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.
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.
And the House of Lincoln.
Nancy horan
I love historical fiction,
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.
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.
“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!
Got a bunch of real books as have not investigated library e-versions yet - but will be.
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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.
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.
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.
Have not, but it sounds fun.
“Witty, endearing and greatly entertaining.” —Wall Street Journal
“Don’t trust anyone, including the four septuagenarian sleuths in Osman’s own laugh-out-loud whodunit.” —Parade
I am reading Roger Ormerod's Detective Richard Patton murder mystery series. I like the characters but, to me, the plots are a bit too tangled. However, I am still enjoying them.
Similarly, the public library was sectioned into a juvenal and adult sections. When I wanted to check out a biography on Hilter when I was about 11, my mother was required to give her permission.
TN has passed legislation to have certain books "banned" from elementary libraries and some others from high school libraries too based on content. There are no restrictions on purchases for public libraries or what bookstores can stock and sale (although pornography can not be displayed).
I do not consider this "banning" books. If you want your child to read about alternative lifestyles you can purchase or borrow those books for your child. I don't consider it a big issue that porno mags are displayed so you can see the title but not tge cover picture.
To me, banning books is making it illegal to publish, own or loan certain books. Not protecting young minds from exposure to all the world's evil (hilter's solution or the US calvary's slaughter of Native Americans) or somewhat crazy ideas. Time enough when they are older - either adults themselves or with their parents' permission.
In the past it's been right wing Christian groups opposing sex and language, lately there has been an effort by ethnic minorities and indigenous groups to remove items they find offensive.
It’s interesting that many of the books that I read are now banned. Plus, many of the books that our children have read are also banned. I can’t imagine how many more books will be added to the ‘banned’ list.
Another interesting thing is, I remember seeing religious articles in certain publications that stated a list of movies that weren’t appropriate for people to watch.
All this did was make people curious about the content of those movies and they rushed off to see them. I think the same thing applies to books. Those books are going to sell more copies than if they weren’t banned.
Now I mostly use the digital libraries to get books and magazines for my kindle. The libby app lets you browse by category or search by author or title. When I check out a physical book, I reserve it through the online library website and pick it up after the librarian has pulled it for me. I used to browse through the library looking for books but I guess I gotten spoiled.