My heart skipped a beat when I opened the PDF. That has never happened before—it’s only a PDF after all. It was a 14 MB file and it took a fair amount of time to load—I was opening it for viewing on my self-publisher’s website (bookbaby.com). The lengthy loading bar only added to the suspense. …
Whether intended by the author or not, I like to look for deeper meanings when I read. I like it when I can apply aspects or ideas from a book to parts of my life—it brings a little more to the experience of reading a book; it makes it more real. Now as to whether …
I’m almost finished with a book that I am really enjoying: Vango, by Timothée de Fombelle. I’m reading it in French, which is a thing I do sometimes. It’s an adventure story, and I guess there are many of those out there. This one is really well written, it is engaging and the suspense has …