When I was nine and finally was moved from the ICU to the critical care unit a wonderful nurse brought me a cassette player that was made for people who are blind and the cassette book of Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The gift this nurse gave me was access to the printed word. It was the first of many gifts that forever changed my world for the better.
Currently, I "read/listen" to over 100 books every year. I download most of my books through the Colorado Talking Book Library.
My reading list is a bit eclectic. I use reading as a way to escape, relax, and to be entertained.
Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan
Evans, Max. Reading time: 10 hours, 50 minutes.
Read by Danielle Marceau. A production of New Mexico Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, New Mexico State Library.
Colorful--and we do mean colorful biography of one of New Mexico's real characters. Harvey Girl turned hooker turned madam, Mildred Clark Cusey came to Deming, N.M. as a result of trying to help cure her older sister of tuberculosis. An astute business woman she became rich and famous using her physical charms. Sexually explicit and strong language. Some explicit descriptions of sex.
Read by Danielle Marceau. A production of New Mexico Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, New Mexico State Library.
Colorful--and we do mean colorful biography of one of New Mexico's real characters. Harvey Girl turned hooker turned madam, Mildred Clark Cusey came to Deming, N.M. as a result of trying to help cure her older sister of tuberculosis. An astute business woman she became rich and famous using her physical charms. Sexually explicit and strong language. Some explicit descriptions of sex.
Nine perfect strangers
Moriarty, Liane. Reading time: 19 hours, 2 minutes.Nine people gather at a remote health resort called Tranquillum House, each for their own reasons. Among them is Frances, a romance novelist who is intrigued by both her fellow guests and the charismatic owner, while fighting the feeling she should run while she still can. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018.
Long road to Mercy
Baldacci, David. Reading time: 11 hours, 11 minutes.Three decades after a kidnapper took her twin six-year-old sister, Atlee Pine works for the FBI as the lone agent responsible for protecting the Grand Canyon. So when one of the canyon mules is found stabbed to death--and its rider missing--Pine is called in to investigate. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018.
Big little lies
Moriarty, Liane. Reading time: 12 hours, 42 minutes.New to town, Jane--single mother of kindergartener Ziggy--becomes friends with Celeste and Madeline, who each have children in Ziggy's class. But the women are harboring secrets that lead to a disastrous school trivia night ending in multiple injuries--and one death. Strong language. Bestseller. 2014.
The hate u give
Thomas, Angie. Reading time: 11 hours, 21 minutes.When sixteen-year-old Starr Carter witnesses the fatal shooting by a police officer of her childhood best friend, Khalil, she is afraid to speak out. But remaining quiet and safe is difficult with rising tensions between the police and the community. Violence and strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2017.
Where the crawdads sing
Owens, Delia; Campbell, Cassandra. Reading time: 12 hours, 14 minutes.In late 1969, when Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals of Barkley Cove, North Carolina, immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018.
This dark road to mercy
Cash, Wiley. Reading time: 7 hours, 55 minutes.When sisters Easter and Ruby are placed in foster care after their mother's unexpected death, their long-estranged father, Wade--an ex-minor league baseball player--steals them away in the middle of the night. The girls' court-appointed guardian soon turns up unsettling information linking Wade to a multimillion-dollar robbery. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2014.
The tangled tree: a radical new history of life
Quammen, David. Reading time: 13 hours, 51 minutes.Author of Spillover (DB 75676) and Monster of God (DB 63017) examines discoveries in microbiology, particularly the concept of horizontal gene transfer (HGT), which allows for the acquisition of genetic material through viral infection. Includes profiles of scientists Carl Woese, Lynn Margulis, and Tsutomu Watanabe. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018.
