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I'm re-reading Jemima J by Jane Green.
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I'm sorry to hear that, Athena!
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On 20.7.2018 at 7:43 PM, Little Pixie said:
Yes - I may have discovered a whole new way of counting books by then ; I already don`t count Kindle books ( cos they`re imaginary, obvs ) , I might not count books with vowels in thier title next. Anything to find a book-buying loophole.
Oh yes! Vowels, consonants, be gone! 
On 20.7.2018 at 7:43 PM, Little Pixie said:
Bedside table are great - you can stack books, radios and clocks and lamps on top, and you have drawers to hide more books and gum/mints for eating whilst reading.
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 On 20.7.2018 at 7:45 PM, willoyd said:Only that I'm a compulsive acquirer of books! I'm having to really work at not accumulating more, but find them near irresistible. Recently, I've done a huge amount of thinning out and downsizing, but still have some 1400+ on the TBR list, and around 3000 books on the shelves.
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
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I do love all kinds of book statistics, but I'm really lazy about keeping score myself these days
Welcome to the forum, though!
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5 hours ago, bobblybear said:
You can post on it now.
Done!
5 hours ago, bobblybear said:I've organised all my lists. It was slightly shocking having to type out all the books I have bought this year. I haven't counted them, but there are a lot.
Oh well, that happens... 
/bobblybear having to come to grips with amount of bought books in July of year 2018/
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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!
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On 19.7.2018 at 9:55 PM, bobblybear said:
Welcome to my belated book list!!
Thank you, happy to see it!
On 19.7.2018 at 9:55 PM, bobblybear said:I don't know what has happened this year. I've just had no motivation to write reviews, even though I have been reading and buying books like crazy!! I just seem to have lost my mojo in terms of putting my thoughts down in writing.
I'm not going to bother with conventional reviews for the rest of the year (no way I can catch up!), though I hope to at least be able to put some kind of thoughts down (no matter how brief) about the books I have read.
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!
On 19.7.2018 at 9:55 PM, bobblybear said:I hope everyone is having a great reading year so far, and may it continue throughout the second half of the year.
Here here! Or was it hear hear. I can't remember!!
On 19.7.2018 at 10:06 PM, bobblybear said:Books Read This Year
A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz
I'm curious, did you like it? No review necessary! I have the book on my TBR!
I think I'll like it!
On 19.7.2018 at 10:06 PM, bobblybear said:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
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!
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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.
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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!
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Well that would explain it
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7 hours ago, Madeleine said:
Glad you've finally caught up Frankie! My favourites are Jaime, Tyrion, Brienne, Jorah and Bronn (all alpha males!).
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. 
7 hours ago, Madeleine said: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...
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7 hours ago, Athena said:
I'm glad you are having a good time
. It's nice you got to spend time with both your and your BF's family. Awww, I'm glad she was cute !
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.
7 hours ago, Athena said:It's my table cloth
. It's from France, we found it at a local market in the south of France (my parents gifted it to me for my birthday last year, after I had picked it during our holiday in France). I love it too .
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! 51 minutes ago, Little Pixie said:Eep ! Maybe 3 years ?
Let's see about this in 2021! 51 minutes ago, Little Pixie said:Hurray for your new bed !
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.
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5 minutes ago, willoyd said:
Frighteningly little time in my case!!
Now I'm really curious! Tell me more
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On 28.6.2016 at 5:36 PM, Madeleine said:
I'm just wondering what Varys's agenda is - won't say any more for fear of spoilers
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
Spoilerthe Hound is one of my absolute favorites and when Arya left him to die, I was crushed! But as I didn't see him actually dying, I kept asking my BF (who has watched the show before and who was watching it with me now) when the Hound was going to come back. BF kept saying he was dead!! I insisted that they'd not shown him die or anything and so he wasn't dead. BF told me to quit being silly and accept the fact that he was dead. But I never, ever gave up! I was so psyched when he turned up!!!!!
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).
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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!
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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!
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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!
