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Good on you for taking care of them. "So shines a good deed in a weary world." ~ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Selina wrote: "Koren are we allowed to start new topics as I tried to start one but it didn't show up.I just want to ask the group where they buy their books from. It seems Goodreads have changed their online s..."
They have? When I look it still says Amazon. I wonder if they bought Kobo, etc?
Fishface wrote: "Selina wrote: "Koren are we allowed to start new topics as I tried to start one but it didn't show up.I just want to ask the group where they buy their books from. It seems Goodreads have changed..."
I just checked and can't find that they did--according to Wikipedia (so not sure if it's totally accurate) they are a Canadian company (???) that is now a subsidiary of a Japanese one, Rakuten and it's called Rakuten kobo. Some places have contracted to sell Kobo books, such as Walmart in 2018.
It has been 40 years since the TV Series Mash ended. I can't believe it has been that long since the series was on!https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/mas...
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Wow! I can't either! The night of the finale I was on a bowling league and we were all big MASH fans so the next day we all got together at one of the bowling girls' house and watched it together. I think she was the only one of us that had a VCR!
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There is a column in our local paper that is called '25 years ago this week' and '50 years ago this week'. It dawned on me the other day that in 2 years the 25 years ago column is going to be the year 2000.
Koren wrote: "Karin wrote: "40 years since Mash ended already???"There is a column in our local paper that is called '25 years ago this week' and '50 years ago this week'. It dawned on me the other day that in..."
Wow, you're right! We used to have columns like that, but we stopped subscribing to our print paper due to poor editing, etc, and now I wouldn't because it's owned by a national corporation and they don't even have a local office anymore. We finally stopped advertising in it last year but it was horrible since the company that bought it out before had been bought out and it was nearly impossible to get someone who could cancel it.
Okay, rather off topic!
My youngest was born in 2000, and I am not ready to think of him being 25 yet :)
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There is a column in our local paper that is called '25 years ago this week' and '50 years ago this week'. It dawned on me the oth..."
It doesn't seem possible that it has been 23 years since we all thought the world was going to end when the calendar turned to the year 2000. Or that this year will mark 22 years since the Twin Towers were attacked.
The discussion as to whether one should separate the artist from the art has been going on for a long time now. (For example, should one stop watching Woody Allen's films on account of his personal behavior?) I recently watched a video lecture on the topic which prompted me to write about it.https://mypointbeing.com/2023/03/14/s...
Koren wrote: "Karin wrote: "Koren wrote: "Karin wrote: "40 years since Mash ended already???"There is a column in our local paper that is called '25 years ago this week' and '50 years ago this week'. It dawned..."
My youngest was born in 2000 so it's easier for me to never forget how long ago those two events were since I was pregnant for the Y2K switch and still living in that apartment for the other one and moved before my son was 2. Not that it's easy to realize my baby is going to be 23, but I'm very aware of it, if that makes sense outside of my head.
Until we bought a house it was quite easy for me to date things because of either being in schools or moving so very many times. The place we rented just before buying this was the first home I'd ever lived in for five years all in a row (there was another 5 year house, but we took 2 years for a "sabbatical" for my dad.)
That said, it still amazes me how long ago some of that stuff happened and how old-school things were then since things have changed so very quickly.
Karin wrote: "40 years since Mash ended already???"Which means it's over 50 years since it first aired!
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Koren wrote: "I just found out March is national Memoir month. Hope you all read some interesting memoirs in March. I read 3."Bios and memoirs are my favorite books to read. I am reading Paul Newman's autobiography and am enjoying it!
Actor Chris Hemsworth is curtailing his movie career because of being tested for Alzheimer's that shows he has a higher risk of getting it!https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medi...
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I am not sure I would want to know. Maybe, so I could start on medication earlier. I don't know. Every time I forgot something I would wonder if I was getting it. Actually, I already wonder about that! LOL!
Koen wrote: "I am not sure I would want to know. Maybe, so I could start on medication earlier. I don't know. Every time I forgot something I would wonder if I was getting it."The fact that you are wondering if you are getting it means that it is highly unlikely that you are getting it. An NPR story once used this example: Forgetting where you left your keys does not mean you are getting Alzheimer's. Wondering what your keys are for would be cause for concern.
(I'm not a doctor and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.)
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I tell my kids that all the time. If they comment on my forgetting something I tell them it is probably time for me to move in with them and then they tell me I'm fine!!
Mike wrote: "Koen wrote: "I am not sure I would want to know. Maybe, so I could start on medication earlier. I don't know. Every time I forgot something I would wonder if I was getting it."The fact that you a..."
Actually, wondering if you are getting Alzheimer's means it's less likely that you have it, but has nothing do do with your risk. I don't want to be tested, plus dementia--the result of it--has more than one cause. My mother has it and her mother had it (but her mother's was apparently stroke-induced dementia and no biopsy has been done to see the cause of my mothers--it doesn't matter since the prognosis and treatment would be the same at the point she got a diagnosis.)
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When I worked at the nursing home, if someone suddenly developed dementia symptoms we would first suspect an infection, usually urinary tract. An antibiotic would get them back to normal in a few days.
Koren wrote: "Karin wrote: "Mike wrote: "Koen wrote: "I am not sure I would want to know. Maybe, so I could start on medication earlier. I don't know. Every time I forgot something I would wonder if I was gettin..."That makes a lot of sense; I've heard about that happening, but hadn't realized how common it was.
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Perfect! I'm going to the library in a little while.
