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.
These books are getting me through as an escape reread in these times. I am up to F is for Fugitive but Kindle tricked me by making them free until now. Just walked to the library for F, G and H. Then they start to be free on Kindle again. Go figure.
However. I must say I have more than enough books to read. I get notices from Joffe books about their free ebooks. I have chosen only mysteries so far and get more of the ones I like than I can read before the next batch comes out.
I've checked the Sue Grafton series and they cost - about $12 a piece for the first ones in the series anyway.
The it is about 9.99 per book for F is for Fugitive through H is for Homicide. Starting with I it is free again on Amazon Kindle Unlimited, so this must vary out there? Or change around.
I can order so easily just about anything from our library and it is delivered ASAP to the library branch I choose, so just walked the three "for sale " book, again, home free. I am SUCH a cheapskate about some things and a spendthrift about others. Go figure. Because I love books. I do have an author currently about my favorite (Michael Finkel) and just ordered ALL his books for my son in law (Start with The Art Thief) today. So not like I don't support my favorite authors, hee hee.
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Got a bunch of real books as have not investigated library e-versions yet - but will be.
“Hang little girls’ dresses on the line inside out, so the hem fades equally ready for letting down”.
“Wash small children’s hair by lying them down on the draining board with their head over the sink”. If only!
But absolutely nothing on aged care. Zip! Zilch! Clearly, there wasn’t much of it going on!
Waist height, better for Mother's back (in theory).
The reality was one-handed hair washing as sister yelled & twisted about & was pinned down on the draining board with Mother's other hand so she didn't wriggle off & fall. I think I stood on a chair to help pin her legs down.
No-one had invented those little hat-face guards the little children wear in the bath yet.
When I was distressed I opened up another and went into that world of the 80s when everyone smoked, and Airwick was a thing, when there was pimento cheese in a jam jar, and when there were no cell phones and DNA was only a glimmer of hope.
I am on Law is for Lawless, and I am thoroughly enjoying the work of this woman who WAS taken suddenly and unexpectedly by cancer, a blood cancer if I remember, before she could finish the alphabet.
Thanks to her--and to authors everywhere, who deliver us from real life to another magical world where we can escape. May she long live on helping others tho she is so long gone from us.
And the House of Lincoln.
Nancy horan
I love historical fiction,
The book mentions the "heat dome" that hovered over the Pacific Northwest in 2021 for about a week. Temps to 102 deg.--that was totally unprecedented for this area. Winter snowfall this year has been 50-75% of normal so far. These are NOT good changes.
I'm reading Mitch Albom , the little liar.
It's good. All his work is so moving. So I'll let ya know how much crying I end up doing.
Right up our alley!
I just started, "those who save us"
WWII book. Not sure yet if it's any good, but there really seems to be a lot of WWII books in the stores now. Probably because of all the Israel stuff.
I read so much, and so many books at a time (mostly non-fiction), that I don’t usually post here. I’m currently unpacking books from the farm, and ploughing through my Agatha Christies to sort out the duplicates. Miss Marple is my current ‘light read’ in bed.
to reading the synopsis of one in particular,
and then navigating back to the original page,
and then on to the next page,
and the next page,
selecting another book,
borrowing the book,
back again,
turn the page,
IT'S MADDENING!!!
And I can't use shortcuts like opening multiple tabs because it won't let you do that. AHHH!
Life's Gauntlet: Alzheimer's Disease and a Caregiver's Journey for non-fiction and everything ever written by David Vann for fiction (tough stuff)