Doesn't look like recent activity with this group. Thought I'd mention recent reads

[Silver Gaia]

5. Reading has always been my escape.

I wish it was working that way for me now. I've been struggling with this for 5 years now! Its like I'm afraid if I relax enough to sink deep into a book, I will miss something important that I need to know about. I do use movies and TV as escape, but that is easier because they have defined lengths... an hour, 2 hours... so the loss of control is less of a fear. I could sink into a book for days and only come up to eat, drink, and breathe. I am working on it, though!

I'm sorry to hear you gave up on TV. I gave up on broadcast TV years ago, too, but there is an amazing amount of really good fantasy and scifi out there these days. Most of it is on streaming services, but for instance, Prime is doing a stellar rendition of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, Apple+ has just finished one season of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series that is also excellent, and HBOMax has just started a limited series based on the recent award-winning book, Station Eleven (one of those books I bought and stared at). I watched the first episode of that last night and am excited for more. My point is just that there IS good stuff out there on the small screen these days. It's just not on what we have always thought of as TV. This is different. It's cinematic TV.

My hubby is also a huge fan of all things WWII, but I am not drawn to that kind of reading. I do enjoy historical reading, but from more of an anthropological and cultural angle about the more ancient to medieval worlds.