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    Your Book Activity 2023

    in Book Blogs - Discuss your reading!

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    I consider myself 'caught up' for the 2023 BCF Book Club Reading challenge, and indeed ahead of myself for this quarters Winter themed challenge. :) Although, for the sake of clarity I should admit to cheating!

     

    @France had recommended Herman Melville's Moby Dick as a Victorian / At Sea / Winter as a means of my fulfilling the last 2 challenges of 2023 , and meeting the current one. Although I did go ahead and purchase this, I know that this monster book (at 500+ pages) is a little out of my reach for now. 

     

    @Hayley then suggested The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins. At 70 pages, this story of love, friendship and duty was eminently readable in one sitting. The entire story wears the chill of winter. The sea is the backdrop to most of the story, and it is most definitely Victorian.

     

    Cheat I may be, but I will forgive myself and nestle into the glow of having completed a little reading. 

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    BCF Book Club 2024 - Part 1

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    Now, if I can only find a Victorian novel based at sea in the winter, I will be able to do a complete catch up of the Book Club reads to date! 😉

     

    Winter as a theme is most definitely appropriate at the moment, although I think mythology and folklore later on might be interesting.

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    My absence

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    On 11/24/2023 at 11:56 AM, lunababymoonchild said:

    Done and dusted. 

     

    Successful and surgeon happy with results (just waiting for pathology tests). Out of hospital now and very painful but onwards and upwards.

     

    So pleased to read this. I hope the pain eases very soon for you and the pathology results bring good news. 

    My very best wishes to you. 

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    Recommendations

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    Hello there Ania.

     

    I have read three novels by the German author Sebastian Fitzek and found them to be unpredictable.

    'Therapy', 'Splinter' and 'The Eye Collector' are the three I have read, although he has written 10 more that I am yet to read. 

    The BCF Book Club - Part 4

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    On 10/1/2023 at 2:39 PM, Hayley said:

    I can actually cross-over with my previous challenge book, as Treasure Island was published in the 1880s 😄 but I’ll search my shelves for my next challenge read! 

     

    Yippee! I can extend my 'Sea' challenge into 'Victorian' with Treasure Island. When I finally find the headspace to read more than an E Mail that is! 😉

     

     

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    The BCF Book Club - Part 3

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    I have hit a humongous reading slump, although I still consider myself on this reading challenge!

     

    I have read an entire paragraph of Treasure Island, and have bought The Devil & The Dark Water (how could I not?). This morning I bought for 99p on kindle, a YA thriller called The Girl Who Broke The Sea. It intrigued me.  

     

    September may leech into October for me and this challenge, but dammit I WILL get there! ☺️

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    Random Chat

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    So sorry to read that you have covid , @muggle not It's horrible, isn't it? 

     

    I've had it twice now, and all I can say is rest, rest, then rest some more! I found for a few weeks afterwards on both occasions that I was ridiculously tired, even though I had completely recovered from all the other symptoms. 

     

    And let your body dictate what it wants to do and have. I found that was the only way to go, so I napped when it came over me to do so, and ate exactly what I fancied when I wanted it. Food wise I found myself craving 'clean' foods, so lots of fruit and vegetables and the like. I hope you are fully recovered soon.

     

    Sorry for my absence on the forum. I have been busy combined with being quite down, which is a terrible combination and makes me much less sociable. It also brings any reading to a complete halt, a fact I loathe as I always found losing myself in a book as wonderfully rejuvenating. I am climbing out the current pit of bleurgh, so will be more active. ☺️

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    The BCF Book Club - Part 3

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    30 minutes ago, ~Andrea~ said:

    Well I've started treasure Island - not that far in yet - and so far it's great. I think I'm going to love this!

     

    I have this on my kindle, ready to read. I'll be making a start any day now! :)

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    Your Book Activity 2023

    in Book Blogs - Discuss your reading!

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    Just read the latest book in Jodi Taylor's Chronicles of St Mary's, The Good, The Bad & The History.

     

    I have so enjoyed this series, and this carried on my enjoyment, with it's usual combination of history, humour and fast paced story telling. They won't be to everyone's taste, but I love 'em! 

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