Carl Sagan, a popular science writer, wrote in Broca's Brain "One should only read great books". He wasn't being a prig. He reasoned that regardless what one said about how many books they read, to read one book a week the whole of one's reading life could at best be 3000 books. After concluding there are millions of books one could read, he decided one should only read great books.
That always sounded reasonable to me. Yet, I often don't want to be reasonable.
At present, for example, I want to be homesick for mom and dad and days gone by. So, I'm reading in print the book "Three Wild Dogs" by Markus Zusak. It's meeting my need to look back, while grounding me in my connection to my oldest dog Bosco, that I thought I would lose last summer. It is not a great book like Brothers Karamosov. But it is a great read for the middle of winter, to an old widower missing almost everything.
Conversely, I have been an Audible subscriber for years. I have hundreds of titles on different devices that now do nothing but play audio books. It is probably not an exaggeration to say I have bought "Waterloo" and "Two Years Before The Mast" at least 5 times each.
I still remember the very first audio book I bought in cassette form in a truckstop back in the early 1990's, "A World Lit Only By Fire". I might have bought that 5 times as well (cassettes didn't last long at all).
The point is, I have 3 credits with Audible and I just bought and downloaded a book by the Author you recommended. She has written and published many books, but I had not heard of her. I chose "The Giver Of Stars" because of my mood and the narrator. She reads well, and I have done to much health care.
Thanks for this author and book suggestion.
Carl Sagan, a popular science writer, wrote in Broca's Brain "One should only read great books". He wasn't being a prig. He reasoned that regardless what one said about how many books they read, to read one book a week the whole of one's reading life could at best be 3000 books. After concluding there are millions of books one could read, he decided one should only read great books.
That always sounded reasonable to me. Yet, I often don't want to be reasonable.
At present, for example, I want to be homesick for mom and dad and days gone by. So, I'm reading in print the book "Three Wild Dogs" by Markus Zusak. It's meeting my need to look back, while grounding me in my connection to my oldest dog Bosco, that I thought I would lose last summer. It is not a great book like Brothers Karamosov. But it is a great read for the middle of winter, to an old widower missing almost everything.
Conversely, I have been an Audible subscriber for years. I have hundreds of titles on different devices that now do nothing but play audio books. It is probably not an exaggeration to say I have bought "Waterloo" and "Two Years Before The Mast" at least 5 times each.
I still remember the very first audio book I bought in cassette form in a truckstop back in the early 1990's, "A World Lit Only By Fire". I might have bought that 5 times as well (cassettes didn't last long at all).
The point is, I have 3 credits with Audible and I just bought and downloaded a book by the Author you recommended. She has written and published many books, but I had not heard of her. I chose "The Giver Of Stars" because of my mood and the narrator. She reads well, and I have done to much health care.
So, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.