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On 11/5/2019 at 1:36 PM, Athena said:

 

Well done !

 

 

I really like most of Peter F. Hamilton's books I've read, he's one of my favourite science-fiction authors. Judas Unchained is a re-read for me, so I knew it would be good, I knew I'd probably enjoy my re-read, as long as I'm in the mood for it .

 

 

I hope you had fun with your mum !

 

The December read-a-thon will take place 6, 7 and 8 December. I'll be busy for some of that weekend, but should be able to do a bit of reading during at least some of the time that I'm not busy.

I will have just come back from my holiday, so i will be able to take part! Hopefully I'll remember this time 

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I've missed the read-a-thon again! I have been reading, but it was my mum's birthday yesterday, so I took her out for lunch on Sunday (most restaurants here are shut on Monday's) and then I have been trying to do NaNo Wri Mo too. I will try the next time to participate.

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On 9/8/2019 at 12:54 PM, Hayley said:

Maybe I've heard of him from your reading blog!

 

 

Well it turned out to be a very disappointing read  Sorry I wet AWOL last month. I did take part in the last read-a-thon, but I think I forgot to post my progress 

 

When is the next read-a-thon weekend? Have I missed it?

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8 hours ago, Athena said:

 

Oh no !! I'm glad you have your Kindle at least .

 

Haha, The Cow Trap! I hope you are able to finish it and that you enjoy it !!

 

Happy reading to you both, this weekend!

 

I've finished the last 170ish pages I had left of 'The Crow Trap'. Now I'm about to start reading 'The Finisher' by David Baldacci. Some friends of mine gave me the trilogy, because they know I like fantasy/sci-fi type books. I have no idea what this is about!

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1 hour ago, Athena said:

 

That sounds promising !

 

@karen.d will you be participating this weekend?

Yes, of course! I'm planning to try and finish 'The Crow Trap' by Ann Cleaves, a book I've been reading for a buddy read with my friend. She finished it about a week ago, so I'd better hurry up! Other than that, I don't know what else I will read. I have been given a fantasy series to read, by a friend, so I might make a start on that.

 

I'm also taking part in a daily writing challenge during this month, so It looks like this weekend is going to be very busy!

Have a great reading weekend everyone and good luck with the challenge!

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1 hour ago, Athena said:

Aside from Unbroken which I think I recommended in another thread to you, I just thought of another book. Accessing the Future is a science-fiction short story anthology with a theme of disability. There's a story in there that features a girl with spina bifida if I remember it correctly .

Ohh this sounds interesting! I will look this up too, thanks!

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1 hour ago, Athena said:

Hi Karen! So sorry to bother you, but I can't comment on your latest blog post . I thought I'd let you know as you asked I do so . I hope you can fix it .

Hi! I've just noticed this and selected comments! I don't know why it's doing this  Thanks for letting me know again

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5 hours ago, Chrissy said:

I would recommend the Lincoln Rhyme series by crime writer Jeffery Deaver. There are about 14 books so far in the series, all really good crime thrillers, well paced with good characters.

 

Here's the start of the synopsis for the first book in the series, The Bone Collector, 

Lincoln Rhyme, ex-head of NYPD forensics, was the nation’s foremost criminalist, the man who could work a crime scene and come away with a perfect profile of the killer, frozen in time. Now, Lincoln is frozen in place — permanently. An accident on the job left him a quadriplegic who can move just one finger, a great mind strapped to his bed, mulish and sarcastic, hiding from a life he no longer wants to live. Until he sees the crime-scene report about a corpse found buried on a deserted West Side railroad track.

 

A stand alone novel, also by Jeffery Deaver that is a firm favourite of mine is A Maiden's Grave, a hostage taking / FBI negotiation setting. 

A school bus stops at a car crash on an isolated road. The two teachers and their deaf students are immediately captured by three escaped convicts.

Has the novel been adapted into a film with Morgan Freeman? If it's the same one, then this was a brilliant film. So I will be adding this to my TBR. Thanks for the suggestion

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1 hour ago, Athena said:

Well done on finishing IT!! I look forward to reading your review .

