📚 Do YOU Have Any FAVORITE Books? What FORMAT?

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Thanks, Nicole 🛶 (Leisure & Lifestyle Forum)

[SpringIsHereSoHappy]

📚  (12/17/23) Hi Ann @AnnB53123 :

While I WAIT on NEW "releases" from my OTHER favorite/likeable YouTube Authors - I just found this NEW Author 💃💃💃

"Death on the Range : Target Practice Mysteries 1 by Nikki Haverstock" on YouTube.

Have an AWESOME Sunday my friend! 😎

[AnnB53123]

Hi @SpringIsHereSoHappy 

Looks like the start of a good series 🙂

Thank you, enjoy your evening!

Ann

[SpringIsHereSoHappy]

📚  (12/17/23) Thanks Ann @AnnB53123   💙💙💙

And when I RETURN to reading "real" books  🙄,  I will checkout the books you mentioned. 👍

My LAST book is still sitting "unread" for over a YEAR!!!  😱

[MaVolta]

I like to read histories and biographies. I read a few books on Kindle, which was okay, but I really like to read from a real book in my hands. (I used to work for a publishing company, and digital books were just becoming a thing when I retired). 

i like to read Dan Jones history books. He writes history that reads like a novel. Titles include The Plantagenets, Summer of Blood: England’s First Revolution, The War of the Roses, and Magna Carta, among others. Medieval history is fascinating.

Historical Biographies include The Medici by Paul Strathern, Alfred the Great by Justin Pollard, and Charlemagne by Derek Wilson. It’s amazing how much Charlemagne and Alfred the Great had in common. King Alfred seemed to take several pages from Charlemagne’s play book.

Currently reading Machiavelli by Miles J Unger, and up next is Voltaire by Ian Davidson. Also on the list is The Borgias. 

For lighter reading, I like Rock Biographies. My favorite autobiography is Magic Carpet Ride: The Story of John Kay and Steppenwolf. The story of how his mother brought him first out of Prussia, and then made a harrowing escape from East Germany when he was a young boy, is breathtaking. Other autobiographies include Keith Richards, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, Ian Gillan, and Neil Diamond, plus an unauthorized biography on Ritchie Blackmore. All were fun and interesting reads. 

[SpringIsHereSoHappy]

📚  Thanks for stopping by Dirk!!!

[nctarheel]

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@SpringIsHereSoHappy wrote:

(9/15/23)

Stop by to join OUR discussion!

Thanks,

Nicole 🛶 (Leisure & Lifestyle Forum)

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How are you doing, @SpringIsHereSoHappy ????

As far as books are concerned, I am not too much for audio books. I would have trouble absorbing what someone is saying versus reading the same thing.

As books in general go, I love trivia books, biographies, and books related to the sciences, especially astrophysics.

[DirkB349973]

I've always been a fan of science fiction but lately, I've listened to more fantasy. I switched to audiobooks during COVID (work from home) and have subscribed on and off to Audible. One of my favorites is The Scholomance trilogy by Naomi Novik which begins with A Deadly Education. Once I started reading Novik I found I enjoyed all of her books. As far as other authors, I've enjoyed the Dune series by Herbert, the Foundation series by Asimov, and many great books by Tolkien, Clarke, Heinlein, Silverberg, and Anthony. Audiobooks are my medium today but I have a shelf full of dusty paperbacks I've been accumulating since I was a teenager.

[SpringIsHereSoHappy]

1 comment 📚  (9/4/23) 

Hi Ann @AnnB53123 :

I really ENJOY mysteries with "furbabies" 👍

Anyone else a FAN of "The Cat Who Series by Lilian Jackson Braun"?

***A series of 29 mystery novels featuring a reporter named Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats, Kao K'o-Kung and Yum-Yum. 🐈🐈***

[AnnB53123]

Hi Nicole,

I don't know that series of books, but you have my attention 🙂,I'll definitely check it out, thank you!

[SpringIsHereSoHappy]

1 comment 📚  (9/3/23) 

Hi Ann @AnnB53123 :

I prefer to buy my books but will use the library IF it is a NEW book

Into "audiobooks" this year and still figuring best way to listen.

I have used the library's site, Audible and YouTube so far.

