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    Vodkafan's 2020 New Reading start

    in Past Book Logs

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    18 hours ago, vodkafan said:

    Thanks Athena! It's been so long  since I had one I am not quite used to it yet, they have changed a little.

     

    My Kindle is from 2013, would love to know what the main differences are with the newer Kindles vs. older ones, if you're up for posting about it at some point :). I feel I don't use mine enough to justify buying a new one, but then again maybe I would use it more if I had a new one that wasn't so slow as my Kindle is :giggle2:.

     

    14 hours ago, vodkafan said:

    Have just today finished the first 4 books of the Earthsea  saga by Ursula K. Le Guin, which my daughter gave me for Christmas in an Omnibus edition. They were very good, I will review them on Saturday when I have more time!.

     

    Oooh I'm so glad you enjoyed these books! I've got the first 4 Earthsea books in an omnibus too, it was a gift quite a few years ago, and I've read them several times, loving them each time. I look forward to your review(s)!

    Shelving books

    in General Book Discussions

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    Great article, thanks for that! :)

     

    I organise mostly by genre but not entirely. Within a genre, I have a 'what fits best where' approach, where authors of whom I have more books take priority over authors of whom I only have one or a couple of books (this is because I want one author's books to preferably all go on the same shelf next to each other). I put my favourites more in the shelves in the middle and on eye-height, top and bottom shelves are on occasion reserved for books I don't often plan to (re)-read or that I've not got as much interest in or that I don't like as much, or that I don't mind as much getting dusty in the case of it being the bottom shelf. Within biographyes & memoirs and for information books, I have them organised based on subject or series, so all autism memoirs are on the same shelf (and are actually together with information books about autism!), same with all AD(H)D related ones. Memoirs by people who are famous for something (ie. from TV or music), are on one shelf. All memoirs about mental health, physical health, and stuff like that, without the people being famous / celebrities etc, are near each other. All my Horrible Histories books are on one shelf, etc.

     

    Anyway, I have to leave now because I have an appointment! Can't type more sorry..

     

     

    Athena's Reading List 2020

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted

    On 11/01/2020 at 10:00 AM, poppy said:

    That's wonderful and very exciting news for you, Athena. All the best with your decorating and moving :)

     

    Thank you so much, Poppy :)!! It'll be an exciting time.

     

    On 12/01/2020 at 12:24 AM, Hayley said:

    Happy BCF anniversary Gaia! (so sorry it's late!) and huge congratulations on your move too! How exciting! I hope you have fun, making it all just how you want :) 

     

    Thank you so much, Hayley!! :) I hope it will be fun too!

    Athena's Reading List 2020

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted

    My big news is.. I'm in the process of buying a house! We should have the key in less than 4 weeks, then we'll spend some time cleaning and painting and decorating etc. We currently live in a little house called 'the bakery' on my parents' property. There is no rush with moving out, so I want to get everything painted and ready, before we move. 🏠

    Your Book Activity - January 2020

    in Book Blogs - Discuss your reading!

    Posted

    18 hours ago, Onion Budgie said:

    I finished Birthday by Meredith Russo, which was a very good and fast read.  Next up, I've picked out Dorian by Will Self, which is a reimagining of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

     

    I have Birthday on my TBR, glad you liked it!

     

    11 hours ago, Lau_Lou said:

    Peter Pan I did not get the hype with. I can say I was entertained at some points but overall not for me. 2 stars. 

     

    Are You There God, Its Me Margaret. By Judy Blume.

    Loved this. 

     

    I didnt know what to read when I had finished this so I decided to do a test to see and it came out with Harry Potter. So that is what I am reading. Never ever read it before! But I can say I am enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. 

     

    It's nice you're enjoying Harry Potter more than you thought you would. Happy reading (hopefully)!

     

    I'm currently reading Girls on the Verge by Sharon Biggs Waller. I've only got maybe a third or a fourth left to read, so I'm hoping to finish it later today. So far it has been a fast and good read, that's made me think.

     

    Athena's Reading List 2020

    in Past Book Logs

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    Books read during the BCF January 2020 read-a-thon:

     

    Natsuki Takaya - Fruits Basket CE 9 (17-18): Volume 9

    It was really nice to read more of this series and there was an interesting twist in the story.


    Tomohito Oda - Komi Can't Communicate 1: Volume 1

    This was a nice first volume of this series. It's about a teenage girl who has a disorder that makes it very hard for her to talk with other people. She wants to have some friends. A (male) classmate who is new at school decides to help her with this. I enjoyed it.


    Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata - Death Note 1: Volume 1

    I've seen 2/3rds of the anime series. The story in this volume was quite familiar to me, I loved reading it.

     

    Read-a-thon 2020

    in Group Reads

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    20 hours ago, karen.d said:

    Overall, I managed to read the following during this weekend's read-a-thon:

     

    'Brideshead Revisited' by Evelyn Waugh 26 pages (before I DNF'd this book)

    'The Couple Next Door' by Sahri Lapena 344 pages (Finished)

    'The Fake Date' by Lynda Stacey 58 pages

     

    Total Pages Read: 428

     

    That's excellent progress!!

     

    20 hours ago, karen.d said:

    Looking forward to the next read-a-thon already!

     

    Same :).

    Edgar Wallace

    in Crime / Mystery / Thriller

    Posted

    I haven't read anything by Edgar Wallace myself, but Wikipedia lists a lot of his works, some of them with a synopsis if you click on them. Alternatively GoodReads lists his works and if you click of them they should give you a synopsis of what the book is about. Fantastic Fiction also lists his works with description. I tried googling it but it won't give me a book that sounds like it fits your description. So perhaps you could look at one of the links and see which books you already own that you know aren't the one you're missing, and then click on the remaining ones and see which one matches your description? I'm sorry I can't be of more help, but I haven't read anything by this author so this was the best I could do.

    Read-a-thon 2020

    in Group Reads

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    22 hours ago, Brian. said:

    Definitely abandon books you don’t like, life is too short. I generally give a book 50-100 pages and if I still hate it, it gets DNF’d.

     

    This sounds like a good policy/rule :).

     

    22 hours ago, Brian. said:

    My dark ages book is a much slower read as it’s packed with information so as a result I read about 100 pages yesterday.

     

    I hope it's interesting :).

     

    19 hours ago, Hayley said:

    I managed about 50 pages before I fell asleep last night, two short stories and three very tiny stories (like one and two pages long) from Help the Witch by Tom Cox. I also read a couple of pages of one the longer short stories in there, so hopefully I'll be able to finish at least that tonight. 

     

    I hope you're enjoying your reading :).

     

    I went to a second-hand book market yesterday morning and when I got back I was too exhausted to do any reading.

     

    Thank you all for participating in this read-a-thon :).

     

    The next one is on 7, 8, and 9 February.

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