I just finished The Second Life of Mirielle West by Amanda Skenandore. It is fiction but it is about America’s only leper colony. It is one of the books on Amazon kindle unlimited. I recently read The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, by Robert Dugoni and Barbara Kingslover's book, Demon Copperhead.
I am reading a book put together by a rancher's daughter after he died from covid a couple of years ago. It is a collection of his stories. A wonderful man and a great storyteller. Soapweed Soliloquy by Steve Moreland 1951-2021. It is an easy, but entertaining read. 390 pages. Home | Soapweed Soliloquy Book
The Pulse Test by Arthur Coca m.d. It is about gaining health by realizing foods and things you are allergic to and removing them. Sorry. I still don't read fiction.
I just started this and so far it's excellent. Dr. Puri is a palliative care physician. Favorite quote in the book is from the Sanskrit Scripture - Bhagavad Gita: "The soul wears the body like a cloth and discards it at the time of death."
I am not an intellectual but got some of my first prepping thoughts from On the Banks of Plum Creek. I wondered if there didn't come a time when someone was sorry for putting the dugout house into the bank if the creek ever rose.
My vision has put an end to reading books , after a few minutes it starts to bother me. I always loved reading, sometimes I'd use family members library cards and mine to check out 10 or 20 at a time. Mostly history of all eras. Also studied the geography and cultures of Biblical character's.
I'm not sure yet if I could use a new prescription, or I am just tired at bedtime when I love to read the most. I usually read for atleast and hour and it doesn't put me to sleep to read, but it relaxes me enough when I put the book down I can fall asleep easier. I do see blurred or double at times.
I have the same problem, @Marie Mallery . I have been a reader all of my life, since before I even started school. However, now it is hard for me to read a regular book, even with glasses. The print is just too small. What has been a lifesaver for me , is my iPad. With a tablet, like an iPad or Kindle, you can set the size of print that you can easily read, as well as the font so that it is bold or not , whichever helps you to read. Used Kindles and iPads are not as expensive as new ones, and you can have thousands of books stored on a tablet. Since it is so small and lightweight, you can carry it around if you travel or even just to the doctors office when you have to sit and wait somewhere. If you do not have a tablet, you might want to look into getting one so that you are able to read things again !
Yvonne even reading here or online has to be in small increments, since the glare hurts my eyes too. Also, what happened to black print, most print now is a medium to dark grey. I'm continuously making corrections of my post but still miss some.
Aren’t you using some kind of a laptop though, and not a tablet ? Tablets make everything SO much easier for us seniors with poor eyesight !
I love my Kindle @Yvonne Smith I even found a cover that opens like a regular book and makes it easy to hold for me. It's light of course, just a 7", but I also didn't have room for a lot of regular books, and packing and carrying was a problem for me before I got settled here. Do you also use Overdrive? Or my local library has Library to Go. I love finding books in libraries and there are some I have like Houston Public Library out of State from me but they allow membership to non-residents. There are more libraries than just HPL too, and many carry digital books I don't have in our tiny library here in Del Norte County.
I do use Overdrive sometimes, but our library does not carry some of the books that I want to read, plus you have to wait, and then only have a limited time to read them. What I use the most is free books from Amazon Kindle store. I have Bookbub.com and bookgorilla.com . Both are free, and you can choose a reading list of the type of books you are interested in, and then they send me an email each day with the books that are on sale really cheap or for free. Amazon puts some books out free each day, and only for a day or two; so you have to check each day to see which ones are free. Having the subscriptions to a place like Bookbub saves having to look on Kindle books each day, and my library is huge, at almost no cost to me. Besides novels to read for entertainment, I get books on gardening, health foods, knitting, fermenting, and just about anything else I am interested in. It is well worth checking out and trying , Denise !