Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels

J read an article the other week about how an ebook reader can be beneficial for people with adhd. S has a Kindle that she uses and she loaned it to me. It took me a while to get used to how it felt and how to play around with the settings but I really loved it.

I love how you can change the background colour - I have it just off-white so it isn't quite so glarey. You can change the font size and the spacing to make it look easier to read. But the best thing is that there's no pressure. I'm not worrying about how many pages are left in this chapter, or in the book, or how many pages are left or how long it's going to take and my brain isn't rushing ahead. All that there is to think about is the page in front of me.

So J&S bought me a little Kindle Paperwhite of my own and a subscription to the Kindle Unlimited on Amazon which is where you pay a monthly subscription but you can... borrow books and magazines and audiobooks. Plus our local library loans ebooks.

I'm actually reading more. I'm still a really slow reader but I'm getting through a book every couple of weeks. I love to read, I've always wanted to be able to lose myself in a good book but would really struggle to do it and get frustrated and then that gets a whole negative feedback cycle which sucks.

I'm currently reading a book called MEG: Hell's Aquarium by Steve Alten. It's the 4th book in the Megaladon series. It's triggering a slight fascination with Megaladons¹ and I will be looking for more books or movies on the subject. The synopsis of the book is

The most fearsome predators in history... are no longer history.

The Philippine Sea Plate: The most unexplored realm on the planet. Hidden beneath its primordial crust lies the remains of the Panthalassa, an ocean that dates back 220 million years. Vast and isolated, the Panthalassa is inhabited by nightmarish sea creatures long believed extinct.

Tanaka Institute, Monterey, CA: Four years have passed since Angel, the 76-foot, 100,000-pound Megalodon, birthed a litter of pups far too numerous and aggressive to keep in one pen. Fortunately, a Dubai royal prince who is building the largest aquarium in the world seeks to purchase two of the 'runts' – if Jonas Taylor's twenty-one-year-old son, David, will be their handler. Jonas reluctantly agrees, and David is off to Dubai for the summer of his life, not realizing that he is being set up to lead an expedition that will hunt down and capture the most dangerous creatures ever to inhabit the Earth.

^{1 Megalodon is an extinct species of shark that lived approximately 23 to 2.6 million years ago and could grow to a length of 59ft}