Summer Read

My neighbor, Billie, who lives across the hall from me gave me this book a few weeks ago. I was a little bit startled because the book is brand-new Billie had obviously gone to a bookstore somewhere and made the purchase. Accepted the volume but honestly I was obit reserved mainly because I just started another book about the Confederacy and its Navy. The book about the Confederacy is pretty much a documentary and seems like it might be a bit of a challenge to read for a slow reader like myself. The book has lots of small print. I see it as a challenge and kind of fascinated with Confederacy right now because of all the issues from the Civil War that seems to be coming to light with the toppling of Civil War statues.

Again, I was surprised at Billie handed me this book it was science fiction. I love science fiction but I have my favorite authors that so hard to explore new writers for me that very rarely do I go outside my comfort zone and read writers I have no idea who they are. This was the case with John Scalzi. I have never heard of him in the title of the book Old Man's War I took as a direct affront but I couldn't be too offended because this woman is older than me by 10 years at least. So when I finished the one volume I been working on for a couple weeks (not the Civil War one) I picked up theScalzi I was immediately mildly impressed. Not only was this hard science fiction but it was pretty racy imparts with a lot of profanity as well as violence kind of reminded me of Robert Heinlein. When Billie gave me this book she must've sensed my hesitation our disbelief that the volume was coming from her but explained that he had been a title in her book club. I was fascinated. This explanation certainly was plausible. I started the read and soon I was quite captivated.

A couple weeks ago when my staff took off for a holiday vacation with her family and didn't return I was kind of freaked out. So immediately had to train two different home health people. The first one didn't quite work out and is replaced by the one I have now who seems excellent but still is being trained. Because of this break in my care I believe I've developed skin breakdown on my rear end which is depressing to say the least. Because deep down in my mind I know the best remedy is to be off my butt which is almost impossible for me to do. The best I can do or that I'm doing right now is trying to recline my power chair is much like can to get the weight off my buttocks. I'm having to train my staff on the use of the specialized take the values especially for would care. I call it the second skin or in many cases the first skin and seems to done a great job for me over the years. My current person has had difficult time but I think were close to coming to some understanding. We'll see tomorrow. Trying to find the silver lining to this challenge has been the book. I try to read every night before I fall asleep. I've been reading this book. Plus I've taken outside a couple of days to read out on the back porch. Today I finished the volume and was pleased with the read so much so they went immediate to the Internet purchase the next volume in this series. I was surprised by how difficult was to find a hard copy of the book. Easy to find something electronic as in a talking book or an e-book of some sort. I cannot read online I have found in the e-books just frustrate me on a number of levels. So by August 3 I should have my next volume Ghost Brigades I'm so excited!now I just have to figure out did Billie give me the book to keep or did she want me to just read the book so that we have something to discuss things are never easy…