TBD2024-03-28T17:04:28ZIoruachhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/Iorouchhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2190221335?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://teebeedee.ning.com/group/bookoholics/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=23qhccudjxwbz&feed=yes&xn_auth=noCan Reading Make You Happier?tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2021-04-02:1991841:Topic:19829252021-04-02T17:20:43.053ZIoruachhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/Iorouch
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<p>An article from the New Yorker magazine</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/can-reading-make-you-happier">https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/can-reading-make-you-happier</a></p>
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<p>After WW1 traumatized soldiers were prescribed a course of reading</p>
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<p>An article from the New Yorker magazine</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/can-reading-make-you-happier">https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/can-reading-make-you-happier</a></p>
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<p>After WW1 traumatized soldiers were prescribed a course of reading</p> 2021 READStag:teebeedee.ning.com,2021-01-08:1991841:Topic:19478302021-01-08T20:13:37.293ZIoruachhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/Iorouch
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Just finished Alice Hoffman’s <span style="text-decoration: underline;">THE MARRIAGE OF OPPOSITE’S!</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>The publisher describes this as “A forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro, the Father of Impressionism.”</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Just finished Alice Hoffman’s <span style="text-decoration: underline;">THE MARRIAGE OF OPPOSITE’S!</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>The publisher describes this as “A forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro, the Father of Impressionism.”</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>If you enjoy historical fiction treat yourself to this beautiful story!</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>It was published in 2015 and should be available in your library.</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Hoffman’s <span style="text-decoration: underline;">THE DOVEKEEPERS</span> is another of my favorite reads!</strong></span></p> Pandemic Bookstag:teebeedee.ning.com,2020-09-11:1991841:Topic:18720272020-09-11T17:31:24.478ZIoruachhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/Iorouch
<p>In these trying times do you find yourself wanting to read fiction books about pandemics?</p>
<p>I came across two such recently published books written before COVID-19:</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Wanderers</strong></span> by Chuck Wendig written before the pandemic but has eerie flashes of some events and behaviors we saw. Also a bit of a zombie story and a race to stem the disaster by disgraced scientists and dubious Artificial Intelligence tools among other…</p>
<p>In these trying times do you find yourself wanting to read fiction books about pandemics?</p>
<p>I came across two such recently published books written before COVID-19:</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Wanderers</strong></span> by Chuck Wendig written before the pandemic but has eerie flashes of some events and behaviors we saw. Also a bit of a zombie story and a race to stem the disaster by disgraced scientists and dubious Artificial Intelligence tools among other things, with predictable opposition from the political operatives. Found it engaging.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The End of October</strong></span> by Lawrence Wright who is known for his investigative journalism (The Looming Tower) </p>
<p>Also written before the pandemic has less political slant and less apocalyptic is more focused on the race of scientist and researchers against the pathogens. Have not read it yet but it is on my list</p> corona virustag:teebeedee.ning.com,2020-03-19:1991841:Topic:18615192020-03-19T19:49:01.268ZIoruachhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/Iorouch
<p><em><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Just checking in to see how everyone is doing. I think this group might be better able to self quarantine than others, just give us a book! </span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I am doing fine. I was never really a get up and go all the time person anyway. I worry a bit about my youngest who works at Walmart and her chance of getting sick or bringing something home, but living in fear and panic is not what I want to…</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Just checking in to see how everyone is doing. I think this group might be better able to self quarantine than others, just give us a book! </span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I am doing fine. I was never really a get up and go all the time person anyway. I worry a bit about my youngest who works at Walmart and her chance of getting sick or bringing something home, but living in fear and panic is not what I want to do.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: 18pt;">We are having a blizzard today........great day to read a book, thank heavens for my kindle, the library is closed!</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Hope all stay healthy and warm. I pray all have enough with all the hoarding going on.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Love, Lyn</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: 18pt;">P.S. I see posts of so many sharing and caring for others and those putting Christmas lights up to cheer others. In Italy they are singing from their balconies, and other places are playing games between buildings or being led in exercises by instructors located on rooftops! What a marvelous breed we are! And the earth is healing at a rapid rate, maybe we can learn from this scare.</span></em></p>
<p></p> My top picks for 2019tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2019-12-31:1991841:Topic:18583192019-12-31T16:39:56.922ZIoruachhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/Iorouch
<p>I haven't posted for a while so I decided to see if the TBD Bookoholics Group was still alive. Glad to find you all here. I am now living in Lebanon, Ohio on a retirement campus run by the Methodist Church. I'm still reading and in the Facebook EONS group with Aggie who runs this website. Here are some top picks from the 98 books I read this year. </p>
<p>--"The Alice Network" by Kate Quinn</p>
<p>--"An American Marriage" by Tayare Jones</p>
<p>--"Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia…</p>
