If your care giving duties allow you time to read.....................I'm interested in what book you are in the middle of or just finished or have waiting on your bedside table.
I'm reading "Total Control" by David Baldacci
It's a crime/thriller drama. Quite compelling.
If you can't find the time to read, you should try. It helps to escape from it all in a good book.
I see The Flight Girls is available in Kindle unlimited so I will have a look at it too. Thanks for mentioning it, GA. It looks interesting.
cw and gershun - wishing you find some good reads.
Sisters in Arms is a tale of 2 black women who join the Women's Army Auxilliary Corps, an all black, all female, segregated group of women who serve in the Army. The author has written other novels about the mistreatment and verbal abuse of blacks, and addresses it in this novel through interactions with racist whites.
I think I'll buy more novels (one can never have enough books!) on women in the military. It's a different perspective from so many popular novels.
I've just downloaded a new batch from the library, I'm hoping that even if they aren't great they are not so bad as the last bunch and I'll at least be able to finish them.
It's not going to win any awards but it's fairly enjoyable to read.
Looks to be a great one so far.
The toxic things belong to a woman that has been recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Now shopping for my next read.
Oh, the book club?
https://zibbyowens.com/virtualbookclub
The thread I read about it on?
https://www.agingcare.com/questions/please-recommend-an-online-book-clubscrabble-club-online-activity-group-im-an-empty-nester-now-469680.htm?orderby=oldest
Right now I am back into classic British mysteries of the past - British Mysteries Ultimate Collection: 560+ Detective Novels, Thriller Classics, Murder Mysteries, Whodunit Tales & True Crime Stories.
I have a similar collection which I have pretty well read to the end, so am picking through this one to find authors the other book didn't include. They are very good value for a few bucks.
Mrs Rochesters Ghost was great kinda a rewrite, modern approach to Jane Eyre.
I love those magazines too. I live in the country and it brings back many memories of years gone by with my family. We were very close growning up.
Don't let anyone take away your pleasure of reading upbeat stories. In a world of negativity and stress it is great to have some good reading that is postive.
It comes across loud and clear that the trade association management and the journalists aren’t actually living it. I once asked a guy who was well connected in wool production, if any of the Board would ever have washed a woolen jumper and dried it flat, after several articles about how much better wool was than any of the synthetics. He thought for several seconds, then said ‘probably not’. It would be reassuring to feel that the powers that be do actually know about the problems in the industry!
Anyway that’s enough. I’m glad that someone finds it so pleasurable and relaxing to read about, and particularly glad that the someone is you, Garden Artist!
It was unsettling to read about using Lysol on the patient (actually, I more than cringed!), but the tenacity of the family in dealing with the situation was inspiring.
I wonder if people would buy magazines which addressed only negative situations. We read about that daily online!
The descriptions of life in the country, on a ranch or farm, are so diametrically opposite from life in a heavily populated metropolitan area that I find myself relaxing as soon as I pick up one of the magazines, some of which I've read twice.
I understand why Dad read them so faithfully; they were soothing and while not necessarily absorbing, they redirected attention from tense books, or political issues plaguing the country, or pandemics. They reminded him of better days, and of less friction that our modern life seems to entail. I'm really enjoying these magazines and decided to keep them instead of donating them. I can read them every year or so, or especially when I get neurotic.
Novel by Eric Van Lustbader
I got the book from a “Little Free Library” in my neighborhood. Take a look at www.littlefreelibraries.org. There may be one near you. Take a book. Leave a book.
I've been on a bad book streak lately. You know that feeling when you finish a book and say to yourself, well, theres a few hours I can never get back. 🤔
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3810.Best_Cozy_Mystery_Series
I've enjoyed almost everything by Charlaine Harris, especially Sookie Stackhouse, Auroa Teagarden and Lily Bard
The Stephanie Plum series by Jan Evanovich is old and I don't know if they've stood the test of time but when I read it I would actually laugh out loud.
I very much enjoyed the China Bayles series by Susan Wittig Albert
If you like cat mysteries the Joe Grey books by Shirley Rousseau Murphy are fun
Another easy read is the Miss Julia series by Ann B. Ross