What are you reading right now?

If anyone is interested, we have a local non profit radio station here that reads books, best sellers, non fiction and fiction, classics, newspapers, articles from magazines and medical journals, etc. to the blind.

I have listened to many unabridged books on this station. Just as many sighted people listen to it as visually impaired people.

It’s www.wrbh.org

You can stream it live online. I believe that you can also go into the archives also.

Enjoy!

Dreadful to know what happened to the wife and girls. Makes you wonder who is safe. I'm not surprised that people in the neighbourhood would be deeply affected.

Working my way through The Great Age reboot. Some interesting ideas and information for sure. One is that as people age well in the coming years they will work longer and contribute to the economy so that, in fact, increasing longevity will not be a drain on society but rather society will benefit.

Calvin and Hobbs is still good for a chuckle.

The Chris Watts story hits so close to home. Seems like the wife and girls were found very close to here. I remember the news stories, how terribly disturbing to begin with, then where they were found! A very, very sick person. 😥😥

I recently finished "My Daddy is a Hero: How Chris Watts Went from Family Man to Family Killer" by Lena Derhally, Thanks to whoever recommended it. I can't remember who you are.

It was disturbing, of course, but it was also too familiar. I have been pondering why and finally realized that Chris Watts reminds me of my sister. She has some of the same characteristics. though she doesn't have the rage from suppressed needs. I have experienced her flipping from charming to vicious from one phone call to another. The iciness of her tones would freeze water on a hot day.

I don't think I ever saw my sister cry. Her response to my "How are you?" was always, "I'm fine!". She smirked when things went her way, she turned on the big wide smile as part of her "I am a nice/good person" front, she sat with her hands folded in her lap appearing to be the dutiful daughter at mother's gatherings, but behind the scenes was another story, I am not going to go into the "other stories", but suffice it to say, she is cruel and unfeeling, she lies, and money is a big motivator for her.

This realization has helped me to put some of the missing pieces of my past in their right places and lay more of the attached feelings to rest. I am very thankful I have gone no contact. If I ever questioned that that was the right thing to do, I question it no longer. It was necessary. I forgive her for being who she is. How much choice she has, for that matter anyone with a mental illness has, I don't know. I just know I need to protect myself from her and I have.

Thanks, Glad. I thought it was you. Will add the Mrs to my reading list.

It was me, Alva. We have very similar tastes in reading. I loved The Cloistersl

I am still working on Verity. I don't read daily and when I do I am doing good to get an hour in. Verity reminds me of another book I read recently that has a very similar story line. I will try to figure out the title of it.

Found it here. The Last Mrs. Parrish.

Which of you recommended The Cloisters?
I am loving it.
Right up my alley. A good website online from the Met.org, as well:

The Met Cloisters - Primer (metmuseum.org)

Glad, Verity sucked me right in and kept me there throughout!

Just started Verity. The story line is intriguing, and so far very good.

Scapegoat. Identity switch tale by the long dead Daphne DuMaurier. Recommended.
Just finished Rob Delaney's memoir about the death of his son, A Heart that Works. Be ready to weep, but there are things in this, such as what a one year old toddling about in diapers is, that I will never forget. I read it in one night.

Having just gotten through a 4 book mystery set which should only have taken one book I really needed a change.

So I have found a free pdf of James Herriot's "All Creatures Great and Small" and am enjoying it. I liked the original TV series but haven't gotten into the recent version. I also found Bloom County Bill the Cat ("Ack"), Calvin and Hobbes, and Pogo. Years ago we all loved these.

The Great Age Reboot is interesting and such a contrast to much of what we see here. It's encouraging.

It's never too late Send.

Referencing the Boundaries book by Cloud and Townsend.

Earlier this morning I was reading somewhere about a serial killer whose wife was given an emergency divorce when he was arrested. Don't know how I got there.

Mayfair!

I am watching Mairfair witches on AMC. Set largely in New Orleans. A surgeon that finds out she is a witch. Wonder if there are any legends about Mayfair witches in NO. I saw a teaser on this last week, maybe the Today Show?

