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Kylie

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  1. 5 hours ago, antiteasis said:

    I've started watching Black Mirror Season 1 yesterday after seeing the Bandersnatch special with my friends. I have to allot time for myself to catch up till the latest season because I am literally missing out. 

     

    Excellent! I'm a huge Black Mirror fan. I watched Bandersnatch as soon as it came out. I've gone back and started rewatching the last season because I've only seen those episodes once so far. :)

     

    I've also been watching One Tree Hill, a teen show I missed back in the day and always meant to check out. Up to seaosn 8.

  2. 13 hours ago, Raven said:

    So the tally for 2018 came in at 27, so close to 30 which was my target at the beginning of the year (especially as I have two books nearly, but not quite finished...). 

     

    Oh well, onwards with 2019 I suppose!

     

    Well done! 27 is such a huge, wonderful number of books to read in one year!! (Didn't lay it on too thick, did I?)

     

    But seriously, well done. Happy reading in 2019. :)

  3. On 10/12/2018 at 11:16 AM, poppy said:

     

    Congratulations Kylie, and I'm sure it will be huge fun. Which one will it be?

     

    Thanks @poppy! It's largely based on The Code of the Woosters (with the cow creamer and all that) but it's also a play within a play. So Bertie breaks the fourth wall a lot and relates the story to the audience. :)

  4. On 03/07/2016 at 10:38 PM, Kylie said:

     

    Ooh, I didn't know he did plays. I haven't read anything by Saki yet, but the others above said that his humour is Wodehouse-esque. Are his plays the same? I'd love to put on a Wodehouse play with my local theatre group, but it doesn't seem possible. Could Saki be a good alternative?

     

     

    I just read back over this thread and found this post of mine from over two years ago. Guess what?! I'll be directing a Wodehouse play at my local community theatre group next year! It was possible after all. I'm so excited. :D 

  5. On 25/11/2018 at 3:44 AM, frankie said:

    On another note, I've done a massive cull on my wishlist (fiction). I've had the wishlist for so long and I couldn't say what most of the books on it were about and where I'd gotten the idea to read them. I saved the full list on my computer and then did the cull on the list on the first page of this thread. It's so short, it's refreshing :D I'm going to do the same with my non-fiction wishlist. 

     

    Oh wow! I've just been to check out your new and improved wishlists. They're so tiny! :o I've been inspired by you to do some culling of my wishlist on the Book Depository, where I keep my main wishlist. Well, I've started the cull, but still have some way to go. :)

  6. Wow, I haven't updated my log since June! :( 

     

    I'm in the middle of a big book purge at the moment because I'm moving soon and have to put my books in storage. :( I've removed over 100 books that I no longer want to read, have read but don't want to keep, or that are extra editions. I took some to a local secondhand bookstore and received $50 store credit, and I'm taking the rest to Canberra tomorrow to donate to their next book fair. My mum is coming with me, and she has loads of books too.

     

    Now comes the task of removing the books from all the places I have them catalogued. :o I have quite a bit of work to do on my lists before the new year!

  7. On 09/11/2018 at 10:09 AM, willoyd said:

    1000 Books To Read Before You Die by James Mustich.

    A few days ago, I found another 'list' book, this one with 'only' 1000 books to read in one's lifetime, by James Mustich.  Browsing through, it appealed almost instantly because it also includes non-fiction books, which make up around two-fifths of my reading (and far more of my collection!).  I've thus used up one of the spare posts at the start of this thread to add that list to the others I'm keeping a track of.  As usual, I don't seem to have read that many - about 15% of the total in fact.

    Like all lists, there are some inclusions that I thoroughly disagree with, but it's full of interesting ideas, and is far more eclectic than, for instance, 1001 Books to Read Before You Die, including also a range of children's books, and reading as diverse as Aristotle and Dan Brown (yes, Da Vinci Code is in there!).  I suppose the biggest disagreement I have is the way that some multi-volume 'books' actually count each volume separately - for instance Laurence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet counts as 4 books, and Proust as 7 (but Gibbon counts as only one), which means that Durrell takes up 4 times as much space as, say, George Eliot (TBH, I wouldn't include any of his books!).  Odd.

    But, otherwise, it's a good list, with plenty to think about and ideas to explore.  There's a website that lists all the books and gives brief summaries of the entries for each book, plus space to comment too: 1000bookstoread.com .

