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 guess I'll have to read on my desktop for now 😣
I'm still working my way through The Great British Detectives, and am well into the Father Brown series by G.K Chesterton. I like the character of Father Brown in these short stories but am kind of missing longer tales.
This sampling includes Air Force men from WW11. Another details the life of Black Americans In Aviation , the 1975 edition (this title given me by a Black customer, whom, when I was leaving my West Coast life for the South, he thought it would be a good education to know about the Tuskegee Airmen. He wrote the book along with one other black man in aviation and they worked at General Dynamics. It's really neat to have this autographed copy.
A neighbor/friend of Dads who was a POW in East Europe during the war gave me a copy of his war diary. A Department of Defense publication (dated 1969) about how to build fallout shelters is in the collection.
My grandma had a couple cookbooks - a 1915 economy cookbook and a Donner Party Cookbook. My grandma also had a book about Rosie the Riveter.
I believe in controlling clutter and just "stuff" that collects from time-to-time. Over the years and with each move, many books have been donated.
As of now I still can not part with these books. They cost me nothing but mean everything. These are among the few books/items/furniture that have followed me to every address I've ever known.
"Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"
"I trust I have not inadvertently..." "Just a little," said Holmes, with some acerbity.
"He was running, Watson, running for his life!"
" - Is there no such thing as a gentleman!"
I'm currently reading a sci-fi series by Marissa Meyer, titled Scarlet (book 2)... First time to read this author.... Book one ended as a cliffhanger.
I was listening to YouTube "People Share their Most Unexplained Experiences". The OP mentioned a book: The Gift of Fear. I checked Amazon. Hmmm I bought this book? Yes, I did. I'm going to read this along side Meyer's. I bet this Gift of Fear will have some great personal experiences of people's gut feelings!
You’re right about the Plum novels are sometimes tedious. She doesn’t put them out as often anymore. I can’t even remember a recent one that I can name, but I still enjoy them when they’re out. (Silly me, they’re all by the numbers.)
Sometimes high expectations ruin the enjoyment but Lulu and Grandma Mazur are always fun.
Y2K: A Reasoned Response to Mass Hysteria
by Dave Hunt
Y2K never happened.
Dave Hunt was an American Christian apologist, speaker, radio commentator and author. He was in full-time ministry from 1973 until his death. A prolific best-selling author, international lecturer, and Bible teacher, his writings have been translated into at least 50 languages. More than four million copies of Dave’s books have been sold. For nearly a decade, Dave also co-hosted a weekly radio program, Search the Scriptures Daily, broadcast on over 400 stations in the U.S. and worldwide.
I am presently reading The Dysautonomia Project. It was suggested reading by my daughter’s cardiologist/dysautonomia specialist. She has dysautonomia along with several chronic disorders. I have been on a mission to educate myself about this invisible illness.
Fascinating topic. Mayhem and triumphs throughout history, right? Every generation has it’s challenges and achievements.
I read the Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evonovich, they are light and fun to read. She has a senior grandmother that is a real hoot. My mom and I would both crack up at some of their misadventures.
Grandma’s favorite pastime is going to all and assorted funerals, no matter who’s it is, she packs a gun in her patent leather purse and often finds a New “honey” at the bingo hall. As the stories are located in Trenton New Jersey her “honeys” are often old mafia soldiers.
Stephanie Plum is a bail bond officer that bumbles around until she catches her offenders to pay the rent.
I also like J.D. Robb’s “In Death” series. J.D. Robb is Nora Roberts but these are not romances. They are set in New York in 2060 and the main character is a police lieutenant named Eve Dallas who can kick ass literally. Besides the plot being exciting it’s fun to imagine the future world she writes about. The world has survived the “urban wars” and there are many new laws to protect equal rights for everybody. Licensed career moms get a salary as well as licensed prostitutes have protection laws. Police are only armed with stun guns and real guns can only be found in museums. Cars can drive above the ground to get around traffic jams, Pepsi is sold in tubes but real coffee is hard to find unless you’re very rich.
I also like the Jack Reacher series but I’ve already rambled on too long...
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Finished another Cussler novel and am back to Adm. McRaven's second book of memoirs. He provides valuable insight into how he and other leaders think, how they plan operations, address and plan for a variety of alternatives.
I'm just in awe of the precision of his planning and execution of special ops. After I finish this reading, I'll reread it again for study purposes.
Fixed a broken bookshelf the other day and found dozens of books I read but had forgotten about. I almost wish it was still winter and not gardening season b/c I'm in a mood to read.
I still love Old Man and the Sea. Read it many years ago in school. Hemingway is awesome.
I also read one of Solzhenitsyn novels, but found it difficult to read.
Now they're vaguely coming back to me and I'm rethinking the desire to read more on those horrors. One of my relatives disappeared decades ago in Russia.
I think maybe I need to focus on something more positive.
Golden, I've never heard of Bookhub; sounds like something to check out.
I've found that I'm still hooked to the attraction of a book store. It's like a candy shop for me. There are so many categories, so many books...I lose myself in a book store and come out refreshed and rejuvenated.
I'll never forget the attraction and comforting atmosphere of the largest Borders store in my area. It was 2 stories, with about 1/2 of the second story dedicated to CDs. I could wander for hours and never be tired of exploring what was available, and I found some really interesting music, especially Pilgrim and Renaissance music.
I think I've probably written this sometime before, but since I can't remember for sure I can plead old age and write about it again. One day I was wandering around the CD section of Borders when a young man began playing a classical piece...I don't remember if it was a concerto, or piano only score for some other classical composition.
He played it on the baby grand on the first floor; the music reached the upper floor so clearly. I recall that several other patrons stopped, walked to the rail and just watched, mesmerized, as he finished his concert.
It was one of those events that "takes you out of yourself". For a moment I was transported out of Borders and into the Ford Auditorium listening to a concert pianist.
That memory of Borders and the emotional and mental stimulation that permeated every store will never leave me. Of all the stores that have closed, Borders and Hudson's took the most memories, atmosphere, relaxation, and basic value of purpose with them.