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'm reading The Magic, by Rhonda Byrne.
I'm also reading The Honeymooner, by Melanie Summers
”The Moonstone” perfectly.
Easy reading. I’ve got a couple of other entertaining books to read. My concentration isn’t good since my last surgeries. I think I had too much anesthesia too close together.
Hallah - "Read-Alikes" sounds useful. I have not read any of Baldacci's.
Bellerose - Steinbeck!!! Haven't read him for years, I love the film of Zorba and never thought of reading the book. Worth checking out.
MJ - thanks for the info on "West With Giraffes". I found it on Kindle Unlimited and am over half way through and really enjoying it.
If you read a book that you really enjoyed, and would like to read something similar, here is a site to use.
‘Read-Alikes’ at BookBrowse https://www.bookbrowse.com/read-alikes/
Here you can find handpicked read-alike recommendations for more than 4000 contemporary books and 3000 authors. Use the alphabetical lists below to look up a favorite book or author and then click "See Read-Alikes" to discover similar books.
Or scroll down to search.
"all works of fiction and narrative nonfiction are broadly made up of four experiential elements:
story, character, setting, and language."
A book with story as its biggest doorway is one that readers describe as a page-turner, a book that they can't put down because they desperately want to discover what happens next.
A book with character as its biggest doorway is a book in which readers feel so connected with the characters that when the book is over they feel they've lost someone dear to them.
Readers of novels in which setting is most prominent say things like "I felt like I was there."
A book in which language is the major doorway leads readers to utter sentences like "I read more slowly because I wanted to savor the language."
I don’t always get newer books as I tend to get books from The Little Free Libraries near me. I may get one or more and after reading them, return them and see what else is interesting. With the LFL’s I don’t have to sign them out.
I see The Flight Girls is available in Kindle unlimited so I will have a look at it too. Thanks for mentioning it, GA. It looks interesting.
cw and gershun - wishing you find some good reads.
Sisters in Arms is a tale of 2 black women who join the Women's Army Auxilliary Corps, an all black, all female, segregated group of women who serve in the Army. The author has written other novels about the mistreatment and verbal abuse of blacks, and addresses it in this novel through interactions with racist whites.
I think I'll buy more novels (one can never have enough books!) on women in the military. It's a different perspective from so many popular novels.
I've just downloaded a new batch from the library, I'm hoping that even if they aren't great they are not so bad as the last bunch and I'll at least be able to finish them.
It's not going to win any awards but it's fairly enjoyable to read.
Looks to be a great one so far.
The toxic things belong to a woman that has been recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Now shopping for my next read.
Oh, the book club?
https://zibbyowens.com/virtualbookclub
The thread I read about it on?
https://www.agingcare.com/questions/please-recommend-an-online-book-clubscrabble-club-online-activity-group-im-an-empty-nester-now-469680.htm?orderby=oldest
Right now I am back into classic British mysteries of the past - British Mysteries Ultimate Collection: 560+ Detective Novels, Thriller Classics, Murder Mysteries, Whodunit Tales & True Crime Stories.
I have a similar collection which I have pretty well read to the end, so am picking through this one to find authors the other book didn't include. They are very good value for a few bucks.