Marie H
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10 hours ago, France said:
If you haven't read any of the Iron Druid books I recommend those, they are huge fun and there's an irresistable telepathic Irish woldhound.
And the typo on the cover is irresistible, so I bought the Kindle.
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8 hours ago, Hayley said:
Added to wish list! I need to hear more about the telepathic Irish wolfhound
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The Kindle version is 99p at the mo.
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Started the manga Komi Can’t Communicate #4 by Tomohito Oda. Took a while (#1-3) until I got into the series, but I really enjoy it now.
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16 hours ago, poppy said:
Thank you, Natosha. Some great information there! Had to look up EVOO
It’s shorter on a shopping list!
Ah, we used to have a bread maker machine, about 12 years ago. Having fresh bread in the morning (putting the bread ingredients overnight & auto timing baking is great) is just wonderful.
But one negative thing is that the bread becomes dry very quickly, and with only 2 people in the household, you have a lot of stale bread to use. Plus, one of the bread machine paddles stopped working, so that was the end of making fresh bread.
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A glorious sunny afternoon; so sunny it’s hard on the eyes 😎
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My reading mojo is in a lull.
It was doing well, then while reading Wendy Jones’ The World is a Wedding there was a sudden and rather gory description (at a funeral director in the 1920s) that I was horrified by it!It just seemed to be gratuitous gore. Now I don’t want to go back to the book anymore.
So, back to The Winter of the Witch (Winternight Trilogy #3) by Katherine Arden. -
13 read so far (1 actual book, 12 graphic novels/novellas).
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The Day Before You Came - Blancmange
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Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White was one of my favourites.
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Mister Sandman - The Chordettes
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Read recently
The Girl in The Tower: (Winternight Trilogy #2) by Katherine Arden, which I really enjoyed the first half, but found the storyline(s) weren’t so good later on because
SpoilerI couldn’t get the ideas that Vasya’s brother and sister, both very religious people (especially her brother being a monk) living in medieval Russia, could cope with the concept of Vasya being a witch, though still be not evil.)
Rivers of London, Volume 4: Detective Stories
(Rivers of London graphic novels #4. Hmm, not bad, but I found this graphic novel not as good as more volumes.
Currently reading
Rivers of London: Cry Fox: Volume 5 (Rivers of London graphic novels #5).
The Winter of the Witch (Winternight Trilogy #3) by Katherine Arden
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A very chilly -4°C in Shropshire this morning.
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Though it’s better that -23 at Braemar overnight, and still -11°C at the moment! -
Finished Ben Aaronovitch The Further Station (Rivers of London novella) and it was a very good read. So I’ll try the next of the series, which is Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London #7).
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2 hours ago, lunababymoonchild said:
Well, I read more than I anticipated over the w/e. I like - need! - to read 50 pages a day and got up to that over the weekend. If I don't read 50 pages a day I start twitching! Does anybody else do that or is it just me?
I need to read every day, and it’s a real joy, and not just to pass away time. It’s almost like doing a meditation, and it’s very soothing when I find a really good book.
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14 hours ago, lunababymoonchild said:
I'm new here and thought I'd resurrect this thread because it's interesting.
I'm an extrovert. I also like quiet me time and I don't like going to parties. I don't mind having a chat with a stranger and I don't mind a room full of people. I can be loud - depending on your bench-mark - and I seem to terrify shy people for some reason (I don't do that deliberately). People say that I talk too much, which is probably true. Obviously this thread took place before lockdown. I'm coping well, how are all you introverts?
no we haven't discussions about introverts/extrovert since the pandemic, but my introvert traits have coped very well, I think especially during the lockdowns.
Thankfully I do live with my sister, who is my carer, so I haven't had any problems with food shopping etc. It's still more safe for me to stay at home, and avoiding close contact with anyone else.
Though the idea of going back to normal social activities (once I have the vaccines) in the future does worry me. I think that now I'm even less interested in social chitchat
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3 hours ago, poppy said:
Reading The New Mrs Clifton by Elizabeth Buchan.
Starts with the discovery of a skeleton in a garden, then goes back 30 years to just after WW2, when a man returns to England with his German bride.
Ooh, I'm really glad you're reading The New Mrs Clifton
. I loved it!!
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Managed a couple of hours reading yesterday and today. Finished Black Mould (Rivers of London graphic novel), and started The Further Station (Rivers of London novella) today. Nice to see Abigail again in The Further Station, and looking forward to seeing What Abigail Did That Summer in March!
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6 hours ago, Raven said:
That was listed as a "book for you", for me, today.
Oh the irony....
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This weekend I will be reading books by authors I really like, rather than the books I should read. *metaphorically throws a few book over her shoulder*
So I have a handful of Rivers of London novella/graphic novels to read.
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3 hours ago, Chrissy said:
An excellent choice.
Congratulations, Brian.
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21 hours ago, willoyd said:
Finished Richard Osman's book The Thursday Murder Club, pinched off OH after she finished it (Christmas present). Really good fun, surprisingly moving in places; thoroughly enjoyed it: 4/6.
Yes, I really enjoyed The Thursday Murder Club, though the plots did go a bit far fetched!
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Kindle UK has Kind Hearts and Coronets by Roy Horniman for 99p. I’ve watched the film before, and it’s an absolute classic, so I’ll try the book too.
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Having starting Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London #7) yesterday, I have to put it aside, as I have a few of the Graphic Novels Rivers of London before Lies Sleeping. So the next Aaronovitch graphics novel is Black Mould.
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I'm looking forward to the Feb read-a-thon, as it looks like wintery weather this weekend, so it will be nice to be all cosy reading time.
Your Book Activity - March 2021
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My reading mojo is very.....distant at the moment. I manage a couple of pages, and I drift off into any subjects, but not reading
. None of the books I’m reading recently just doesn’t grab my attention.
So I will try something I should enjoy, so it’ll be either Rivers of London series or The Chronicles of St Mary’s next.