Post 343. I NOW HAVE A KINDLE.

THANKS TO MO. 

Yeah, she did it again. 
Well, I've always been a book lover. Just never considered reading from anything other than a hardback book or, for the reduced cost when I felt I could wait, a paperback. Mo is a prolific reader, too; our home tends to look like the reading room in a public library.
Then came the kindle publication of The Badgers... and the realisation that I would only be able to read it in the off-piste area of our garden room, where resides my elderly computer.

" That won't do.” said the dauntless Leader. “You must be able to read it in the living room. I have ordered you a kindle.”

She had, too.

What seemed like the next morning the postman (or maybe that nice bloke who believes Amazon will behead him if he doesn't run up the drive with our order the instant we place it) dropped said item into our letterbox.

So I have begun a kindle library.

Started with my own book (which I thought was rather good, but I admit to prejudice) and followed that up with Curtain Call by Graham Hurley (pictured), the first book in a three part series featuring Enora Andressen, which is very good.

Enora is an Anglo-Breton actress who has a worrying brain tumour, a teenage son and a very poor taste in men.

Ensconced on the settee in the living room I have enjoyed every kindle page of her story. Quickly established who was who. 
Well, I've been entertained by several of them over the years. 

Always liked her. She's a fine actress.

First encountered her in The Perfect Soldier (1996) where she played bereaved mother Molly Jordan who goes to Angola to seek an answer to her son's death in a minefield: went on to enjoy her sound performance in Permissible Limits (1999) where she played bereaved wife Ellie Bruce who pilots a Mustang aeroplane to thrilling effect: and now here in the autobiographical Curtain Call, where she plays herself on the brink of divorce, is up for the leading role in a radio play, Going Solo (an adaptation of Permissible Limits) and handles a wounded Brixham trawler in gale force wind to thrilling effect. 

I've got to take in the sequels.

My choice of M. Hurley as a library starter was twofold.

In the first place he is a bloody good novelist (few writers would even attempt a faux female first person present narrative – let alone get away with it) and, in the second place, three years ago (Post 258) I wrote that I had sent The Badgers prologue to pal Ian Dillow and “as a consequence, to the novelist Graham Hurley” and both had been kind in their response to it.

I have kept an amiable eye on M. Hurley's output ever since, and the revelation that some of his books had been published on kindle emboldened me to seek our son's help in placing  Badgers there for me.

Don't know whether I'll ever have the time to write another.

But I hope Graham Hurley will go on and on and on...

Keep reading from whatever source.