A few months back I desperately needed something to read, and diving into Pride & Prejudice again was a last resort. There sat my Kindle, just waiting for a new download. Now, I'm certainly an advocate for reading best sellers and new releases, but there is stingy side to me. When I can snatch a book for under $10 or $5 for that matter, I'm all over that. Yes. Like white on rice. Clearly so much so that I would use that phrase, a phrase that I still really don't quite get.
Anyway....so there I was looking for a steal and I found one. Scotland circa 1740. I delved into the book with all enthusiasm. Two weeks later I was still reading. Another week passed. Still reading. And then another week. At this point, I was beginning to get suspicious. Though I was thoroughly enjoying the book, I was surprised that I wasn't finished yet. The thing about the Kindle is that there are no page numbers. E-books don't translate literally into the same amount of pages as say, a hard-back book. It does, however, give you a percentage. At three weeks, I was at 34%. 34%??!! I posed the situation to Jason, who cracked out his laptop and began researching the book. Not five minutes later, he found it. The book was OVER A THOUSAND PAGES. Then came the worse news.
It was an eight book series.
And I had started at book two.
In two sentences, that sums up my karma.
