Reading – Part 1

I have found that as my hands lose function I’m spending more time reading. I can no longer operate the TV control very well. I can operate TiVo from my iPhone or iPad but as far as turning the TV up or down in volume I still need to use the remote. I’m glad for the TiVo app on my iPhone and iPad. The PC app has never worked. I tried emailing the company and never got an answer. So as a result of the more difficult operation of the TV I have gone to reading more.

I joined a website called Book Bub last year. They have books that range from a dollar to $4 at the most. This is been very good because I don’t feel bad about getting a $2 block and never finish it because it’s not what I wanted. I found some very interesting books. Some are a little tedious but fill the time. Most are pretty good and worth reading.

The titles of some good ones have been “the Last Moriarty”. Of course it was written by Doyle but a newer author that tried to copy his style. It was pretty good. I read another one called the “Island”. It was about an island off of Crete that was home to lepers. It was a fiction based on truth and was quite interesting. It spanned 3 generations of a family that had 2 different generations of women who came down with leprosy. I’m sure I never would’ve read it if I hadn’t founded on book Bub. I read one called the “Resurrectionist”. It was centered in a pre-Civil War South Carolina medical College. It was very difficult to read. The subject was about a slave that was purchased by the school and his efforts to secure cadavers for study. I didn’t really enjoy it.

I like science fiction books but in finding there are very few authors that I enjoy. Most of the science-fiction books on Book Bub have not been very good. There been more than a few that I couldn’t finish. One nice thing about this website is that you order them on Amazon as Kindle books a few are available on iBooks. On my PC I can only read Kindle books that is what I mostly order.

Right now I am reading a book called “Return to Treasure Island” it supposes the children of Long John Silver and another character in the original treasure Island set out on the return trip to the island. They are looking for the remainder of the silver that was left behind. What they find is a group of sailors and slaves that occupy the island along with the 3 Englishmen were left behind. These people came from another shipwreck that our main characters did not know about. They are now attempting to free the slaves and still find the silver. It’s really quite a good book. I am really glad for Book Bub.