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 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.
Lincoln was the first "outsider" from the new Republican party elected President in a four way race where he garnered less than 40% of the popular vote. I was particularly stuck by all the name calling and negative press; times don't seem to change much since every attack on Lincoln's appearance and character has been repeated on Trump 160 years later.
If you enjoy history written more as a detective story with lots of details on personalities around the main character, this is a wonderful read.
And thanks for sharing the humor around.
and believe me, that's a lot of coloring.
I guess I'll have to read on my desktop for now 😣
I'm still working my way through The Great British Detectives, and am well into the Father Brown series by G.K Chesterton. I like the character of Father Brown in these short stories but am kind of missing longer tales.
This sampling includes Air Force men from WW11. Another details the life of Black Americans In Aviation , the 1975 edition (this title given me by a Black customer, whom, when I was leaving my West Coast life for the South, he thought it would be a good education to know about the Tuskegee Airmen. He wrote the book along with one other black man in aviation and they worked at General Dynamics. It's really neat to have this autographed copy.
A neighbor/friend of Dads who was a POW in East Europe during the war gave me a copy of his war diary. A Department of Defense publication (dated 1969) about how to build fallout shelters is in the collection.
My grandma had a couple cookbooks - a 1915 economy cookbook and a Donner Party Cookbook. My grandma also had a book about Rosie the Riveter.
I believe in controlling clutter and just "stuff" that collects from time-to-time. Over the years and with each move, many books have been donated.
As of now I still can not part with these books. They cost me nothing but mean everything. These are among the few books/items/furniture that have followed me to every address I've ever known.
"Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"
"I trust I have not inadvertently..." "Just a little," said Holmes, with some acerbity.
"He was running, Watson, running for his life!"
" - Is there no such thing as a gentleman!"
I'm currently reading a sci-fi series by Marissa Meyer, titled Scarlet (book 2)... First time to read this author.... Book one ended as a cliffhanger.
I was listening to YouTube "People Share their Most Unexplained Experiences". The OP mentioned a book: The Gift of Fear. I checked Amazon. Hmmm I bought this book? Yes, I did. I'm going to read this along side Meyer's. I bet this Gift of Fear will have some great personal experiences of people's gut feelings!