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  1. I'm glad to hear you liked it so much! I'm sorely tempted to pick up the book myself, but I have library loans I need to read first...!
  2. I'm re-reading Jemima J by Jane Green.
  3. I'm sorry to hear that, Athena!
  4. Oh yes! Vowels, consonants, be gone! This is exactly what I want. But mostly, it's to stack books on I might just buy a new bookcase and call it a bedside table That's a massive TBR list! Especially since you've downsized a lot recently. I do wonder where the TBR was standing before! A library of 3000 books is very admirable
  5. I do love all kinds of book statistics, but I'm really lazy about keeping score myself these days Welcome to the forum, though!
  6. Done! Oh well, that happens... /bobblybear having to come to grips with amount of bought books in July of year 2018/
  7. Hello and welcome to the forum! I wasn't surprised to read about your favorite book, going by your username I've started reading the trilogy, but only managed maybe 40 pages before something else came along and I was unable to finish. Something tells me, though, that I'm going to love the trilogy!
  8. Thank you, happy to see it! I wouldn't worry about not having a mojo to write reviews, too much, because I feel like it's happened to a lot of people every now and then. The most important thing is that you've still kept reading and buying books! Here here! Or was it hear hear. I can't remember!! I'm curious, did you like it? No review necessary! I have the book on my TBR! I think I'll like it! Oooh I hope you liked this one! I've heard great things about it and found a copy of it earlier this year! On the list of your purchased books, I really loved Cannery Row, Thirteen Reasons Why and Valley of the Dolls, plus A Clockwork Orange. I hope you will enjoy them when you get to them! Have a happy reading year 2018, bobbly dear!
  9. I finished reading the Finnish novel, and now I'm reading a Finnish non-fiction book about people whose parents use alcohol and how it's affected them.
  10. There must be loads of books I've removed from my TBR, but like you, I tend to forget about them once the cull is done!
  11. Well that would explain it Let's see what happens once you've gotten into that children's book series!
  12. Apart from Brienne, who's an alpha female She's great! I used to like Bronn, too, but I kind of grew tired of him. I did not know about Coldhand! That was too tricky for me I kind of want to start watching it again, right from the start! But I should try and restrain myself...
  13. I was rather nervous about him meeting my parents, more nervous than he was, I think I don't know why, BF gets along with all kinds of people. It being a table cloth makes way more sense, actually! I don't know why I thought it might be an ottoman. Maybe because I used to have one and I would take pictures of books on it It's such a beautiful table cloth! Let's see about this in 2021! Yes, hurray for my new bed! Now I need to find a new bed cover and sidetables! I've never had a sidetable, I've always just had a chair next to my bed, but now I really really want sidetables! This home of mine is starting to come together.
  14. Now I'm really curious! Tell me more
  15. This was what I was asking myself all the time, too! And I could never figure out Baelish, either. I started watching the series in February/March and finished the latest season this month. I loved it!!!! I was surprised how much I did love it I'm just curious, who are your favorites? I was reading this thread and I don't think many of you mentioned your favorites. Or then I was too quick to read more and skipped some stuff! The only thing I want to say about the whole thing so far is that My favorites are, in no particular order (and no matter if they are still alive or dead!): the Hound, Theon, Sam and Ginny, Ser Jorah, Brienne (and Jaime and Sansa, but they are not my -top- favorites).
  16. I've now watched all 7 seasons of Game of Thrones! I loved it!! I'm so so annoyed that I now have to wait a whole year to get to the new season! And while I'm annoyed, I'm also aware that I was super lucky to be able to watch the first 7 seasons in a row, instead of watching the show right from the start and every year needing to wait for the next season. I got lucky!! Oooh I can now read the thread what with all the spoilers!! I'm still watching The Mindy Project. I also started watching The Fourth Estate. I started and finish the first season of Friends from College which I thoroughly enjoyed! Oh and I started watching Jack Taylor because of Iain Glen Edit: I almost forgot! I started watching Sharp Objects on HBO! I loved the novel and I love Amy Adams so obviously when I heard of the show and the cast I was going to watch it. I really liked the first two episodes and want to see more! I was also happy to see Chris Messina on the show (he's on The Mindy Project) and Elizabeth Perkins!
  17. I'm not allowed to post in your new shiny 2018 thread yet, for obvious and understandable reasons, but I've just seen you start the new thread and I got excited so I decided to post in your 2017 log instead I hope you are having fun getting your 2018 log in order!
