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.
Thanks for sharing that. I'm really feeling myself drawn to the Dales just from thinking about Herriot's masterful tales of being a veterinarian in that area.
Loved your comment about bare chested men. I also often judge a book by its cover, defying the adage not to. The bare chested men and breathless women are good clues that it's not a story I want to read.
I'm just finishing The Flight Girls, about the WASPS. This is the third read, and I'll probably read it again later.
This morning as I was looking over my book collection, I spied a James Herriot novel. It's been years, if not decades, since I read his delightful adventures of being a vet in the Yorkshire Dales, so it's time to reread one of his books again. They're so relaxing, and he had such a way of describing veterinary practice that I was always entertained (and glad that I never wanted to be a vet for large animals in cold winter areas.)
The scenery is part of the attraction for me for series set in Britain. I lived there for some years and really enjoy seeing it again on TV.
Just starting the Bulldog Drummond section of my Great British Detectives.
Great suggestion! I know a couple of people that I could give that book to as a birthday gift! LOL. Eh, may not exactly be a welcome gift though.
The read bestseller fiction and non fiction books daily, along with newspapers, magazines and medical journals.
I'm so cheap I get a library copy, and if I'm quick without having to wait.
I will now start a historical novel about Venice. Iam also waiting for the 5th volume of Robert Galbraith. I have read the first four in English. I know it was released on the 15th September but I will wait for the paper back edition to become a little bit cheaper.
I looked up the book you mentioned. After what I've seen in life, read in books and learned from others, I'm not surprised by anything anymore.
Rebels & Heroes
2) Life-100 People Who Changed The World
3) The US Presidents - Best And Worst Of All
Times
#1 and #3 published by Centennial Media
#2- is by Merideth Corporation
Multiple waits in the car and other distancing routines plus medical offices devoid of any reading materials - including pharmaceutical brochures - I decided short stories about the famous and infamous of all time fits into the distancing routine.
I'm still in search of a current and past cartoon magazine of all times.
I have finished the Father Brown series and am now into another mystery series by R. Austin Freeman featuring John Thorndyke as the medical legal expert. The $1.99 for the Great British detectives was very well spent. I have been through all of Holmes (Doyle) Father Brown (Chesterton) and am well into Thorndyke and only half way through the ebook.
I'm also reading corona tests, observations ..to see the 'experts' either lie or be wrong. We probably All have been exposed. Reality bites ...
"Impartial are our eyes and ears:
Were he my brother, nay my kindgdom's heir.
As he is but my father's brother's son,
Now by my scepter's awe, I make a vow.
Such neighborhood nearness to our scared blood
Should nothing privilege him, nor partialize
The unstooping firmess of my upright soul:
He is our subject, Mowbray; so art thou;
Free speech and fearless I to thee allow"
Henry II, Shakespeare.
I love true stories based on a person's life. This story has a very rough beginning with a very good and true ending which I've heard is there, but I have not finished reading it yet. She writes not as a victim of what she lived through but for those whose lives has been like her's and offering them hope.
It is the autobiography of the daughter of Walter H. Breen and Marion Zimmer Bradley. However, it is not for the faint of heart.