Books! How do you read and what do you read?

The book I'm reading now is' The Silent Patient' by Alex Michaelides- his debut novel
Alice Berenson , a painter kills her photographer husband, Gabriel,.She has never spoken a word since the killing,is now in a psych unit at a London hospital Her criminal psychotherapist, Theo tries to get to speak
I started this book 2 days ago,can't put it down,
 
Having been inspired by the 'Childhood Books' thread, and having a 1971 copy complete with analyses laying around:
https://www.abebooks.com/9780393099775/Alice-Wonderland-Norton-Critical-Editions-0393099776/plp

I`ve got two other books on the go, but I can skip from one to the other. Also, having stayed at the now razed Gogarth Abbey Hotel in Llandudno, Wales in 1983..(where Alice`s parents once hung out), I`m on a roll..(as Humpty Dumpty might have said...or was it Tweedledee?)
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Just finished Miss Marley: A Christmas Ghost Story - A Prequel to Dickens' A Christmas Carol by Vanessa Lafaye; not my usual cuppa tea but I really enjoyed it; it's 99 cents right now for Kindle.
 
About finished with The Invisible Life of Addie Larue. It’s been good enough for me to keep reading but not good enough that I can resist skimming quite a lot.
 
Inter library loan came through with 2 books by Reavis Wortham.

BURROWS and THE RIGHT SIDE of WRONG.

Both are set in the mid 1960's,, takes place in a small town in Texas where every one knows every one.

BURROWS is about a some one murdering folks ,, taking their heads with him.

Right Side of Wrong ,, is about drugs moving in to the small town.

Both are good mysteries.
 
CinnamonSugar said:
It’s not difficult to guess about when this book (I bought at 2nd-hand book store) was published!

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That's an old one! I see all the resellers at the thrift store looking for books. They must have some app on their phones scanning bar codes to look the book up, see if it's currently available or out of publication. Have to compete with resellers for everything these days. Of course this book would never have a bar code but I'll be a reseller could have bought it.
 
CinnamonSugar said:
Not me…. I like the flap sound as the page turns 🤓
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Have you tried an ereader?

The reason I ask is that what you're saying is exactly what I was saying 5 years ago.

I can even remember the situation in which I sat there telling the person who had asked me, that part of what I liked was actually holding the book and turning the pages.

But, you know, after a fairly short while I found myself ordering books from the library that I already owned, were on my bookshelf five steps away, and that I had read repeatedly over the years (like Raymond Chandler stuff, e.g.) so that I could read them on a cheap ereader that I bought.

A real big piece is that I go to a gym and the ereader is a lot easier to use for stationary bikes. But another is that the print contrast is by nature much better than on anything except a high-end hard cover, and you can control contrast, print size and font, if you want.

There are downsides, but I find myself with the ereader all the time.
 
Over the holidays completed reading Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin a 2008 book. One of the most important science books I've read and well crafted by a gifted communicator. Brings together considerable information in biology and paleontology fields in very readable presentations that have been heretofore difficult for others to piece together from more esoteric research papers. Used cost me on Amazon just $6. He has a newer 2020 book Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA, I will also order used. Anyone that is uncertain given manipulative media misinformation, if we humans evolved along with other Earth mammals can put those notions to rest by reading this book. For instance a favorite of some misguided science fiction enthusiasts with comic book level science educations that suspect we homo sapiens are aliens from other worlds.

The above noted, this person speculates we humans were at some pre-history point possibly genetically bred by an advanced extraterrestrial race from earlier homo ape like species. That would be a logical project for advanced aliens and is supported by various ideas that have spawned ancient aliens books. In Genesis my own speculation is that is probably why between Adam and Noah humans lived for many centuries because they had been genetically enhanced from normal human stock. Simply lengthening telomeres via lab DNA change would be significant. That flies in the face of anthropocentric religious narratives that demanded Adam was the first human. But then even the Bible, that is full of scripture making inerrancy nonsense, directly conflicts with that interpretation. The "land of Nod" was not a place horses nodded their heads, nor was "whoever" referring to dogs.

Gen 4:13 Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is too great to endure! Gen 4:14 “Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and I will be hidden from Your face, and I will be a wanderer and a drifter on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.” Gen 4:15 So the LORD said to him, “Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him seven times as much.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one finding him would kill him. Gen 4:16 Then Cain left the presence of the LORD, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
 
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Jackie23 said:
Tell me a Story.......about Pat and Cassandra Conroy
Best book I've read in a long time.
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....still reading this one, a book has to be well written to make me cry or laugh out loud, this one does, I'll be reading more of her books and also her late husband's.
 
Sawfish said:
How many here use an e-reader or tablet to do most of their reading?
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Not me. When I was an editor, I found that I "saw" more when the pages were printed out.

Also, I spend all day on my phone. And I read in bed; I have done so all my life. So it's nice to turn off the phone and pick up a book at the end of the day.
 

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