January 2021 reading

 What are you reading/listening to right now?

When I first started to listen to audiobooks I wasn't a huge fan because I like to sticky note pages and highlight passages. With an audiobook, you can't do that.

The thing you can do with an audiobook is to listen while you are doing everything else! This is by far the best invention ever because there isn't often that I get to sit and read unless I am in a waiting room or in the car.

I use the app Audible. I pay about 13.00 a month and get a credit per month. There are also times they release free books that don't cost you any credits at all. I don't normally listen to 1 audiobook a month so they pile up and then I get a notification that I need to use a credit before it expires then I pick one of the books to want to read later on.

I do have a million hard copy books that I need to read and there a few audiobooks I will be getting the hard copy of so I can highlight and sticky note the crap out of them.

I listen/read a variety of books from physiology to fantasy.

Right now my car book which I take into waiting rooms with me is called Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for children with sensory processing disorder. It is a great book!

Last week I finished the audiobook titled unconditional parenting by Alfie Kohn. He is one of my favourite authors and he even reads his own book for audible.

I have two audiobooks on the go, one that I am listening to with Connely and it is titled I hate you - Don't leave me by Jerold Kresiman it is very insightful.

The second book that I am listening to is titled Loving an Addict, Loving yourself. It is by Candace Plattor.

I mainly read books where I can learn something. Yes, there isn't much in my life I don't do that doesn't have a "purpose" including my reading for "pleasure". I do enjoy the odd fantasy book but the author has to be pretty amazing to draw me in.

What are you reading?

Reading has always been a passion of mine, listening to audio books isn't the same and I don't retrain much of the information because it allows me to do other things while I listen so its just background noise.

I have at least 20 audiobooks in my app audiobook on my phone. I listen to it on when I am driving alone (which isn't often) and that is about the only time I actually retain any of the information I am taking in, which for me is important. I am reading to learn 90% and 10% of the time its a Jennifer Fallon book and I want to retrain that information for when I read the next book in her series.

Right now for instance I have an audio book playing in my ears while writing this in our local coffeeculture and I have 100% no idea what he is talking about other than self esteem because he has said it a million times and his tone changes when he says the word.

I used to be able to finish a book in a couple of days, and move on to the next one no issues. Since hitting my head this time and causing yet another brain injury I can barely pick up a book or find the focus to sit and read it. Today I started to read the book “The out-of-sync child has fun” this is a book I got a few months a go and wanted to read it right away to have activities to do with Blaine that would fill his buckets without driving me crazy this winter, while “winter” is here and I have just started it. I got a few pages read this time but that is the most I have read in months from a book.

My book list is still a mile long with books I want to read, need to read and should read. I am hoping after a little bit more recovery time I can get back to reading and learning new things (and hopefully retraining them).

This is my current started to read but haven't finished book list!

Girl Wash Your Face, I actually just started this one and read half the book in one sitting. It is an awesome book.

The Out-of-sync Child has fun, I am about 10 pages in on it and just can't focus on reading it.

The Myth of the spoiled child its an audiobook I have been working on forever.

What does your book list look like?

Currently Reading July 2017

Reading is something I don't get to do as much as I would like to. I try to at least get 20 minutes in a day but some days with the dogs, Blaine, the business, the house, the yard and life I just don't seem to have the time. I always have more then one books on the go at the same time. Normally there is one downstairs, upstairs, in the SUV, in the truck, in my beach/park bag and an audio-book on my phone.

The books I am reading right now are:

One solider by Dillon Hiller
      It is about a Canadian Soldier who joins in the fight against ISIS by volunteering to help right at the front lines with the Kurdish army. Its a good book, so far.

Women who Love too Much by Robin Norwood
         This book is amazing and one I will read over and over again as soon as I finish it. I will write more later on about this book and how it has helped me

Wizard Squared Rouge Agent #3 by K.E. Mills
       At a crucial moment in time, their Gerald turned left ... but the alternate reality Gerald turned right.  I am enjoying this one but I think I liked the first one the best.

A stolen life: A memoir by Jaycee Dugard
     It is the book written by the young girl who was kidnapped for about 18 years. This book is hard for me to read, it creates anxiety in me about Blaine that I would normally not have.

The book of dreams  by O.R Melling
      Well I like this book I couldn't figure out why there was back story I was just not understanding. Turns out in my search for the author while writing this blog post, the book I have is the 4th book in the series. Guess I have to go out and get the first book.

I am short one book right now because I just finished call of the wild by Cheryl Strayed


What are you reading right now? Do you recommend a book I should read?