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I'm glad to know it was easy for you to get back into that world. Thank you! Thanks! I did enjoy them . Awww . I'm glad the cat should hopefully be okay and that she feels better soon. I hope you feel better soon and that you can sleep more another time, hopefully you feel more rested maybe during the weekend.

Congratulations, well done!! Did you enjoy it? I hope you like Physik! I have read the first two Septimus Heap books and liked them a lot, I'm pretty sure Physik would be the next one for me to read but I haven't read it yet. When do you expect the rest of your belongings to get to your new house? I'm just curious, you don't have to share if you don't want to . I have read some illustrated children's books, and for the past week I've been doing a buddy read with a friend, we read about 50ish pages a day of Age Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert, book 3 in the Brown Sisters trilogy (so I read 50ish pages in it yesterday/Friday and also on Thursday). We should be finishing it this weekend, I'm liking it a lot so far, just like the other two books in the series. Plus, this one has autism rep and it's good . The illustrated children's books I read on Thursday and Friday, have been mostly re-reads. On Thursday I read The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney, book 5 in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series (re-read), I started Dork Diaries 2: Party Time (US title: Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl) by Rachel Renée Russell (re-read) and finished it on Friday. I then read Tom Gates 4.5: Best Book Day Ever! (So Far) by Liz Pichon (also a re-read) and started Tom Gates 5: Tom Gates is Absolutely Fantastic (at Some Things) (not a re-read!). I almost finished it yesterday and plan to finish it today. Happy reading today!

I didn't know who Ronnie James Dio was, but it's nice to know he was responsible for the 'devil's horns'! Shame the book was disappointing. I agree with you, they should have made it clear in the marketing that not the whole book is writted by him and that it only covers a certain time of his life and not his whole life. It shouldn't be called an 'autobiography' then, imo.

The BCF read-a-thon of August is this upcoming weekend. I apologise for being a bit short notice in posting this (though if anyone is ever in doubt, check the first post of this thread which has all the pre-scheduled data on the principle that the read-a-thon always starts on the first Friday of the month).

Maker's Curse by Trudi Canavan (book 4 in Millennium's Rule)

Welcome here .

That foreword sounds really interesting ! Yes, there is a novella (thanks for writing down the titles ), but I've heard from someone that it isn't as good as the 6 main books (she didn't like it as much), so I haven't bought it as of yet for my Kindle. Maybe once I've read books 5 and 6, I might want to give it a try still. If you do read it, I'd love to know what you think .

Yes, this is so often the case (and why I'm waiting with buying, because I want a paperback and not a huge one). As someone who prefers paperbacks for most genres (I don't mind hardcovers for YA contemporary or children's contemporary nowadays as they tend to be on the medium size whereas hardcovers for ie. fantasy are often so huge for my small-ish hands to hold, and I'm always fighting with the dust jacket when the books are so huge, too), it can be frustrating sometimes to have to wait. Sometimes the wait is not too bad, only a few months (on occasion a simultenous release!). Other times, it's been 1 year and 6 months, and finally they bring out the paperback.

Welcome here! I have a few of these on my TBR, glad you'd recommend them !

Welcome here !

I'm so glad you are enjoying her books!! I really liked the first 4 Earthsea books, I've yet to read books 5 and 6, I didn't know they existed until a few years ago or so. She has written some other books too (some science-fiction as well), some of which are on my TBR, and I think I have one or two on my wishlist as well. I was sad when she passed away.

Hi Muggle Not! Sorry for the late reply. If you do, I hope you enjoy it . She has written The Realm of the Elderlings, The Farseer trilogy is the first series within that series (but you can totally just read the trilogy and be done). I haven't continued yet, the next one to read would be Ship of Magic, it's on my TBR.

I'm glad you are enjoying it . Almost finished! I am glad your family are okay! I'm glad you're really liking Clash of Kings so far ! And also Emma . Yesterday I finished Maus (read page 228-296) and I also read a graphic memoir that was in Dutch translated from Danish, Deserteur by Halfdan Pisket (Desertør in the original language), in English that would translate to 'Deserter' but I'm not sure if it has been translated (104 pages).

