Post by joebill on Jan 20, 2020 17:39:09 GMT
OK, lemme see how close I can come to the post I had almost finished when the power shut off a couple of hours ago;
Janet and I have one 15'x 8' wall of her office solid with books, more shelves in my office plus stacks here and there in the house. There is also a free library in a chest freezer beside the road on the way to Douglas AZ where one can take any books he wants to read or drop off any he wants to get rid of, and it turns over rapidly. usually around 50 books in it, none of which were there a month ago. Amazingly prolific for such a sparsely settled area.
Each of us always have a book we are reading, and the docs get a kick out of the fact that we sit and start reading when we enter the waiting room, then sit and read again when we go into the treatment room to wait for the doc. Everybody else is faunching to get gone, but we just sit and read.
Most of my new reading has been on the Kindle in recent months, and anybody who reads a lot needs to know about;
www.overdrive.com/apps/libby/?utm_origin=lightning&utm_page_genre=toast_note&utm_list=meet_libby&utm_content=libby_sitemessage_05012018
You can go to your local library's site after downloading the software, have your pick of thousands of books on most subjects, download them for free and keep them for a couple of weeks, after which the site will snatch them back. Read them on a Kindle or on your computer, maybe even on your phone, but I dunno about that. An excellent way to try out a new author.
I have been reading like my life depended on it since before first grade as my ability increased, brought on by the fact that we were not equipped with television until much later than most, and Mom used to sit around in the evenings or on long drives and read the whole family books and serialized stories from the Saturday Evening Post. I credit that with the fact that I can make pretty fair use of the English language, even though I can no more diagram a sentence than I could the brain of a weasel and would not recognize a participle if it were dangling in front of my eyes.
Old Don's phrase "learned to talk like the man on the six O'clock news" grabbed me when I first heard the following ditty years ago...enjoy!......Joe
Janet and I have one 15'x 8' wall of her office solid with books, more shelves in my office plus stacks here and there in the house. There is also a free library in a chest freezer beside the road on the way to Douglas AZ where one can take any books he wants to read or drop off any he wants to get rid of, and it turns over rapidly. usually around 50 books in it, none of which were there a month ago. Amazingly prolific for such a sparsely settled area.
Each of us always have a book we are reading, and the docs get a kick out of the fact that we sit and start reading when we enter the waiting room, then sit and read again when we go into the treatment room to wait for the doc. Everybody else is faunching to get gone, but we just sit and read.
Most of my new reading has been on the Kindle in recent months, and anybody who reads a lot needs to know about;
www.overdrive.com/apps/libby/?utm_origin=lightning&utm_page_genre=toast_note&utm_list=meet_libby&utm_content=libby_sitemessage_05012018
You can go to your local library's site after downloading the software, have your pick of thousands of books on most subjects, download them for free and keep them for a couple of weeks, after which the site will snatch them back. Read them on a Kindle or on your computer, maybe even on your phone, but I dunno about that. An excellent way to try out a new author.
I have been reading like my life depended on it since before first grade as my ability increased, brought on by the fact that we were not equipped with television until much later than most, and Mom used to sit around in the evenings or on long drives and read the whole family books and serialized stories from the Saturday Evening Post. I credit that with the fact that I can make pretty fair use of the English language, even though I can no more diagram a sentence than I could the brain of a weasel and would not recognize a participle if it were dangling in front of my eyes.
Old Don's phrase "learned to talk like the man on the six O'clock news" grabbed me when I first heard the following ditty years ago...enjoy!......Joe
