Topic is Sleeping.
StopSpinning ( member #58573) posted at 12:42 AM on Thursday, July 20th, 2017
Let me preface by saying I'm a voracious reader. I'll read anything.
"The Borgias" by Jean Plaidy. If you like 15th century historical sagas about scandals in Rome, this one's for you.
"I don’t miss him, I miss who I thought he was."
🔥 "Liar Liar - Pants on Fire" 🔥
Me: 54
Him: 61
Married: 36 Years. One 25 year old son
D Day: 01.04.17
authenticnow ( member #16024) posted at 5:04 AM on Thursday, July 20th, 2017
I just read an interesting book about a woman's struggle with depression and anxiety, her struggle with addiction to pills, and her recovery journey.
It's called The Truth About Smoke and Mirrors by Jillian Miller.
DS, you are forever in my heart. Thank you for sharing your beautiful spirit with me. I will always try to live by the example you have set. I love you and miss you every day and am sorry you had to go so soon, it just doesn't seem fair.
yuvas ( member #59339) posted at 11:35 PM on Friday, July 21st, 2017
I'm reading "We Need to Talk About Kevin" and wow is it intense! I recommend it if you like cerebral thrillers.
I've also been listening to "A Beautiful, Terrible Thing" on my drive to work. It's a memoir by a woman who's husband had an affair when she was pregnant, they've since divorced and she believes him to be a sociopath. She now has a website dedicated to helping women in relationships with narcs/sociopaths. I'm not sure how I feel about this book - it's well written and is interesting but I completely disagree with her diagnosis of her husband.
He's a selfish cheater for sure with some narc tendancies but unless she left a lot of his behaviour out of her narrative he doesn't fit the typical clusters of behaviour. Anyway, I digress!
StopSpinning ( member #58573) posted at 1:49 AM on Saturday, July 22nd, 2017
Yuvas
Did you know that "We Need to Talk About Kevin" was adapted into a film? I think about 2010 or so. I saw the film first and as a result, just had to read the book. If you haven't seen the movie yet, I recommend it. Not necessarily impressed with casting but I've watched it several times.
"I don’t miss him, I miss who I thought he was."
🔥 "Liar Liar - Pants on Fire" 🔥
Me: 54
Him: 61
Married: 36 Years. One 25 year old son
D Day: 01.04.17
Adlham ( member #53358) posted at 5:41 AM on Saturday, July 22nd, 2017
Oh god, I don't think I could read that book. It might kill me.
Dammit. Why did you have to tell me it's a book, yuvas, WHY?
StopSpinning, I'm like you. I will read anything, anytime. I will read the back of a Kleenex box and cleaning solutions in the bathroom. Not because I'm in there for long, but I love reading!
There is NO need to have that “one last conversation” with a toxic individual in your life.” The closure will come when you look deeper inside yourself. It’s not your job to fix someone when they are unwilling to fix themselves.
FaithFool ( member #20150) posted at 2:57 AM on Sunday, July 23rd, 2017
I've been reading whatever shows up in the neighbourhood book boxes.
Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone was interesting.
Almost finished Come As You Are, a Nirvana biography, and now I'm mildly obsessed with finding all their old stuff on YouTube.
Now onto another summer read, another novel by a French author, in English.
Bookworms are us!
DDay: June 15, 2008
Mistakenly married Mr. Superfreak
20 years of OWs, WTF?
Divorced Dec 26, 2011
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget
to sing in the lifeboats". -- Voltaire
Forged1 ( member #43418) posted at 2:35 PM on Sunday, July 23rd, 2017
Come As You Are, a Nirvana biography,
I thought that was pretty good. "Heavier than Heaven" is also worth a read if you ever come across it.
Me: Former BH
Divorced Q2 2015
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At this stage, I'm pretty much bulletproof.
Do no harm. But take no shit.
Lonelygirl10 ( member #39850) posted at 11:23 PM on Sunday, July 23rd, 2017
I've been reading the Outlander series. It's so good!
Candyman66 ( member #52535) posted at 2:58 AM on Monday, July 24th, 2017
I've just read the John Sandford series on Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers. Also known as that f'ing Flowers! A very fast moving story with lots of plot twists. Best of all is he is human with feelings.
I also have read the Harlan Coben series on Myron Bolitar. An ex basketball player that got injured and became a lawyer and a sports agent.A long series that is ingenious and fun. His other books are free standing with characters that are main people in one novel and a bit player in another. Excellent novels with lots of action and plot twists. Nobody comes away clean.
Adlham ( member #53358) posted at 3:29 AM on Monday, August 28th, 2017
Candyman, I LOVE Virgil and Lucas! You should check out the Kidd series by him as well. It's quite good!
I also loved the Myron Bollinger series! Coben has some stand alone books that are pretty good as well.
You might like Lisa Gardner, if you haven't checked her out. She got the FBI profiler series that is really good, another that is based in Boston, the DD Warren series, and another that focuses on a woman named Tessa. Some of her books were really crushing, Love You More and Say Goodbye were really well done and she really captures emotion well.
There is NO need to have that “one last conversation” with a toxic individual in your life.” The closure will come when you look deeper inside yourself. It’s not your job to fix someone when they are unwilling to fix themselves.
