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Sandra - hoping to hear soon that your surgery yesterday was successful and you are on the mend.
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I'm home from the hospital and doing fine after surgery #4. If you have any surgery in your future, ask for Exparel. It's an anesthetic that the PS injects into the incisions at the end of the surgery. It's a foam and acts like lidocaine for up to 72 hours. It REALLY makes a difference in post op pain, especially if you're like me and can't take narocotics or opiates. Once again I took my Kindle to the hospital and ended up not using it. I don't seem to be able to read while the effects of general anesthesia wear off. I won't even bother bringing it for the next surgery.
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3 things, Sandra -
1. I am glad you are home from surgery and doing well.
2. your comment a while back, "Since I own the book, it can always wait until I finish the next library book due." really struck home. I am surrounded by unread books which I own while I am addicted to going to the library - and I always feel I have to read the library books first. I will have to bring my library addiction under control.
3. the photo of the blue display. I occasionally receive calls from a friend who works in a bookstore when she is trying to help a customer find a book with not much more to go on than the cover is blue. sometimes I actually can figure it out for them. very funny.
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Sandra.. Glad you are doing well.
Reading Nick Hornby's latest..Ten Years in the Tub...A Decade Soaking in Great Books. Nothing more blissful.....
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Voracious: thanks for the recommend. I like Hornby.
Reading an old Laura Lippman To the Power of Three. It's not in the Tess Monaghan series but pretty good. It sure beats working on taxes - which I should be doing.
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LOL at the blue books! LOL
I too have a lot of books on reader, and hard copies at home that are put aside til my library's copies are finished. LOL
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Minus...page 120..."I'm a reader for lots of reasons. On the whole, I tend to hang out with readers, and I'm scared they wouldn't want to hang out with me if I stopped. (They're interesting people, and they know a lot of interesting things and I'd miss them.)"
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Glad you're home Sandra! Midway through, and enjoying, The Absent One, Adler-Olsen's second book in the Department Q series.
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Ruth, I'm reading "Absent One" now also. Think I read them out of order since this is my third. all excellent. Thanks again for the suggestion...
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Just read a column written by Geoff Dyer where he tells us about his recent stroke. Sad news. My thoughts and prayers are with him for a full recovery!
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"For at least a decade I’ve been telling anyone who would listen that I wanted to end my days in California. One of the people I said this to, in San Francisco, was quick to put me right: you don’t end your days in California, you begin them. I was happy to be corrected in this distinctly Californian way, but when we eventually got here it..."
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Very articulately written (of course) and thought provoking. Thanks for sharing it, VR.
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VR sorry to hear about Geoff Dyer, I'm pulling for him too. You reminded me to post about My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor. She's a brain scientist who had a stroke at age 37 and lived to tell the tale from the perspective of someone who'd studied the brain for a living. I'm halfway through and it's fascinating!
On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life-all within four hours-Taylor alternated between the euphoria of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace, and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized she was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was completely lost. It would take her eight years to fully recover.
For Taylor, her stroke was a blessing and a revelation. It taught her that by "stepping to the right" of our left brains, we can uncover feelings of well-being that are often sidelined by "brain chatter." Reaching wide audiences through her talk at the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference and her appearance on Oprah's online Soul Series, Taylor provides a valuable recovery guide for those touched by brain injury and an inspiring testimony that inner peace is accessible to anyone.0 -
badger! I read her book too! Absolutely amazing and scary too. How she articulated her recovery was amazing. I think the book serves as a great primer for anyone...whether they had a stroke or not!
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"My Stroke of Insight" was wonderfully informative and written from an extremely interesting perspective.
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VR - thanks for posting the Dyer column. Amazing man.
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Quick quiz? How many got the e reader settlement check? I got mine yesterday.Guess I buy a lot of books. It was $50 +. Anyone else? Just curious I figured I'd get like 10 cents....
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I can also relate to this...so now I have decided that since I cannot drive for the time being, I will start reading all the books brought over the past year!..hope my plan works..
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Moon, I got a credit from Amazon in the amount of $7 and change. I'm jealous. I could do a lot of e-reading for $50!
