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I finished it last night. I loved the nostalgia factor, but there were way too many grammatical and spelling errors. Back to Rogue Male. I WILL finish it soon!

This evening I started Tamagotchi Diary: Requiem for a Digital Egg by Joe Hutsko. It's a short non-fiction about the author's first experience with hatching and looking after a Tamagotchi virtual pet. It's a charming read. (I have a large Tamagotchi collection of my own, so this book is hitting all the right spots, and making me smile. )

I'm only just past the halfway point with Rogue Male. I haven't really been in the mood for it, although when I do pick it up, it's enjoyable. This weekend, I might start Unfinished Business by James Van Praagh. It's another book about the afterlife, which I'm fascinated by after having recently read the fab Testimony of Light.

I've managed to cross three off the list that I made last year. Woolf has become one of my favourite authors, so that was a good pick.

That's awesome! I just threw away my poach pods. There's no going back now.

Overcast, but still fairly warm. The sun's been in hiding for the past few days.

It's National Vegetarian Week this week! I know we have quite a few vegetarians here at the forum, which is lovely. After two years as an ovo-veggie, last month I finally took the plunge and went vegan. I'm not missing eggs at all, which baffles me. I hope everyone is off to a good start with their week. I'm trying to get a few quotes together so I can have some much needed work done on my central heating. This process is taking forever and is a nightmare!

You're welcome! I want to read more books on the subject now.

Testimony of Light turned out to be an amazing, eye-opening read. Would recommend to anyone who's interested in the afterlife. I've just started Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household, which is a thriller about a failed assassination attempt on Hitler. The would-be killer is caught and tortured, but manages to escape. The book follows the man's attempts to outwit his pursuers. Not my usual genre, but I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.

I finally finished The Waves by Virginia Woolf! It took me three weeks to read 168 pages. Phew. I preferred the first half of the book. The further in I waded, the more oblique and fractured the narrative became, and my attention kept wandering off and away. Not my favourite, but still a 3/5. I'm now about to start Testimony of Light by Helen Greaves, a non-fiction book about messages from the afterlife, which sounds pretty interesting.

I just read a non-fiction book about bats. Bats by Phil Richardson. It was fascinating, and I learned a lot. Bats are wonderful little creatures. I'm halfway through The Waves by Virginia Woolf. It's taking me a while. It's a stream-of-consciousness novel that demands full concentration, otherwise you might just as well be turning the pages with your eyes shut. This is not a book to pick up when you're distracted or tired. I'm enjoying it, although so far not quite as much as VW's other works that I've read.

I finished The Disappearance Boy. Nothing much happened, but I liked it. The main protagonist was compelling, and the descriptive passages of 1950s Brighton were wonderfully evocative. I'm about to begin The Waves by Virginia Woolf. Aieeeee! Wish me luck. This is the one I've heard.... things.... about.

Nine so far, which is good going for me.

I'm almost halfway through The Disappearance Boy by Neil Bartlett. The writing is gorgeous, as (most) always with this author, but the plot is moving veeeeery slowly. I'm curious to find out if anything will happen! I think it'll be a 4/5 regardless, because I'm enjoying the atmosphere.

I want to read this too! It sounds fantastic. I'm waiting for it to come out in paperback, though.

The Introvert was pretty good; rather dark and odd. Although I would say that the protagonist was less of an introvert and more of a semi-controlled psychopath! I'm now looking forward to starting The Disappearance Boy by Neil Bartlett. It's set in 1950s England, and follows the life of an illusionist's assistant.

Just finished The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie. Enjoyable, but not one of my favourites. Now on to The Introvert by Michael Paul Michaud, which is apparently both weird and original, so I'm all up for that.

No snow here on the east coast, but it's freezing cold, and the wind is hurling itself flat against all of my east-facing windows. Yuck. I thought we were all done with this nonsense.

Hi Matt, It would help if you could let us know your preferred style of humour: dark, surreal, dry, punny, silly, etc. We'll be able to give you better recommendations that way. Here are a few to start with anyway: Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs #1) by Spike Milligan. Surreal and silly, laugh-out-loud funny. Augustus Carp Esq. by Henry H. Bashford. Dry, silly, and tongue-in-cheek. Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh. Drawn in a crude comic style, but very funny and relatable. (A couple of excellent chapters on depression, btw.)

I was given Fungus the Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs when I was around 10 years old, and I adored it. The humour was bleak, sharp, and wise. I unearthed my old copy a year or two ago, quite unintentionally. That was a good day.

I've never had pierogi, I had to Google! They sound really good. Tonight it's homemade veggie meatballs with spaghetti, steamed veg, and a sliced avocado. One of my favourite meals.

It's about a young man who yearns for a beautiful house and a wonderful wife, and he gets both -- but at a price. There's a gipsy's curse on their land! I finished it last night. It was great. On to another AC now: The Mystery of the Blue Train. This will be my last Christie for a while, so let's hope it's a goodun'.

I'm past the halfway mark with Endless Night, and wow, this is unlike any Agatha Christie that I've read before. For one thing, the characterisation of the two main protagonists is extremely well done -- which, dare I say it, is something that can't be said for the majority of Christie's characters across her other works, which to me tend to be reminiscent of cut-out cardboard, and so leaving it up to the plots themselves to shine -- which they most often do. That's why AC is one of my favourite crime/mystery authors -- her plotting and twisting! But anyway, Endless Night is a gripping read, with interesting characters, and I can't wait to see what happens...

I finished After the Funeral. It was an entertaining read, and it satisfied my Poirot cravings! Keeping with Agatha Christie, I've just started Endless Night, which isn't a Poirot, but more of a suspense novel from what I can gather. I'm only a few pages in. Booktube's Paperback Junky reviewed it and said that the ending blew his mind, so I'm looking forward to seeing what transpires.

I'm nearly halfway through After the Funeral by Agatha C., and am enjoying it. I suspect everybody. Red herrings are flying hither and thither.