PolkadotTulip ( member #50925) posted at 3:22 AM on Tuesday, August 29th, 2017
I just finished the Tracey Crosswhite series, books 1-4, by Robert Dugoni. Excellent mysteries and police procedurals, with humor and quirky, uniquely voiced characters. If you subscribe to Amazon's Kindle Unlimited, all the books are available to check out for free. Book Five will be out this fall.
The first novel My Sister's Grave takes Homicide Detective Tracey Crosswhite to her hometown to try and solve her younger sister's murder after almost twenty years.
DH: 59 Me: 50
'90-94. Orig Wedding set 2-14-95. DDay 11-19-94. WF drunk encounter in a "VIP Room". 48 hrs later I left him & refused further contact.
'95-'07 Married to late DH
'09 Met again & R'd
2-14-10 Married
Jen ( member #26584) posted at 6:52 AM on Wednesday, September 6th, 2017
Right now I'm reading Middletown Apocalypse. 11 different zombie writers got together to do blips to make one novel. It's good but poor Charlie Noble like groundhog day.
Shawn Chesser is my favorite zombie writer he does the series "Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse" I love these books. I'm totally
over the main character Cade Grayson
Me former Booger Bear ...
https://youtu.be/1TcLw3TOIN8
Hand Me Down MatchBox 20
https://youtu.be/iFdOAyyn76M
Love Falls by HellYeah
Lalagirl ( member #14576) posted at 6:43 PM on Tuesday, September 26th, 2017
Reading "Finish" by Jon Acuff. I have always been a starter, not a good finisher. This book provides tips and tricks for people like me who "suffer" from "perfectionism" and how it is our worst enemy in the finishing department.
Me-58 FWH-60 Married 40 years 9/2/2023 grown daughters-40&36.14yo GS,11yo GD & 9yo GD (DD40); 12yo GD & 7yo GD(DD36). D-day #1-1/06; D-day #2-3/07 Reconciled! Construction Complete. Astra inclinant, sed non obligant
somanyyears ( member #26970) posted at 10:45 PM on Friday, September 29th, 2017
.. Clive Cussler ...Lost Empire
smy
trust no other human- love only your pets. Reconciled I think!Me 76 Her 72 Married 51 yrs. 18 yr LTA with bff/lawyer. Little fucker died at 57.Brain tumour!
josiep ( member #58593) posted at 3:29 PM on Sunday, October 1st, 2017
I really like Erik Larson's books. I read "Isaac's Storm" after visiting Galveston many years ago and it left me thinking about it and the people for months afterwards. His other books are good, too, but my 2nd favorite was Devil in the White City.
BW, was 67; now 74; M 45 yrs., T 49 yrs.DDay#1, 1982; DDay#2, May, 2017. D July, 2017
josiep ( member #58593) posted at 3:32 PM on Sunday, October 1st, 2017
For light reading that might have you laughing out loud one minute and being shocked by "violence" (not severe) the next, Carl Hiaasen's books rock.
My favorites are "Skinny Dip" and "Sick Puppy."
BW, was 67; now 74; M 45 yrs., T 49 yrs.DDay#1, 1982; DDay#2, May, 2017. D July, 2017
swizzlestick03 ( member #30102) posted at 8:28 PM on Monday, October 9th, 2017
I love seeing two of my all-time favorite books as other's current/past reads! Summer Sisters by Judy Blume is my absolute favorite book, with We need to talk about Kevin as a close second!
We need to talk about Kevin is such a thought-provoking, chilling read.
I'm in between books right now, though I will be ordering the Diary of Anne Frank for my little one this week. She has to do a project and they assigned her "Who was Anne Frank" and it has scared her (completely understand), so I think if I order the actual diary it may help!
Me: BW-36
Him: WS-35
D-Day #1: 16 August 2010
D-Day #2: 16 January 2011
One smallish kiddo.
DougHE9 ( new member #63103) posted at 2:49 AM on Thursday, April 12th, 2018
I just can’t read fiction. It bores me. I’m currently reading The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis. Same author that wrote Moneyball and The Big Short. If you liked those movies, you will enjoy this book. I doubt they’d ever make this into a movie, but then again I didn’t think Moneyball would ever be made into a movie after I read that.
D-day: July 2012
Me: BS 44 on D-day
WW: 41 on D-day
EA/PA for 12+months with COW
Married for 19 years on D-day, 3 kids
Still working on R
sewardak ( member #50617) posted at 4:18 PM on Thursday, April 12th, 2018
Hawke ( member #47517) posted at 6:40 PM on Thursday, April 12th, 2018
I'm another non-fiction reader, and I gravitate toward audiobooks because I can have them on while commuting, cooking, falling asleep, whatever.
I just finished Red Moon Rising by Matthew Brzezinski. Fantastic recounting of the early days of the space race and how much of it was affected by the internal politics of the USA and USSR and the different levels of bureaucracy and competing military branches.
Me: BS (b. '75)
Him: exWS (b. '76)
D-Day: April 2015
Together 10 years
2 kids: 2011 and 2014
Separated (no divorce required for common law couple in my jurisdiction)
Topic is Sleeping.