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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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That's sounds good, I'm going to look that up.

I'm reading Mitch Albom , the little liar.

It's good. All his work is so moving. So I'll let ya know how much crying I end up doing.
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I'm reading a non-escapist book at the moment: "The Great Displacement" (due to climate change) by Jake Bittle. At 87 I likely won't be around long enough to experience or be displaced by a catastrophic weather event (maybe not counting heavy wildfire smoke, which we've had), but our adult kids might. Our grandkids almost certainly will.

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.
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Just bought Mitch Alboms new book, the little liar.

And the House of Lincoln.
Nancy horan

I love historical fiction,
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Not reading it now but " a man called ove" is such a good feel good book, with a good sence of humor .One of my favorite. Was made into a Tom Hanks movie "a man called Otto" it was a good movie but as always the book was so much better
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OMG Kinsey Millhone via Sue Grafton. She, this lovely P.I. in her 30s, cutting her hair with a manicuring scissors, has got me through my second dose of cancer, single handedly.
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.
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Margaret, I remember that was exactly how my younger sister's hair was washed!

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.
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I’ve been reduced to reading ‘Country Women’s Association Household Hints’, published 1973, but with many older tips. Interesting historically, so much has changed. Good outdated tips for children:
“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!
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Just picked up The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett from my new library. I say 'new' as I just joined while on a mini-break - I intend to make visiting this region a more regular thing. (Loved the film with Maggie Smith).

Got a bunch of real books as have not investigated library e-versions yet - but will be.
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Thx cw. I'm like Alva. I have such a back up...
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Kindle doesn't work in Australian libraries either. They use another system, that I haven't got around to working out yet. Right now I'm re-reading Jane Austen's 'Mansfield Park', and thinking about the issues for actors (particularly amateurs) in simulating love scenes without reality getting in the way. I can see the point now a bit more clearly than when I read it a few decades ago.
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Or as Cwillie says, go the library route. I haven't downloaded our ebook access but it's enormous. I just have such a backup of stuff to read I will be lucky to live so long, you know?
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Canadian libraries use Kobo Golden. Kindle is owned by American Amazon and they are the ones blocking access.
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Just saw that My Kindle Unlimited subscription only applies to Amazon.ca. Might be worth getting another subscription to Amazon.com if only for the Sue Grafton series. It can always be cancelled.
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On my kindleunlimited I can get Sue Grafton Free A is for Alibi through E is for Evidence.
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.
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Thx Pam and cw. I read from the Kindle app on my laptop and order all my ebooks from Amazon. I have Kindle Unlimited from Amazon which I find very worthwhile. Hope Canadian libraries get with it soon.

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.
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Unless something has changed very recently Kindle does not work in Canadian libraries. No doubt the Kindle freebies Alva has found are not available here either.
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Golden many libraries have a system where you can download/borrow thier books on your Kindle. My DD does with all the time. If you can;t figure it out take your Kindle in person and some one will gladly help you. I am reading the Frozen River. So good!
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Alva - Sue Grafton series is not free for me on Kindle. How do you do it?
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Kinsey Millhone, Sue Grafton's great P.I. who lives in Santa Teresa (read Santa Barbara, Grafton's home town) and operates her Detective agency in the 80s. Start with A is for Alibi. A kinder gentler time, but wow is it smoke filled. They all smoke even in the hospital.

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.
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Just finished Janet Neel's "A Fatal Blow". It 's Book ! of her Wilson and McLeish Mysteries. I like mysteries set in the UK. The beginning was very slow reading for me and I nearly gave up on it but am so glad I didn't. I enjoyed it more as I got into the book and look forward to reading the rest of the series. I find the characters interesting and this form of Brit Lit is great escapism for me.
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Golden,

Have not, but it sounds fun.
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I checked the blurb for that book Golden and I may be wrong but it sounds like a pass for me, those kind of books are too often formulaic and lack any depth in character or plot development.
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Anyone read The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel by Richard Osman? It is supposed to be funny.
“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.
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Years ago I attended a joint elementary and middle school that had been a k-12 school. The library was divided into two sections: one for elementary and one for the middle school. You needed parent's permission to check out books in the middle school section whike you were still in elementary school grades.

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.
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In Canada usually it's aimed at school boards, sometimes public libraries. So books deemed "unsuitable" would be removed from the curricula, or the library shelves.
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.
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Please could you explain ‘banned’? Here we do have a Government ‘banning’ system, and in the past it ‘banned’ books like Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Now it’s snuff porn or other really horrible things. However libraries stop stocking things because they are no longer Politically Correct (like Little Black Sambo), or not what the library wants to push (like Enid Blyton). Why are you seeing books being banned, and by whom or what?
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cw,

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.
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Book banning was a big topic back when I was in high school, I specifically remember our fight to keep Margaret Laurence's The Diviners (loved that book). It's pretty tame by today's standards.
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Some of our local bookstores have signs highlighting banned books 😆. There are signs saying, “Buy banned books!” Love it!
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I haven't used a physical library in a while but never had a problem finding what I wanted in one when I did; of course I had to use the card catalogs occasionally.

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.
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