same here jeri i get everything done before i even go on puter

Yes, reading is a great escape. For me, it is painting. The economy really sucks dirty swamp water right now.

Even if the economy tanks completely, I still have enough unread books to keep me going for quite a long time (plus a biography of photographer Diane Arbus that's "in the mail").

yes reading is a good way of getting loast in another world i love it its relaxing to however when i get a really good book im reading it cooking dinner noffin like going up the river with a good book or sitting on my back porch

Oops, I should have said catholicism instead of Jesus, but, same difference.

Ed is mesmerized by the financial news. I am a believer in fate and roll with the punches. The books I've cracked lately from the library haven't been involving. Maybe I am choosing badly, although I did like a Paretsky novel about her character P.I. Warshawsky mainly because her narrative explores latter day Chicago so thoroughly and I grew up there. Nothing left of my Chicago, though. Meanwhile in today's lifestyles section of the local paper there is a list of books about, oh, yes, Jesus and it seems Anne Rice has found him (as Ed would say, "I didn't know he was lost") and has written about her journey. To which I say, stick with vampires, kiddo.

Thanks for the heads up on these authors. I, too, have been reading and am not watching CNN or Headlines News every moment of the day! Too depressing!

I enjoy stories and movies about India and how people from India assimilate into our culture or deal with their own for that matter, just as I enjoy Amy Tan's books about China. I'm reading The Kitchen God's Wife right now.

Your right on that.Also away from the boob tube.
Some people have this on all day.
Those books sounds interesting there.