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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach (she of the interesting and quirky non-fiction books with one-word titles: Bonk, Stiff, Spook).
Re-reading Isaac Asimov's Foundation, which is good but perhaps not as stunning as it was when I first read it as an 11-year-old in 1970.
By the spouse's recommendation, on the list is Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, which I doubt I am going to like but will definitely learn something from and American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard, which I expect to like AND learn something from, as I have enjoyed other books with this concept like Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer and The Peopling of British North America by Bernard Bailyn.
I gave up on Dandelion Wine for now. Beautiful writing but not moving quickly enough for me.
Started Still Alice by Lisa Genova, about a woman diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. It's very hard for me to read because of all the disabilities I fear, this is the one I fear the most. OTOH, it's interesting because my mother is 88 and in the last stages of dementia and it's a glimpse into some of what she must have gone through over the past 10 years or so.
I am so glad you are reading Still Alice, Marlow. It is one of the best books I have ever read. I've read it twice and probably will read it again. I think everyone should read it. When a loved one first enters dementia we tend to think that they are just ignoring things of the past and present. My mother is the same age as yours and she has had diagnosed dementia for over 5 years. It was really tough at first because the unfiltered human "reptillian nature" made an appearance and my sister and I didn't know how to deal with it. Eventually that went away, thank God! It helps to understand what the individual with dementia is going through. She is very happy in an assisted living "lock down" unit and she doesn't even notice that we have to enter codes to enter and exit. She loves the food, someone giving her the meds and making sure she showers. One thing she has never forgotten is to get her hair done. We made sure there was a salon in the facility.
I'm reading The Hobbit. I am 41, and I read it in 8th grade, but I don't remember reading at all. So maybe it was assigned and I never actually read it? Highly likely. I remember watching an animated version though.
So recently we went to the $1 theater to watch the most recent movie version in 3D, at my son's request. I came home and realized I had a paperback copy and didn't even realize it (I tend to pick up books at yard sales and thrift stores rather randomly) so I decided I might actually read it now willingly. I always tended to not want to read anything assigned to me. I never read the LOTR trilogy either so that will probably be next.
Well at least some of you can still remember what you read and when you read per se what grade you were in LOL ....Love it really do . anyways I hope to start light between the oceans I have heard it is good and slow and right now I think I need a slow book LOL .
I just stated Delirium by Lauren Oliver. So far so good
"They say that the cure for Love will make me happy and safe forever. And I’ve always believed them. Until now. Now everything has changed. Now, I’d rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie."
I just stated Delirium by Lauren Oliver. So far so good
"They say that the cure for Love will make me happy and safe forever. And I’ve always believed them. Until now. Now everything has changed. Now, I’d rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie."
i have heard good things about this book younglisa . I hope you enjoy it .
I'm setting aside "Bag of Bones" by Stephen King - which is my own book to read one I found at the library, "Folly Beach" by Dorothea Benton Frank. I have been on the lookout for her books since we visited Charleston SC a few years back. She has written quite a few with the low country as a setting. I think I will like it as I am into it about 3 chapters.
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