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8 hours ago, Hayley said:
First goal completed
. I don't have all my books with me in my new house yet but I do have the Septimus Heap books, so I'm going to start Physik and also continue to dip into Silence in the Age of Noise by Erling Kagge.
Congratulations, well done!! Did you enjoy it? I hope you like Physik! I have read the first two Septimus Heap books and liked them a lot, I'm pretty sure Physik would be the next one for me to read but I haven't read it yet.
When do you expect the rest of your belongings to get to your new house? I'm just curious, you don't have to share if you don't want to
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I have read some illustrated children's books, and for the past week I've been doing a buddy read with a friend, we read about 50ish pages a day of Age Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert, book 3 in the Brown Sisters trilogy (so I read 50ish pages in it yesterday/Friday and also on Thursday). We should be finishing it this weekend, I'm liking it a lot so far, just like the other two books in the series. Plus, this one has autism rep and it's good
. The illustrated children's books I read on Thursday and Friday, have been mostly re-reads. On Thursday I read The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney, book 5 in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series (re-read), I started Dork Diaries 2: Party Time (US title: Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl) by Rachel Renée Russell (re-read) and finished it on Friday. I then read Tom Gates 4.5: Best Book Day Ever! (So Far) by Liz Pichon (also a re-read) and started Tom Gates 5: Tom Gates is Absolutely Fantastic (at Some Things) (not a re-read!). I almost finished it yesterday and plan to finish it today.
Happy reading today!
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I didn't know who Ronnie James Dio was, but it's nice to know he was responsible for the 'devil's horns'! Shame the book was disappointing. I agree with you, they should have made it clear in the marketing that not the whole book is writted by him and that it only covers a certain time of his life and not his whole life. It shouldn't be called an 'autobiography' then, imo.
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The BCF read-a-thon of August is this upcoming weekend. I apologise for being a bit short notice in posting this (though if anyone is ever in doubt, check the first post of this thread which has all the pre-scheduled data on the principle that the read-a-thon always starts on the first Friday of the month).
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Maker's Curse by Trudi Canavan (book 4 in Millennium's Rule)
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Welcome here
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14 hours ago, muggle not said:
I believe I will continue with her Hainish Universe series after finishing the Earthsea Series. Ursula's foreword in book 5 is awesome. She explains that there has been a number of years between her writing of some of the books in the series and that she has changed between writings and that Earthsea itself has changed.
BTW, there is also a book 6.5 of the Earthsea series. i am pretty sure I will continue with her and probably got to the Hainisch Universe series next.
Book 5 of Earthsea: Tales of Earthsea
Book 6 of Earthsea: The Other Wind
Book 6.5 of Earthsea: Daughter of Odren
That foreword sounds really interesting
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On 18/07/2021 at 10:46 AM, lunababymoonchild said:
It's available on Amazon and Waterstones but in hardback only. If you want a paperback I'm afraid you'll have to wait.
Yes, this is so often the case (and why I'm waiting with buying, because I want a paperback and not a huge one). As someone who prefers paperbacks for most genres (I don't mind hardcovers for YA contemporary or children's contemporary nowadays as they tend to be on the medium size whereas hardcovers for ie. fantasy are often so huge for my small-ish hands to hold, and I'm always fighting with the dust jacket when the books are so huge, too), it can be frustrating sometimes to have to wait. Sometimes the wait is not too bad, only a few months (on occasion a simultenous release!). Other times, it's been 1 year and 6 months, and finally they bring out the paperback.
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On 15/07/2021 at 3:33 PM, Madeleine said:there are lots of crime thrillers set in Italy - Donna Leon's series set in Venice is good - not too gory and lots of lovely descriptions of food as well!
I have a few of these on my TBR, glad you'd recommend them
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Welcome here
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I'm so glad you are enjoying her books!! I really liked the first 4 Earthsea books, I've yet to read books 5 and 6, I didn't know they existed until a few years ago or so. She has written some other books too (some science-fiction as well), some of which are on my TBR, and I think I have one or two on my wishlist as well. I was sad when she passed away.
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On 12/07/2021 at 4:02 PM, muggle not said:
Robin Hobb looks interesting. I may put The Farseer Trilogy on my TBR list.
Hi Muggle Not! Sorry for the late reply. If you do, I hope you enjoy it
. She has written The Realm of the Elderlings, The Farseer trilogy is the first series within that series (but you can totally just read the trilogy and be done). I haven't continued yet, the next one to read would be Ship of Magic, it's on my TBR.
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18 hours ago, Marie H said:
Trying to finish D E Stevenson’s Music in the Hills - 95% read. Haven’t read much this weekend, but enjoyable when I have.
I'm glad you are enjoying it
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9 hours ago, Lau_Lou said:My family are okay thank you, Hayley
they had a message from the app saying someone had tested positive from where they had been. Sorry to hear about the other day. Glad to hear you managed to read some of your book I am glad your family are okay!
