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Explanation: I've started Charles Dickens' Bleak House. I expect it'll be a while before I post the review. Actually, a while consists of 900+ pages of fairly small print. It has made the mandatory 50 pages.

Let's see...that's the rage-against-the-law one, right? It's been a long time since I've read Dickens, and so help me, Martha, if you get me hooked again...

I'm about 3/4 through a non-fiction that's lively, interesting, and unusual. It's The Big Necessity, by Rose George; the subtitle is "The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters."

It's just now out, and you might not want to pay the hardcover price, so check your library - but it's really quite interesting, and it covers everything from biogas production in China to the untouchables who clean dry latrines in Inda to the $3000 amazing productions of the Japanese (for example, the $3000 Neorest, with

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It's truly informative; it's not written as "john humor" but as a serious look at a serious subject. When WHO and other organizations refer to "water-borne illness," they're not referring to little creatures that come out of stagnant ponds. For the most part, they're referring to illnesses caused by human excrement in the water.

Here's a report that explains the issue of "water-related disease."

I would never have picked this book up had I not heard an interview with the author, who made the subject far more interesting to me than anyone else ever has.

Speaking of water-related diseases, it was the book on the cholora (I think) plague in London that led me to Bleak House, which the plague said was an accurate depiction of London at that time.

Yep, it's the legal one. I don't read Dickens often, but when I do and get bogged down, I think, "Uriah Heep." IMHO that's the most wonderfully named character I've ever encountered. Hey! I've been struggling to name a cat owned by a greeting card writer in my current project, a play. Wonder if I could ...

Im getting my Kindle 2 tomorrow and am excited. Anyone else have a Kindle?

I'm interested. I hauled a 10 lb book all over Europe and never read a page. Let us know how you like it.

I will. My book club selection for the month Double Bound will download as soon as I turn it on. I subscribed to Newsweek and Time ($1.49 per month each) and may try the NYT or more likely one of the English language European papers too, but they are more expensive.

More tomorrow, UPS get here now!

I have an original Kindle - it is awesome. Although it is a lot harder to stay on a "book budget" when all you have to do to get your next book is look it up on the kindle store.

I love the Kindle 2. It is all charged up, I have one book and 4 magazines to read on it. Think I will subscribe to a newspaper for the 14 day free trial.

I have seen the future and it is in my hands.

Ok, so what's a kindle, pray tell? It sounds like something you use in spinning yarn.