OT April Chit Chat

[SuzE-Q]

It's visible, agate.

[Lazarus]

Linda, I read the book Z and enjoyed it.

Me too! I did recently discover that there is something else I get with Amazon a prime which is called Audible Books?. I signed up for it but that is as far as I got. I can listen to free audible books on my iPad...and there are others I can buy.
Again, like with movies and tv programs, there is so much available for free that it is great.

I always read hard copies of books but it is nice to know I have a fall back choice.

[Sunshine]

Love CR. Used it to buy my car and recently to buy my mattress. Amazing. Mattress company sucks all the air out if it, puts it in a small box. You open the box and the shrink wrap bag and it instantly sucks air back in and becomes mattress. Best mattress I have ever had. It's made by Caspar.

Laz, I ordered Lab Girl by Hope Jahren. I think it might be about botany? Am starting to garden in containers. Beginning small with herbs and marigolds.

[Lazarus]

Love CR. Used it to buy my car and recently to buy my mattress. Amazing. Mattress company sucks all the air out if it, puts it in a small box. You open the box and the shrink wrap bag and it instantly sucks air back in and becomes mattress. Best mattress I have ever had. It's made by Caspar.

Laz, I ordered Lab Girl by Hope Jahren. I think it might be about botany? Am starting to garden in containers. Beginning small with herbs and marigolds.

John planted sugar snap peas yesterday. (Very late for planting due to weather but....here's hoping!) it is a success for him just to have planted them. And now it is raining so the gods are watering them for us!

[Howie]

Good morning all!

[Cat Dancer]

I never could get into audio books. Just can't sit there and listen. They are great for those who like them; all kinds of books are available that way at Amazon. Just not for me. I'm sure that if my sight goes (I do have glaucoma...mild right now, but..) I'll appreciate them.

[agate]

I'd have trouble just sitting there and listening. Mostly I lie there and listen--at times when I need to rest but not sleep--or I sit there and listen while doing something else I don't need to concentrate much on, like winding a ball of yarn or peeling potatoes or whatever. The player goes with me. It is fairly lightweight and has a retractable handle and a retractable cord and runs on batteries as well as being a plug-in device.

Every week I set up pills for the week. I sit at a table with the pill stuff in front of me and of course the book player.

My reading is done more or less in a catch-as-catch-can way but that's OK. If I lose my place I can find it easily enough by rewinding.

A scholarly book is a bit trickier because the footnotes aren't always read as they occur. They're sometimes at the end of the book or chapter, and you have to keep moving back and forth from footnote to text, or skip the footnotes until later. But most things I read aren't so scholarly.

The narrators do such a good job, and I've got to know their names and voices. Mitzi Friedlander has been a favorite for years.

Lately the library as started using commercial audio books, and some of the periodicals come from Audible Book.

The commercial ones sometimes have background music, and I could do without it.

[Howie]

I used to listen to some of the old time radio shows from back before TV. "Only the Shadow knows". It was like TV, but required you to use your imagination. It probably was better for your brain and imagination than TV will ever be.

[stillstANNding]

My dad didn't tell many stories but I remember the one about listening to The Shadow with his mother.

While my grandfather worked 2 nd shift (detective, Union & Pacific RR), my grandmother and my dad would sit in the dark listening to the radio. One night, my grandfather snuck in the kitchen door and dipped his hands into the cold dish water and then around my dad's neck!

ANN

[stillstANNding]

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[Lazarus]

I never could get into audio books. Just can't sit there and listen. They are great for those who like them; all kinds of books are available that way at Amazon. Just not for me. I'm sure that if my sight goes (I do have glaucoma...mild right now, but..) I'll appreciate them.

Hello Cat,
That is exactly what I feel. Someone reading the book to me is interpreting the book with his/her voice and I never like it. But, today I listened to Seamus Heaney reading "Beowulf". I wanted to read that years ago. I used to teach it so it was fun.
And I found some British radio shows from previous years. There are lots of specialty books. I have not yet found which ones are free.

[Catdancer]

Hello Cat,
That is exactly what I feel. Someone reading the book to me is interpreting the book with his/her voice and I never like it. But, today I listened to Seamus Heaney reading "Beowulf". I wanted to read that years ago. I used to teach it so it was fun.
And I found some British radio shows from previous years. There are lots of specialty books. I have not yet found which ones are free.

Linda, go to the Amazon storefront. Search for "audible books for prime", and they should appear.

[Sunshine]

Interesting study on umbiiical cord stem cells injected into kids with autism. Seems to work. It Tamps down inflammation in the brain. Now where have we heard the whole idea of brain inflammation? Oh yes! It's part of multiple sclerosis.

[Virginia]

Ann, I have finished "The Light Between Oceans". I really enjoyed it. However it was sad and I will admit that I cried at the end.

Hope all of you are doing well today.

[Virginia]

We are expecting very bad storms here overnight with winds of 30 to 50 miles per hour, large hail and a lot of rain. Then tomorrow the winds are supposed to be 25 to 30 mph sustained. I need to go out and since there could be gust up to 40 mph I dread it. This is to last all day. Hope we do not loose power.