Kylie
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13 hours ago, poppy said:
Think you'll enjoy it Kylie. Has Natalie Dormer, who played Margaery Tyrell in Game of Thrones, as the nasty headmistress.
I'm sure she'll be great in it!
Is anyone else watching The Handmaid's Tale? It's utterly brilliant!
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I don't keep my wishlist books on Goodreads—only books I actually own. My shelves are so out of date though. I'm sure there are books on there that I long since got rid of, and many hundreds more that I've never added. 😕
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On 29/05/2018 at 7:12 PM, poppy said:
I've been watching the remake mini series of Picnic At Hanging Rock. I read the book by Joan Lindsay a long time ago, which I think is fortunate as I have only vague recollections of the story. The series, according to reviews, differs from the book in several ways and has a lot more detail. It's quite an eerie story and beautifully filmed.
I'm looking forward to watching this! I haven't yet read the book, but I've seen the original movie several times. My dad loved that movie—particularly the pipe music.
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On 26/05/2018 at 12:09 AM, chesilbeach said:
Comedy Central recently started showing Gilmore Girls again from the beginning, so I've been trying to watch them all again - missed a few at the beginning and a few more in the middle of series 1 when my hard disk recorder failed to record while we were away for a week, but if I can find the DVDs (our house is still in the chaos of redecorating) I might try and catch up with the ones I've missed at some point. Absolutely loving be back in Stars Hollow
Yay!
I've been binge-watching The Big Bang Theory from the beginning. I'm up to season 7.
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On 09/03/2018 at 10:01 AM, Raven said:
Pff... You leave your thread alone for a week or so and look what riff-raff walks in... (Hullo!).
Oy!
But thanks for the review. I guess I'll give it a miss, especially if it can't match (or at least come close to) Wells's style of writing.
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I treated myself to a new book the other day: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman. I started reading it straight away (unusual for me!) and I'm about halfway through it. It's very readable and enjoyable—difficult to put down, which is just what I need in a book right now!
Also recently finished How to Stop Time by Matt Haig—another excellent book.
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Halfway through my 15th book, which is ahead of my measly target of 26.
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American Horror Story - Coven
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If you can tell me which episode it's from, I should be able to work it out.
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And now Obama is visiting us! We love him too...mind you, we also love NZ's current PM. I'd happily swap ours for yours any day, Poppy!
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Hi Raven!
Does Stephen Baxter write in the same sort of style as HG Wells in The Massacre of Mankind?
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I went to the book fair a couple of weekends ago and came home with the following. Books with 'n.a.' next to them aren't added to my TBR pile for different reasons (basically they're all nicer editions to replace the ones I already have, except in a few instances, where I'll also be keeping my original edition). It wasn't the greatest book fair for me in terms of special finds, but it was still pretty great.
Fiction (26)
Margaret Atwood Hag-Seed
Paul Beatty The Sellout
Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita (n.a.) (50th anniversary deluxe edition)
Mikhail Bulgakov A Young Doctor's Notebook
Agatha Christie The Sittaford Mystery
Agatha Christie Three Act Tragedy (n.a.)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Little Prince (n.a.)
Hugh Edwards Islands of Angry Ghosts
Joseph Heller Closing Time (n.a.)
Joseph Heller Something Happened (n.a.)
ETA Hoffman Tales of Hoffmann
Andrey Kurkov The President's Last Love (n.a.)
John le Carré The Russia House
John le Carré The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Ann M Martin Stacey McGill, Super Sitter
JD Salinger The Catcher in the Rye (n.a.)
John Scalzi Lock in
Natasha Solomons The Song Collector
Emily St John Mandel Last Night in Montreal
Jeff VanderMeer Acceptance
David Walliams Gangsta Granny
PG Wodehouse Doctor Sally
PG Wodehouse The Little Nugget
PG Wodehouse Love Among the Chickens
PG Wodehouse The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
PG Wodehouse Tales of St Austin'sNon-Fiction (24)
Richard Bradford Literary Rivals
James Bradley The Penguin Book of the Ocean
Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything (Illustrated) (n.a.)
Rachel Carson Silent Spring
Brian Cox Wonders of the Universe
Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker (n.a.)
Tim Flannery The Birth of Melbourne
AC Grayling The Age of Genius
J Mellentin Haswell Manual of Mosaic
Henry Hitchings Browse
David Hunt True Girt
Naomi Klein This Changes Everything
Helen Macdonald H is for Hawk
Simon Sebag Montefiori The Romanovs
Diana Mosley The Pursuit of Laughter
Robert J Nemiroff The Universe: 365 Days
Edward W Said Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient
Carl Sagan Billions and Billions
Carl Sagan The Varieties of Scientific Experience
Dava Sobel The Glass Universe
Don Watson Bendable Learnings
Don Watson Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words
Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters
John Wright The CSIRO Home Energy Saving Handbook -
No worries. Fixed it for you.
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I got off to a good reading start in January and I'm several books ahead of my (very small) Goodreads goal, so I've taken the opportunity to pick up a couple of books I've had 'on the go' for a couple of years. I've read another chapter or two of The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon, and I'm finally back to making some good progress with Stephen King's IT. Only a couple of hundred pages to go!
