What I am reading

My son Nick is awesome. I had downloaded Kindle For PC from Amazon last year sometime. I bought a few books & got a few more free. When the computer I had downloaded it on crashed or was updated, I lost the Kindle4PC. I had actually forgotten about it until just this last week when Nick downloaded it for me again.

Louisa May Alcott was one of my favorite authors when I was a young teenager. My mother had a set of 8 books all bound the same. I always thought those were the only 8 books Alcott had written. I read Old-Fashioned Girl every year for years. So, I have quite a few of Alcott's books on Kindle4PC. My old favorites, haven't tried any new ones. When Nick downloaded it this time, there were 3 new books on my home page. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Aesop's Fables & Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen. Is Austen really spelled with an "e"?

So, I am reading Treasure Island. Can you believe I've never read it before? After I read it, I may have to read Lord of the Flies, but maybe not. Lord of the Flies is supposed to be based on Treasure Island. Don-Mike had to have permission to read Lord of the Flies when he was in senior English. He brought the permission slip home & I asked him if he wanted to read it. When he said yes, I signed it.

When I told Mother I was reading Treasure Island, she said, "Haven't you read that before?" I was rather embarrassed to tell her no. I've never been one to read the classics. I don't even have a category to put Treasure Island in for this year's reading. I added Classics to May Never Read. That certainly gives me a few more choices in that challenge. I started reading it because one of the categories in The Four Month Reading Challenge - Part 5 (T4MRC-5) is to read a book written before you were born. Well, 1881 is certainly before I was born. In fact, it's before either of my grandfather's were born!!

I am still plugging along in the Old Testament. I saved Isaiah until last & I'm only reading 3-4 chapters a night. I am studying it with the LDS Church's Institute of Religion text book. So, that is actually 2 books at once. My completion date keeps getting pushed back. I am hoping to be finished by Feb. 28.

I'm also reading Dewey's Nine Lives, a collection of short stories about people Dewey, the small town library cat, impacted. I chose this book because I love cats & I really enjoyed the first book about Dewey. I was thrilled when I discovered I need a collection of short stories for T4MRC-5.

Let's Talk About It, the reading program at the Larsen-Sant Library, finally started this past Wednesday, Feb. 9. We discussed The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich. So, I've been reading that. This Wednesday, Feb. 16, we will be discussing Desert Solitaire, so I've got to at least look at it before I go.

The Whitney 2nd Ward book club was reading The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton for this Wednesday, but I found out this afternoon that no one had finished it, so they canceled this month's meeting. Yes!! I returned The Forgotten Garden to the library & shelved it to read later, so another lady in the ward could read it.

That's all I'm currently reading. I shelved the other books I've been trying to read. I really overbooked myself - pun intended.