Hi Michelle
I very rarely read a book more than once. Most of what I read is mystery/detective stuff, which is diverting but once you know whodunnit (or whydunnit) that’s it. A book I am reading for the third time is Carlo Rovelli’s Reality Is Not What You Think. I can’t claim to understand everyhing he says about quantum gravity but his ideas fascinate me. It’s my chemo/A&E book. Other than that, I go back to Jane Austen again and again. She is wickedly sharp!
Ive gone on a bit but I love reading.
Dorabel, Quantum gravity, sounds very intellectual! Not sure my brain could cope with that at the best of times let alone now!! Also I must confess I’ve never read Jane Austin. I love reading because it’s so absorbing but although I started this thread I am finding it difficult to ‘get into’ a book at the moment. I just keep buying them and looking at them. x
I’ve no science background but Rovelli writes for ordinary people like me. The books you’ve bought will be there, all ready and waiting for when you want to read them. I think the tiredness that comes with chemo is as much mental as physical.
I was looking back at the beginning of this thread and I agree about the uplifting cancer stories that are not as helpful as they might seem at first. I read Siân Williams account and it was very well written but I did not find it useful because, at that stage, just after diagnosis, nothing was useful.
I have started reading Les Miserables - a full translation of the original novel. It’s over 1300 pages. Been reading it for 2 weeks now and have barely scratched the surface! Now thinking it was a bit ambitious to attempt this under the influence of the chemo brain ?
That is very ambitious Wee Burd! X
Good luck, Wee Burd. Les Mis is a great read.
I have just finished The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. I really enjoyed it! It transports you to another world which is nice at the moment:)