I've hardly been reading, which is unusual. By the time I get home, and do my notes, I'm tired. But, I did read that book about the Olympic track cyclists, Gold. It was not that good. The writing seemed amateurish, even though the author (whose name escapes me now) had a huge best seller before. The ending was predictable, too.
It was the first book I read on a Kindle and I did not enjoy it. I had an actual physical feeling of wanting to turn paper pages and I couldn't read as many pages at a time; it was like when i tried to read research articles for school on line. I ended up getting a laser printer and printing them out! I know this shows my age, but it's a real, weird physical feeling I got when I was reading. I will probably download a couple of books to read while I'm away, but I will not make it a regular habit. I experience the same feeling when my morning paper doesn't arrive early enough for me to read and I read it on the I Pad. It feels like I'm reading some pop culture article on the Yahoo home page, instead of the Boston Globe.
Any recs for good historical fiction?