all day and half the night in one. From opening until closing. I can also wipe out a checking account, savings account and max out a credit card without a second thought. I have not been in a book store for about 18 months. If I buy a book for a gift, I buy it online. It’s easier for me to resist making a humongous purchase if I’m not actually holding the written word in my hands. I’ve discovered another way to find reading material. I’ve been reading online. There are many sites out there with free books, including both the classics and newly published.
Arcamax Publishing will send daily installments of books to your e-mail
Zondervan’s Breakfast Club sends out nibbles and tidbits to your in box Monday through Fridays. Being a member of the Breakfast Club nets you sample excerpts from books, sneak previews of upcoming books and you can win signed books and other fun stuff.
In celebration of the publication of I Shall Not Want, St. Martin’s Minotaur is offering the first two ebooks of Julia Spencer-Fleming’s A Clare Fergusson / Russ Van Alystyne Mystery series: In The Bleak Midwinter and A Fountain Filled With Blood.
Other online reading sites include
Page By Page Books hundreds of classic books
Project Gutenberg over 25,000 free books
byGosh.com the best novels of the 20th century
Start surfing. It’s time to read.
June 10th, 2008 at 22:22
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