Anybody Listen To A Good Book Lately?
Don't be shy! I listen to all kinds...except political...best to avoid apoplectic seizures... ๐Ÿ˜Š
Posted by: VCESS on 10/14/18
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I canโ€™t do that type of book VCESS. My mind thinks l'm in church and turns off automatically. ...
Very bad of it, but there you are.

Right now Iโ€™m reading about Winston Churchill's wife Clementine.....remarkable lady and Princess Margaret....very unpleasant woman. Iโ€™m waiting for a bio on Hillary...my third book about her. She fascinates me. What a set of genes in the brains department their daughter will have inherited.
by: MaryJoDenmark on 10/14/18
I just finished listening (while stitching) to REFUGEE by Alan Gratz. I didn't realize until I just now looked up the author's name that it was classified as TEEN fiction. Wonderful story about a boy living in Berlin in 1939; a girl living in Cuba in the 1990s; and a boy in recent history that lived in Syria. Along with their families they were trying to escape prejudice and injustice. The main characters never met each other . Yet it was obvious their personal experiences were remarkably similar. Obviously history does repeat itself.
by: NANCYE G on 10/14/18
OK, I feel dumb...my last finished audio was Invasion of the Body Snatchers...no mind improvement there! But a lot of fun! ๐Ÿ˜Š Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney was the best new author I've read in five years (new for me)...written like they used to write suspense novels! Just started listening to It by Stephen King...read a looooong time ago...this is a different experience...great for really late night. ๐Ÿ˜ฎ
by: VCESS on 10/14/18
Listening to scary stories at night gives me nightmares.
by: NANCYE G on 10/14/18
Masterpiece is great by Francine Rivers, it is on audible or book form.
by: mjchapman06 on 10/14/18
I listen to a lot of audiobooks while I stitch! I just finished Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (the author of Gone Girl, great suspense/mystery) and am now listening to One Plus One by Jojo Moyes (author of After You, kind of chick-lit stuff). My husband and I have been listening to the Jack Reacher series while in the car. We live about an hour outside the city (Calgary) so when we are going in to run errands or what not we put an audio book on. We also listen to them while we travel.

Are you on GoodReads? I get most of my book recommendations from friends on there. I follow people that read in similar areas to me, and check out the books they give high ratings to. I also use it to track my books; I go through over 100 books a year between audiobooks and regular books, and heaven knows I forget the titles. Before I was using GoodReads I'd check out books from the library, get them home, and realize in a page or two that I'd already read them! Now I can just check the app on my phone when I'm looking for a book and know immediately if I've read it or not. Actually, now that I'm using GoodReads I rarely browse at the library any more. I go to the library website, request whatever is next on my GoodReads "to read" list and then just get it when it's ready! And my library has tons of digital audio books that I can download instantly to my phone at home.
by: craftydivakat on 10/14/18
For the serious side of me I am rereading Advise and Consent by Alan Drury. For the gruesome side of me, I indulge in zombie books. I just finished one that involved Ebola and was not too far off the mark with the possibility of Ebola becoming airborne. I am really an eclectic reader. Oh, and I love the Harry Bosch books by Michael Connelly which is about a detective. There is a short series of three books about an enchanting family and two dogs. The first one is called Spot and Smudge by Robert Udulutch. I have read the series 3 times so far. And no the dogs don't die. See you all later. Pam Sometimes, I just get an urge to grab a bookmark and grab a hardback book, make some tea (Constant Comment), and get in the recliner and read the old fashioned way. My husband will say why don't I get rid of all our hardbacks but I get the "hankering" to read the old fashioned way.
by: pamelastine11 on 10/14/18
MaryD, I know what you mean about your brain clicking and ticking off to oblivion. I actually started regularly using audibles in the hospital...all those tubes/needles, in/out, people/personnel, sleep/sorry, wake up...Put ear phones on and people actually leave you alone for a little bit...not long, but for a bit...at least longer than the 20 min when they ignore a sleep mask or shut eyes. The book choices didn't matter, I was desperate for real sleep, and they put me OUT. ๐Ÿ˜ด When I got home, I began choosing old favorites like Christie, Sayers, Wodehouse, Fielding, Alcott, Scott, Dumas....some are nice to fall asleep to, but stitching and listening is the most richly decadent thing I do for myself. Ahh, for a unclenched mind...some people drink, I listen and savor. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
I, too, an fascinated by Ms. Clinton...talk about a battered woman! Vilified, humiliated and she just keeps plugging away. I quit asking what people thought...the more venemous didn't wait to be asked and some women...it's the strangest thing, they open their mouths and their men's voices come out! During the Clinton administration, I worked on a line with 96% men...voluble, opinionated, misogynistic, Hillary-hating men. I've heard EVERYTHING! And that's when the ventriliquism fantasies began...sometimes, I see the strings. ๐Ÿ˜Š Haven't read the biography, but I'm on the waitlist...only 27 to go! ๐Ÿ˜ฐ
by: VCESS on 10/15/18
VCESS when I first heard Hillary speak I thought she was awful......I think it was the stay at home baking cookies speech. As the years and months passed she grew on me and her dignified manner during the Lewinssky scandle sold her to me forever. She's got CLASS! My. Interest in American politics was zero at the time. I looked at her as a role model for women. There were and are very few of them of her caliber.
by: MaryJoDenmark on 10/15/18
Craftydivakat I am so glad you mentioned Good Reads I am going to check that out. I also never thought of listening to audio books while stitiching. I used to while quilting but got out of the habit. Now to find my CD player. Ugh this house is such a mess!
by: carissalindsey30 on 10/15/18