Here are my interests but feel free to add any that you feel are really good but not within the interest areas:
Fiction and non-fiction with these themes-

philosophy
science
social science, history, social justice
medical stuff, detective/mystery
nature, animals, planet
religion (I am a spiritual person and consider myself a christian. I have read the Bible and want to start it again....)
I also like reading about some buddhist principles/philosophies

Thanks for your recommendations.

seriously, i ALWAYS recommend 'relationship rescue' by Dr Phil. whether you are in a "RELATIONSHIP" relationship or not...

also 'the 7 habits of highly effective people', a very good read.

spiritual reading, if you'd ever find it i don't know, but one VERY humbling and very inspiring is 'Eucharistic Whisperings'.

and... ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING by Euell Gibbons

or Dr Bernard Shaw, on healing. i especially like his iridology book.
 

Thanks for the book pics...all new titles so i will have fun looking at them

I was gonna chime in to your asparagus insomniac discussion but i was shy about saying I'm here late at night....well here its not that late yet...

are you getting good baby asparagus out there in your garden?...I used to eat it right out of the garden....

I also think that board games are great. Also, card games.

Also, learning a skill--such as how to work an abacus. Or teaching yourself a language (bookstores today have a whole section).
 

so, you have long blonde braids tha curl up on the ends? i used to love those books

we've been eating fresh asparagus for a couple or 3 weeks. slow start because it got and stayed real cold, but ok now i think. i got enough 2 days ago to put 8 pint bags in the freezer. have to ck the patch again today, yeh it is YUMMY raw, and IMO better for you that way. it is also delicious pickled but i have never done that, just tasted it!

well, you are asking about books so i will recommed a great book-finding site. you can find anything there, and they have used books, rare books, new books, etc. movies, music cds and magazines too. i think there are 40 stores they search...

addall.com

 

So I started out simple. I did crossword puzzles. It was tiring but it helped me to sharpen what was left upstairs! Then I went to children's books! I started re reading Nancy Drew or any chapter book with simple plot lines. Then I 'graduated' to trashy novels - the kind of thing where boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy loses girl, then they reunite. Pretty basic, few characters!

My interest in reading is still waxing and waning, but I keep a book or two on hand where the plot isn't too complex. I also reread some books - after a passage of time, they seem like a totally new book to me!!!! Right now for me it's really more about practicing the skill.
cootiegirl
 

I had a spell of brain fog before starting treatment that prevented me from being able to comprehend any written material. So, now, on top of being a reader anyway, this keeps me goosed so I always have a half dozen library books and skip around. Go look at the new books section of your local library, bet you find something there. Or just browse the stacks. Good way to find books on subjects you would not have thought of on your own.

This is a beautiful book, it's not what you think from the title. Slowly it has restored my faith in Jesus, and I am trying to be my "brother's keeper."

Corinne
 

my mother sent me some mystery books that I would never have touched before lyme...they actually were fun...cootie, got any titles for really cheesy ones that don't require more than 2 brain cells? I am with you on the short-term memory stuff. Ahhh the Nancy Drew mysteries....classic! It almost feels naughty to read some of these books That's part of the fun

Some days I feel cognitively back to normal and ready for some fairly dense reading but its unpredictable.

That's a great idea about the CBC program! There are lots of programs that NPR and CBC put out that are free to listen to and there are also titles on audible.com that are free.
I download these when we go on long car trips.
A fantastic show is called, "This American Life" out of Chicago.
I don't get the CBC where I live now...I miss it.
 

You can get CBC radio on your computer, you need RealTime Player, and another program (you only need one). If you download them, then can listen to CBC radio. It is explained on the CBC radio site.

When I have more time, will post more. I also listened to NPR today, lots to go over.

I found out last week when went to see eye specialist, I have a secondary cataract on capsule (below lens, more precisely what the lens sits in). When they take out cataract, they try to get all the debris (cataract is made up of cells) out, b/c if any of it is left behind, then cells start to grow again and that is what has happened to me.

Assistant called it a piece of fluff, I asked for medical terminology and went home and did research. Anyway this fluff is not in the direct line of vision, but b/c pupil is wide open it makes everything I look at distorted/blurred, especially at night with bright lights. I am managing and learning to adjust.

This new cataract can be blasted out with a new kind of laser, but just not yet, b/c have to wait until new cataract and old operation (last summer) is stable. So I still can't see clearly, perhaps that will never change, but I can still see and that is all that matters. They won't take cataract in left eye out until it gets really really bad. Heck, I can stay cockeyed for a little while longer. Have to live up to my reputation.

Corinne
 

I am sending you prayers and healing for your poor eyes...

 

Yes, eye problems due to lyme and negligence/incompetence caused by stupid stupid egotistic doctors. That's another story.

That is why I harp on about don't let eye problems go. Actually, it was TinCup who saved my eyesight, God bless her. I read something that was so similar to what I was going through and next day woke up with all hell breaking lose, and b/c of what she wrote off to hospital I went.

If search was working you could go back and read TinCup's and my posts about eye problems. It is far more serious that you can imagine, and nobody has an idea of what it is like until it happens, you just have no idea. Let's see - can't see too well, can't hear too well, can't smell yet (prednisolone), can't taste (tongue is always sore), and can't touch too well (fingers numb).

Is lyme a crappy disease, again unless someone has it, nobody else can imagine what it is like, a disease from outer space.

I am off to bed, it's very late and I have to work tomorrow and catch a bus in evening. Everybody have a lovely weekend.

Corinne
 

One book I love to look at every once in awhile is 'The Notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci' edited by Edward MacCurdy. It is 1180 pages of absolute genuis.

Jan Karon also has a series that is very easy reading and I found my Lyme brain could handle that.This is funny,entertaining and each book builds upon the rest.