Saturday, April 26, 2014

Books and events fall from the sky

Rain can be a wonderful thing.  Plant life and our lives depend on fresh water.  In some places and under typical circumstances, rain falls from the sky for free.


But rain can be a miserable thing.  It and the color of sky and lighting that comes with rain can be depressing.  Floods kill and destroy.


So, which is it: rain is "good" or rain is "bad"?.  Both, depending on what has been happening in our lives.


Just like rain, these days books fall from the sky.  Invisibly, surprising, unbelievably.  I wish everyone would grasp the fact that they do.  If you have a computer, you can download free software that enables you to read a Kindle book from Amazon to your computer and read the book then and there.  If you don't like Amazon, you can do the same thing with Barnes and Noble's Nook or with Google Play. Smartphones and tablets like iPad can do the same thing, as of course, can e-readers such as the various Kindle models themselves.


We watched "Magic Beyond Words", the story of J.K. Rowling's life the other night.  My friend told me that "The Casual Vacancy" by this young woman was a good story but I saw that the ratings of her book written under a pseudonym were higher, so now we are several chapters into "The Cuckoo's Calling" by "Robert Galbraith", which we got from the sky last night.


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Bill
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