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This is a reminder for the upcoming read-a-thon next weekend (11-12-13 October). To be honest, I just spent the past week doing quite a bit of reading (on my holiday), so I don't feel in the reading mood just yet. I'm planning to not read a lot over the next few days, to then hopefully feel more in the reading mood when the weekend comes around .

People can be crazy/stupid sometimes, I don't understand. I may be disappointed in GRRM, but I don't get dramatic over it nor do I take it to Twitter or another public (online) place, the way many other people seem to. In fact, this is probably the only really public place where I've mentioned it, and only because it came up in this conversation.

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Such a great idea !!

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Yellow Submarine ~ The Beatles.

@Quinn That's a beautiful photo! I'm glad you had a really great time !

Well done on being only a couple of reviews behind! I have yet to read anything by Jasper Fforde, though I have a couple of his books on my TBR. Glad you're liking this series a lot .

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Natsuki Takaya - Fruits Basket Volume 9 Natsuki Takaya - Fruits Basket Volume 10 Nice to continue the series. Sometimes the amount of characters gets a bit overwhelming. Nicole Melleby - Hurricane Season Absolutely loved this middle-grade book with themes of mental health and LGBT elements. Fig lives with her dad, who is mentally ill. The book is also about art and music, Fig's dad is a pianist but he hasn't given any concerts for years. She starts to read about Van Gogh and his art, in order to understand her dad, who is an artist (but then with music). Victoria Jamieson - Roller Girl This was a nice middle-grade graphic novel about a girl who gets into roller derby, and it's also about friendship. I didn't know much about roller derby so aside from enjoyable, this was also an educational read for me. Nick Sousakis - Unflattening This non-fiction graphic work is what the author used as this thesis/research for his study. It's a philosophical exploration of certain ways of thinking. It's kind of hard to explain this book. I felt like some of it went over my head, though that could have been, because I was really tired when I read this book. Shannon Hale and LeUYEN Pham - Real Friends 2: Best Friends The sequel to Real Friends, though you don't necessarily need to read that one in order to read this one. Best Friends is a middle-grade graphic novel about friendship between girls and being popular. Stan Lee, Peter David and Colleen Doran - Amazing Fantastic Incredible This is Stan Lee's memoir, it's a graphic memoir, drawn in comic book style. I really liked this a lot. It has some humour in it too. Edgar Cantero - Meddling Kids This book had a really cool premise (a group of children and their dog used to solve mysteries. Now, as adults, the group returns to their childhood town, to solve a mystery they previously thought was solved, but wasn't.), but unfortunately I did not like this book. I didn't jive with the writing, there were some odd choices regarding the writing and the plot was different than I thought it was going to be. I did like some of the twists, and the LGBT elements, though one LGBT element was not well done. I don't recommend this book. I'm currently re-reading Peter F. Hamilton - Commonwealth Saga 1: Pandora's Star, which is a huge book. It's taking me a while to get through it, though I am enjoying it a lot.

Death Knocks Twice by Robert Thorogood (Death in Paradise, #3)

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All Out, edited by Saundra Mitchell and contains short stories by: Anna-Marie McLemore, Natalie C. Parker, Nilah Magruder, Mackenzi Lee, Robin Talley, Malinda Lo, Dahlia Adler, Kate Scelsa, Scott Tracey, Tess Sharpe, Alex Sanchez, Kody Keplinger, Sara Farizan, Tessa Gratton, Shaun David Hutchinson, Tehlor Kay Mejia. A queer YA historical fiction anthology. There were some stories I loved, some I didn't like and some that were just okay. So, a mixed bag, which is the usual case with anthologies. Historical fiction isn't my favourite genre. I liked that each of the stories started off with saying what time period it takes place in, as well as the place/town/country name.

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That sounds amazing I hope you'll get to see him next year!! Kiss (When The Sun Don't Shine) ~ The Vengaboys

Your last 3 reviews were all books you didn't like too much! I hope your next reads will be more enjoyable .

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I'm glad to hear that !

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The next read-a-thon dates don't work for me. For me personally I'll probably have my own version of the read-a-thon the weekend of 11-12-13 October, rather than 4-5-6 October. I don't know how that works for everyone else (Hayley, Karen)?

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That's possible! I have! Yesterday I finished off Roller Girl (reading the last 140 pages), which was a really nice read. Then I read 68 pages of Unflattening by Nick Sousakis, which is interesting so far. I feel like some of it is beyond me though, it's sort of a graphic non-fiction philosophical piece (it's the author's thesis or project at university!).

I haven't heard of The Finisher, but I have read 3 books (well, 2 novels, 1 novella) by David Baldacci and I liked all of them. I didn't know he'd written a fantasy/scifi trilogy! I hope it's enjoyable . Thank you ! Wow, how cool it was set close to where you live! I've only read a few books that are even set in my province/county. It sounds like Once Upon a River has beautiful writing! It makes sense you don't want to rush it . Yesterday I read Fruits Basket Volume 9 and Fruits Basket Volume 10, both by Natsuki Takaya (two manga volumes, 199 and 203 pages respectively). I also read the first 30ish pages of Roller Girl by Victoriea Jamieson.