📚 Do YOU Have Any FAVORITE Books? What FORMAT?

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WE would luv to hear from YOU! 🥳💃

Thanks, Nicole 🛶 (Leisure & Lifestyle Forum)

[DarrylL35959]

Share the name of the book; please do not post links 

[SpringIsHereVA]

[Monday 3/3/25] Shirley @sfsmith56 , I DONOT have this time free at the moment but thanks for sharing with us. Take care, Nicole  👵

[*** @sfsmith56 wrote 3/3/25:
I have a book club:  BCCB:  Becoming Culturally Competent Bookclub meets on zoom every 2nd Sunday at 3:30PM PST.  This Sunday we are reviewing:  Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe (an Australian professor) Let me know if interested. ***]

[sfsmith56]

Yes, I have a new book out: " Life After Death" Resilience, Identity, and Revelations During Grief and After Loss. by Shirley Smith.  It is in all three formats on Amazon:  Ebook, paperback and Hardcopy. It was a number one new release for several days in January!  

[SpringIsHereVA]

[2/25/25] What are you reading? 🤔

I am FINALLY ready to get back to my LUV for reading. 👍

Lol, now to see WHAT is out there that catches my interest.

Happy Reading!!! 🙃

Thanks,

Nicole 👵

[sfsmith56]

Yes, I have a new book out: " Life After Death" Resilience, Identity, and Revelations During Grief and After Loss. by Shirley Smith.  It is in all three formats on Amazon:  Ebook, paperback and Hardcopy. It was a number one new release for several days in January!  

[WebWiseWoman]

Hello again, Nicole!

I recently found a prolific author, Mark Billingham.

Currently in the middle of his Tom Thorne series.

He has a few different genres so thinking something there for everyone.

I want to also ensure everyone knows most libraries have e-books available for multiple devices/services. It's great and so easy to download and read FREE!

hth

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[sfsmith56]

 "Life After Death" Resilience, Identity, and Revelations During Grief and After Loss is a new book coming to Amazon this month. First in digital form and later paperback and hardback formats.

Many times we feel as if we have lost our identity in many different situations: divorce, death, career loss, and unfair treatment.  This book is for you if you have experienced any of these losses.  It will help us to separate roles we play in life from our true identity. We are introduced to ourselves as we figure out our true identity.

I would love your support reading the book and reviewing it on Amazon.

Blessings,

Shirley Smith, Author Please let me know that you are planning to review:  Shirley@AksumLiterarySociety.com

[WebWiseWoman]

I've recently discovered crime novelist, comedian, podcaster Mark Billingham.

His "The Last Dance" was one of the best I've read. It's weird because he is so diverse it's hard to pin him down as author. Good news is there's a 2nd Declan novel (supposedly): "The Wrong Hands"

I've used ebooks even before COVID (I smoke and don't want to ruin books with that). I think post-covid, elderly and susceptible should be considered, yes?

So, there are my choices/recommendations...

[sfsmith56]

Yes, I have a new book out: " Life After Death" Resilience, Identity, and Revelations During Grief and After Loss. by Shirley Smith.  It is in all three formats on Amazon:  Ebook, paperback and Hardcopy. It was a number one new release for several days in January!  

[wilful]

  Stephen White is a clinical psychologist/author who lives in Boulder Colorado.  He has written a series of 20 books with a recurring main character named Dr Alan Gregory.  Dr Gregory is a fictional Clinical Psychologist who lives and practices in Boulder, Colorado.  These books are psychological thrillers.   In the books - Dr Gregory's wife has MS.  In real life - Stephen White has MS.

  He is my favorite author. 

[SpringIsHereVA]

4 comments  📚  (4/28/24)

Anyone a member of a BOOK CLUB? Online or In Person? I have NEVER been but since retiring it is a possibilty.

Nicole  👵

[sfsmith56]

I have a book club:  BCCB:  Becoming Culturally Competent Bookclub meets on zoom every 2nd Sunday at 3:30PM PST.  This Sunday we are reviewing:  Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe (an Australian professor) Let me know if interested. 

