A Good Book

A good book is wonderful to have at hand.  If there is a lapse in your day, you can gladly turn to your book and spend 10 minutes or so finding out what happens next in the story.  When it comes time for bed, and you usually read a while before lights out, you look forward to getting back to it.  I remember reading Jaws one summer long ago and every time I was going to read more of it I would (silently) mimic the TV announcer saying, " And now back to Jaws!"  I had already seen it on TV.  I enjoyed reading that and also another Peter Benchley novel, "The Deep."    Lately I've not had a good book around and so just read part of a Tom Clancy novel.  I have a bunch of these from a White Elephant gift exchange.  I should donate them somewhere but it's not worth the lifting.  They are thick and heavy.  Maybe we could use them to start fires. 

People seem to want to have a book with them when travelling.  It gives you something to do rather than just staring off into space.  It may keep others from attempting conversation with you also.

The thing now, is to have some kind of electronic device that you are fiddling with.  Things are changing faster than people can adjust to them.  I noticed that nearly everyone on the airplane had at least one device.  Some had two or more.  I had my multifunctional GP2X.  It can play games, movies, show pictures and ebooks.  I played a couple of games on it.  There are about a thousand games on it.  The nice thing is you can download the games free on the Internet.  I haven't used it for movies or e-reading.  I have two of these game consoles so I'm going to sell one on Ebay.  

Well, my TV show is coming on in five minutes, so I'm finished with my blogging.  If you've got a good book to recommend please do so.