What Are You Reading? July 2013

annis · Post by **annis** » Fri July 12th, 2013, 5:11 am

Posted by SPB

I have astigmatisms and I've had soft lenses for years....

Interesting, I was told it wouldn't work for me, but that was quite some time ago now and things have probably advanced since then.

Madeleine · Post by **Madeleine** » Fri July 12th, 2013, 8:33 am

[quote=""sweetpotatoboy""]Gosh, it seems contacts appeared earlier everywhere than the UK! Does anyone in the UK remember them being current any earlier than my memory of about 1979?

I have astigmatisms and I've had soft lenses for years....[/quote]

Me too - I've always had soft lenses and although the astigmatism is a relatively recent development (age probably

!) it didn't cause a problem, apart from changing the prescription. So I'm really surprised about what annis said. Know what you mean about the dryness though

although staring at a screen most of the day doesn't help either!

emr · Post by **emr** » Fri July 12th, 2013, 8:49 am

[quote=""annis""]

Interesting, I was told it wouldn't work for me, but that was quite some time ago now and things have probably advanced since then.[/quote]

Uhu same here. That doctor said I'd be loosing them every 5 minutes because they couldnt stick to the surface of my eyes or something like that. This was around 1980 and I remember the contacts had been around for years then.
After that I never inquiered again although I know they have evolved a lot but I'm very sensitive to light changes and I'm not sure contatcs would help me with that. Anyway I think the first I heard from them was maybe 1975 or so. I see in internet the first soft contact lenses were commercial since 1971 ::shrug::

Finished The Twelfth Department (Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev #3) by William Ryan. I like that series. Now reading Aunt Dimity's Death by Nancy Atherton. So far I'm not impressed by the maturity of the characters but uh... reading...

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » Fri July 12th, 2013, 10:28 am

Just to weigh in - I have astigmatism in one eye only, and I wear soft contact lenses from two different manufacturers. I wear daily disposables because I only use them at weekends (can't stare at a screen in an air-conditioned office wearing them - too dry!) , and the pack of 30 'astigmatic' lenses is only a few pounds more expensive than the normal ones. Sometimes it moves around in my eye a bit though and can momentarily blur vision before it rights itself, so I never wear them while driving, just in case.

Madeleine · Post by **Madeleine** » Fri July 12th, 2013, 10:37 am

Yes I only wear them socially too for the same reasons as Lady B - they can move around a but but usually settle down after a few minutes - when my prescription changed I think it went up by about an extra £5 per month which does of course work out at £60 a year but compared to glasses they're a bargain!

Carine · Post by **Carine** » Fri July 12th, 2013, 11:42 am

I recently finished Mariana by Susanna Kearsley and House of Illusions by Pauline Gedge.
Now just started The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory.

fljustice · Post by **fljustice** » Sat July 13th, 2013, 12:35 am

Still working on Vlad: The Last Confession, It's picked up a bit in the middle. Also started Princesses Behaving Badly--one of those "let's survey a hundred different historical women in a snappy modern style" books. I like them for clues to historical figures, I've missed over the years. I always find a few I want to learn much more about.

Nefret · Post by **Nefret** » Sat July 13th, 2013, 5:22 am

Nearly finished with A Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

Anyone have recommendations for similar novels? (Other than the Lost World, which I have somewhere.)

EC2 · Post by **EC2** » Sat July 13th, 2013, 11:58 am

Still ongoing with Stormbird. It's telling the history through the stories of several different characters with quite a bit of fighting involved now. Margaret of Anjou disappeared for 80 pages but she's back now and quite a bit more knowing and authoritative than she was last time out.

HevRob · Post by **HevRob** » Sun July 14th, 2013, 2:52 pm

[quote=""EC2""]Still ongoing with Stormbird. It's telling the history through the stories of several different characters with quite a bit of fighting involved now. Margaret of Anjou disappeared for 80 pages but she's back now and quite a bit more knowing and authoritative than she was last time out.[/quote]

Thanks for all the Stormbird updates - am following your comments with interest. I don't know this era well. . . I'm just under half way through Sword and Scimitar now. I enjoy Scarrow's writing but the characters are not grabbing me in the same way as those from his Eagle series, but still a good read in my opinion.