For five seconds it felt like we were starting to a cooling trend in the 98105. Alas, we're back to a muggy 86 degrees for our high today. It was a good day to stay inside and edit book chapters and read a few books.
I picked up a Kindle Paperwhite last year and I really like it, especially for travel. I do miss the feel of a book. Thumbing through a kindle via the notes is just not the same as thumbing through a book to find that bent corner or that check mark by something that you wanted to remember.
Books are also awesome places to stash boarding passes and receipts, try doing that in a Kindle.
You can judge a book by its cover and you will likely remember what you were reading if you could see the cover and it will spark your memory - the why and how you came about to select the book and when if you were to physically handle it. My memory is often jarred by place and tactile sensations and the Kindle doesn't give me that pleasure.
My reading these days is all over the place - I'm reading a little about vegan main courses to get inspired for the fall, a bit of gardening how to and lots of fiction. This weekend I read a book that was a fast read but my guess will stay with me for a long time - Alex Shearer's "This is the life" is an amazing and short read about the relationship between brothers and how it changes as the younger one takes care of his older brother as he undergoes cancer treatment. It isn't a Jodi Picoult kind of book, but it will make you learn to accept that life is what it is - you can work to make it better, but sometimes you just have to accept your choices and make do.
Read it.
And after that, go visit my favorite bears fishing for salmon at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park, Alaska. They are pretty busy right now.
What are you reading this summer?
