I’m an Early Reviewer!

I signed up to be an Early Reviewer at LibraryThing and will receive a free book for the first time this month (actually in 8 weeks or so, maybe less).

The pre-pub book I’ll be reviewing is When the Time Comes: Families with Aging Parents Share Their Struggles and Solutions. Based on the title, I think it is a very timely book since so many of us are currently in the position of wanting to help our elderly parents while helping them retain their pride and independence.

My short review will be on LibraryThing. I’ll post a longer review here, and link to it from LT. I hope you’ll come back to read it.

You can help me review the book if you’ll answer these questions:

  1. If you’re caring for elderly parents is it your mother, your father or both?
  2. Do they live independently in their own home; with you; or in a home for the elderly?
  3. What struggles are you facing, and what solutions have worked for you?
  4. Have you thought ahead to the time when you will be elderly and need to have care? What do you see happening to you at that time?
Published in: on January 26, 2009 at 5:24 am Comments (0)
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Merry Christmas

I’m at home with the Christmas tree lit and carols playing. Since I gave myself a Zune for Christmas I’ve been enjoying downloading songs and albums from Amazon. I highly recommend Holiday Classics by the 101 Strings. Is anyone other than me old enough to remember the 101 Strings? They are (were) an orchestra that played nice, minimally embellished, well-known tunes.

It’s not Thanksgiving, but it just occurred to me that Microsoft (or whatever programmers wherever) did a wonderful thing when they created cut/copy and paste. Can you imagine if they hadn’t thought of it and we had to copy a URL letter by letter to create a link? Not to mention the many other uses.

I’ve been spending a lot of time at LibraryThing. I am enjoying adding books to my library there (see furdog), but more than that I’m into the groups right now. Currently, I’m an active member of the 75 Books Challenge for 2009, DAW books, Fantasy Fans, Read YA Lit, Name That Book, and Disaster Buffs.

The 75 Books Challenge led me to a website I hadn’t used before: Ticker Factory.

Here’s my ticker for the challenge:


Published in: on December 25, 2008 at 8:56 am Comments (0)
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