 

I've not heard of The Crow Trap but I did read the novella Too Good to Be True by the same author, which I liked. I hope you enjoy your buddy read .

 Well I'm not much of a crime reader, but since doing buddy reads with my friend this has opened me up to the world of crime novels! I haven't got that far into 'The Crow Trap' yet, but I think it's going to be good.

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Although, I seem to read a lot of crime novel,s with women in them who have just come out of a bad relationship, with a controlling partner. Why is that a clique with crime novels?!

 

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Hello! Just a quick reading update. I've finished 'It' by Stephen King  It took me 3 weeks to complete this huge book, but I enjoyed more this time, than the last time. It's not perfect (I will go into that more when I write a review), but really enjoyable.

 

Now onto a buddy read that my friend has been waiting to do. I'm about to read 'The Crow Trap' by Ann Cleeves. It's the first in the 'Vera' series, Has anyone read it?

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On 8/17/2019 at 3:44 PM, Marie H said:

This is an interesting idea, I might get involved with this. 

In fact, I've just got a free UK Kindle of this book, if anyone who might be interested in it.

 

Hope you enjoy The Disability Read-a-thon.  There are quite a few of interesting categories, I hope to dip in during October.

I got 'The Girl In Between' free too, not even knowing that it features a disabled character. I'd be interesting in hearing what your TBR list, if you end up doing the disability read-a-thon!

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6 minutes ago, Athena said:

 

It works now !! I'll let you know if it happens again .

Phew! I'm glad that's fixed. Thanks!

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38 minutes ago, Athena said:

I wish you good luck with the Disability-Read-A-Thon, what a great idea!! I would love to see more attention for disabilities in books and reading.

 

As a side question, I checked out your blog today, and I don't know if it's my new Windows version or not, but for the life of me I can't find how to comment on your recent blog post on the Patrick Ness book. Your blog looks different too than it used to. Is it just me? I managed to 'Like' the blog post but I don't see a comment box anywhere, would have commented otherwise. I thought your review was really good .

 

Thank you! It would be nice to read some books with characters who have different disabilities included! I'm slowly putting together my TBR list. I'm not sure how many of the challenges I will get done though.

 

Thank you for bringing the comment problem with my blog to my attention. For some reason, the comment option wasn't turned on  Not sure how that happened, but comments should be allowed now. If you get that problem again, let me know!

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1 hour ago, Madeleine said:

We were just talking about Shadow of the Wind here at work, as someone's son is currently in Barcelona, and we both said we're scared to read any of the other books, as Shadow was so good! 

I know what you mean! My friend has read all of the books in the series and she said every book is just as good as 'Shadow of the Wind'. I hope she's right!

 

Just a quick reading update, I'm 838 pages into 'It' now and it's a lot better than I remember.

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4 hours ago, poppy said:

Have you read  the autobiography My Left Foot by Christy Brown, Karen?  He  was born with cerebral palsy and went on to be an author, painter and poet.

I agree, it's annoying to have physically disabled characters always portrayed as weak or the villians!

No, I haven't read 'My Left Foot', thanks for your suggestion ☺️. I'll add it to my list.

 

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Hi! Sorry I haven-t been around in ages! I-ve been busy reading 'It' by Stephen King. This is my 2nd time reading it and I'm enjoying it a lot more this time around. Anyway, I just popped on to talk about 'The Disability Read-a-thon, that I'm really excited to be taking part in, which runs 1st-31st October. See www.disabilityreadathon.com. During the month, there are challenges to do which are as follows:

 

The Disability Readathon Challenge

 

CATEGORY ONE:

Read a non-fiction book.

