Douglas’s Comments (group member since Jun 15, 2017)

Douglas’s comments from the Read, Reading, Planning to Read and More group.

Well, I may have finally got the combination I need, I turned up the brightness a small bit, increased the font to a much larger size (I had used a small font for years to get as much on a page as possible), and succumbed to having to use my $300+ prescription reading glasses and read more last night than I have in months ( A Grave Gambit ) and so we shall see :)

I have made a bit of discovery in my lack of enjoyment of audio books. When I read, I can skip over large parts of verbiage (the color of the grass, sky, how good the cake was, etc) but when listening to audio you have to listen to each and every boring word. I may have to get back to reading in the normal way but perhaps with a better reader than my low end paperwhite

Every few years I get into a reading slump where nothing holds my interest and I am still in one while my TBR just gets bigger. One of my favorite series by what I consider one of the better writers of entertaining fiction is Kerrigan Byrne and I just saw where the latest in the Fiona Mahoney series A Grave Gambit was released last month and I don't even have to buy it since it is on KU . Now all I have to do is get my head back into my books (I may need an intervention to get me away from these Chinese dramas I have been watching)

Well, while I have not really solved the problem yet completely, I did get the Nora Roberts books in audio through Netgalley but I did not know I had to use their audio reader. It works great for audio books acquired through Netgalley but I still need a better solution for some type of text reader for all the non-audio books I have in my TBR. Does a Fire let you do audio for any book?

FYI: The audiobook for whole The Lost Bride Trilogy is available for request on Netgalley

I think I may be getting to the point that reading is not as relaxing as it has been for most of my life due to eye strain that seems not to be solved with glasses. I may have to start learning to enjoy audio books but I think I read someplace that some Kindles will read books for you in audio (obviously more of a robot voice). Anyone know if that is true?

Melindeeloo wrote: "Inheritance does sound good, but I see cliffhanger in the reviews. You all have to let us know how bad a cliffhanger."

It is the first book of a trilogy so I expect a cliffhanger ending

Inheritance
The Mirror
The Seven Rings Release date November 2025

❤️ Dorsey aka Wrath Lover Reviews ❤️ wrote: "all time favorite is The Witness..."

Also one of my all time favorites. it was her 200th book and it shows that she put some real effort into that one

Well, I decided that I was going to break this slump and go to one of my "sure thing" authors good old Nora Roberts. So I grabbed Inheritance and definitely not disappointed. At the 4% marks and already have 1 murder, 1 curse, 1 bride-to-be discovering her cheating groom/almost husband naked in bed with a bridesmaid and now a Cajun friend who wants to help her get even. Yeah baby, you got my attention LOL

I am still in a bit of a reading slump, nothing really holds me. I am playing games and watching dramas. This happens every few years but usually not for this long

I think anyone who read the Urban Shaman series loved Gary the taxi driver, I remember him more clearly than the main character

Melindeeloo wrote: "I see there is a new Lyndsay Sands Argeneau book out. Number 37! Is anyone still reading these? I fell away from the series at least 10 books back, I think."

I still read them but the new ones are not even in the same league as the first ones, the humor is almost missing completely

HappyBookWorm2020 wrote: "I requested the new Ilona Andrews book but don't expect to get it. Tor does not like me. "

Well add me to that list, I just got rejected for This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me also but I wish they would actually tell me why, they give a list of possible reasons and no way you could pick one out.

Well in between my recent addiction to Chinese Drama I grabbed this one The Immortal Doc Holliday: Hidden also I did request This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me which I am curious about since my request was rejected by Edelweiss

DemetraP wrote: "Pretend I Do by Misha Bell had a computer programmer hero who loves puzzles and is a bit socially awkward. He has a cat.

She is also a computer programmer. They both love to collect...stamps.

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This sounds really interesting but at the same time my digital TBR is about to explode. I got to stop watching videos, I have not read a page in a week but I love to laugh and this was the funniest thing I saw all year (and based on an actual true story, I saw it on the news when it happened)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2zsm...

Well, once again I am binge watching all 7 seasons of "The Mentalist" and since I am about half way through the 5th season maybe I can get back to my reading soon. For reasons unknown I seem to be hooked on more visual entertainment the last 2-3 months. I have several books I really want to finish but can't get my head into it yet

Happy 4th to everyone and it is hard to believe it has been 8 years since I stumbled around without a clue and finally created this forum after Amazon let us know they were shutting down their forums. Mind boggling that is has been around 16 years of chatting for those of us who used to be on the Amazon forums.

Vanessa wrote: "Doug... I like the historical K-dramas. Some are a tad bit goofy, and many have the same actors play the villains. They take a long time to get through, but the bad guys get it in the end."

yes, a lot of slapping and corporate revenge stories, secret billionaires that work days as delivery boys :)

One of the reasons I seldom even bother with Edelweiss is I get turned down about 90+% of the time when on Netgalley I get approved 90+% of the time. As usual they turned me down on This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me I could never get a reason as to why. I have several books I want to read but trying to stay in good graces with the folks at Netgalley so I must read/review The Writer and the Rogue before I can get to better ones (not sure why I even requested this one)

Well my reading has suffered since sick dogs, Chinese dramas, binge watching the whole "Mentalist" series has eaten most of my time but I am still trying to get through Love, The Duke which is not a bad book but I am still not back to my usual reading cycle. I have to admit I am still hooked on Chinese/Asian drama since so many of them are delicious revenge stories ,I especially love the ones they call "reborn" drama where some person dies and gets to go back a few years being reborn and exact their revenge LOL. Simple things for simple minds I guess :)