Follow
Share
Read More
Find Care & Housing
Just got in my hammock, under a tree, with a book. The Lost Book of Bonn, historical fiction about preserving the books after ww2

Probably gonna be here a while since getting out of the hammock is not to easy. 😆
(3)
Report

I’ve just finished reading Machiavelli’s book ‘The Prince’, after hearing about it for 50 years. It was so shocking because it was based on what actually happened in the battles between Florence, Milan, Venice and Rome (with a bit of classical history thrown in), rather than high-minded comments. It’s quite short – 89 pages – and surprisingly interesting.

This comment would fit in the Aged Care site: ‘We do not find men falling down because they expect to find someone helping them up’. But we do find just that, in people not planning for age care!
(3)
Report

Margaret, that's funny I've seen that book a hundred times, always thought about reading it. Never did

I'll put that on my list now
(1)
Report

I just read " Working Daughter." I thought it was excellent.
(0)
Report

Golden I'm reading, A mans search for meaning , by Victor Frankl. It is really good!

I got Frankl confused with Elie Wiesels, book Night.

Night, was so emotional and disturbing to me, I couldn't bring myself to read anymore of his stuff. So I got them confused and wouldn't read anything by Frankl.

If you ever read Night, it was the closest I ever felt that I could actually feel what the author was feeling and smelling.
(3)
Report

Kate Atkinson's latest Jackson Brodie (and her BEST ) imho. But then I love all things art theft, and British old homes and castles!

Just finished a book Lea Recommended. Not new. My Journey into Alzheimer's.
She recommended this book to one of our OPs who was asking "How can I tell what it's like to HAVE Alzheimer's".

This book is written by a pastor, so know going in that it is very heavy on his faith, and how it sustained him on his journey; I am an atheist and I found it difficult to get through to the parts about what it felt like to have Alzheimer's at times. BUT this book is one I would recommend to anyone (even an atheist like me). While the book was finished by his wife when he could not longer tell of his journey, this, other than listening to my own brother, is about the BEST thing I have ever read about WHAT THIS FEELS LIKE. What the losses and fear is like. How difficult nighttime and sleep. And on and on and on.

I found this book very inexpensive used on AMazon the day Lealonnie recommended it. I thank her always for her comments here which are so stellar without fail, and most recently for this recommend. Her own journey has taught, enlightened, encourage so many of us. Thanks to Lea! Yet again.
(3)
Report

Bummer! I forgot to mention the AUTHOR of the book Lea recommended. And somehow the edit button isn't showing for me.
So it is My Journey into Alzheimer's Disease a memoir by Robert Davis.

And of course, once I realized I hadn't logged in I knew why the Edit button didn't come up. Forgive my internet inadequacies (and my others as well).
(1)
Report

Horoscope
(2)
Report

Venting: As regards the horoscope! If there's no good news there I highly recommend the Jackson Brodie book. Full of fun and laugh out loud moments. If we can't make the world go away, at least we can get the respite of a fun book to transport us.
(0)
Report

The Sisters K - Margaret Sun. About a Korean family; an abusive father dying of cancer and 3 grown daughters. A lot of complex contemporary Korean/American culture and relationships. I think it’s a worthy read but it’s long and probably too chewy for me right now. Apparently it’s patterned after Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov but that wasn't on my required reading list in school and is not something my 16 year old self would have read by choice.

I’ve been in the mood for lighter fare for a few months but am having a heck of a time finding anything that keeps me interested.
(3)
Report

Peasuep that sounds like my kind of book. I'll look it up later
(0)
Report

Yes, I will curl up all cosy & read my book tonight!

Dang! I left my library book in my car - again. Husband just went out & borrowed my car - again. Unfinished & overdue - again 🙄
(1)
Report

People on reddit are constantly recommending I Am Legend by Richard Matheson so I thought I'd give it a go. Hm, I've abandoned it halfway through and I'm not sure I'll go back to it, I like to feel at least a sliver of empathy and connection to a protagonist and so far I'm not. I'm wondering if they all had to study this in high school and thought it unique and profound.
(0)
Report

I enjoy reading Rabi Jonathan Cahn.
Currently I'm reading his latest book 'The Dragon's Prophecy'.
His last book 'Return Of The Gods' has been his best.
'The Harbinger II' was extremely good too.
(0)
Report

Now reading The Quiet Dell, a novel taken from a true crime story from the 30s in which a widow and her young children are abducted and killed by a "wealthy" suitor who wasn't. Jayne Anne Phillips, whose books I recommend one and all.

The Cliffs by Countney Sullivan is next on the list.

Also have on the kindle IBS Solutions by Amanda Malachesky. Boy, lifelong sufferer from IBS and keep it in control (ha ha ) best I can, but this book, out of the 100s I have read, is AMAZING. So much this old RN and her gastroenterologist had no idea of! Highly recommend if the gut is a plain in the backside.
(0)
Report

I'm deep into a Nicci French novel - Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Sanders. Now THIS is more my style.
(0)
Report

I love Nicci French!
Wasn't aware of this one. Is it new?
(0)
Report

Beatty:
I ALWAYS have AT LEAST four library books at home, and the Kindle so full they keep telling me "If you want THIS one you will have to give up one of your others". I often read two books at once. And so leaving it in the care works out just fine.
Problem may be, at my age, confusing a story line or character. Ah, the vagaries of aging.
(3)
Report

Yes Alva it's fairly new, the publication date was Feb 29th.
(0)
Report

cw -Charlotte Salter??? Looks good!

Currently reading another murder mystery series (Tom Wasp) but this one is set in 1800 London with a "lettered" chimney sweep as the main character. I think the depiction of life in London at those times is accurate and I find the details of the life of the sweeps interesting.

Psue - for light reading I will share what a past poster (country mouse) shared with me, that being

Alexander McCall Smith - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. I enjoyed it is much I ended up reading just about everything McCall Smith has written. Loved the 44 Scotland Street series too.

and

Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. He has written more which I will read eventually, notably a Spot of Bother. Alva will vouch for that one.

Also I enjoyed

Elizabeth Gunn -The Jake Hines series - light and amusing mysterys

and Donald Westlake - A Spy in the Ointment and more from him that I must read. Quite funny!!!
(1)
Report

You are right Golden, it's Charlotte Salter. Sometimes I wonder about myself, I know what I want to say and yet my fingers type something else 😕
(1)
Report

The NY Times recently published a list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. I've been putting them on hold at the library and it has been a fun way to discover different authors and get out of my murder mystery rut.

I just finished The Friend by Sigrid Nunez. Not sure I could say I enjoyed it because it dealt with death and loss but some of her thoughts on the subjects were profound.

Next up is The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride.
(0)
Report

cw - I hear you. I do that myself.

hothouse - You should get some good reads from that list. I love my murder mystery rut. Long time ago in the last year of my undergrad degree, after studying I used to read one every night to settle my brain down so I could sleep. Mickey Spillane was a fave.

More light hearted mysteries for anyone who needs them are the series by M C Beaton -Agatha Raisin, and also Hamish McBeth. Also one of my faves was the Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy Sayers. I hated when there weren't any more.
(1)
Report

Pollyanna, What Katy Did, Anne of Green Gables, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Daddy Long Legs, etc. I’ve been rereading (or remembering in the night) my collection of old girls books – Very soothing at a difficult time.

I just can’t quite get my head around how Pollyanna and Katy managed to recover from paraplegia.
(2)
Report

Margaret, Charlotte's Web, Nancy Drew, and little house on the prairie, for me
(0)
Report

All of the below, plus The Secret Garden. Sigh.
(1)
Report

Start a Discussion
Subscribe to
Our Newsletter