Posted by Racer on June 15, 2004, at 14:06:43
In reply to Unable to read..., posted by partlycloudy on May 27, 2004, at 8:01:16
I haven't been able to read for about a year now -- absolute hell. My husband just found one cure for me: New Scientist magazine. That might not work for everyone, though...
Here's a recommendation, the only thing I've managed to get through in the past year: "His Dark Materials" by Phillip Pullman. Kids trilogy, very good stuff. Don't ask what it's about, since I can't tell you anything about it, but it's an alternate universe sort of thing, that touches our own. I read a little blurb -- in New Scientist, actually -- quoting Scottish mathematician Ian Stewart as saying, "The armored bears are just brilliant!" and somehow, that inspired me to get it. (My pdoc was the first to mention it to me, and then reading that blurb, well, don't you just *have* to find out about the armored bears?)
And don't let the science/math thing fool you. THey're just good books, and good for adults as well as kids.
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