  18. Wedding Ring by Emilie Richards Amazon: Needing time to contemplate her troubled marriage, Tessa MacRae agrees to spend the summer helping her mother and grandmother clean out the family home in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. But the three women have never been close. Helen, the family matriarch, is domineering and sharp-tongued. Nancy, Tessa's mother, appears to be little more than a social climber. And Tessa herself is in turmoil following a family tragedy that has affected them all. [And then they spend time and stuff unravels.] Thoughts: I bought this book at a charity shop, even though I thought the title sounded really corny (the Finnish title is Quilt Blanket of Life). The cover looks like a cheap mass production semi Harlequin romance, but I was feeling whimsical and bought it. I got right into it and I loved how the novel slowly unravelled the lives and experiences of the three women who did not really get along at the start of the novel. I could've read more! The book is forgettable, but it flowed really nicely and it helped me to recover my mojo and for that reason I don't think I can part ways with the copy 4/5 I also started and finished a Finnish non-fiction book on depression, by a Finnish author. She'd written novels and when she was diagnosed with depression, she thought writing about it would be therapeutic, and she ended up making it into a book. I liked it and I got some great insight from it. I actually wrote some quotes down, first time in ages. Good stuff!
  19. The ability to change the font size does sound appealing! And of course the idea of being able to take to bed a Kindle version of a tombstone - no, wait it was called doorstop over here In any case, a book that's just too heavy to be easily and comfortably held in bed! I do have a 20-30 minute commute to work, and when I visit my BF, it's a 70 minute commute, so I do travel a bit, but I guess I didn't really think about how much I actually travel. Of course a Kindle can't compete with an actual book, but it might be handy at times. I'm doing well, thanks! I'm on my summer holiday It's the second week and I have next week off as well. I'm super happy about that I've been to my hometown. Actually, I took my BF there for the first time He said he likes my parents and next time we could stay there a bit longer (we only did two full days there this time, because he was nervous and I didn't want to stress him with a longer stay, when it was his first time there). We also went to visit some of his relatives and oddly enough I wasn't all that nervous about that. I got to talk more to his sister and I got to hold her 9 month old baby and this time the baby didn't start crying! She was sooo cute! I also finally got my bed that I ordered online, so that's great I don't have to sleep on a mattress, on the floor, anymore! Wohoo!! No worries, of course you don't have to post about all of your acquired books! But I'm happy you received the book I have to say, and this is off-topic, but I love the design on the fabric on which you put the book. Is it a chair or an ottoman or something? There are varies pros and cons, aren't there! How long do you think it would take you to acquire 500 new titles
  20. No problem! I will look forward to your thoughts on the book!
  21. Wow, I did not know you belong to two different reading groups! I find joining one would be hard enough for me because I find group readings very challenging. I'm a mood reader and if I can't get into a book soon enough, I'll abandon it. I admire your dedication! I'm happy that the other book group satisfies your needs and it's only the one book group that you have difficulties with (I couldn't find a more neutral word, instead of difficulty. It's the heat, my brain is melting!). I can definitely see how you would have some problems with the list of books as you've read so many of them, and so many of them are books that you've chosen to ignore already. I wish the list was more varied! But then again, I don't know how difficult a task it would be to choose a list of 200 book for others to choose from. Then again, it's a library group and they are the experts Like I said, I admire your dedication! If I were you, I might've given it all up long ago! Which would be a shame because as you say, sometimes the best book conversations arise from different opinions and takes on a novel. Some of the books I had to read for uni are ones I would never had picked up myself, and even though I hated some, I enjoyed the majority, and I think of them rather fondly It would be great if the rumblings would work for your advantage and you could choose from outside the list! I will keep my fingers crossed for you!
  22. Wow, I had no idea there would be such a list for the Golden Girls show That's awesome!! I love that show Sorry I can't help you with the title, though!
  23. That's really interesting about you having more of an even balance between male and female authors before, and now reading a lot more female authors this year. We'll see, at the end of the year, if the scales will get more balanced I did not know this, that's very interesting! Although I guess it makes sense. I think when I talked about this some years ago with a few fellow members, they said they read more male authors (and they are female members). But that might be the exception to the rule. And like you said, it's more likely a female reads more male authors than a male author reads female authors. Fascinating stuff!
  24. Hello and welcome back, Kasei! I see you've been busy with stuff. I hope you can get back into reading!
  25. Okay Booknutt, it's been 8 months now, have you read it yet?
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