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frankie

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  1. Thank you ladies! Madeleine, it was really, really hard, especially for the first few months. I was never a packet a day -smoker (20 cigarettes or more), and sometimes I'd been off cigarettes for some months and sometimes even a year or two, but then I would slip back. Sometimes I only smoked if I'd had a drink, sometimes I smoked on a daily basis. So I was never a heavy smoker. So even I can't imagine how hard it would be for a very heavy smoker to quit!! It was hard enough for me! I thought about smoking on a daily basis for a while after quitting, but it would get easier and then I'd go a week without thinking about it. It was hardest when I would go to a bar and have a drink, because I used to smoke like a chimney if I'd had alcohol! That was really the hardest for me. What's odd is that sometimes I could get a craving when I smelled someone else smoking, but at other times I would hate the smell and go stand somewhere else. I used to get cravings on a more frequent basis, but it's definitely easier these days. I don't think about smoking every day and I don't think about it for weeks at a time. Or months. It's the best decision I've ever made And yeah, I do still get a craving, but very rarely. Sometimes if I'm having a really bad day, I think, I would definitely go for a smoke right now if I still smoked. But I don't. Oddly enough, when I was writing this, I remembered I had a dream about cigarettes last night! I smoked two and then I thought, Oh dear, I was supposed to have quit this thing! I was so annoyed at myself! Thankfully it was just a dream.
  2. ^ Wow, you've made great progress! I'm very impressed! I haven't started yet. I've been in a looooong reading slump. It started last year and it's not gone away yet. I've kind of maybe gotten back a bit of the feel for reading yesterday, and now I need to finish my current easy read, and Helter Skelter which is a longer, more intense one. I can then think about giving one of the books on my list a go! It's just been so long since I've read more than 1-3 books a month. But I really hope that this challenge will help me get back on track!
  3. On Monday I reached the two year milestone of not smoking any cigarettes. It's been cheering me up all week long
  4. That's a great idea for an app! That's really good news! I hope your creative mood lasts and prospers! That is such a lovely idea for a Valentine's gift! I hope you don't mind me asking, but did you have time to finish the monkey? Bullet journals need not to be creative or artistic at all! The original bullet journal by Ryder Carroll was all about writing stuff down - not about using colors, washi tape, stickers, whatever. Everyone can make their Bujo as functional as they like - or as artistic as they like. Please don't be intimidated by anyone else's bujo!!
  5. Yes, it would be really interesting, I think! I'm not up for any challenges, though, I have Round Robin on my plate and that will do for the year! There's also the fact that I get muddled up in the different genres: thrillers, mysteries, detective novels... I don't like to make the distinction between the different types, because I do like them all and I just like to think of them as one genre. I know others would prefer to make the distinction but I'm just not that bothered. Murder and mayhem, that's the stuff! I haven't read Robin Cook or John Grisham. No, wait, I have read a Grisham but it was a Christmas book and it was baaaaaaad I liked Patricia Cornwell when I was a teenager, but when I re-read her books a decade later I found them boring! I'd found much better authors by then. (Karin Slaughter, Jeffery Deaver, Jeff Lindsay, Kathy Reichs to name a few.) Better not think about it too much before dinner
  6. Jänet's right, I hated Tess! With a passion! I never would've finished it if it wasn't mandatory reading. But for your sake I do hope you will like it - I generally don't go about hoping people will hate the books they read I was reading the last pages of your 2017 reading log (I'm still catching up with past logs and new) and I learned that you are working at a library one day a week? That's great! I'm actually jealous! I also read your review of the Jacob book by Susan Hill. I'm so sorry it was such a big disappointment! I do wonder what got into her. And WHY... Happy reading in 2018, willoyd!
  7. You've got a great pace going, keep it up! I'm looking forward to your review of Farewell to Arms, I've not read it yet myself.