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Moonflower, we got $177!!!! But we have 3 Kindles attached to one Amazon account--me, my DH and my DD. But we do read A LOT!!!!
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Wow! $177, I'm with Wenweb, 7 and change. I, however, just switched to a Kindle from a Sony and borrowed most of my books on that one. But, that's maybe two more books!
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LOL. That is a LOT of books. I have a Sony. We just did a migration to Kobo. Sony stopped selling ebooks. They are working with Kobo to get us set up there. I'm upset. They transferred almost 400 of my books and could not transfer 30. I feel cheated. It's like they sent out the settlement checks out when the migration was on so people would shrug their shoulders and say well I have some money from Sony.... LOL it is what it is. I guess I should feel good that so many transferred. Why don't publishers include an e copy when you buy a hard cover? Even if they charged just a bit extra I'd be happy. There's a couple of series I buy hardcovers for and will continue to do so. But i don't always want to carry a great honking book. LOL. Ok off my pulpit! LOL
Happy spending on more ebooks! Much love to all.
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This is the first I've heard of a rebate. Did they send you something about it ahead of time.
<snif> I'm such a loser.
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sandra, I do believe I received an email quite a while ago, but had forgotten about it. It was a class actions suit that you didn't have to do anything in order to be eligible to receive. I was through Amazon (since I have a Kindle). Maybe you didn't miss out if you don't have a Kindle or buy ebooks from Amazon? Not sure...
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I'm reading Twelve Years a Slave. I want to read the book first before I see the movie
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I also received a $7 dollar and change rebate. Used it to but the next Game Of Thrones book.
I know, not very intelligent reading however I love the tv series and just finished season three on blueray. Couldn't wait till it comes out nest year on DVD....hubby refuses to get HBO........so I figured accredit wasn't wasting my own money right? Haven't started it yet. Hope it is as good as the series is.
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Yes, I have a Kindle. I was either in a post-op haze or misunderstood the e-mail if I got it at all. Oh well.
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Sandra. You didn't need to do anything to be in the lawsuit. You just had to purchase books in the time frame. So if you had an e reader 4 years ago you would have gotten a refund. I know I bought a lot more books once I had my T1 with wifi. It was too easy. LOL.
Northwind I was thinking about getting that series. I am tempted!
Much live.
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I received $5 and change. But to be fair, I only use the Kindle when I'm on vacation or can't get to the used bookstores or the library. I still like the feel & smell of paper. Since I read 5 to 6 books a week, I should make myself convert.
Speaking of smell, a friend loaned me a bag of hardbacks and you could tell they came from WalMart by the smell. Anyone else notice that familiar odor at their local WalMart?
Read the new Lee Child - Never Go Back. I do like him. One of the books was Dean Koontz - What the Night Knows. I haven't read a "horror" book in years so maybe I've forgotten, but this was OK. Read Robert Galbraith - The Cuckoo's Calling. I'd forgotten this is the pseudonym for JK Rowling. Liked the book but not surprised since I liked Harry Potter. Now reading Never Tell by Alafair Burke. It's suspense so holding my interest.
LOVED the new John Lescroart paperback - The Ophelia Cut. He's one of my heros that I read & keep. The books are set in San Francisco w/great descriptions & local color & a combination murder & law. The defense atty is best friends w/the chief of police. There's always a good trial portion which I enjoy. I was trying to decide if you could read them stand-alone as I was reading this one, but you'd miss so much. Start with Dead Irish. Hooray - he's coming to one of my Indie book stores in May and I can hardly wait.
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Just finished C,C. TIllery's 'Appalachian Series' awaiting the third book, but alas, it's not out yet! Based on the life of a woman at the turn of the last century in the Appalachian countryside, told by her nieces. Enjoyed it very much.
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Minus...the DH is a great fan of both Child and Lescroat. Lescroat doesn't publish as frequently as Child, Silva and Baldecci...but when he does publish, his books pack a wallop. DH just started reading Keith Thompson and has Dave Eggers, The Circle on tap.
Brushing up on my fiction skills, VR is doing a little cheating! Reading, The Novel Cure..From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You... The authors of the book are voracious readers....on steroids!!!!!! What.A.Book!
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