9 hours ago, Lau_Lou said:I am really enjoying Clash Of Kings, thank you Athena
to be honest I am glad I started it very soon after the first book because I think I would have lost a lot of what was going on with all the POV and characters. I honestly think it will be one of my favourite books of the year and quite possible a series as a whole. If it stays as good as it is now🤞
I read 3 chapters of the book as well as 2 of Emma too. Which I am also liking.
I'm glad you're really liking Clash of Kings so far
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Yesterday I finished Maus (read page 228-296) and I also read a graphic memoir that was in Dutch translated from Danish, Deserteur by Halfdan Pisket (Desertør in the original language), in English that would translate to 'Deserter' but I'm not sure if it has been translated (104 pages).
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We are the Champions ~ Queen
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15 hours ago, Hayley said:
Thank you! I am enjoying it so far. I've had a lot of unexpected delays today (like, I went to get a washing line, which should have taken about 5 minutes, but the card machines went down, the guy at the front of the queue had no cash to pay which caused great confusion and then when I got out someone had parked in a way that blocked me in!) so feeling less confident about getting close to finishing the book, but I still think I'll read a good chunk!
Oh no, that sounds like a hassle! I hope you were able to some reading after all that.
I started reading an illustrated Dutch children's book, Het geheime weekboek van groep 8 by Jacques Vriens (ill. Annet Schaap) on Thursday, but it looks like I forgot to write down how many pages I read on Thursday vs. Friday. I finished it on Friday and I think I was over halfway through it at the beginning of Friday (115 pages total in the book, it was good). I then read Een vriendin met vuisten by Mirjam Oldenhave (ill by Yvonne Jagtenberg) (88 pages, good). Next I read Persepolis (omnibus of 1& 2) by Marjane Satrapi (amazing). On Saturday I started Maus by Art Spiegelman (The Complete Maus, is the edition I have, it has 1 & 2 in it), I read 227 pages. So today, Sunday, I start on page 228 of Maus. I hope to finish it today, and after that I'll see what I feel like reading if there is enough time/energy etc today.
@Lau_Lou How is A Clash of Kings?
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15 hours ago, Hayley said:
Yes, about 300 pages I think!
Sounds great, I hope you enjoy it
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15 hours ago, Hayley said:That sounds good, I hope you'll enjoy this read-a-thon then!
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I'm reading Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke, book 3 in the Inkspell or Inkworld trilogy, together with a friend/acquaintance. We read about 100 pages each week, and it's a long book, so it'll take some more weeks until it's finished.
I started reading Het geheime weekboek van groep 8 by Jacques Vriens yesterday, an illustrated Dutch children's book (ill. is Annet Schaap, I really like her illustrations). I haven't read this one before, I have read quite a few of the author's (Jacques Vriens') earlier works (this one is from 2010 so it's not a recent release, but I used to read a lot of his books when I was a child myself which was quite a few years ago). This book was actually published as short stories in a magazine at first, the book says. Anyway, I'm liking it so far.
I wish everyone happy reading in July!
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19 hours ago, KEV67 said:
No, it was Becky M.
I will check the channel out, thanks!
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12 hours ago, Lau_Lou said:
I will be doing some extra reading this weekend. Have Friday off work as was a family wedding (cancelled) and then a family get together (cancelled) due to some having to self isolate so will take some time spent reading and will most likely prioritise A Clash Of Kings.
I'm sorry about the cancelled things, it's good though that people are choosing to self-isolate rather than risk anything. I hope you will have lots of fun with reading this weekend
. I enjoyed A Clash of Kings, I hope you do too! Happy reading 
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I have heard great things of Project Hail Mary too (now I wonder who the BookTuber is that you follow, I'm a BookTuber myself and follow a whole bunch of other BookTubers. Was it Daniel Greene? He is one of the bigger BookTubers who talks about adult science-fiction). I would like to read it too, I'm waiting for a medium-size paperback release. I loved The Martian, so I think/hope I will love this one as well.
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On 6/28/2021 at 8:14 AM, Hayley said:
I really can’t believe that it’s almost July!
Me either!
On 6/28/2021 at 8:14 AM, Hayley said:I should have a bit more reading time for this one so I’ll aim to read a good chunk of, if not finish, The Essex Serpent
I hope you enjoy it
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I've finished off most of my current reads (other than Inkdeath, which I'm reading with a friend and we read about 100 pages a week, but I've read most of this week's pages so I can read other things during the read-a-thon), and I hope that after feeling slumpy in June, that I'll be able to read some of the manga, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and/or illustrated children's books that are on my general TBR, that I feel in the mood for. -
On 6/16/2021 at 1:17 PM, Hayley said:
Wow, you did well! I hope you enjoyed them all
I did, thank you
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On 6/18/2021 at 3:00 AM, Lau_Lou said:thank you
the vaccine went as well as can be. I ended up reading the last 3 chapters and finished The Chocolate Lovers' Club which I loved. I also read a couple of chapters of The Clash of Kings and 1 chapter of Emma. So overall good weekend. I did see my gran too which was great. Cannot wait to see her again. Wonderful woman she is!
Yay!!
The next read-a-thon (can you believe it's already almost July?!) is scheduled (see the first post) for next Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July the 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
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On 6/25/2021 at 6:30 PM, Chrissy said:
Book Activity? I have been lost in a reading desert! My reading mojo abandoned me, but I glimpse an occasional page / e-page fluttering at me with reading nudges, so an oasis is on my horizon.
