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

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?
 
“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.
 
Finished reading “The Beach Trees” by Karen White. Started off well, kind of got melodramatic toward the end but a good ‘beach read’. 5-6 out of 10.

More than 1/2 way through “The Fields” by Erin Young. Great story/ mystery, writing…. Suspenseful (just right amount), taut, well developed characters.

Only caveat is some of the murder scenes are a little on the gory side (description of wounds/ injuries), if you don’t handle that well.

10/10 so far
 
MountainRa said:
“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.
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Hi, I suggest you read Follett's 'Pillars of the Earth' story of the construction of a Gothic Cathedral in 12th century England. Its long 800 pgs{ paperback} I've read it twice thoroughly enjoyed it Sue
 
Follow up on the author Erin Young’s mystery, “The Fields”… Quality of plot and writing held up to the end, definitely a 10 out of 10.

Apparently, this was the author’s debut novel and she has a second that came out in 2024 which I am definitely going to look up.

Per the inside cover, this lady is from Brighton England, but she managed to catch and communicate the flavor of Midwestern America very well
 
Another novel by a new author,,,Joshunda Sanders

WOMEN OF THE POST,,,
About black women during the war.

Who enlisted to help sort mail that needed sorted & send to the loved ones back in the U.S.
They come different types of lives, farm girls,, city girls, who worked for very little money.
How they all came together to work & sort mail.

A good read,,,, leave a note to let me know if you enjoyed it?
 
Sliverfox said:
Another novel by a new author,,,Joshunda Sanders

WOMEN OF THE POST,,,
About black women during the war.

Who enlisted to help sort mail that needed sorted & send to the loved ones back in the U.S.
They come different types of lives, farm girls,, city girls, who worked for very little money.
How they all came together to work & sort mail.

A good read,,,, leave a note to let me know if you enjoyed it?
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They made a movie about that too, it's called Six Triple Eight and I think it's available on Netflix and maybe some other services; it's an excellent movie, Kerry Washington does such a good job playing a military woman (and all the other actors were good too of course.

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