     

    I just bought this book on your recommendation, Willoyd. :) It looks like it aligns with my own reading interests a little more. I can't wait to start browsing through it! Looks like I'll have to set up another spreadsheet to start ticking things off. :D

  8. Oddly enough, I finished reading this only a month ago! I loved it. Very informative and thought-provoking. I especially love that I learnt loads about history and literature, along with philosophy! Status anxiety a fascinating topic for me. I'm fairly unambitious and have never really felt the need to keep up with the Joneses or look/act like everyone else, so a lot of what he said didn't really relate to me, but I see it all around me, so I found it fascinating nonetheless! I rated it 5/5 on Goodreads. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. :D

     

    Looking back to my comment from February 2017, nothing has changed...Religion for Atheists and The News: A User's Manual are still the two that I most want to read next! They were just pushed aside in favour of Status Anxiety.

     

     

  9. On 12/04/2015 at 6:00 PM, frankie said:

    I've only read American Psycho and The Wasp Factory from the list. AP was disturbing, yes, but it also being a long and boring read took away from all the horridness a bit :giggle2: TWF was more weird than disturbing, I think. 

     

    The most disturbing book I've read would be Poppy Z. Brite's Exquisite Corpse. I don't remember much about it, but disturbing it was. 

     

    @frankie, I finished reading Exquisite Corpse recently. I think you bought this one while in Australia and left it behind for me to read, right? Thank you so much for that. Not! It was horrid! *shudder* I had to skim the nastiest passages.

     

    I have to say, it hasn't made me too interested in reading American Psycho:hide:

  10. Ooh, I very recently bought The Haunted Bookshop! It came in a two-book volume with Parnassus on Wheels (I believe both stories are linked). I became interested in these stories years and years ago (can't remember how!), but they only seemed to be available with ugly covers. Recently a new edition was released, so I finally bought it! Haven't read it yet though. I'm pretty sure both stories are freely and legally available online, such as from Project Gutenberg.

     

    I'm pretty sure The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins would fall into this category. I haven't read it yet (another one I've been meaning to get to for ages!)

     

    I loved loved loved Dracula. :) And from the original list, I've read all except House of Mirth and Anna Karenina.

  11. On 12/08/2018 at 9:07 PM, Michelle said:

    How's everyone getting on with saving content? I don't want to keep this going for ages if everyone is ok, but I don't want to shut it if people are still trying to get their content.

     

    When you say you don't want to keep this going for ages, do you mean the forum itself?

  12. @Michelle, I've been playing with my software and I'm starting to get the hang of it a little, although it saves an awful lot of rubbish, which I then have to go through and delete. Still, it's better than nothing! It took me a little while, but I've managed to get all of my own reading logs done, so saving the author interviews for you will be a piece of cake. I'm going to try and do a download of the whole site; I'm pretty sure my computer has the space for it! Then I'll look into setting up a Dropbox or similar for you and others to access. I probably won't be able to store everything there at once, but if people contact me and request certain things (like @Janet's reading logs), I can put them in there and that person can copy them out. How does that sound?

  13. On 10/08/2018 at 8:29 AM, poppy said:

    The Grapes of Wrath

    To Kill a Mockingbird
    Gone With the Wind

    In Cold Blood

    The Great Gatsby

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    The Color Purple

    Black Like Me

     

    Absolutely agree with these (well, except the last two, which I haven't yet read).

  14. On 04/08/2018 at 12:28 AM, Raven said:

    I remember that time a ferret got loose and chased Jane Austin around the Classics forum; my, how we laughed!

     

    😂 Sounds like something from a Jasper Fforde book! I must have been away the day that happened. Will you be joining us on FB, Raven? I would guess that you're not a fan of FB, but you could just make a new account for us especially?

     

    I remember the Jane Austen book circle too. I haven't re-read Austen since then, even though I loved every one of the books!

     

    My favourite memory would have to be something that took place outside of BCF: meeting @frankie in real life and having her spend a couple of months with me. I would never have met my bestie and had that opportunity if it weren't this forum, and I'll be forever grateful to @Michelle for making this happen. :)

     

    In general, I just have loads of good memories of book chat and supportive friends, especially in the depression thread when I was going through a really bad time in my life. And the excitement of reading everyone's new threads at the beginning of each year.

     

    And then there's the class clown, @Raven. I never knew why we let him in or let him stick around. :P But he's been good value, I suppose. ;)

  15. So far I have one possible idea for saving threads. There's some free software for Macs called SiteSucker. You simply paste the website address in, and it downloads and saves the webpages to your computer. You can go to extremes and save the entire website this way (I accidentally started doing that, and stopped when it got to several GBs), or you can play with the settings and download, say, one thread (but I think it only downloads that one particular page of the thread unless you tell it to download everything linked to on that page). I'm trying to get my head around it and find the best way to efficiently download what I want. Anyway, it's a possible option for Mac users.

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