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’m so used to reading ebooks, I find myself trying to swipe the paper page to make the font bigger. 🤦🏻♀️
A good, small village, British mystery. The narrator in the book is an 82 year old lady who is developing dementia and she’s typical of what we see so much in our elders, she has very muddled short term memory but good long term memory.
Reading the book was like being on the other side of dementia. She describes her confusion, her struggle to find a word, to recognize people. I saw my dad in this character. If he could describe what’s going on in his mind this would be accurate I think.
And besides the insight into dementia it’s a ripping good yarn.
CharK60, I haven't read anyone mention "The Life of Pi" in soooo many years. I think I may have it somewhere. Time for a trip back in time by visiting all the old book stashes.
The last book I read to my daughter was “The Life of Pi”
She was also 12.
Around age 10 I remember that we listened to the Harry Potter series on the way back and forth to school. We had a long ride and wouid really get into it. I got busted on listening ahead one day. Couldn’t get that tape back to the right spot. Ouch.
I love those memories.
Many, many times I finished her books after she fell asleep beside me. Watership Down, Charlie and the Chocolate factory, The Wizard of Oz, she didn’t like it much but I couldn’t put some of them down!
It is a crime drama and the third in a series. Kind of slow starting but it’s gotten very good.
I just finished “The 19th Christmas” by James Patterson whose books I may as well drink from a cup because I absorb them so quickly they fill my pores.
I've gained so much from reading. My hubs quite often asks me how did you know that? From reading of course. Chocolate is nice too............now a good book and chocolate.........well you can't get better than that.
Gershun, I too still buy books, and probably will for years. They stimulate my mind, they open vistas to new concepts, new places, and some of them (like Cussler's) push the edges of technology and greed in their sometimes complex tales.
Books are even more tempting to buy than chocolates, and I am a true dyed in the wool chocoholic.
Actually, quite gross. Blech!
CW, do you have any used bookstores or Goodwills near you? They often have Black and Blue. It's a great read!.
So very sorry about his death. That is heartbreaking. God bless all military men and women. They do give their lives serving their country.
I dated a marine once too. Same thing, really wonderful guy.
They are so handsome in their uniforms!