StarSong
Awkward is my Superpower
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Thanks for the warning!
Books! How do you read and what do you read?
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officerripley
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Have you read his Before the Fall? It was really good and I heard they were making a movie of it.
David777
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Earlier this week, completed a valuable re-read of Remembering by Lisa Genova that some here have also read or are now reading. Provides excellent insight into how we remember and forget things we think and do and also ways to improve on remembering. Where I brought this up previously herein:
My memory is getting really bad
Tuesday night, a couple people at a club venue, introduced themselves to me. After they related they were Liz and Brent, as a memory trick to help recall their names later, I verbally played back to them while thinking of my words also as visual images what I used...
Liz as in lizards that are dropping from trees in Florida due to the cold snap and Brent as in Brent Maverick of the old TV western.
By doing so, in my own brain, I actually created new neural inter connections between those unrelated parts of the language name area part of my brain with my verbal hearing, and vocal muscle motor control regions of my brain, and via the way we record time sequences that I met them in that club venue.
Otherwise, if I don't do so, especially as a 77 year old with usual name recall issues, I tend to easily forget names. Well, I do also tend to recall names of facially attractive women because I subtly must have a subtle internal interaction with my amygdala that involves anything with emotions, another mechanism that increases an ability to recall. Another British person I met with an accent, was wearing weird colored eyeglasses. I didn't bother to verbalize his name and now cannot recall what his name is?
My memory is getting really bad
Tuesday night, a couple people at a club venue, introduced themselves to me. After they related they were Liz and Brent, as a memory trick to help recall their names later, I verbally played back to them while thinking of my words also as visual images what I used...
Liz as in lizards that are dropping from trees in Florida due to the cold snap and Brent as in Brent Maverick of the old TV western.
By doing so, in my own brain, I actually created new neural inter connections between those unrelated parts of the language name area part of my brain with my verbal hearing, and vocal muscle motor control regions of my brain, and via the way we record time sequences that I met them in that club venue.
Otherwise, if I don't do so, especially as a 77 year old with usual name recall issues, I tend to easily forget names. Well, I do also tend to recall names of facially attractive women because I subtly must have a subtle internal interaction with my amygdala that involves anything with emotions, another mechanism that increases an ability to recall. Another British person I met with an accent, was wearing weird colored eyeglasses. I didn't bother to verbalize his name and now cannot recall what his name is?
@officerripley
I liked 'Before the Fall', better. Hopefully, the movie will stick closely to the book.
Mitch86
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I'm still reading "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." If anyone else starts reading this book, post here so we can compare notes on the content of that book.
StarSong
Awkward is my Superpower
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- Los Angeles Suburbs
It was actually Bret Maverick, but well done on the associations.
I think the key was that you remembered to remember their names. I usually don't and that's why I "forget" the names. I'd never bothered to intentionally remember them. As Genova points out in her book.
OldFeller
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Shadow Divers (2004) Nonfiction.
Robert Kurson
An easy read and an interesting telling of the discovery of a sunken German Uboat off the East coast of the United States by divers who recover sunken treasures.
Robert Kurson
An easy read and an interesting telling of the discovery of a sunken German Uboat off the East coast of the United States by divers who recover sunken treasures.
Gardenlover
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I am reading:
The Only Life That Mattered: The Short and Merry Lives of Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and Calico Jack Rackam
Places you right there next to the characters in the book, most delightful.
The Only Life That Mattered: The Short and Merry Lives of Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and Calico Jack Rackam
Places you right there next to the characters in the book, most delightful.
MountainRa
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- Upstate SC, USA
“Circle of Days” by Ken Follett. Subject is fictional account of the building of Stonehenge
I think this is my first Ken Follett book. I know he has a large fan base. But I sincerely hope his other books are better than “ Circle of Days”.
I did not enjoy it. If not for the sexual descriptions, I would have sworn the book was written for 5th grade students.
Very juvenile. Too many characters to keep straight, all who have flat, unrealistic conversations. They kill a lot, have sex a lot, starve a lot … and repeat.
I think this is my first Ken Follett book. I know he has a large fan base. But I sincerely hope his other books are better than “ Circle of Days”.
I did not enjoy it. If not for the sexual descriptions, I would have sworn the book was written for 5th grade students.
Very juvenile. Too many characters to keep straight, all who have flat, unrealistic conversations. They kill a lot, have sex a lot, starve a lot … and repeat.