emailed books....are you kidding me?!

sooooooo in the name of my book club, i've started something that i thought i would HATE. i mean. i thought i was 100% against it.

and then i learned that it....it's so eeeasy. we're doing an e-book. seriously. i am the LAST person who would like this. i read in bed. i mostly read in bed. i can't fall asleep without reading. i always have a book next to my bed. so why the hell would i want to sit in front of a computer (where i already live 40 hours out of the week) and read...for fun?!

well. because it's easy. and interesting. it's the lazy person's solution to book club.

my problems with book club were mainly based on laziness. i have to find out where to buy the book? i have to go out and get the book? i have to read on someone else's time schedule to finish by the next meeting? um......i'll start tomorrow.

only i never start tomorrow. and the time for the meeting comes and i've read a part of the book if any and prefer book club conversation about celebrities to the actual plot of the book i never read, but what if i do one day, so i have to insist that no one mention the ending.

how tedious.

but now, i've signed up for the Daughters of Freya - an e-book that costs 4.95, and arrives in installments in your inbox. as if you're cc'ed on the characters' emails. it's great - because the emails are relatively short, and you read them as they come, which is basically every time i check email, which is basically all the time.

and there's all this supplementary data - like, one character will mail another saying how she had a great lunch, and here's the picture i took of you at the restaurant, and you can click on a link and go to her picture. or you can go to her travel itinerary or you can go to fictional business websites.

the book's a mystery about a sex cult in marin cty. so, we've got sex, suspense and california. plus, it's cheap and easy. i'm not saying that this is how i would read forever, but it's pretty interesting for right now. though the fiction-reality blurring is a little disorienting. i like the installment bit, too. it's so dickensian.