EERIE and STRANGE!

https://www.today.com/video/alexandra-daddario-talks-mayfair-witches-and-white-lotus-159482437608

Oh, yea, I put it here because it is based on Anne Rice's book.

Reading the latest of the Gamache series and enjoying it as I have enjoyed the others. Each to his or her own. I needed a break from the Brit murder mysteries I have been reading. I love the setting of the Gamache series -so much like areas very near to where I grew up. I am also enjoying a Christian daily devotional called Change My Relationship: 365 Daily Devotions for Christians in Difficult Relationships by Karla Downing. Lots of good stuff, some similar to what we advise here.
I totally disregard what any celebrities recommend.

I read The Cloisters a Jenna Bush Hager recommendation. It was very good, the end will completely catch you by surprise! It was excellent, no agenda that i saw. Just a good story.

Yeah, I generally avoid the books recommended by celebrities, the celebrities seem to want to shove an agenda down our throats and the books almost never live up to the hype.

Just read Open House by Elizabeth Berg, an Oprah Book Club favorite. The main character is going through a divorce and I honestly found her to have no redeeming qualities. Way too dysfunctional and whiny for me, I’m surprised I finished it

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

It's inspired by David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. So far - halfway through - I'd call it Depressing Copperhead. But Oprah must have liked it because she chose it for her book club.

Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro. She's excellent. I have gobbled up all her memoirs because I love memoirs, but this is also just excellent.

I'm reading a Louise Penny Inspector Gamache book (Bury Your Dead) and I have to say it's not going well. I've avoided the series because I remembered disliking one of the first books, but they keep being recommended and Penny herself has been lauded with honours so I searched for the earliest book in the series I could get from my library. I'm going to soldier on in the hope that this series will grow on me but I find it difficult to suspend my eye rolling disbelief in almost every aspect of this book.

Anyone thinking about "Code Name Blue Wren" to be released tomorrow? I am.

How interesting! I thought most of us just read new fiction, which I don’t usually go for. I’ve recently acquired Collins’ ‘Keepers of the Keys of Heaven – a History of the Papacy’, which covers every Pope/ Church Father to Benedict XVI. I looked up the first 300 years again to remind myself about Clement I, Origen and Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite - there's a lot to remember in 2000 years! I got the book because I was particularly interested to check the Gnostics and the Arian Controversy (which are often referred to elsewhere), just a bit later in Church history, but I must admit that the very early stuff simply indicates to me that power struggles were alive and well almost immediately. The limited number of people who could read back then, were capable of arguing at enormous length about the unprovable, very little of which was actually referred to in the Bible. Pius IX kept that tradition alive at least to 1854 with the Immaculate Conception!

From Clement to Origen: The Social and Historical Context of the Church Fathers


The Beauty of the Unity and the Harmony of the Whole: The Concept of Theosis in the Theology of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite


Making Senses Out of Scripture: Reading the Bible as the First Christians Did

Alva,

That sounds like an interesting read. Enjoy!

It is interesting to read different perspectives on life. Personally, I don’t wish to be a martyr when it comes to accepting pain. I have a low tolerance for pain. I don’t wish to hit my threshold and suffer needlessly.

I feel many people put off getting hospice for far too long, when they could be utilizing palliative or comfort care services sooner than they do.

The Pain Chronicles Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing and the Science of Suffering.
I am not enamored of the author's personal story of her OWN pain journey, but the history of pain is fascinating, and I find in reading this that it is interesting to look at your own pains, when they hit, and perhaps a "why" they do so. Recommend this one. Author is Melanie Thernstrom.

🥰 for forum members who are aspiring writers...

"If you don't see the book you want on the shelf, write it."

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. He was one of the good Roman emperors. He pretty much had life figured out.

Has anyone read, This Chair Rocks by Ashton Applewhite?

I just saw her being interviewed on a show that I was watching. She’s an interesting woman, an advocate for the aging population.

You can read about her on thischairrocks.com