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On 30/01/2018 at 3:27 AM, chesilbeach said:
Been reading from my hardback and paperback current reads today - You Took The Last Bus Home which is the hardback poetry collection, which has lots of humour and wordplay in it, and I'm enjoying much more than any poetry I've read since my children's book of humorous verse from when I was nine!
@chesilbeach, I find that a lot of poetry is not to my taste, but I saw Bilston's poems on social media a lot last year and ended up buying You Took the Last Bus Home late last year. I tore through it and plan to start re-reading it soon. I absolutely loved it! His humour and wordplay resonate with me very much. He's so damn clever! It immediately made my list of favourite ever books.
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You both make me sad.
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Pls let me win.
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My reading year is off to a great start. I finished Matt Haig's Father Christmas and Me and read Richard P Feynman's Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! and Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. All excellent books!
Now I'm about three-quarters of the way through Vincent Bugliosi's Helter Skelter. It's utterly engrossing, so despite it's length and small print, I'm flying through it. So glad that I finally got around to reading it (with a nudge from @frankie!)
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On 09/01/2018 at 3:30 AM, Athena said:
Wow, you have so many amazing lists
! I wish you a great year in 2018 (reading & otherwise) 
. I look forward to see you around the forum more !
Thanks Gaia.
I haven't managed to catch up with everyone's reading lists yet. I need to read your summary for 2017!
On 09/01/2018 at 4:07 AM, chesilbeach said:Happy new reading year, Kylie
We've just come out of the other side of having all our books in storage while we were renovating our living room. Just before Christmas we starting bringing the books back and putting them out of the new shelves my partner has built. They'll have to come down again when the work starts again now that Christmas is out of the way, so they're not organised as the moment and it's driving me mad!
When we do organise them properly, we're going to get an app and software to scan them all so we can catalogue them properly.
Thanks Claire.
I miss my books already! It's horrible not being able to display them nicely on our shelves, isn't it? I have to admit that one of the major things on my checklist when looking for a new home will be the amount of wall space for my bookcases. I'll be downsizing, so it's going to be difficult, but I'll make it work one way or another! On 09/01/2018 at 9:12 PM, Alexi said:Happy 2018 Kylie! I remain in awe of your library. Hope to see more of you around here this year.
Thanks Alexi.
I hope to be around more often too!
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It depends on who you ask, Noll. I've seen comments saying it's the best season yet. I think the episodes are all very subjective. One commenter might say 'x' episode is the best, and the very next commenter says the opposite.
Personally, I thought it was another brilliant season and well worth the wait! Already can't wait for the next season.
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I've finished setting up my blog for 2018.
I had an abysmal reading year in 2017. I didn't post in my thread after February, and I didn't catalogue most of my new purchases throughout the year, so I had a lot of work to do to get everything up to scratch! I hope to be around the forum a bit more this year.
Happy reading everyone!
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My Library
Most of my library has been dismantled and packed into boxes. Soon all of my books and bookcases will be put into storage while I sell my house and find another place to live. Hopefully by the end of 2018 I'll have a new house and my library set up again, in which case I'll post pics here.
Check out what my library looked like in 2011! -
My Favourite Books
NEWISH are books I added in 2014–2016, NEW were added in 2017, NEWEST were added in 2018.
Fiction
Jane Austen Emma
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
John Banville The Book of EvidenceBrian Bilston You Took the Last Bus Home NEW
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
Italo Calvino If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
John Connolly The Book of Lost Things
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
Daphne du Maurier Rebecca NEWISH
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Christo
Mark Dunn Ella Minnow Pea
Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
Michel Faber The Crimson Petal and White
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated
George Grossmith Diary of a Nobody
Joseph Heller Catch-22
Susan Hill The Woman in Black
Jack Kerouac On the Road
Jack Kerouac The Town and the City
Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon
Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
Erich Maria Marquez All Quiet on the Western Front
Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
George Orwell Animal Farm
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
Bram Stoker Dracula
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tim Winton Cloudstreet
Markus Zusak The Book Thief
Young Adult
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Suzanne Collins Hunger Games (trilogy)
Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth
John Marsden Tomorrow, When the War Began (series)
A. A. Milne Winnie the Pooh
Walter Moers The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
Lucy M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter (series)
Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Non-Fiction
Bill Bryson Down Under
Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods
Byll Bryson A Short History of Nearly EverythingVincent Bugliosi Helter Skelter NEWEST
Truman Capote In Cold Blood
AB Facey A Fortunate Life
Tim Flannery The Explorers
Tim Flannery The Birth of Sydney
Anne Frank The Diary of Anne Frank
Helene Hanff 84 Charing Cross RoadElizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction NEW
Erik Larson Dead Wake NEWISH
Erik Larson The Devil in the White City NEWISH
Steven D. Levitt Freakonomics
Sylvia Plath The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon
Martin Toseland A Steroid Hit the Earth
Read-a-thon 2018
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Ooh, maybe I'll be able to join in for once because I don't currently have work or plans for the weekend.
I recently started rereading Arthur C Clarke's Collected Stories (950+ pages of small print), so maybe I could knock off a few stories. I'm entering every single story in the Contents tab of the Book Collector software as I go. I'm adding a synopsis for each story and a few words for a review, plus a rating and when I read it. This way I'll be able to look back in future and be reminded of what the stories are about and how much I liked them.
I also have loads of books on the go because I keep starting books and not finishing them, so maybe I could make some progress in a few books.