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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Saturday, October 16: More Free Kindle Games plus the next book in Danny’s read-aloud queue, PV Lundqvist’s Not Just For Breakfast Anymore (Today’s Sponsor), and over 100 more fully updated and category-sorted free Kindle ebook listings

Up until about 1980, the only person I had ever seen playing solitaire was my grandmother. She used to sit at the counter in her and my grandfather’s East Dixfield General Store and Filling Station for an hour every day during Gramps’ afternoon nap and play solitaire for an hour straight. Then Gramps would come back to work and she would go back into the house and spread her cards on the kitchen table. But in the past 30 years, with the coming of personal computers and many of the devices that have followed, there are tens of millions of people spending hundreds of millions of hours playing Solitaire. With all due respect to my Grammie, who I loved dearly, it’s fair to say that Solitaire has become the greatest time-suck in history. And, as Betty could tell you, I am not immune to it. 
So I should not be surprised that yesterday, when I devoted most of an entire post to the new Triple Town for Kindle strategy game, it was EA Solitaire for Kindle — also new, more expensive, and mention in passing in my post — that was most popular both with the citizens of Kindle Nation and also with Kindle owners at large as it jumped into Stieg Larsson territory as the #3 paid “title” in the Kindle Store.
But I’ve been told that time is money, that money can buy you time, and that playing solitaire can turn your mind to oatmeal, which Grammie always told me would stick to my ribs better than Sugar Smacks, so today we’ll lead our listing of free contemporary titles with three free Kindle games….
But first … a word from our sponsor….
Here’s a book that I would have loved at about the same time I was watching Grammie play Solitaire (I was reading John R. Tunis and Joe Archibald at the time), and I’ve already added it to the queue for reading aloud with Danny after we finish The Hunger Games and its sequels. Here’s the set-up and a critique from one of Amazon’s Top 100 reviewers:
Benny wants a pet—a dog or a cat. You know, the kind of pet everyone else has. But other kids don’t have his mom. She likes to do things differently.

So Benny doesn’t know what to expect when he first opens the pet carrier. Certainly not that his neighbors will want to kick is family out of town—he just got here! And he was just about to make the baseball team, too.

Will he fight for his pet or back down?

5.0 out of 5 stars A TRULY WELL WRITTEN YA NOVEL. What a delightful read this one was!, March 29, 2010
By  D. Blankenship (The Ozarks) – See all my reviews
(TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (VINE VOICE)    (REAL NAME)   
This review is from: Not Just For Breakfast Anymore (Paperback)

Well, I must stay that over the past several years a worrisome trend has reversed itself and we have recently been treated to a growing number of YA books that not only present a good story, but ones that are well written. The reason for this, in my opinion, is due to the increase in quality books such as the one being reviewed here by PV Lundqvist. Readers and teachers are demanding more and they now are receiving it. What a delightful read this one was.

Young Benny (Actually, his name is Bengt, something the young lad changed to Benny on his own, as soon as he was able), wants a pet. He will settle for a cat but what he really wants is a dog. Benny has been blessed with, or cursed with…depending on how you want to look at it, a “creative” mother, ergo the name Bengt; a name that is not ordinary and common, you see. Well anyway, on his birthday Benny indeed does receive a new pet, not a cat, not a dog, not even a cool big lizard; no, no, no…a Vietnamese Potbellied pig no less!

And so we are instantly drawn into the life of Benny, a kid who wants what normal kids his age want; acceptance, making the baseball team, no hassles from bullies and of course a dog. Like real life though, not all always turns out the way our young lad would like. There seems to be trouble from every direction. There is of course the acceptance factor, relationships with family members and life’s lessons to be learned.

This is a well told tale of growing up; of being at that very strange and difficult age when a boy is leaving childhood behind and is learning to join the adult world. The author has skillfully woven family, school, community, friends, baseball, rivals, and of course pets into a story which is quite often full of humor, often filled with the anxieties of growing up, and above all, the lessons learned during this difficult period in the maturation process of us all. But make no mistake; not all is grim life. This writer has a keen sense of humor and it shines through on almost ever page.

Lundqvist has gotten his characters down perfectly as well as the relationship between these various characters as the story progresses…including that of the pig. The story moves on at a very nice clip which causes the work to be a bit of a page turner in a mellow and concerned sort way. I liked that. I also noted that there was not one instance or incident in the book that was not completely believable. This would also hold true for each and ever character which allows almost instant empathy on the reader’s part on all fronts. The reader will be able to absolutely identify with not only the characters but also the dilemmas and situations as they pop up in young Benny’s life.

Being “officially” retired now, I spend my days as a substitute teacher, and for the most part work with kids of middle school age; the age this young boy in this book. It should also be noted that my wife and I were one of the first breeders of Vietnamese Potbellied Pigs in the United States and spent several years raising, training and showing these little creatures. We have had several “house pigs” of our own. I can fully attest to the fact that this author does now his middle school age children and does know his pigs!

I have been preaching all my life that each of us must follow their own drummer, and if perchance some of us choose a tambourine player, well so be it; so much the better! The author has worked in several very important lessons in this work without being preachy or overbearing in the least. As a matter of fact, he is rather sneaky about it.

Strong plot, good and believable characters, crisp prose and a story line that moves; what more could you want in a book?

Don Blankenship
The Ozarks  

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