General Chat

Jean,
I also have been reading most of my life, and like youalso find tastes change.
I have taken to writing down authors whose books i have liked as my memory is not what it was.!!!
Even as a child i loved reading, secret seven, famous five, but books were expensive then, and as we lived way out in rural hertfordshire, no libraries either.!!!!

I love to browse through recipe books with colourful pictures.
I think wouldnt it be lovely to cook that, If only I could afford the ingredients.

My latest reading adventure is reading CS LEwis "the voyage of the Dawn treader" to my grandson. every time he comes over we read a chapter together.
and we both enjoy

its his last day of term today, and then he has summer break. so I hope we get to do lots of reading in the holidays, and finish the book. then I can take him to see the movie, as it has just started at the cinema this week.

There are some books that are like 'comfort food' to me, the ones you enjoy each time even though you know them so well, know the characters and could almost predict what they would do if you took them out of the pages and put them into real life.

I am re-reading one at the moment 'The Herb of Grace' by Elizabeth Goudge, I tend to read it just before Christmas, as it ends with a family Christmas in an old inn, and hope for the future, and has characters that really 'live' i think.

JUST A QUICK POP IN
I HAVE LOST ABIT OF BEING ABLE TO ABSORB SOME
BOOKS ,BUT TRY WITH THE LOCAL HISTORY FOR THE SITE
I HELP RUN,,
ITS ANOTHER PART OF THE PARKINSONS ,,BUT I HAVENT
GIVEN UP YET SO KEEP TRYINGA AND READ THE SAME BIT OVER &
OVER AGAIN TILL BITS ABSORB

FICTION ,,I LOVE AGATHA RAISIN BOOKS

XXX

Hi all


another wet day ...... although it did ease off this afternoon, so I managed to get to the hairdressers, then to the coffee shop without getting wet ......... and OH was at the coffee shop so he brought me home


Now I'm light-headed :)))


Things are coming together re packing for our trip

........... 4 boxes for J and 2 suitcases for ourselves to be checked.
........... 2 small (18" and 20") roller cases and 2 canvas bags to take on the train with us.


Good job we can check upto 3 bags free on the train!

The boxes still have to be sealed with tape, and roped, with a handle provided ........ but OH bought 2 clothes lines today to do the roping! He said the other ropes at the store, the kind you buy by the yard, were all stretchy.


I was a voracious reader, now I spend far too much time on the computer when I'm at home.

I read a lot at the cabin .................. I can read a book in an evening when I get going

....... and also forget what time it is!

I had read everything that interested me in the children's section of our local library by the time I was 12. The age for upgrading to the adult section was 15. I managed to con the librarian that I was 15 ................... or I think it more likely that she took pity on me because I used to take out upto 7 books a week from the children's section, and she knew me well!!!


I love medieval mysteries, murder mysteries, adventure (eg, Clive Cussler) .......... only read romance if I am absolutely stuck for a book and have to buy one at the airport or some such place!


Take care everyone



sylvia

SYLVIA
I MISS BEING ABLE TO READ PROPPERLY
I WORKED AS A LIBRARY A SSISTANT FOR 18 YEARS
BUT THIS PARKINSONS IS PROGRESSING FAST NOW
SO DOING AS UCH AS I CAN WHILEI CAN
WANT SOME GOOD MEMORIES,,NOT HAD A LOT OF
THEM...SO GOING AWAY TO FRIENDS FOR THE WEEKEND
AT LEAST THEY TREAT ME AS HUMAN,
NOT LIKE MY OWN KIN

Dizzi the Agatha Raisin books are probably better for you as they have a consistent charcter in them and are reasonably easy to absorb. It must be sooo frustrating for you having been round books for many years. I hope we treat you as human on here. What a shame your family don't. They should be ashamed.

I have always loved books, my Mum used to despair when she gave me an Enid Blyton book for Christmas and I would have finished it by the end of Christmas day. Our children and most of the grandchildren are the same - love books. Youngest is a bit dyslexic so has had trouble reading but has picked up now, one Grandson only likes non fiction. My Oh never reads books and complains about the number of books in the house. I am trying to cut them down now as I have bought a Kindle. But still have loads of books waiting to be read. Will read most things ecept science fiction and prefer Historical sagas and romantic sagas (the 'deeper' sort not M&B) I must re-read that one Rose I remember it from many years ago. I do have a problem remembering what I have read and often find myself re-reading something I have read before. I now keep a spread sheet of all books I read the spread sheets go back to 2004.

Sylvia, that is a lot of packing. I shan't complain when I am packing to go away in the future.

One of my fav books is JKF the second plot by Matthew Smith i have read that book a few times. And what a small world it is i made a friend a while back on the internet and he knows the author and indeed he him self met Lee Harvey Oswalds wife Marina.

at the moment im reading Hedley Verity portrait of a cricketer bt Alan Hill its not a bad read but i know nothing about cricket im only reading it as i found Hedley on my family tree. So i dont understand some bits in the book such as what is a sticky wicket ?.

The book i read before that was about Kalamunda in Australia again for my family tree. a lovley lady who lives out in Perth sent me it and i nearly fall off my chair she is in her later years and she paid £17 to send it i felt so bad so im going to get her a persent or maybe book vouchers.

