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.
Trudy
I grabbed a Debbie McCumber at the library today. Hopefully I can submerge myself in some easy reading before sleepy time tonight.
One time I was reading a Nora Roberts book and the first couple of pages seemed pretty interesting like the other ones and all of a sudden things got gory. I kept reading because I was already into it, and a lot of her books aren't always that graphic. Montana Sky.
I really like author Carla Neggars just for the descriptions of where her books are set. The New England states and Ireland and England.
The Sharpe and Donovan Series is really good IMO.
Entertaining while also good for our brain.
It's quite a thick book but I had it finished in three days.
I will save that info & see if library has some.
I do like mysteries😳.
Must get out of my rut, this will help me🌈.
And Cwillie, I agree about Laurell Hamilton,, she has become boring to me.
What do you guys recommend for me (that's easy to read)? Sorry, but I used to read stuff like Tolkien & Isaac Asimov...which is WAY over my head now.
BTW: my Nancy Drew books are still in my basement! 💟
Thanks all, ...tiger.
Pretty good. I just found out they made a movie from it.
Im not big into self discovery, but it is very fulfilling reading.
I am throwing out classics if they were horrible, no matter how high their standing. Frankenstein and Brave New World are gone - if I ever feel the need to reread them, I will have to be very short of fun indeed.
Only 4999999999999998 more to go, then :(
Linda, I'm not at all familiar with Cornwell. Googled it - is it Patricia or Bernard?
Has anyone read Nick Bantock's Griffin and Sabine series? Thoughts? I read all 6 books (quick, easy reading) several years ago, read them again, was initially captivated but began to be a little annoyed by the last book which didn't really resolve the many questions raised during the earlier books.
And I never could quite figure out all the art work and the symbolism. For those who haven't read the series, it's highly allegorical, and thought provoking, just in the attempt to figure out what's really happening.
Then there was one about class actions which COULD have been brilliant - he began with the makings of an original and important perspective on the concept. Too difficult, too uncertain to sell, too time-consuming to work out or whatever: it then slumped back into hero lawyer wins through blah blah blah. I was not charmed, I was livid.
I've noticed that one city on the county border line has been in the news more recently with crime issues. That's always been a concern, that the crime and blight of Detroit move north.
CWillie, good way to categorize the repeat authors of "churning out books". Some have such common themes that I know immediately there were will subterranean sections, dark, dank unpleasant areas that remind me of Indiana Jones movies, but with none of the panache or creativity of his adventures.
I think their creativity peaks, but they just keep grinding out the books, like cars on an assembly line.
That's one aspect that I never saw in Margaret Truman's crime novels; her creatively and complexity improved with each novel.
I never got into James Patterson novels but there are others who keep churning out books that sell well despite having lost what made their early books desirable - Patricia Cornwell and Laurell K Hamilton are two that come to mind.
Where exactly do you live again Garden. I forgot.
It's definitely Fall here now. I have at least six months of rain to look forward to.
We rarely get snow here. I wish we did. I love the way things look and how quiet it gets when it snows.