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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.

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Two huge books on the history of art are on the desk. Lower to the bed and read them as they perch on a pillow, few pages at a time. Slow reads, and just savoring them slow. Got a Kroch & Brentano's gift certificate and so seldom do I shop for a book that I hardly knew what to want for; I am a library hound. But once in the store I had no problem at all getting rid of 50.00! Shocking for me; I am so used to reading free.
I do admit to guilt over not PAYING for authors I love. So sometimes when a book is amazing I will buy one to send to daughter, SIL, grandson.
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On order from my library is
Memorial Days: A memoir by Geraldine Brooks about when her apparently healthy husband suddenly died right on the sidewalk. It is her walk through early widowhood.
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I just read Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl. It’s really quick and it’s short essays alternating between memories of her childhood and her recent life in late middle age. Some of the “chapters” are one page and none are more than about 3-4 pages. So easy to read in short chunks.

Lots about nature — birds, bunnies, her dogs, plants, weather — and quite a bit about her relatives including the old age and death of her parents. I enjoyed it though parts were really sad. All about the seasons of life. Very thoughtful but a delicate touch.
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Jlyn, I remember the title of 'hairy mclarey from donaldson's dairy', but not the plot!
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I’m reading North Woods. Just began but so far it has kept my attention.
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Has anyone read Alex Michaelides' The Silent Patient?
Or Mark Manson's The Subtle Art of Not Giving A (naughty word).
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This one is probably more for grandchildren - Lynley Dodd wrote a series of books in the 1980's - Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy. I remember coming home from work every night the summer we kept our granddaughter while her mom was in hospital....every night, first thing, she would ask to go on back porch and the two of us would read through another book. Beautifully written - cumulative rhyming text and pictures.
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Just started reading Mitch Albom's The Time Keeper. I enjoyed his Tuesdays with Morrie several years ago and thought this would be another good one. Just started and not so sure - may have to give it more "time"! And after a short 2-hour class on technique, I read Anusha Rajendran's "Creative Quilling" (eBook) - fascinating craft, simple equipment and minimal expense. Still struggling through Music Theory For Dummies.

Update on A child's Christmas in Wales (Dylan Thomas) -I don't remember where I saw the recommendation but do remember that Dad loved Thomas' work. Finally got out after latest snow storm and went to retrieve it from the library. Could not find it. Librarian looked and finally said 'oh, it's in the children's section.' Yep - it was - a very thin child's book...I flipped through a few pages and realized not what I thought it was. Ratz! My old iPad came with a few books referred to as Apple Classics - I think I read two of them but now realized there are many more sitting there. Not sure how I missed that! Beatrix Potter stories, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Wind in the Willows, Little Women, Great Expectations, Winnie the Pooh, Ralph Waldo Emerson's Poems, and Importance of Being Earnest - that last one is bit strange...I keep going back to it and reading a bit more. I recently changed our television programming, mostly to see if we were getting the best deal and they offered two months of a bunch of channels due to our long 'loyalty'. Free. I looked through what is on those channels - maybe a show on recipes or fixing old homes but the rest of them not of interest. Maybe because I grew up in a house with no tv until I was 16. Our entertainment was music, or whatever we found of interest at local library. I'll likely call them soon and say take the extras off - not interested. Yes, I love a good book.
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Much more fun than 'Bladder Care'!, Alva!!
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Vanishing Treasures, A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures by Katherine Rundell
Got it as a Christmas present and thought I wouldn't like it as I am just over all we are doing to our earth. But it's WONDERFUL. Full of little known facts. A joyful book, really.
Did you know:
A "common swift, in its lifetime, flies about 1.2 million miles; enough to fly to the moon and back twice over, and then once more to the moon?" That it seldom perches which is why it has tiny spindly legs?
That Greenland sharks can live, that we know of, to at least 512 years? That they are so voraciously hungry in the womb that one of them eats all its siblings so that only one emerges alive at the end of gestation?
That it was believed in medieval times that bears were born as a tiny blob that could not develop to a bear without the mother licking it "into shape" of a bear? That the Kodiak bear is born the size and shape of a loaf of bread but grows to 1,500 pounds?
That crows can pass on knowledge to their fledglings of who is "good" and will feed them and who is a danger to them, without the person being in view?
And on and on. Full of wonder and myths of the animals, and an amazing ton of fun.
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“Bladder Care”, which jumped off the shelf at the Library. One thing I didn’t know about “recurrent UTIs and longer term low-dose antibiotics, usually used for at least three months. When the bladder has become swollen or inflamed after recurrent infections (cystitis), it is likely to continue to have recurrent infections until the lining of the bladder is allowed to heal. Preventing recurrent infections over a three or six month period is more like to allow the bladder lining to heal and to be able to stave off any further infection”.

“Cranberry juice helps to reduce the attachment of eColi to the bladder wall. Vitamin C can acidify the urine and make it hostile to some germs. Urinary alkalisers like Ural will reduce acidity and the stinging that is often felt, but are best used on a short term basis as they can prolong infection by bacteria that like an alkaline environment”.