[AnnB53123]

Yes.  I run two online bookclubs, The Cozy Chair Bookclub and The Cozy Chair Classics Bookclub.  We discuss online (not zoom).

[sfsmith56]

I just published a book your. clubs may be interested in:  "Life After Death" Resilience, Identity, and Revelations During Grief and After Loss by Shirley Smith.  It is available on Amazon. All formats.  has 5 stars so far. Was #1 new release for several day in January on Amazon.

[SpringIsHereVA]

1 comment  📚  (4/29/24)

@AnnB53123 , can anyone join?  🤔

Thanks,

Nicole  👵

[AnnB53123]

Yes, anyone can join 😊.  I run the clubs on the 'Bookclubs.com' website. 

[LaDolceVita]

@SpringIsHereVA   We had a great one for many years here on AARP which I think I mentioned to you before.   Alas, it sems impossibleto start another one although you are working hard at it😉.   I have so little time for reading or watching shows right now and do not seem to be contributing much to your efforts.  

[JohnW150496]

   here's a good reading, my grandmother's favorite novel - - - - 

Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain"

My grandmother was German and read it in the original German, but the English version is very good also...

[LaDolceVita]

@JohnW150496   Thanks you for this great suggestion.  This sounds like a must read for me.  It resonates on many levels, partially due to German great uncle spending time in sanatorium for miner's lung (not Switzerland 😊 though).  

[SpringIsHereVA]

📚  Books allow us to escape for awhile!!!

[LaDolceVita]

@SpringIsHereVA   Wish I had an update for you, still reading the Traitor's Wife😣

[SpringIsHereVA]

1 comment (4/14/24)  📚  Who is your FAVORITE author or authors and WHY?

Agatha Christie for me. Always luved mystery and I NEVER get bored with Ms. Marple and Poirot. Wish she had written more...  👵

[AnnB53123]

Two that come to mind - John Cheever  & Gabriel Garcia Marquez 

[SpringIsHereVA]

1 comment  📚  (4/14/24)

@AnnB53123 , I appreciate you stopping by!!! What GENRE do you like? I like "Cozy Mysteries"

Nicole 👵

[AnnB53123]

I'm reading The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

[SpringIsHereVA]

1 comment  📚 (4/2/24) First Latina Surgeon General Details Her Story (AARP Article)

HAS ANYONE READ THIS BOOK?  🤔  I HAVE NOT!  👵

After decades of working in the public eye, Antonia Novello says she’s not retired but in transition, and she isn’t done yet.

By Jennifer Ortiz, AARP. Published April 02, 2024.

https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/books/info-2024/antonia-novello-md-duty-calls.html

[LaDolceVita]

@SpringIsHereVA   Havent read and only 2 reviews so far on Amazon.  Have you read any of Bill Bryson's books?  

[SpringIsHereVA]

1 comment  📚  (3/31/24)

DISCUSSION: What are your Book Sources?

Since retiring = NO more library trips for me = got LAZY  🙄  Use to reserve books frequently and grabbed up the NEW books when they arrived.

Since retiring July 2020, it had been Dollar Tree. Then that got old in 2021/2022 with the HOT MESS their once clean/organized BOOK SECTION became. Now in 2024, lol - badically no more Book Section.

THIS YEAR [2024] I did order from Walmart online - my 1st Farmer's Almanac for 2024. Have developed a LUV for the Moon and another project on "hold"  🙄 But I have promised myself to get back to it SOON.

My other book source has been authors who load their AUDIOBOOKS on to YouTube.

Lol, while I was still working - lived in BARNES & NOBLE and basically signed over my paychecks to them.  👵

[LaDolceVita]

@SpringIsHereVA   Since moving I am buying used books on Amazon again.  Driving to the library is harder here, more traffic, curves, unfamiliar territory.  If I ever get free time I will get used to the drive and return to ordering books online guess.