Hello to All!

I hope this post finds You doing Super Well.

Here, not so much.

While I am feeling somewhat better than when I woke on Saturday, my annual October cold continues in full swing!

It is my belief that there’s no better medicine for a nasty cold than a comfortable place in the sun and a good book, and it just so happens that I have both.

Over the last week, I’ve been doing a lot of reading. Last evening, I began reading, “The Diary of the Whitehouse by Lady Bird Johnson, and never have I read such a delightful book. I’m reading the Library for the Blind and Print Disabled version and they couldn’t have picked a better reader for this book had they tried. She reads so splendidly each nuance of expression. Why it is as if Lady Bird herself is here in the room with me telling the story. I could hardly sleep last night for wanting to read just one more line.

I found myself waking in the night, propping up in bed, turning on the book and reading until my head fairly fell off my shoulders for its nodding so enjoyable is this book. I believe I’m going to suggest it to the book club moderator when I go to the Worlds of Books meeting on Tuesday.

Speaking of Worlds of Books, the book I’ve just finished for that meeting though good, is no comparison to the book I’m reading now.

It was “Dead Wake the Last Crossing of the Lusitania”. Honestly, had I not needed to read it for the club, I doubt I would’ve ever chosen it. I found it to be a bit long and draggy in spots. At times I felt the author dumped in just a bit too much information but overall it was worth the read, if for no other reason than the wonderful phrases of description and bits of history I picked up along the way.

I did learn some things about President Wilson I didn’t appreciate. For one thing while I know our Presidents are only human, it seemed to me that there were times when he allowed his emotional state concerning his love life to stand in the way of his duty to country and the consistent loss of life caused by the blood thirsty German submarine captains and the war happening in Europe.

Also, while I know war isn’t something one must enter into in haste, it appeared that it took far too long for America to get up off its hind end and do something about the horrendous happenings abroad.

Anyway, if I must be sick with a cold the book I’m reading now will most assuredly help me pass the time while I rest and recover.

However, I must extricate myself from its wonderous pages at some point today and find the energy with which to finish work on The Writer’s Grapevine else it will never make it out before the end of this month.

Ah well, as they say, no rest for the wicked.

For now, I’ve exhausted my reserve with all this writing and so I’m going to leave it and go get some breakfast whilst sneaking in a chapter or two more.

Before I go, I wonder, what are you reading?

Have you read either of the books referenced here? If so, would you like to share your thoughts?

If not, I hope you’ll reply and let me know what your reading these days.

Just in case anyone reading would like to attend the Worlds of Books meeting happening this Tuesday October 20, 2020, here’s the info below.

Until next time, this is Patty who is glad for a warm blanket and large patch of sun saying…

Happy Reading.

May Harmony find You, and Blessid Be.

*Note*

There are various ways to attend this meeting, so please be sure to read all the information provided.

Newswire: Worlds of Books meets 10/20/20 at 9pm Eastern to discuss Dead wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania DB80936 by Erik Larson

Major sections of this newswire are at heading level 1. Contact information is at heading level 2.

Newswire:

Topic: Worlds of Books discussion group

Time: Meets the third Tuesday of each month at 9pm Eastern.

Worlds of Books will meet at 9pm Eastern on 10/20/20 to discuss Dead wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania DB80936 by Erik Larson. The NLS annotation follows:

Dead wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania DB80936

Larson, Erik. Reading time: 13 hours, 6 minutes.

Read by Scott Brick. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

War and the Military

World History and Affairs

In 1915 the Lusitania, a luxury ocean liner, left New York for Liverpool. The captain assumed that the Germans would follow gentlemanly strictures of warfare, keeping civilian ships safe from attack. Larson recounts what happened when Germany violated that code and that choice’s wider repercussions. Violence. Commercial audiobook. 2015.

You can find this book on Bookshare at the following website:

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