I've just finished reading 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini and it was a wonderful read. I'm expecting 'Kite Runner' by same author for Christmas and hope its as good.

Cath xx

Kite Runner is very good Catherine, we read it for the GR book club a year or so ago.

Oh thanks Ann. I loved the one I've just read and added Kite Runner to my Christmas list. A Thousand Splendid Suns was incredibly sad in parts but also extremely uplifting in others. Roll on Christmas Day so I can get stuck in!

Cath xx

I read at bedtime and often find myself still at it at nearly midnight. OH can sleep through anything! I get through three novels a week at least, and have often finished the books I took from the travelling library so that I havr to go and swap with neighbours before the van is due again. Problem being, I could have more, but where do I put them? I also reread the books i have owned for years. Time i read Gone With the Wind again.

Hi all

We have sooooooooooooo many books in our house, 'cos OH and daughter were also always big readers!

I remember our nieces and their brother coming to visit about 20 or so years ago from their small town in northern BC .............about 5000 population, but area population (famers, ranchers, First Nations, and smaller villages) of about 20,000

The kids went very quiet, so naturally their mum went looking for them.

They were busy counting the books we had, including on shelves down in the basement.

One of them later appeared saying with awe "You have more books than in our town library"!

I hasten to say most of mine are paperbacks 'cos I couldn't afford hardcover books at the rate I used to read them.

I cannot read in bed, it's too uncomfortable for me now, but I sometimes decide to sit on the couch and read before going to bed instead of staying on the computer until between 11 pm and midnight. More often than not, I find myself still reading at 1 am or even 2 am!


Daughter was most disconcerted when she discovered her now-husband did not read anything other than books for his university work. He never had read for pleasure .................. she kept giving him books to read, and finally found one that he liked, and finished. It was a fantasy story ....... but it got him reading. Now, 12 years later, he always has a book around and is beginning to branch out. He devours National Geographic from cover to cover, and has even been known to sit reading a dictionary or an atlas.

His parents read books, but M did have some problems with reading and math in his early education. He has just received his PhD, his 4th degree.


I remember reading that Elizabeth Goudge book years ago. I must get it out of the library again.


Rob ........ what a wonderful lady to send you that book.


Ann ............. I've done the same thing, re-read a book by mistake. Plus we do have an added problem over here .................. the title of a book is sometimes changed for the North American market! I now carefully read the little bit of blurb on the inside cover ...... and have even been known to open the book in the middle and read a page or half a page, that usually triggers enough of a memory.


Re the packing ...................... the 4 boxes are emptying some of her stuff from our house! Thus giving us more room for OUR stuff!!

We'll leave the boxes over there, and just have the 2 cases to check on the return journey. One of the canvas bags will hopefully be packed in one of the cases as it contains an Espresso Coffee Machine we are passing on to her. Couldn't think of any other way to carry it!!

The 2 carry-ons and the other canvas bag contain the necessities for 6 days and 5 nights on the train!


Time for lunch!



sylvia

People who read find it very hard to understand that my OH never reads a book. He skims the paper, avidly reads computer magazines but asked to read a book says "I read one once." He can read, is not thick is just not interested.

Cath, I loved 'Kite Runner' and then my daughter gave me 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' last year for Christmas, which I also enjoyed very much, although it did make me cry a couple of times.

I agree, Jean, I must read 'Gone With the Wind' again and have another weep over Ashley!

Robin7, I asked my 'cricket mad' husband about Hedley Verity and he said he was an off-spinner who was killed in the war, which I'm sure you already know. A 'sticky wicket' is a wicket which has been rendered soft and damp by the rain. I'm sure you're grateful for that info lol!!!

'A thousand Splendid Suns' made me cry too WassailingWend. Im so looking forward to 'Kite Runner'.

Cath xx

Sylvia
What An Expedition!
Dont think I could sit for that long. Hoping you have a great trip, and a Merry Christmas
to all.

Best wishes to all
Annette

Annette

we don't sit all the time


we have to walk through 2 or 3 carriages to get to the dining car for breakfast, lunch and dinner


then walk 2 or 3 carriages to get back to our compartment, then maybe 2 or 3 carriages to get to the back of the train to the lounge car with dome where we spend most of the rest of the time ..... admittedly sitting


and talking, and knitting and reading

and looking out at all the snow!

:))))

thank you Cath lol so now i know so many thanks to your husband and yes his right Hedley was killed in WW2 like so many. But he still holds a world record to this day. And there is the Hedley Verity pub in Leeds.

I also love true crime books but i like the older crimes the best and sometimes get murder mags i norm go to the old storys first. Its funny how people get turned on to books i used to hate reading due to my dyslexia but i love it now im just a slow reader.

I also know a few people that are writting JFK books at the moment. Rather them then me to bigger a subject to cover i think.

Rob

Been scouring bookshops today and it was a successful mission.4 new books and a couple of good second-hand ones. Got a James Paterson one I haven't read before '.Alex Cross Trial'.

Cath xx ~~~~~~~ waves goodnight to all.