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On 15.7.2018 at 9:52 PM, willoyd said:
Then probably not worth it - I use mine a lot when travelling round home on bus or train - but then I'm neurotic about damaging books, especially paperbacks (I just hate any creases in covers!), which I find difficult to avoid if keeping a book in a bag. The other thing I like about the Kindle is the ability to change the font size - too many paperbacks (mostly non-fiction) have typefaces that are just too small to read pleasurably, especially in lower light (and my Kindle has a built-in light). But, and it's a big but, there is nothing more satisfying than settling down with a book in my hand - Kindle just can't compete on that one!
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.
On 16.7.2018 at 9:26 AM, Athena said:Nice to 'see' you on the forum
. I hope you are doing well ?
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!!
On 16.7.2018 at 9:26 AM, Athena said:Ah sorry I don't post about every newly acquired book in my thread anymore. I did receive the book!!
No worries, of course you don't have to post about all of your acquired books!
But I'm happy you received the book On 16.7.2018 at 9:26 AM, Athena said:Here is a picture
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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?
On 16.7.2018 at 6:13 PM, Little Pixie said:And Kindles don`t have an exciting scent either.
I do prefer `real` books, but having got to `know` lots of authors through giving their books a go on Kindle... There are varies pros and cons, aren't there!
On 16.7.2018 at 6:15 PM, Little Pixie said: So now I`m thinking, `only ` 500 more books till I need to feel worried about my TBR ! How long do you think it would take you to acquire 500 new titles
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On 17.7.2018 at 4:35 AM, muggle not said:
My mistake. The Good Daughter "is" a standalone book by Karin Slaughter. It just now became available to me from the library and I will start reading it tonight.
No problem!
I will look forward to your thoughts on the book!
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On 15.7.2018 at 8:34 PM, willoyd said:
I belong to two groups, of which one is fine - there are 1/2 star books but there are plenty of 4+ star ones as well.
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!
On 15.7.2018 at 8:34 PM, willoyd said:When I look closer, the issues are with the other, and I think it's the way we select books. This is done from a list of books held in sets for reading groups by the local library network (the group is part of the local library). Each cycle we each choose one, and then they turn up in randome order. Unfortunately, the list (around 200) is, from my perspective, distinctly uninspired and rather samey - generally books that seem to have been deemed worthy of discussion (I think some have been chosen from nominations by longer standing groups) - a lot of literary or general fiction with a smattering of others (e.g. a fair number of crime, around dozen non-fiction, mostly memoir, and half a dozen classics). I've read about 20% of the list already; a majority of the others are books I had already chosen not to read.
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
On 15.7.2018 at 8:34 PM, willoyd said:I've also realised that my reading tastes are completely the opposite of most of the group, so whilst that means I'm reading books I wouldn't have perhaps otherwise read (a good thing - half the point of a book club after all), I'm finding the majority of choices hard work, at a time when there is a large number of other books I really do want to read. Equally, I think that the majority of the group found my two choices to date very hard work - distinct minorities enjoyed them! OTOH, I love discussing books with other readers, whether we agree or not (and it's often best when we don't).
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
On 15.7.2018 at 8:34 PM, willoyd said:Hopefully, it'll work out in the wash - there are rumblings of choosing other books beyond the list for instance. I'll see how it pans out. It may just be that the sort of reading I want to do doesn't fit comfortably with this sort of book group, or the chemistry doesn't quite suit me - need to wait and see!
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!
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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!
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On 16.7.2018 at 9:27 AM, Athena said:
Thanks
!! I think it's definitely interesting! In previous years I had a pretty even balance between male and female authors, but somehow this year I've read a lot more by female authors .
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
21 hours ago, willoyd said:You probably know this already, but, just in case, it's well established that women tend to read predominantly female authors, and men read mainly male authors. However, it's more likely that a woman will reverse that than a man (i.e. fewer men read more female than women read more men - by a big margin too. Also, when men do, it's mainly because they are reading female non-fiction writers. It's a rare male that reads predominantly female fiction authors).
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!
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Hello and welcome back, Kasei!
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Okay Booknutt, it's been 8 months now, have you read it yet?
Muggle Not - 2018 Books Read
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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...!