<p>I haven't posted for a while so I decided to see if the TBD Bookoholics Group was still alive. Glad to find you all here. I am now living in Lebanon, Ohio on a retirement campus run by the Methodist Church. I'm still reading and in the Facebook EONS group with Aggie who runs this website. Here are some top picks from the 98 books I read this year. </p>
<p>--"The Alice Network" by Kate Quinn</p>
<p>--"An American Marriage" by Tayare Jones</p>
<p>--"Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens</p>
<p>--"A Gentleman from Moscow" by Amor Towles</p>
<p>--"Zoo Nebraska" by Carson Vaughan </p>
<p>Have a Happy New Year and enjoyable reading. </p>
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<p>Maurice Dion, aka, Mandy Muffin</p>
<p>A note of sorrow: Mandy Muffin, my cherished West Highland Terrier, has passed on. My newest pet is a tuxedo cat called Bat Man. Since I've been using a screen name of my pet over the years, I suppose I should change. </p> CURRENT READS.tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2019-12-31:1991841:Topic:18584552019-12-31T03:47:40.356ZIoruachhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/Iorouch
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Recently read a really different book <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>MY LOVELY WIFE</strong></span>. If you enjoy stories about serial murders you’ll be startled at this story. Can’t remember the author but please Goggle it. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Today picked up a right off the press book <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>THE WIVES…</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Recently read a really different book <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>MY LOVELY WIFE</strong></span>. If you enjoy stories about serial murders you’ll be startled at this story. Can’t remember the author but please Goggle it. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Today picked up a right off the press book <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>THE WIVES</strong></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span> by Tarryn Fisher. The cover reads “How far would you go to find the truth about your husband. You’ll have whiplash until the very end. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>THE WIVES</strong></span> will leave the most sure-footed reader uneasy until the last word is read.”</span></p> Thanksgivingtag:teebeedee.ning.com,2019-11-27:1991841:Topic:18569812019-11-27T22:08:18.286ZIoruachhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/Iorouch
<p>To one and all Bookoholics members: Happy Thanksgiving!</p>
<p>To one and all Bookoholics members: Happy Thanksgiving!</p> Current Readstag:teebeedee.ning.com,2019-09-15:1991841:Topic:18537592019-09-15T20:21:56.587ZIoruachhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/Iorouch
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Picked up at library Louise Penny’s latest <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A BETTER MAN</span> Thurs, read it and returned it Sat. Am sorry to say I didn’t enjoy it as much as her other books. Perhaps because there wasn’t as much exposure to Three Pines as usual. </strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Last night started Philippa Gregory’s just published <span style="text-decoration: underline;">TIDELANDS.…</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Picked up at library Louise Penny’s latest <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A BETTER MAN</span> Thurs, read it and returned it Sat. Am sorry to say I didn’t enjoy it as much as her other books. Perhaps because there wasn’t as much exposure to Three Pines as usual. </strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Last night started Philippa Gregory’s just published <span style="text-decoration: underline;">TIDELANDS.</span> Grabbed me from the get-go!!!!It’s a historical fiction novel, circa 1648. Story takes place in England where they are in the grip of a civil war between renegade king and rebellious parliament. England, 1648, is a dangerous time for a woman to be different. Meet Alinor who unknowingly leads disaster into the heart of her life! </strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>What are you reading?</strong></span></p> strange bookstag:teebeedee.ning.com,2019-09-05:1991841:Topic:18531132019-09-05T23:12:09.447ZIoruachhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/Iorouch
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I find myself reading a series that I thought would never interest me. </span></p>
<h1 class="a-size-large a-spacing-none" id="title"><span class="a-size-extra-large" id="ebooksProductTitle">A Strong Woman in the Middle Ages by Lina Potter</span></h1>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> It is set in the 11th century and involves a woman who somehow goes from being in a bad accident in this century to back to the 11th century where she wakes up a fat countess. I…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I find myself reading a series that I thought would never interest me. </span></p>
<h1 id="title" class="a-size-large a-spacing-none"><span id="ebooksProductTitle" class="a-size-extra-large">A Strong Woman in the Middle Ages by Lina Potter</span></h1>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> It is set in the 11th century and involves a woman who somehow goes from being in a bad accident in this century to back to the 11th century where she wakes up a fat countess. I am really not into time travel, royalty or that kind of thing, however I am on my fourth book in this series. Even as I tell myself how bizarre this is......take for instance how much the English language has changed, I find myself interested. It is not an especially challenging read so I am at a loss why I am so interested! There is another series I read, called the Aunt Dimity series, that I think is written much like a Nancy Drew book that I also enjoy at times. I guess we all open the book and give it a try and if it holds our attention we read! I also find that I sometimes just cannot read a book......and again I am at a loss as to why I am not able to read it. I guess with the zillion of books now available I just don't want to waste the time if I am not enjoying myself. </span></p> Great Books of 2018tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2019-08-03:1991841:Topic:18511672019-08-03T15:34:26.705ZIoruachhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/Iorouch
<p>NPR Book Concierge</p>
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<p><a href="https://apps.npr.org/best-books-2018/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social">https://apps.npr.org/best-books-2018/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social</a></p>
<p>NPR Book Concierge</p>
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<p><a href="https://apps.npr.org/best-books-2018/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social">https://apps.npr.org/best-books-2018/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social</a></p>