Nicole 🙃

✏@AnnB53123 wrote:
Hi Nicole,

I will purchase, borrow from the Library and/or use the library app Hoopla.  What about you?✏

[AnnB53123]

Wow!  I didn't know YouTube had audible books.  YouTube here I come! 😃

[SpringIsHereSoHappy]

2 comments 📚  (9/3/23) 

Hi Ann @AnnB53123 :

Do you buy your books or use the library? 🤔

Nicole 🙃

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✏@AnnB53123 wrote:

I'm now reading the thriller 'The Night Swim' by Megan Goldin.  So far, I'm on the edge of my seat!!  😯 I'll keep you all up to date. ✏

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[AnnB53123]

Hi Nicole,

I will purchase, borrow from the Library and/or use the library app Hoopla.  What about you?

[AnnB53123]

I'm now reading the thriller 'The Night Swim' by Megan Goldin.  So far, I'm on the edge of my seat!!  😯 I'll keep you all up to date. 

[AnnB53123]

Hi All,

Th Night Swim was very good.  I'm about to start 'The House Across The Lake by Riley Sager.

Anyone have any good books on their nightstand?

[AnnB53123]

 I finished The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus and The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner.  Of the three, The Lost Apothecary was the best.  I'm now reading The Escape Room by Megan Goldin.  So far, it's really good!!  

What's everyone else reading?  

Hi @SpringIsHereSoHappy

How are you?

[SpringIsHereSoHappy]

📚  (12/15/23) 

Hi Ann @AnnB53123  :

Thanks for asking 💙💙💙

Been listening to ALOT of Cozy Mysteries - Audiobooks.

How are you my friend? 🤔

My LAST one was:

"Gertrude, Gumshoe: Gunslinger City | Cozy Mystery Audiobook" on YouTube

[AnnB53123]

Hi @SpringIsHereSoHappy 

Your Audio book looks good (I looked it up).  Are you working on the entire series?

 I'm doing well 🙂

[SpringIsHereSoHappy]

📚  (12/15/23)

GLAD to hear that Ann @AnnB53123   💃💃💃

Yes, I am SUBSCRIBED.... 

[AnnB53123]

Hi, I'm  currently reading 'Hello Beautiful' by Ann Napolitano.  I'm halfway through and so far, it's really good!

[AnnB53123]

Well, I finished 'Hello Beautiful ' on the 26th and I would definitely recommend it. It was an 'emotional roller-coaster' type of book.

[CarolynS674392]

Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss was a funny book about punctuation of all things.  The title's meaning changes if you leave off the comma.  Eats shoots and leaves describes what a panda eats.  I think it was panda.

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[Anonymous]

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Books are an AWESOME way to escape!!! 🥳💃

[WebWiseWoman]

@Anonymous no reply necessary, please...

I've preferred Nook or e-reader format for at least a decade; I chose that as I'm a cigarette smoker and realized it contaminated paper with smell.

That's my preferred format.

My preferred authors have been Hunter S Thompson, Agatha Christie and whomever equaled these wonderful writers...

hth

[PENNY120857]

I listen to Audible since I am on the road alot. And I listen to a variety of topics: aging and self help, murder mystery, romance, crime... anything that catches my eye at the moment.  Costs around $15 a month with 1 free book of your choosing. They have specials: buy one get one, and free books. I've been with them for several years and love it!!

[Anonymous]

WE "appreciate" you stopping by Penny @PENNY120857 !!! 💃🥳, Nicole 🙃

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▶️@PENNY120857 wrote:

I listen to Audible since I am on the road alot. And I listen to a variety of topics: aging and self help, murder mystery, romance, crime... anything that catches my eye at the moment.  Costs around $15 a month with 1 free book of your choosing. They have specials: buy one get one, and free books. I've been with them for several years and love it!!◀️

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[TomD857140]

Three of my favorites:

The Bean Trees and Pigs In Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

Under The Beetle's Cellar by Mary Willis Walker

[Anonymous]

WE "appreciate" you stopping by Tom @TomD857140 !!!! 💃🥳, Nicole 🙃

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▶️@TomD857140 wrote:

Three of my favorites:

The Bean Trees and Pigs In Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

Under The Beetle's Cellar by Mary Willis Walker◀️

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[Anonymous]

Have enjoyed reading for "pleasure" from childhood.

Mother was a teacher and also the Nancy Drew series provided a way to ESCAPE.

Now in retirement, I am into audiobooks. Depending of what is going on in my life determines my selection.

Cozy mysteries so far.....

Nicole 🙃