I’m excited to announce I’m going to be participating in Martha’s book club along with other Martha Circle members: Rachel at Black Eiffel and Jane at This Week for Dinner. Martha launched the project yesterday on her blog and I’ll be reading along the books she picks over the next few months as part of the Sony Reader Campaign.

The first book is called Cold. I’m about half way through and so far I love it. It is a style of nature writing that combines science with story and personal experience so that otherwise boring data becomes really fascinating. Also, the author is really likeable which is good because there is nothing worse than reading a book by someone you don’t like. I was an English Lit major in college so forcing my busy self to sit and read this book brought back memories (Where’s my endless supply of Mtn. Dew?) If you want to read along you can purchase the ebook right here and join Martha talking with the author Bill Streever on her show Monday, December 6th.

As part of the book club they sent me a Sony Pocket Reader to try out. It is designed to be small enough to fit in your pocket and has a beautiful screen. I was also excited to hear that that with the Sony Reader you can read over a million ebooks for free through your library. Another trick that is useful for me is they have a translator so I can read a book in French and when I don’t understand a word I click on it and the meaning pops up. (I was told to read books in French to help learn the language.)

Do you belong to a book club? Have you read this book before? Have you ever used a Sony Reader?

photo from Black Eiffel