We are the Champions ~ Queen

Oh no, that sounds like a hassle! I hope you were able to some reading after all that. I started reading an illustrated Dutch children's book, Het geheime weekboek van groep 8 by Jacques Vriens (ill. Annet Schaap) on Thursday, but it looks like I forgot to write down how many pages I read on Thursday vs. Friday. I finished it on Friday and I think I was over halfway through it at the beginning of Friday (115 pages total in the book, it was good). I then read Een vriendin met vuisten by Mirjam Oldenhave (ill by Yvonne Jagtenberg) (88 pages, good). Next I read Persepolis (omnibus of 1& 2) by Marjane Satrapi (amazing). On Saturday I started Maus by Art Spiegelman (The Complete Maus, is the edition I have, it has 1 & 2 in it), I read 227 pages. So today, Sunday, I start on page 228 of Maus. I hope to finish it today, and after that I'll see what I feel like reading if there is enough time/energy etc today. @Lau_Lou How is A Clash of Kings?

Sounds great, I hope you enjoy it ! Thank you ! I hope you do too! And you as well, Lau Lou!

I'm reading Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke, book 3 in the Inkspell or Inkworld trilogy, together with a friend/acquaintance. We read about 100 pages each week, and it's a long book, so it'll take some more weeks until it's finished. I started reading Het geheime weekboek van groep 8 by Jacques Vriens yesterday, an illustrated Dutch children's book (ill. is Annet Schaap, I really like her illustrations). I haven't read this one before, I have read quite a few of the author's (Jacques Vriens') earlier works (this one is from 2010 so it's not a recent release, but I used to read a lot of his books when I was a child myself which was quite a few years ago). This book was actually published as short stories in a magazine at first, the book says. Anyway, I'm liking it so far. I wish everyone happy reading in July!

I will check the channel out, thanks!

I'm sorry about the cancelled things, it's good though that people are choosing to self-isolate rather than risk anything. I hope you will have lots of fun with reading this weekend . I enjoyed A Clash of Kings, I hope you do too! Happy reading !

I have heard great things of Project Hail Mary too (now I wonder who the BookTuber is that you follow, I'm a BookTuber myself and follow a whole bunch of other BookTubers. Was it Daniel Greene? He is one of the bigger BookTubers who talks about adult science-fiction). I would like to read it too, I'm waiting for a medium-size paperback release. I loved The Martian, so I think/hope I will love this one as well.

Me either! I hope you enjoy it ! Is there a lot of it left to read? I've finished off most of my current reads (other than Inkdeath, which I'm reading with a friend and we read about 100 pages a week, but I've read most of this week's pages so I can read other things during the read-a-thon), and I hope that after feeling slumpy in June, that I'll be able to read some of the manga, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and/or illustrated children's books that are on my general TBR, that I feel in the mood for.

I did, thank you ! Yay!! The next read-a-thon (can you believe it's already almost July?!) is scheduled (see the first post) for next Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July the 2nd, 3rd and 4th.

Big hugs to you Chrissy , I hope you will feel better soon ! And that it will lead to more reading . I've been in a bit of a reading slump myself, after DNFing War and Peace in the first week of this month. I am reading a chapter in A Column of Fire by Ken Follett each day with my friend (see the first post in this thread), it's the 28th here today so 3 chapters / 3 days of reading left and then we will have finished it (despite my slump it has been really nice to read a chapter of this each day, the writing makes me really interested in the characters). Inkdeath was on pause for a week while the friend I'm reading that with, caught up. We should continue with it again soon. I'm also reading Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb which I have been reading since.. somewhere in the second half of May.

This sounds wonderful! I am so glad you got to meet her . Woohoo! Such beautiful photos!! Awww "Jessie"! It sounds like a wonderful trip. Happy belated birthday to your wife! I am really happy your daughter feels fine after her second vaccination . I'm getting mine soon. This sounds wonderful, I'm glad you got to hold her . I love going through my books and re-arranging them on the bookshelves, I wish you lots of fun! This sounds like a lovely time!

I'm glad you were able to get drawn back in . Of course it does ! I read Phoebe and her Unicorn 4: Razzle Dazzle Unicorn by Dana Simpson (children's comic / graphic novel, 181 pages), Mees Kees 2: Op de kast by Mirjam Mous (ill. Rick de Haas) (children's illustrated book, 85 pages), and Summer Wars by Mamoru Hosoda, Iqura Sugimoto, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (manga, 589 pages).