What Are You Reading This Year? 2013

[ellyphant]

Just read Three Wishes by Barbara Delinsky. Have started Only Love by Erich Segal.

[Ivy]

Am currently reading on my Nook Beating Asthma - Seven Simple Principles, by Stephen Apaliski, M. D. He's a doctor who specializes in asthma. I was surprised how 15 people daily die from asthma, which are mild asthma cases. He teaches how to control asthma much better. It's very good. Also, on my Nook, I'm reading Looking Good, Feeling Great Ladies 50 and Over, by Nina Bagnall.

[Harmony]

Lots of reading going on in the village!

I'm not reading as much, but some each late evening. The Quilter's Apprentice, and Round Robbin, and The Cross-Country Quilters, all by Jennifer Chiaverini.

Just got into Making Waves by Cassandra King, a small town Alabama story. I like her writing so far at least.

[Ivy]

I'm reading a Nook book called Everything You Wanted to Know About Asthma, by Dr. Ashok Birdal-Jain and Dr. Aruna Birdal-Jain. I wanted to know more.

I have various books I pick up and put back down, books I review on health subjects, and occasional books I'll read a chapter or two on, when I make time. Making time is the key!

[BookSaver]

I just finished The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh. It's a continuation of the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series by Dorothy L. Sayers, with this story set in post World War II England. I borrowed it from the library and after starting it, realized that I had read it before, but did not mind reading it again.

It's been many years since I've read the Sayers books. From the viewpoint of reading Walsh just for relaxation, though, it felt like she did a good job of mimicing Sayers's style and staying true to the established characters. Easier for an American to read, since Sayers tended to throw in lots of references to British history and quotations that sometimes passed right over my head, lines of poetry that I didn't know, not to mention all the dialogue in French in some books that she didn't bother to translate. In this book, Walsh mentioned the war several times but not in a way that you have to be a history major to understand.

Makes me want to back and re-read the whole series someday soon.

[ellyphant]

Started Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark. This should be a fast read...entertaining, but not deep!

[ellyphant]

Whew! Couldn't put down the previous book, so it is finished. Have started Nighttime is My Time by the same author. Have given up evening TV in favor of reading time.

[Ivy]

I decided to do a re-read, over the summer months, so put a book I've read before on my nightstand in the bedroom. It's by Richard Carlson, Ph. D. and it's called DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF.... and it's all small stuff - Simple ways to keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life."

I'm continuing to read on asthma and fibromyalgia, too.

[Harmony]

After the last one I read, which turned out to be more like a soap opera, I ventured into the young adult section for something truly entertaining. I read 2 of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Wide Window (#3) and The Ersatz Elevator (#6). I loved the whimsy! Guess I should have read these in order.

Sometimes it helps me to get into something not heavy, something pure entertaining. I think I have enough problems, I don't need to pour over a whole book of somebody else's!

[Ivy]

Harmony, you're exactly right! I started a book a year-ago spring. It's full of everybody's problems, it's about a therapist's practice and her private life, too. I made it through a few chapters, but put it away, to read something light, by Debbie Macomber instead!

Also, I enjoy books and stories about animals or books written from the POV of the animal itself. They're so adorable to read about. ♥ When I read, I love to "get lost" in a story or book, forget where I am, and just enjoy myself with a good read. It makes reading so rewarding!

Sometimes, when I read non-fiction, about a person's journey through a situation, I find it nice to see how they grew as a person, by the end of the book. But when there's a book, like a soap opera, it's so hard to get through them. Years ago, one of Oprah's Book Club books was getting big raves, so I just "had" to go buy it! I made it half-way.... but it's remained unfinished reading, to this day. I suppose, someday, I'll pick it up. I was at an appt. once, the doctor looked at the cover of the book, she said, "It gets better...." Oh? Really? I guess I haven't given it the chance it deserved. Maybe I should.

There are some books, I'll read 3 or 4 times, because I loved them so much the first time. I agree with you on reading something light or that's a fantasy or different or for young adults, too. It's nice to "wander" in and out of other genres and learn new things and gain new insights from new authors we weren't familiar with before.