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.
Quite the turn of events! Who else has read it?
Now reading a Paula Hawkins. Somehow I mistook her for Ruth Ware who I don't care for, and now realize that Paula is the one who wrote Girl on the Train, so am enjoying her multi-character, twisty turny round with A Slow Fire Burning. Holds my attention just fine.
Also on bedside table is the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings bio by Ann McCrutchan, The Life She Wished to Live.
Of all the gifts life has bestowed, the love of reading is one of the very best.
A Molecule Away From Madness by neurologist and Alzheimer's MD Sara Manning Peskin.
It is amazing. One story is a girl who SUDDENLY watches The Walking Dead obsessively and then descends into a world in which she believes she is living the Zombie Apocalypse. Diagnosed by her Mom online with ovarian tumor that caused release of antibodies that caused this............she had been three months in a psych unit.
From our own perspective there is the stories of Frontal temporal dementia, Alzheimer's and other dementias. Amazing amazing book.
I cannot recommend this one hghly enough. Each story in it is mesmerizing.
Also at the same time I am going into Narnia again! :)
Best to you all!
Alva - There's a good movie about Clark Rockefeller. I can't remember the name of the movie. I've read several articles about the guy. He as crafty or sure.
"As the senaors exit and the House members resume their usual places, I look to my left and see the Democrats and to my right I see the Republicans. I recall a conversations I have with a Republican colleague, Rep. Clay Higgins of LA., once when we were sitting on the floor.
'What do you see when you look out over our side, and then over your side'? I asked Clay, who is a good- natured man with an awesome Cajun accent.
"He looked at me and said 'you tell me first'.
'When I look at our side', I said 'I see America today in all its glory; black, white, hispanic, asian-American, LGBTQ, straight, gay, women, men, immigrants, native-born. And when I look at your side I see America in the 50s.'
(Clay replied) 'When I look at your side, he said, I see the Coasts, New York and California. When I look at my side I see the heartland'.
End of quote from this book.
Really, if we could just think and talk to the "other side", how much we could learn about the differences we all feel, see, believe. And how much more alike we might admit to be in our thinking than the rhetoric we are forced into when forced to "choose" those sides? How much better might we be?
Both interesting and so nice to focus on something other than health issues, work conflicts, and world events.