So, if I do watch TV (not often) I always check to see what's on PBS. And in the past few months I caught a few episodes of "Doc Martin," a comic drama about a London surgeon who moves back to his home town (a beautiful Cornish village) to become the GP. He has a fear of blood and has no bedside manner, which makes me like him in some strange way. I mentioned to some friends that I had started watching this show and they said they had gotten "hooked" and had ordered the DVDs. Would I like to borrow them? Indeed. So, last Sunday I did something I have never done before: watched a DVD on my laptop. And I got so engrossed that I watched three episodes in a row. Have had no time since then to watch any more, but am hoping for some time soon to watch some more.
I also started reading Unbroken while we were away in Montana a month ago. It was a great compelling read, but I had to return it to the library before I had finished it. Fortunately, my name came up on the list again last week, so I got into it again. I almost always read at bedtime but shut the light off at 11 or so. This book had me so hooked that I was reading to well after midnight every night this week. Laura Hillenbrand is a great writer and this story of an American GI in WWII is one of the most gripping books I have read in many months. Thus book is not for the faint of heart as it records the torture Louis Zamperini experienced at the hands of the Japanese. It will probably be on my "Top Books of 2011" list.
