Day 10 of  # BookSpine365 So today I want to do something a little different: an ebook. Sitting on my third shelf from the top in a crochet sleeve lays an Amazon Kindle 3G keyboard. Beautiful e-ink . Easy on the eyes. I can do so many neat tricks with it, I even wrote a post a while ago on Google+, although there is probably much more to be added to that list now. If you want to have the battle against e-ink and real, tangible book as your medium-go ahead. I won't waste my time with all that nonsense. I adore all mediums: books, audiobooks, and ebooks. As long as I'm reading (or listening) to a good novel or other genre, I'm in Heaven. The visualization...the smell, the grip of the page. Spine titling poetry. Sneaking in another title on a buckling shelf to tuck somewhere that the book should or shouldn't fit. I love and adore all those things from a book. That's why I will always collect books. The transportation from reality to imagination is what made me a b...

Day 9  # BookSpine365 . There are some books that fall flat for me, and this is one of them. While I initially began reading this and thought, "hey...this seems like a good premise and plot," the story became weaker and weaker. Unbeknownst to me, this was a trilogy series, (but the author's first novel) and continues in this fashion for a while. Simply summarized, you have two twin sisters that have just become orphans. They have never really gotten along, but after their parents uncanny death, they become enemies. They soon discover the reasoning for this: they both play a part in an ancient prophecy of good versus evil and the end of the world. The whole problem I had with the book was the characters were a bit too gullible and sometimes mundane. Insert romance for spitefulness, because all books need a token love story or heartache, correct? You have several scenes where there are characters in the same room with imperative things to do or say but the author doesn...