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Koren wrote: "Chatting with a patient the other day, she said she buys books but can't be bothered with finding someplace for them to go when she is done with them so she just throws them in the trash. Because s..."What. Salvation Army, Op Shop, Goodwill, Free Little Libraries...?
Otherwise just borrow from the library.
If she was talking about newspapers, ok, but they can be recycled. Rip the covers off and recycle the paper. If she has a recycle collection do that.
Sacrilege! But then what kinds of books does she read. If its erotic fiction or sci fi or horror or pulp fiction then yea...that wouldn't bother me.
Koren wrote: "Chatting with a patient the other day, she said she buys books but can't be bothered with finding someplace for them to go when she is done with them so she just throws them in the trash. Because s..."Wow. I'm flabbergasted.
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I didn't ask her what kind of books they were. I assumed they must be cheap ones. If I see her again I'll have to ask.
The Newberry Library in Chicago is having an exhibit of Pop Up Bookshttps://www.newberry.org/calendar/pop...
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Interesting!
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Paperbackswap is back up and running!
It's been so quiet here--I hope everyone is okay :)
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I have been outdoors as much as possible. Our summer in Minnesota has been wonderful so far. Mid to upper 70's for the last two weeks. Enjoying my favorite pastime...sitting in my lawn chair with a book and a glass of lemonade and a cat on my lap!
Koren wrote: "Karin wrote: "It's been so quiet here--I hope everyone is okay :)"I have been outdoors as much as possible. Our summer in Minnesota has been wonderful so far. Mid to upper 70's for the last two w..."
Wow, you've had fabulous weather, and I'm guessing not too much smoke in the air. We've been having muggy hot weather, so I prefer the A/C, plus we've had smoke here, and we have enough filters that our house is relatively allergy friendly. Not perfect, but low in pollen, mould spores and smoke.
After doing Bookathon I've sort of ran out of books. I had an eye test and my eyes still healthy! I still wear glasses though as am short sighted.
Selina wrote: "After doing Bookathon I've sort of ran out of books. I had an eye test and my eyes still healthy! I still wear glasses though as am short sighted."We call that near-sighted in Canada and the States, because over here short sighted has a different meaning :) My son had this when he was little but over time it's been correcting itself, but he still wears glasses because he also has an astigmatism. He hasn't made it to 20/20 but if he does then he'll gradually become far-sighted with age.
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I have been outdoors as much as possible. Our summer in Minnesota has been wonderful so far. Mid to upper 70's for ..."
We have had some smoke from the Canadian fires but it don't seem to bother me as much as others. Back to reality next week...mid to upper 90's.
Karin wrote: "Selina wrote: "After doing Bookathon I've sort of ran out of books. I had an eye test and my eyes still healthy! I still wear glasses though as am short sighted."We call that near-sighted in Cana..."
I am hoping my eyes will correct themselves as I grow older I wish I knew what causes it ...apparently the eyeballs grew too much. I don't want it to be from reading too many books while I was young as then that would be the case off too many books are bad for you..! I know some things can damage children's eyes and you can't unsee after that. But I wouldn't have known what I may have been exposed to when I was young I was sort of in my own little world.
Reading at a young age in and of itself is not harmful for children's eyes, but too much near work does, so too much reading could. Eyes are still developing so they need plenty of time to be looking at mid and far distance things as well. As long as kids get enough time outdoors and doing other things they are fine. I used to limit my daughters to one chapter book in a day when they were young, but only one of mine learned to read before six. While there is at least one person in my extended family who learned to read at three (while his mother was helping his dyslexic older brother learn to read), by and large our family tends to learn to read at about age 6 and then take off like rockets if they like books. I'm not sure how much of this is lack of near vision, how much is that our parents didn't run their fingers underneath the words and how much of it is due to other things.
I thought tv would do more damage than books
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If reading was harmful to eyes then I would be blind (although I do wear glasses as I am nearsighted, nearsightedness seems to be hereditary in my family).
Reading in and of itself is not harmful to the eyes.Sight is very complex. The human brain wires for sight as babies and young children as they use their eyes and bodies, and even then infants. For one example, babies are not born with binocular vision. This is why surgery can be done on a child born blind, but if it's not done early enough their brains cannot process what their eyes see. Learning to do this is developmentally age-related and ideally starts at birth.
Young children who do too much near work no matter what it is and don't get enough time outdoors or in places where their eyes use their distant vision are more likely to become myopic. No one is born with vision as we know it, and it develops over a number of years. My son had vision problems we didn't know about until he was 3 and in the end only got binocular vision at 6 or 7 when I took him for Vision Therapy. They used to cover the eyes of premature babies because they were thought to not be ready, but it led to blindness. Now premies are at a higher risk for blindness, especially if born before 30 weeks, but this was more.
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Sight is very complex. The human brain wires for sight as babies and young children as they use their eyes and bodies, and even then infants. F..."
Interesting!
Apparently too much oxygen for preemies caused blindness I find out this from a paedeatrics memoir. They've stopped giving too much oxygen in incubators now
Selina wrote: "Apparently too much oxygen for preemies caused blindness I find out this from a paedeatrics memoir. They've stopped giving too much oxygen in incubators now"Interesting, so there was more than one problem leading to blindness with premies. Our bodies are complex to say the least.
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Koren wrote: "Looks like the problem with GR saying I have hundreds of unread posts is fixed!"Nope. I'm seeing "201 new" under Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir read in 2023.
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