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If you have to leave anything at home, then yes, the cellphone would be the preferred device to leave ;-)

It is amazing how much more I find time to read when I have one of those devices with me at all times. I usually have 3 or 4 books going at the same time too.
Right now I'm reading, "Sacred Secrets" by Linda S Prather, "The boy in the suitcase" by Agnete Friss & Lene Kaaberbol, "Violet Dawn" by Brandilyn Collins, & "Wind Over Marshdale" by Tracy Krauss.


To receive a FREE copy of this novel: Of Bliss and Granted Wishes, go to Smashwords.com and use Coupon EF46E, valid through April 20, 2013.
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Of Bliss and Granted Wishes - A True Story Told as a Novel, is a vitally important work about the elderly and the processes of aging. Most especially, it concerns two remarkable individuals: Sam and Sophie Foster, whose life-long love and devotion succumbed neither to extreme age nor to Alzheimer’s. Although the names are changed (to avoid publicity to still living persons), the locations are accurate, though not specifically identified, in Seattle, Washington.
At the age of eighty-eight, to avoid retiring to a nursing home, the Foster’s remodeled their house and asked a family (mother, father, three young children, and a dog) to move in with them. Never having had children—or even a dog!—of their own, this situation could have been catastrophic, but turned out as joyous discovery.
The story spans the decades of their life together, from 1934, when they met (“as infants of thirty,” in Sophie’s words), through Sam’s loss of memory (diagnosed as a form of Alzheimer’s) at the tender age of ninety-two. Prior to his memory loss, Sam’s ebullience and mischievous wit blends with Sophie’s quiet mirth and wisdom, giving readers a rare opportunity to experience a sublime portrait, in the words of Eleanor Roosevelt, of “people who really are excitingly happy” throughout their extremely long lives. Filled with humor, rich with compassion, undying love, and a determined refusal to give in to decrepitude and illness, their story is proof that the heart that has truly loved never forgets.
Based on dear friends I've known since I was a boy, I felt that their lives were not only special, but spectacularly so, and what those lives could teach others should be passed on.
The novel is available as an eBook on Smashwords, Amazon/Kindle, and several other ereader formats.
Reader reviews of the novel on retail sites are encouraged. Thanks for reading this information. I hope you'll use the free Smashwords coupon and download my book.
H.D. Greaves

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Here's the information about the novel:
Although Niccolò Machiavelli is more famous as the author of The Prince, a sweet little book all about the murderous ways to get and keep political power, he was, during his lifetime, much loved for his play Mandragora (also known as The Mandrake), a huge success then and which continues in performances into our time. Its theme, much like The Prince, never disappoints: how to get and keep power, albeit in Mandragora's case, marital power, with just a gasp short of murder.
Mandragora - A Ribald and Irreverent Tale from the Italian Renaissance, is the only novel ever created—even after five centuries!—from Machiavelli’s play. Considered the greatest comedy from the Italian Renaissance, here, in novel form, is Machiavelli’s devious plot and even more devious characters in all their devious glory, and with the stakes raised with a far more intelligent and enlightened heroine than ever trod the boards of Florence in 1518.
Consider: a conniving servant and his amoral master; a murderous priest and his equally homicidal sidekick; an odious mother-in-law; a beautiful but barren wife wed to an ancient attorney; and a potion brewed from the root of the Mandragora, a plant alleged to help women conceive, and you have a prescription for pandemonium, especially when Mandragora (known in less reputable circles as “God’s Little Joke”), possesses a fatal flaw: after a woman drinks the potion, her body becomes a temple of poison. The first man to have sex with her will be dead in seven days. What’s an old husband who desperately wants an heir to do?
I hope that you are sufficiently intrigued to use the free Smashwords coupon NV78B.
Reader reviews on all retail sites are encouraged.
Thanks for reading!
H.D. Greaves in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
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I too am a Kindle convert, and previously almost never read more than one book at a time.
I resisted for over a year...and finally gave in when my wife was finishing a new book almost every week.
Now I can have multiple titles with me all the time, and read what ever my mood(or free time)dictates.
I went from nearly zero pleasure reading to reading 23 books since getting my Kindle Touch in Jan 2012.
(21 of those from our public library.)
I even went out and found me a "man bag" that I could tolerate...just so I could carry it with me and not miss any "Kindle Time"
I recall an old advertising campaign for a product of some sort ..."Don't leave home without it..."
Well, that's me these days....I'm more likely to go off and leave my cell phone at home than my Kindle.