I will be fine, unless I allow a panic to creep in. *Deep breathes*
On 6/26/2021 at 4:15 PM, Chrissy said:I tried, but it hasn't done it for me! My theory is that it's because I have been enjoying a tooth abscess over the past week or so. The offender has now been
removed. Tooth out - book in, hopefully. I will start rummaging on my kindle and bookshelves in he next day or two. If I do it too soon I may scare the horses.
It's great when you enjoy something, and it sparks an interest or thought, and then you can go off on a tangent and read more on it.
Big hugs to you Chrissy
, I hope you will feel better soon 
! And that it will lead to more reading .
I've been in a bit of a reading slump myself, after DNFing War and Peace in the first week of this month. I am reading a chapter in A Column of Fire by Ken Follett each day with my friend (see the first post in this thread), it's the 28th here today so 3 chapters / 3 days of reading left and then we will have finished it (despite my slump it has been really nice to read a chapter of this each day, the writing makes me really interested in the characters). Inkdeath was on pause for a week while the friend I'm reading that with, caught up. We should continue with it again soon. I'm also reading Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb which I have been reading since.. somewhere in the second half of May.
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On 6/14/2021 at 3:53 PM, Chrissy said:
On Saturday I met my great-niece for the first time. She was born last year. She is delightful!
This sounds wonderful! I am so glad you got to meet her
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On 6/15/2021 at 6:35 PM, Hayley said:I was cheered up today (enough to come and post again) by the fact that I now have internet again!
Woohoo!
On 6/18/2021 at 1:01 AM, muggle not said:We drove up into the mountains today for lunch to celebrate my wife's Birthday. It is a 128 mile drive from our home to Blowing Rock, North Carolina. We had a wonderful day.
Blowing Rock is a village in western North Carolina on the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway. It’s named after The Blowing Rock, a formation with sweeping views of peaks, forests and the Johns River Gorge.
These are a few photos while we were there. The photo of the flowers and the statue of the little girl reading a book are in front of the towns beautiful little library. Please enlarge the photo of the little girl's statue as it is adorable.
Such beautiful photos!! Awww "Jessie"! It sounds like a wonderful trip. Happy belated birthday to your wife!
On 6/19/2021 at 1:41 AM, poppy said:I'm really happy today, our special needs daughter had her second covid injection yesterday and quite a few people have said they felt lousy after the second one. Apart from a sore arm, she's fine and we're happily watching Despicable Me for the ?th time
I am really happy your daughter feels fine after her second vaccination
. I'm getting mine soon.
On 6/20/2021 at 10:57 AM, timebug said:I had a similar 'meeting' with my cousins grandaughter. She was born a year ago,and with lockdown(s) and safety precautions, I was unable to actually meet her properly and hold her, until about three weeks ago. All our family are now fully vacinated, and it was a delight to hold the baby girl, who is now on the verge of walking, and therefore will only stay with anyone for a couple of minutes, before getting the urge to be mobile again!
This sounds wonderful, I'm glad you got to hold her
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On 6/20/2021 at 2:41 PM, lunababymoonchild said:I have just found out that storing books on their back cover i.e. lying them flat, saves space and that I can get more books in that way. I'd read about this before but gave it a try today and got four - 2 of them very thick - in a space where, stored the conventional way, they were hanging off the side of the shelf (on a bookend). And I don't need bookends!
This gives me the opportunity to go through my books, which is second only to reading them. Happy me.
I love going through my books and re-arranging them on the bookshelves, I wish you lots of fun!
On 6/20/2021 at 10:10 PM, Madeleine said:Met up with friends at a garden, which was lovely, and had lunch, 3 of us have met in person a couple of times this year, but hadn't seen one of the others "in the flesh" for about since Xmas 2019m when we went to see "Little Women" at the cinema!
This sounds like a lovely time!
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22 hours ago, Hayley said:
Just remembered I didn’t update this. I didn’t do a page count this month because my main goal was to get back into the book, but I definitely did that! We were painting at the new house but every time I had a break I sat in the garden and read a bit more. The Essex Serpent is very atmospheric and I got drawn back in easily, so happy with this months read-a-thon!
I'm glad you were able to get drawn back in
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20 hours ago, lunababymoonchild said:I read just over 100 pages of my current read, Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse. If that counts :-)
Of course it does
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I read Phoebe and her Unicorn 4: Razzle Dazzle Unicorn by Dana Simpson (children's comic / graphic novel, 181 pages), Mees Kees 2: Op de kast by Mirjam Mous (ill. Rick de Haas) (children's illustrated book, 85 pages), and Summer Wars by Mamoru Hosoda, Iqura Sugimoto, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (manga, 589 pages).
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I'm glad to know it was easy for you to get back into that world. Thank you!
Thanks! I did enjoy them
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Awww
. I'm glad the cat should hopefully be okay and that she feels better soon. I hope you feel better soon and that you can sleep more another time, hopefully you feel more rested maybe during the weekend. 