Posting about UTI treatment here should come up when someone types UTI in the magnifying glass at the top of our screen! I think this book was in the same Library section as “The Happy Bowel”, and both were produced in Perth, Western Australia. Perhaps the urologists were spurred on to sort out the bladder as well as the bowel!
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Lol I to gobble books when I can I have about three more I'm reading.

"Tiger's Dream" I love fantasy and tigers so yes it's perfect.

"Poached" this about the illegal wildlife trade.

I read in between work and my last two college classes. Wow, my 4th degree (and last). I get a lot of reading done during breaks and summer and read before I sleep. I will be busy visiting my bf and moving, but my pace will pick up lol.
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I'm reading a couple books. I've usually got my nose in a book as a bookworm.

"How To Stop Worrying and Start Living" by Dale Carnegie. This is part of my path to tame my anxiety and have a more optimistic viewpoint

"Known to the Victim" by Kelley Armstrong. I love her supernatural novels so took a chance on this. I love true crime and it's a good read.
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Blueeyedgirl, I'm ashamed of myself that I've never read it. That's going on the top of my list, for very soon.
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Jlyn69 - I'm actually rereading Little Women for perhaps the 25th time in my life. If I had to choose a favorite book - that would be the one.
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Highly recommend the Heaven & Earth Grocery - could not keep it straight and made mistake of reading last 2 pages and then back to page 1 so finally had to keep a cheat-sheet of who was who! Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom) - excellent. Local library offers a survey - tell your interests and they will come up with a reading list for you. So far, spot on! Few months ago they had an eye-catching display of "Books you should have read in high school but did not...." When I bought my first iPad, it came with a few books already loaded - Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In The Willows - I'm still working through that one. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Stowe) was a big surprise - never read that in school. Alcott's Little Women, Then Wilde's The Importance Of. Being Earnest - I keep going back to that but still not finished.

Next want-to-read: A child's Christmas in Wales (Dylan Thomas).
In looking back, I realize years fly by - spent helping Dad learn computer programming (successfully, in his mid-80's at the time), mother with her computerized sewing machine, technology manuals, music theory...would not change that but am trying to get back to more fun reading. My brain needs it! My mistake is in putting off 'because' I'm still working through estate paperwork and then next tax papers. Deadlines never go away but a little fun diversion is good.
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The Shutouts by Gabrielle Korn. Dystopian, but not FAR in the future, only about 2040. Golly, It all is sounding disturbingly "possible".
Just finished Christmas present Listen for the Lie. Amy Tintera. Not heavy and fun for a podcast listener such as myself. Also just done is short Novella, Stephen King type Horror involving a bereaved wife and her son visiting a deserted winter cabin with a not so friendly moose; it's called Coild Snap and is by Lindy Ryan.
Waiting in the wings is Elizabeth Strout's Tell Me Everything.
Best recent book? Leaving by Roxana Robinson.

Never ask me this question. I am a VORACIOUS reader who gobbles books like peanut butter and chocolate candies.
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Has anyone read the book, " the courage to be disliked"?someone said it really helped them deal with family trauma.
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I try to read when I can before I go to bed, and audio books have been a life saver for me! I am re-listening to the Harry Potter series, for some reason it gives me a lot of comfort during difficult times. I also love crime/thriller dramas - currently listening to The Waiting by Michael Connelly.
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My guess is that no-one will care (particularly those involved), but I realised after I posted below that I got mixed up – Pliny the Younger’s letter was written to the historian Taccitus, not to Emperor Tiberius. If I don't correct this, I just know that someone will post to say that Tiberius was dead by 79. Duh!
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My concentration level has been low so I've been buying discount books in the supermarket bin. I just finished "Husbands" about a group of accomplished women in a gated community who share a common problem... Husbands who try but fail miserably at taking on their fair share of housework and child duties. They have a solution.... Fun read, will hit home for many.

Just started "The Homewreckers" about a woman who restores houses, a reality home flipping show and a murder in one of those homes. "it's a question of who will flip, who will flop, and if Hattie will get her Happily Ever After"... 😂😂
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I’ve just read ‘Written in Bones’ which includes a section on the finds from the AD79 Vesuvius explosion that destroyed Pompei and Herculaneum. It matches up modern knowledge of the likely steps in the disaster, with the letter written by 20-year-old Pliny to Emperor Tiberius about the death of his father (Pliny the Elder) in his rescue attempt of the thousands who died on the beach from falling ash, as well as in the two cities from the streams of fire and molten lava.

It was eerily like the description in the news this morning of the streams of fires coming down the mountains behind LA. I’m only glad that the death rate so far is so much lower.
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All of the below, plus The Secret Garden. Sigh.
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Margaret, Charlotte's Web, Nancy Drew, and little house on the prairie, for me
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 😕
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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.

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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!!!
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Yes Alva it's fairly new, the publication date was Feb 29th.
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