Happy Valentine's Day (to me) from My Family, My Kindle, and Stephen King

Posted by Alex Sharp Feb 14, 2009

This has been a busy week at school, and I was so excited to see Stephen King's UR on my Kindle, two weeks earlier than expected. My daughter made dinner (and I have written about her blossoming culinary independence for breakfast, lunch, and dinner) while I read UR, by Stephen King. His experimental features -- including downloading music, which is a good idea since Amazon is removing the SD card feature for Kindle 2 -- are cooler than what my Kindle has, but I love my Kindle just the way it is.

I am pretty sure I annoyed my Stephen King fan friend at work by talking about UR so much -- I had to have annoyed more than just him, because I am the only one who read the story - and that is exactly what happens in the story. Wesley (who shares the name of the character in the Princess Bride, and Stephen King is featured in the latest anniversary edition of that book) frustrates people with his Kindle fascination and access to stories to stories they don't have...and I did the same thing.

One of the sweet things that happened at my school was during the daily bulletin over the intercom, when the speaker told all the students we love them. Smiles broke out all over. I hope every school tries that, it was just a cute moment.

Happy Valentine's Day!