Last week I finished reading a long book, and I’m trying to find a new one. So far, no luck.
I’ve got several dozen book samples on my Kindle, but none of them seems to be grabbing me. I keep switching back and forth between different books until my interest latches onto it. I guess that’s the nice thing about the Kindle, though: I can carry more than one book with me at a time.
I’m switching back and forth among Diarmaid McCulloch’s Christianity (a history book), Richard Evans’s The Third Reich in Power (I read the first book in his trilogy, The Coming of the Third Reich, a few years ago), and Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts, also about Nazi Germany. But I’ve reached the end of the sample of that last one, and I can’t seem to get myself interested enough to pay for the whole book.
Why such depressing subject matter? I don’t know. I just find it interesting. But apparently not interesting enough to latch onto right now for a full read.
Maybe I need a break from reading the Kindle screen? Maybe I miss old-fashioned paper books?
I don’t know. I’m sure some book will call out to me soon enough.
I read Kindle books on my iPad, and I’m in a similar funk. I do like the new Kindle Singles, because they are shorter and cheaper. Have you seen the new Byliner Originals? There’s one that’s $5.99 about the Civil War that I would think you would like, but the rest are all $2.99 or less.
I also hunt through the Top 100 Free e-books list on Amazon, looking for deals. Every once in awhile there’s something good that shows up.
Have you read Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough, about the early years of Theodore Roosevelt? I read it after I toured his boyhood home in Manhattan. Really interesting.
If you don’t insist on fiction, how about Write More Good?
Thanks for the recommendations, all.