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Current book study group read is - "Entangled Life - How Fungi Make our Worlds" by Merlin Sheldrake. Fascinating! Try to find the 2023 edition - has extraordinary colour photos.

Saw a review the other day of "The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly" - looks excellent. I think a trip to my local library is in order. Weirdly, the library has only TWO audio versions (with 21 holds presently!) and about 5 hard copies. I don't get that.
 
Some find audio books helpful. I experienced Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy through a radio play on CBC as a kid in the 80’s. My mom and I listened to it every morning.

I think it’s a combination adhd, internet brain, and menopause for me. Stress, too much. It should be relaxing but it’s not, it’s added pressure. So many distractions. It used to be easier to focus, if the book was interesting. Now it’s more difficult, even if I am interested. Yet, I can read tons of articles and news stories (prefer to read them than watch video) and even academic papers that I seek out… ???
 
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Kimmio Laughterlove said:
Some find audio books helpful. I experienced Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy through a radio play on CBC as a kid in the 80’s. My mom and I listened to it every morning.
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LOL, that's how I first heard the radio play version of Hitchhiker's, too. It was on in the summer and I listened at the cottage. CBC Toronto had a repeater up there somewhere so it was one of the few stations we could get. I think I had already encountered either the first novel or the 1981 TV series, though I had known it was originally a radio show. Sad that we lost Douglas Adams so young (49). Brilliant writer in all the various projects he took on (besides his own works, he was showrunner on Dr. Who for a season or two and did some writing for it). Crap, looking that up, I see today is actually the 25th anniversary of his passing.

Hitchhiker trivia: There's an asteroid named after Arthur Dent, the series protagonist, and another named for Adams himself.
 
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Mendalla said:
LOL, that's how I first heard the radio play version of Hitchhiker's, too. It was on in the summer and I listened at the cottage. CBC Toronto had a repeater up there somewhere so it was one of the few stations we could get. I think I had already encountered either the first novel or the 1981 TV series, though I had known it was originally a radio show. Sad that we lost Adams so young (49). Crap, looking that up, I see today is actually the 25th anniversary of his passing.
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Wow. Serendipity!
 
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