Could anyone suggest a few books for a 95 year old great-grandmother? She is from Alabama and have lived in Texas since the 60s. She loved “Same Kind of Different as Me” if that is helpful. Her husband died a few years back and good books like that seem to help her loneliness quite a bit.
Thank you!
by bdunn
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How about some old classics? I recently read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Where the Red Fern Grows and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I don’t remember reading them as a kid, but I am glad to have read them as an adult. They harken back to a simpler time.
There are a pulp magazine collection from 1930s, 1940s etc on internet archives, true story magazine, true detective mysteries magazine are pretty good. You can print those, even ads in these magazines are really good
She may like A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle – it’s a lovely book
A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy and other her other works
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier and her other works
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman and her other works
Any genres she is definitely not interested in?
Any she particularly loves?