  8. I read your review of The Loney from 2017, and I agree, I couldn't see why it had won the prize. I didn't like it at all! I gave it 1/5 I think. Dreadful! It sounded like such an interesting read, going by the blurb, but it wasn't!! I wish you an amazing reading year in 2018, Madeleine!
  9. I'm glad you're feeling better and that yours was a quick 24 hour thing!
  10. This made me think of a group read challenge... a challenge where everyone were to read an American, a British, and Irish, a Scandinavian, and what have you, thriller. Contrast and compare! It would be interesting to see if the majority would prefer books from their own cultural/biographical area. Or what other factors would affect their reading. It's a pretty refreshing feeling!! I hope it lasts!! I think it's what one's used to. I used to read Finnish thrillers/mysteries, and liked them okay, but because I watch so much American TV it was only a matter of time when I would start reading American thrillers. I've read British ones, too, but for some reason I do tend to go for the Americans. I think the American thrillers have a lot more twists and psychological aspects to them than Finnish thrillers, and I like that. I think I've mainly read Minette Walters but I got tired of them because at a later age I realized that they were rather formulaic in one particular aspect. I have read others, too, but my moldy mind won't give me any names at the moment!
  11. Yep, that's the one! My favorite moment was
  12. I'm watching Olympic hockey! Finland vs. Canada! Canada is a wicked opponent, lord have mercy!
  13. I'm really late to comment on this, sorry! This was in reference to the Julia & Julie book which you'd read. I personally don't mind, because I personally have a potty mouth, too I saw your book haul and I hope you will love Fangirl and The Rosie Project! (Although, I'm so behind on reading logs on the forum that maybe you've already read the books!! I must catch up!!)
  14. Two very interesting reviews of 'metal memoirs'! I'm sorry that the Bruce Dickinson felt a bit lopsided for you, but I'm glad Mustaine's delivered more! I agree with you, it shouldn't be a rivalry between two bands - one likes as many or as few bands as one does! There are no rules. For some reason I've listened more to Metallica and have liked them more, but it's probably just because I had Metallica fans as friends and so I had better access to their stuff than Megadeath's. I think I'll listen to Megadeath on Spotify today. They have some amazing stuff! I do wonder, have you read Dirt by Mötley Crüe? I can't remember! That's one helluva read Oh and before I forget: Happy reading in 2018, Ian!
  15. I know what you mean about trying to be selective, I do the very same I try to think if the book I would like is one that others would like to read, too! You have a really great library, I have to say!
  16. Thanks! I've been missing in action! I hope to be more around on the forum this year!! It can't be worse than last year, it just can't!
  17. I'm glad you weren't hit big with it! Even the word alone, 'cyclone', scares the bejeesus out of me. There are no natural disasters like that or any others in Finland so we kind of live in 'God's purse', as we Finns would put it. Safe and sound. However, Siberia is telling us what's what, and we've got the lowest temperatures of the year here in Helsinki! I'm glad I'm sick and I don't have to go out!
  18. I think it's always extra exciting when you are thinking of the book you're reading, even when you're not reading it. I don't think it's happened to me in a long while and I miss it! I hope your next read is another thinkable one Thanks Gaia! At least it ought to be better than last year!
  19. Ah second. Well recurrence is equally annoying! Let's keep hydrated!
  20. I've taken a better look at the profile picture after Lau_Lou's comment and indeed, it's a beautiful profile picture!
  21. ^ So this is your third cold? I've got a cold or flu, too, and it's my third! It's so annoying when one's just recovered and gotten back into normal life and daily rhythm and then it all starts again! I hope all you sick lot feel better soon!
  22. I have to confess this is the first I've heard of those series! I've googled the authors and they are British and Irish whereas Deaver is American. I wonder if that comes into the equation? Even if on a subconscious level. I think I'm personally more accustomed to American thrillers. Whatever it is, we all have our preferences that rock our respective boats Let's just try and stay out of the water! I read a huge chunk of Dumplin' last night in bed. It was the most reading I've done in a month, I'd say! I'm hoping to finish the novel today I hope my mojo's coming back!!
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