New Kindle Books

It has been quite a while since I have written but I think that is because I go in cycles about writing and this is a low part of the cycle.

I woke up to some interesting news Kindle-wise this morning and that is that Lord of the Rings {LOTR}and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien are now available for the Kindle. And they are both on my Kindle now!} And what many Kindle owners are hoping is that next the Harry Potter books will be released  as ebooks too, which probably wont happen since the author has gone public saying this will not happen!} LOTR can, apparently, be bought in one big book or three separate ones and, of course, I opted for the one book as soon as I found out that it had a clickable table of contents. {I found out by downloading a free sample and looking at the table of contents and clicking from chapter to chapter.} This means that if I want to go to book two, I can go to the table of contents and click on book two and be taken straight there. Of course, I would never read book two only since I think it is the least interesting of the three books and basically mostly just a way to get to book three! Right now I am reading Robin Hobbs’ The Soldier Son trilogy and I am on book two. Like most of Hobb’s’ trilogies, the first book is slow because she builds her worlds and introduces her characters in the first book and this is a new world and new characters. The only exception to this perceived slowness, for me anyway, was the Tawny Man series which was in the same world as The Assassin series. If you want something interesting to read, I recommend all her books. She also writes as Megan Lindholm. These days seem to be a re-read/rewatch time for me. I am also rewatching the "Farscape" series, too. I am really enjoying these. The series starred a very young-looking Ben Browder and the always gorgeous Claudia Black. And a whole lot of Muppet-type puppets with Rygel the Hynerian being the most visible.

Today I am going to: 

• wash clothes
• walk on the treadmill
• possibly make banana bread in the bread machine

Today it is partly cloudy and the temperature is 52. The high is supposed to be a chilly 57!

"You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are

happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but

trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change

your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to

correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working."

Emmett Fox

"Enjoyment is not a goal; it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity."

Paul Goodman