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.
The descriptions of life in the country, on a ranch or farm, are so diametrically opposite from life in a heavily populated metropolitan area that I find myself relaxing as soon as I pick up one of the magazines, some of which I've read twice.
I understand why Dad read them so faithfully; they were soothing and while not necessarily absorbing, they redirected attention from tense books, or political issues plaguing the country, or pandemics. They reminded him of better days, and of less friction that our modern life seems to entail. I'm really enjoying these magazines and decided to keep them instead of donating them. I can read them every year or so, or especially when I get neurotic.
Novel by Eric Van Lustbader
I got the book from a “Little Free Library” in my neighborhood. Take a look at www.littlefreelibraries.org. There may be one near you. Take a book. Leave a book.
I've been on a bad book streak lately. You know that feeling when you finish a book and say to yourself, well, theres a few hours I can never get back. 🤔
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3810.Best_Cozy_Mystery_Series
I've enjoyed almost everything by Charlaine Harris, especially Sookie Stackhouse, Auroa Teagarden and Lily Bard
The Stephanie Plum series by Jan Evanovich is old and I don't know if they've stood the test of time but when I read it I would actually laugh out loud.
I very much enjoyed the China Bayles series by Susan Wittig Albert
If you like cat mysteries the Joe Grey books by Shirley Rousseau Murphy are fun
Another easy read is the Miss Julia series by Ann B. Ross
I think AI progression beyond human control might be the new science fiction focus.
https://danbrown.com/origin/
GA, those sound like excellent recommendations. Seems I read a Margaret Truman once, a very long time ago.
Have you read any of Margaret Truman's political thrillers? And yes, she's a presidential daughter who knows DC in and out. I've read probably almost all of hers, some of them 3 or 4 times. Her talent clearly progresses after the first few books, and the complications heighten the mysteries.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/1559.Margaret_Truman
Evelyn Anthony is another political writer, but I haven't read any of her books for years, not deliberately, but b/c they're in my "storage" library and I just forgot about them. Hers are more international, if I remember correctly.
And yet another good mystery writer was Alistair MacLean. His novels were set in different countries, adding an international intrigue to the plots. If you've seen Guns of Navarone, Force 10 from Navarone or Ice Station Zebra, you've seen movie adaptations of his novels. Geopolitics seems to be a strong theme in his novels, and always with one spy who's integrated him or herself into US action teams.
https://www.fantasticfiction.com/m/alistair-maclean/
You might want to add some fluff to your reading list for those times when you can't concentrate on anything deeper.
I must get my library card reactivated with weeks of recovery coming up so I can explore the digital options available. Seems there is quite an extensive digital library lending site with a valid card.
Any recommendations anyone? I enjoy mysteries, thrillers and the like the best. Might have to see what Dan Brown has available. Haven't read anything of his in a long time.
Harsh? I am in no way qualified to judge. But in any case the point is this crushing remark was part of the author's notes on The Persian Boy, the second volume of her Alexandriad trilogy, and a book I will never tire of re-reading.
Melanie Benjamin has written some excellent historical novels. My favorite was The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, about the wife of fellow PT Barnum attraction General Tom Thumb. I just love this book.
Sounds interesting!
While shopping came across Secrets at the Big House.
There were ghosts and there were secrets at the BIG House. The space between the walls of The BIG House were charged with the anguish of ever-present unhappiness. It was a different kind of haunting.Time changes many things, but it does not change our memories.This is a true story of descent from wealth and social standing. By necessity, it is also the story of my mother, a petite socialite of uncommon beauty, who subjected her children to unspeakable..
Thinking about it.
Decided on The Kind Worth Killing