I just saw an article online that said that a Kindle owner will be able to check out library ebooks beginning later this year. This is super exciting and a huge game-changer for me! I have been researching ereaders for months now and finally settled on the Nook mainly because it supported epub files and thus I could check out library ebooks. This was a really hard decision for me because I have never been a huge fan of Barnes and Noble (I was a Border's girl until they closed our local store) and have always loved Amazon. Now I am going to have to go back to the store and play with them both to decide which one I like the best (I do really like the Nook's touch screen but I still love how easy Amazon is to use and their huge selection of free Kindle books is an a major attraction). An ereader is definitely in my future but now I have to re-decide which one!
Synopsis: Set during the separation of Norway from Sweden in 1905, this richly detailed novel of love and loss was inspired by the life of the author's great-great-aunts. Oleanna and her sister Elisabeth are the last of their family working their farm deep in the western fjordland. A new century has begun, and the world outside is changing, but in the Sunnfjord their world is as small and secluded as the verdant banks of a high mountain lake. The arrival of Anders, a cotter living just across the farm's border, unsettles Oleanna 's peaceful but isolated existence. Sharing a common bond of loneliness and grief, Anders stirs within her the wildness and wanderlust she has worked so hard to tame. When she is confronted with another crippling loss, Oleanna must decide once and for all how to face her past, claim her future, and find her place in a wide new world. My Thoughts: I was very surprised by what an absolutely beautiful story Oleanna is. The ...
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