New to the forum...

I'd like to hear what other people are reading. Let's hear about MS type stuff. I'll start another thread for general reading.

Hi Cmartin415. Welcome to NT.

I'm not reading anything related in the least to MS at the moment.

Glad you're here. How's things going w you and your MS?
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Welcome to the forum cmartin. We have a book forum @ http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum108.html

I'm on a mystery/thriller type book kick right now. MS may be a mystery, but not to me..

I think there are others here who have a list of good MS books/stories..

I get audio books for free from my local library. they have a web site, and when the latest stuff comes out, I put a hold on it, and wait my turn in line. I get them all for free! So, I have heard really good stories for no cost.

right now I am listening to the Dry Grass of August. about growing up in the 50s and segregation in the south. Cute little story. Then is the "matched" series. Where sometime in the future we are all matched with genetic mates for promotion of a healthy species and its really interesting. ally Condie wrote the series.

Haven't read books about MS for quite some time...not much more to learn I guess...until the big CURE comes along...

MS for dummies was ok. it explained alot in the early days. Then there are all those books about women/men who are dx and want to share with us how they spun their dysfunctional lives into marathon runners by drinking special juice or exercising their demons.

I liked Terry Gars book. cant remember the name. it was upbeat and not full of poor pitiful me stuff.

I read Teri Garr's book. Speed Bumps. It was really more about Hollywood than about MS.....but I enjoyed it.

I haven't read any MS books, or material, in years (except of course the excellent material here on the forum). What I've read are books related to my other disease, Porphyria. I just read "Princesses, the Six Daughters of George III", which I had to send for out of state through the library borrowing system. It's about people (George and family) who had porphyria. another one I read a long time ago was "The Purple Secret", also about the royals' porphyria, including DNA documentation. Some sources deny the royals after Victoria had porphyria, but this has DNA documentation from her daughter Vicki and Vicki's Charlotte.

Nothing MS related recently. Been reading "Weight Training for Cyclists", the Dresden Files series, and the Game of Thrones series. Still waiting on new ones to come out in both series.

My next order from the library will be "A Fierce Local", a book about Ireland written by a man who has Polycythemia Vera, as I do. I don't think the book is about PV, it's about the area where he lives with his Irish wife. Might possibly be depressing, though, as the poverty of rural Ireland is legendary, and I suppose lots of them are now back in that poverty with the economic stress which has visited Ireland. Ireland was one of the show places for modern industrialization, and now has collapsed with the fall of the Euro. Falling in love with the modern world proved a dicey affair for them.