 

 

Read a book with your favorite color on the cover

'People assume my girlfriend is my nurse'- Shane Burcaw

The cover is purple

 

Read a poem (must be own voices)

 

Read a book with a character or by an author who has a mental illness

 

'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time'- Mark Haddon

 

CATEGORY  TWO:

Read a comic book

 

Read an autobiography or memoir -

 

'My Left foot'- Christy Brown

 

Read a book with queer characters 

 

Read a mystery or thriller 'The Bone Collector' Jeffery Deaver

 

CATEGORY THREE:

Read a book set in a country

different from your own- 

 

Read a book set in the future'-

'The Last Book in the Universe' by Rodman Philbrick,

 

Read a book featuring physical disability 'Accessing the Future'-Djibril Al-Ayad and Kathryn Allan

 

Read a Twitter thread

Disney on Wheels

 

CATEGORY FOUR:

Read three blog posts by disabled people (different blogs for each)

 

Read a book by a person of color

 

Read a romance 

 

Read a book featuring chronic illness 'The Girl in Between' Laekan Zea Kemp

 

CATEGORY FIVE:

Listen to a podcast episode or read its transcript -

 

BBC 'Ouch Podcast

 

Read a historical fiction book

 

Read a book featuring an animal -

 

Read a children’s book (middle school or younger)

 

BONUS CHALLENGES:

Read 10 books/texts (choose two from each category)

Read a book with over 500 pages 

Make a booktube video with your TBR and tag with #DisabilityReadathon

Instagram your TBR with #DisabilityReadathon

 

I'd really love to hear your suggestions as to what I can add to my TBR

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18 minutes ago, Madeleine said:

I  can think of a few but they're mainly crime, however the main characters do have a disability:

 

C J Sansom's Shardlake series -  the main character is a lawyer who has a hunchback (not a very PC term I'm afraid)

 

Robert Galbraith's series featuring private detective Cormoran Strike, who lost a leg in one of the recent Middle East conflicts (haven't read these for a while but I think it was in Afghanistan) - he's a troubled character but essentially decent

 

and then there's Game of Thrones, where one of the main characters is a person of restricted height (again sorry if  that's not the correct term) but he is one of the best characters and although he is much maligned (and at one point does do something pretty awful, although he has his reasons) he is highly intelligent, witty and extremely resourceful.

Thanks for your suggestions! I did try and read the first book in the 'Game of Thrones' series and wasn't very keen on the writing style. Maybe it gets better as you read on? 

I'll definitely try and look up the other 2 books thougg!

 

 

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P.S I think I've posted this question in the wrong place. Sorry! 

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Hi, I wonder if anyone could suggest books, which have a main character with a disability , who are not portrayed as weak and defenseless, or are not portrayed as the 'baddie' in the book please? I've seen these tropes enough in books and I'm fed up of it.

 

I have a a physical disability myself, so I would like to read something with this representation. It'll also help me with my TBR list for the Disability Read-a-thon in October.

 

Thanks in advance!

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1 hour ago, Athena said:

 

My Dutch copy has 1158 pages, not sure why my English copy has so many pages then! It does have a bit larger than usual font. I'm glad you made some progress, even if it's not as much as you'd hoped, and that youare just over halfway into the book. I hope you can finish it by the end of the week, I look forward to read your review on it on your blog .

 

I started Liesbeth Smith - Ik moet nog even kijken of ik kan, a Dutch non-fiction book about introverts. I read 33 pages in it yesterday. I had a lot of other things to do and since I'd been reading a lot the days before, I didn't want to read lots yesterday, I needed a bit of a break.

 

Overall I enjoyed the read-a-thon and it helped me get through some library loans . The next read-a-thon is scheduled to take place on the 6th, 7th and 8th of September (Fri-Sat-Sun).

 

Thanks for reading with me, Hayley and Karen !

Looking forward to the next read-a-thon!

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22 hours ago, Athena said:

 

 

My copy has 1376 pages, it's the longest book I own. I love IT. I can't speak for Karen, I'm sure she'll be back and answer about her own copy .

 

 

 

My copy  of 'IT' is 1138 pages long. I managed to read 284 pages of the book this weekend, which isn't as many pages as I would have liked to have read, but I was really tired. It does mean that I'm 51% into the book though. Hopefully I'll finish this by the end of the week.

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