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    Your Book Activity - March 2016

    in Past Book Logs

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    Fab book, Kylie!!  I'm glad you like it.

     

    Glad you are enjoying it. I think the last few chapters are beautifully and poetically written. :smile:

    Thank you both. I finished it today and enjoyed it to the read. What a great read! :)

     

    No book activity yet, since my eye surgery and I miss reading so much :help:

     

    You poor thing. :( I hope you're on the mend and can get back to reading (and other things) soon.

     

     

    I've now started reading James De Mille's A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, which was first published in 1888 and came to my attention via a list of dystopian books. From the blurb it seems like it might be more utopian than dystopian, but time will tell. I'm excited to finally read it because I've been wanting to do so for quite a few years. I've read the first 20 pages and am already gripped by it. Worth the wait! :D

    Frankie reads 2016

    in Past Book Logs

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    Thanks for the clip! They're so funny. :D

     

    Augusten: I can't believe the oaf wrote it...

    (and then) This is my brother, John Elder Robison...

    John: Woof.

     

    :haha:

     

    I'm really, really looking forward to reading it now!

    Have You Seen…?

    in Music / TV / Films

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    I've also heard there'll be a second series of Wayward Pines although not sure where they'll take it after the way the first one ended.

     

    Wow, that's interesting! I thought it was only going to be one season. It will indeed be interesting to see where they take it.

    Kylie's Literary Adventures in 2016

    in Past Book Logs

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    How did it go? I think you just recently did this.

     

    The shows were really good. We took along some friends, including the two people we want to be the leads in our show, and they really loved it. We also met some of the cast and crew at both shows and had a good chat. They were really friendly and keen to help us (especially the people at the second show). We've arranged to buy a chair from the first show, which was going to be the trickiest prop to find, and we'll be getting a load of stuff from the second show. We just need to arrange a time to pick it all up. :)

     

    It somehow reminds me that I want to read more by Andrey Kurkov...

    Ooh, yes, me too! I especially want to read Penguin Lost.

     

    Marieke recommended it? I must check it out :smile2: What's Jason been up to?

    Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was her. Oh, and there's big news in the world of The Book Club! They've changed the format this year. Instead of monthly shows, they're going to start later in the year (May) and do 13 shows over 13 weeks. I'm not sure how they'll find time to read the books if it's weekly. *shrugs*

     

    I personally want to go in head-first and not know anything about what's going to come  :smile2: I do hope there will be book references!! And I hope that some of the books that are god awful and have been on the lists based on movie titles or because they are bad books are mentioned in the new series and they'll say that they'd never ever read them  :D

    OK, I'll be sure not to mention anything I read about it. :)

     

    Haha. I wouldn't hold my breath! But I can't wait to see what books they mention.

     

    Kylie's Literary Adventures in 2016

    in Past Book Logs

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    I hope you enjoy your new books. I especially loved Station Eleven; it was one of the best reads of last year. :boogie:

     

    I will second that recommendation for Station Eleven. I really enjoyed reading this last year. 

     

    Thank you both. :) I started reading it yesterday and have read about 90 pages, which is pretty good going for me. :) I'm really enjoying it.

     

     

    I received some new books in the mail this week:

     

    Alan Bradley The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

    I've already read this, but I had to buy a new copy to match the other books in the series.  :blush2: I'm so pleased that they're finally all consistent. They look so pretty on the shelf. :)

     

    Alan Bradley As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust

    This is the most recent of the Flavia books. :)

     

    Erik Larson Isaac's Storm and Thunderstruck

    These are the last two of Larson's (main) books that were missing from my collection. Isaac's Storm is about a hurricane that destroyed the town of Galveston, Texas, in 1900. Thunderstruck is about (from the blurb) 'Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication' (Sari, is that the Crippen?!) I can't wait to read these (after I've read In the Garden of Beasts, which is first in the Larson queue).

     

    Dalton Trumbo Johnny Got His Gun

    Thanks to Chaliepud for this recommendation! :)

    Innovative bookish ideas

    in General Book Discussions

    Posted

    Very interesting! I love seeing old books repurposed into works of art. There are often a lot of complaints made by book lovers on these types of things, because they think it's sacrilegious. I'm the first one to get upset when I see a broken spine or dog-eared page, but I think it's going a bit too far to criticise people for repurposing books that would otherwise end up in the bin.

    Your Book Activity - March 2016

    in Past Book Logs

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    I finished reading John Hersey's Hiroshima and started An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield. The former was excellent, and I'm really enjoying the latter so far. I also started Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey recently, so I'll be continuing with that.

    Muggle Not - Books Read 2016

    in Past Book Logs

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    The strangest thing has happened. Yesterday when I checked my holds list at the library I noticed that there were 6 books on hold not the 5 that you see in the quote. The new book on hold is The Girl That Died A Lot by Jasper Fforde. I "DID NOT" put the book on hold but as many of you know Jasper is one of my favorite authors. Today I got an email notification saying the book was ready for me to download. :blink: I am pretty sure I have not previously read this book so I guess I will download it. :)

    Maybe your library knows you so well now that they automatically added the book to your hold list for you. It's a nice thought anyway. :)

    Pets - 2016

    in General Chat

    Posted

    It's a pretty common problem. Cats just don't like being put in their carriers! Don't worry about them too much though. It's for their own good, after all.

     

    My Jasper used to go and hide under the bed when it was vet time. To overcome that problem, I started shutting the doors to the bedrooms to limit the number of places he could hide. Now I place the carrier in the house the day before and just leave it sitting there with the door open. He gets used to it being there and just walks past it. Then when the time comes for us to leave, I usually head towards the kitchen (because I know he'll follow me there), and I scoop him up and head straight to the waiting carrier. You have to try and get them in quick, though, because they'll still fight you on it. Hold tight! If they escape, they'll then be on their guard and make it much more difficult for you.

     

    So basically, put the carrier in the room the day before it's needed so you can catch her off guard. ;)

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