Posted on 12/06/2016 6:28:58 PM PST by Veggie Todd
After surgery, I'll be in the hospital for about five days. Not sure how much lucid time I'll have, but I want to take a good book. I like Nonfiction, History, Autobiographies, and of course, America.
Galileos Daughter...amazing...
Hospitals are horrible places for sick people to be in!
Sometimes there’s no choice; but best to get out as soon as you can.
Unbroken is great. I’d almost forgotten about it.
I recently started a non fiction book called
DREAMLAND The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic
By Sam Quinones.
Short chapters that weave in and out of facts and personal stories. Easy to pick up and put down, which might be helpful in your situation. Really interesting.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
The Amazon Prime account allows me other options but one is that I get to read 1 free book every month. (I am compelled to disregard the politics of Management there.)
Aside from politics I enjoyed a book called ‘split second’ a few weeks ago.
Kept me riveted for three days.
Atlas Shrugged? Good God, he said 5 days.
Did you mean Stuart Woods?
It’s older now, but Galileo’s Daughter is a great book.
Your list of qualifications describes Mark Twains
“The Innocents Abroad “ perfectly....
Ghost Soldiers, this is the story of the rescue of the survivors of Baatan...absolutely amazing!
Down the Great Unknown, this is the story of Capt. John Wesley Powell’s expedition by boat through the Grand Canyon in 1869...another amazing story!
Best of luck to you!
He doesn’t have the benefit of a public school education?
Sad...
About forty years ago I had a problem dealing with insomnia.
I decided to read and not worry about it. Sometimes I read for 20 minutes and then went to sleep, sometimes for three hours. I picked up an annotated Jerusalem Bible printed in the non-column format. I started out and treated it as a book I had never read because the translation was so new to me it read that way.
A great way to renew my knowledge, comfort and understanding. If I was tied in knots by an Old Testament book, I jumped to the Gospels and then went back. I marked pages and I still have this old copy much thumbed.
Have you read the diaries of Lewis and Clark?
I read once that Lewis shot Clark by accident. Surface wound. Did you read anything about that?
Love Pendergast
Love Pendergast.
Love Pendergast.
I guess I really do.. Sorry for the triple post.
;)
Best of luck on your surgery and recovery. Prayers.
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