Picking up again here on “Books,” I've recently bought another iPad. I have set my wife up to listen to audiobooks on one and on the other I am set up to read books. Tomorrow we start on the same book, she listening; me reading. We’ll see how that works out.
I rented a couple from library a couple audio books years ago. But I'd much rather read. My sifgt isn't good now. I can see online better with HDMI cable hooked to tv.
We download books from our library. We are starting on Nicholas Sparks and read what we haven’t already read of his, then find another author, hopefully. She can’t read so she can’t find her own books. I find them for her, tell her about them, and then download the book. She can start and stop. This will be better than reading to her and she will enjoy the experience much better.
Are there any Graham Greene (the author) fans here? He was my favorite author years ago, and I have decided to reread him. I believe I have read all his fiction works at one time in my life. I am starting with his "entertainments" (his term). I finished Our Man in Havana and have now moved to Travels With My Aunt, the first book I ever read by him over 50 years ago. He supposedly wrote the first spy novel, Confidential Agent, and a PBS series claimed he wrote the first "modern" detective novel, Brighton Rock. Of course there were many detective stories and novels written before him, but he set the stage for the modern type of crime novel.
Since I've been online and also last 3 years lost part of my site,don't read books but I've read some good ones. Last couple were true stories, Saddam Hussian and BB King. Usually, it is more on the line of world and USA history.
Greene's great. I've the ff: Brighton Rock, The Tenth Man, The Captain and the Enemy, collected stories, The Third Man, Doctor Fischer, The Heart of the Matter, Our Man in Havana, The Quiet American, The Human Factor, The Orient Express, A Burnt-Out Case, The Power and the Glory, The Honorary Consul, Loser Takes All, Ways of Escape, Travels with My Aunt, and The Film Reader. I remember using The Human Factor and The Quiet American in two uni classes. Also, check out John le Carre, especially The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. For more unusual fare, try John Fowles, especially The Collector and The Magus. For collections, consider the Everyman series: and for travel, the smaller Pocket Poets series, for example: The fiction counterpart might be the Macmillan Collector's Library: Library of America (a sample): And don't forget the Modern Library. If you look at places where they sell second-hand books, you might score on very cheap copies from Franklin (a sample): or even Folio, and editions from the OUP. For cheaper versions of collections, Barnes and Noble have some very good choices, together with other publishers. For the rest, like the Oxford Library of Latin America, The Rienner Anthology of African Literature, and similar, go for second-hand copies. The same goes for collections with very good scholarly apparatus for laypersons, like the Norton Shakespeare. Hardcover, slipcase ed., because it's a keeper. On more thing: some works extend your exposure to other art forms, such as the pre-war movies reviewed by Greene.
I also learned a lot about the celebrities in entertainment biz reading 2 books by a couple pop stars, Tommy James and his forced involvement with the mob and Chuck Negron of ' The Dog Night' book,' Three Dog Nightmare' also dealt with mob control. Both were basically robbed of their money plus drugs took over Chuck Negron's life.