I much prefer reading actual books to ebooks, but I do own a Kobo and admittedly, it's very easy to slip it into my purse and take a plethora of books along with me to work or wherever else I'm headed. As usual, I'm currently reading a number of different authors at the same time- one of them being L.M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle- obviously, since I'm reviewing it. This is the only real, hold-it-in-your-hand volume I'm using at the moment, everything else I'm reading presently being on my Kobo. I've been on a bit of a Wodehouse jag lately; as I mentioned last week, I was listening to an audiobook of P.G.'s The Code Of The Woosters. That is, of course, a Jeeves and Wooster book. At the same time, I had downloaded one of Wodehouse's stand alone novels which I hadn't read before: Laughing Gas. I'll post a review on it soon- probably next week. It was quite enjoyable but a very quick read, so I decided to continue on with another Woodhouse classic: The Inimitable Jeeves, a volume of Jeeves and Wooster short stories which are some of his best. I'm reading this on my Kobo as well, but I also own an actual copy of the book. I always buy physical copies of my favourite books. I try to intersperse my fiction reading with non-fiction; it's always a good idea to keep learning new things and Wodehouse, though delightful in every way, isn't exactly deep. On the contrary, his works are so charming because they are so fun, frothy, and frivolous. The non-fiction book I'm currently immersed in is Mark Steyn's Broadway Babies Say Goodnight, which is a history of musical theatre from early operettas to the works of Andrew Lloyd Webber and beyond. It's a fascinating read and one I've been meaning to pick up for some time. A couple of weeks ago I was cleaning out a drawer and found a Chapters Indigo gift card which I had been given as a birthday present and forgot about. I used this to purchase Broadway Babies, and I'm glad I did. I'll have more to say about it when I finish reading: I'm about halfway through at the moment.
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