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I love Nicci French!
Wasn't aware of this one. Is it new?
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I'm deep into a Nicci French novel - Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Sanders. Now THIS is more my style.
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Now reading The Quiet Dell, a novel taken from a true crime story from the 30s in which a widow and her young children are abducted and killed by a "wealthy" suitor who wasn't. Jayne Anne Phillips, whose books I recommend one and all.

The Cliffs by Countney Sullivan is next on the list.

Also have on the kindle IBS Solutions by Amanda Malachesky. Boy, lifelong sufferer from IBS and keep it in control (ha ha ) best I can, but this book, out of the 100s I have read, is AMAZING. So much this old RN and her gastroenterologist had no idea of! Highly recommend if the gut is a plain in the backside.
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I enjoy reading Rabi Jonathan Cahn.
Currently I'm reading his latest book 'The Dragon's Prophecy'.
His last book 'Return Of The Gods' has been his best.
'The Harbinger II' was extremely good too.
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People on reddit are constantly recommending I Am Legend by Richard Matheson so I thought I'd give it a go. Hm, I've abandoned it halfway through and I'm not sure I'll go back to it, I like to feel at least a sliver of empathy and connection to a protagonist and so far I'm not. I'm wondering if they all had to study this in high school and thought it unique and profound.
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Yes, I will curl up all cosy & read my book tonight!

Dang! I left my library book in my car - again. Husband just went out & borrowed my car - again. Unfinished & overdue - again 🙄
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The Sisters K - Margaret Sun. About a Korean family; an abusive father dying of cancer and 3 grown daughters. A lot of complex contemporary Korean/American culture and relationships. I think it’s a worthy read but it’s long and probably too chewy for me right now. Apparently it’s patterned after Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov but that wasn't on my required reading list in school and is not something my 16 year old self would have read by choice.

I’ve been in the mood for lighter fare for a few months but am having a heck of a time finding anything that keeps me interested.
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Venting: As regards the horoscope! If there's no good news there I highly recommend the Jackson Brodie book. Full of fun and laugh out loud moments. If we can't make the world go away, at least we can get the respite of a fun book to transport us.
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Bummer! I forgot to mention the AUTHOR of the book Lea recommended. And somehow the edit button isn't showing for me.
So it is My Journey into Alzheimer's Disease a memoir by Robert Davis.

And of course, once I realized I hadn't logged in I knew why the Edit button didn't come up. Forgive my internet inadequacies (and my others as well).
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Kate Atkinson's latest Jackson Brodie (and her BEST ) imho. But then I love all things art theft, and British old homes and castles!

Just finished a book Lea Recommended. Not new. My Journey into Alzheimer's.
She recommended this book to one of our OPs who was asking "How can I tell what it's like to HAVE Alzheimer's".

This book is written by a pastor, so know going in that it is very heavy on his faith, and how it sustained him on his journey; I am an atheist and I found it difficult to get through to the parts about what it felt like to have Alzheimer's at times. BUT this book is one I would recommend to anyone (even an atheist like me). While the book was finished by his wife when he could not longer tell of his journey, this, other than listening to my own brother, is about the BEST thing I have ever read about WHAT THIS FEELS LIKE. What the losses and fear is like. How difficult nighttime and sleep. And on and on and on.

I found this book very inexpensive used on AMazon the day Lealonnie recommended it. I thank her always for her comments here which are so stellar without fail, and most recently for this recommend. Her own journey has taught, enlightened, encourage so many of us. Thanks to Lea! Yet again.
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I just read " Working Daughter." I thought it was excellent.
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I’ve just finished reading Machiavelli’s book ‘The Prince’, after hearing about it for 50 years. It was so shocking because it was based on what actually happened in the battles between Florence, Milan, Venice and Rome (with a bit of classical history thrown in), rather than high-minded comments. It’s quite short – 89 pages – and surprisingly interesting.

This comment would fit in the Aged Care site: ‘We do not find men falling down because they expect to find someone helping them up’. But we do find just that, in people not planning for age care!
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Michael Taylor's memoir
Life's Gauntlet: Alzheimer's Disease and a Caregiver's Journey for non-fiction and everything ever written by David Vann for fiction (tough stuff)
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I have just spent an hour searching for books on CloudLibrary and I can't stand how incredibly frustrating it is to use this website. It take at least 3 seconds to turn every page which may not seem like a lot but going from a group of books,
to reading the synopsis of one in particular,
and then navigating back to the original page,
and then on to the next page,
and the next page,
selecting another book,
borrowing the book,
back again,
turn the page,
IT'S MADDENING!!!
And I can't use shortcuts like opening multiple tabs because it won't let you do that. AHHH!
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‘Silent Spring’ by Rachel Carson – the book that probably started off the environmental movement. Last week I bought an old copy for $1 from an OpShop because I’ve never read it, although it is referred to frequently. When I go it home and looked at the first pages, I found it was a first edition, posted from California to a like-minded friend in Alice Springs when it was first published in 1964. On Ebay, over $800. I bought it to read, and don’t intend to cash in on it!

I read so much, and so many books at a time (mostly non-fiction), that I don’t usually post here. I’m currently unpacking books from the farm, and ploughing through my Agatha Christies to sort out the duplicates. Miss Marple is my current ‘light read’ in bed.
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Just picked up Ladysitting, my year with Nana at the end of her Century by Lorene Cary.
Right up our alley!
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I am a history lover so for me "The Longest Winter" about the a WWII company that helped hold up the German advance at the Battle of the Bulge and were taken prisoner. Good read.
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Headaches are awful Riverdale, I don't suffer very often but my mom and her sister both had frequent headaches. The were both prescribed Fiorinal with codeine, my dear aunt unfortunately became quite addicted and she used to call mom asking for some tablets to tide her over. I kept a bottle of those tucked in mom's drawer because I thought they would most certainly do the job (IYKWIM).
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Dinner For Two. I had to put it down a few days ago as I was having a week of daily migraines. I receive treatment and medication for this ailment but last week was the worse. I finally went to an emergency room. Right now I am headache free and I hope I can have better days. I practically used up most of my specific medications and insurance only pays for a set amount monthly and sometimes the pharmacy doesn't even have what I need in stock. I spent all yesterday in bed and I find that a miserable life.
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Janet Evanovich's Dirty Thirty. Needed some light reading and a change from my normal mysteries
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Having watched and fallen in love with Ripley on Netflix I am now rereading all of Patricia Highsmith's mysteries. And having such fun with them. I can't recommend Ripley highly enough on TV. It is 8 or 9 episodes, shot in black and white (which I thought before I saw it a gimmick, but which was exquisite) and full of actors, including Italian actors with the BEST small parts. And it is a twist a second.
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The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood, a light English murder mystery.
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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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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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