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It's been another rainy day.

"Something pursued her." The Crime Writer by Jill Dawson

I've started reading The Little Book Shop of Lonely Hearts by Annie Darling.

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It actually snowed today. And rained.

I'm currently reading the horror book that was self-published by a man I met at a work-related function (he's a colleague). There are no page numbers but I'd say there are maybe 200 pages and I'm well over half of it. It's been a pretty interesting read, quite far out there, but enjoyable! I think I will able to finish it tomorrow at the latest, and that means I'll have read one book in June already on the third day! Might seem very little to some, but for me it's pretty amaze-balls! I hope to keep it up.

Very clever indeed! I'm totally in love with them!

Hello and welcome to the forum!

Hello and welcome to the forum!

Hello and welcome to the forum!

I'm currently reading a book off the TBR pile! It's a Finnish novel by someone I've met once: someone who's self-published.

Thanks Little Pixie! Can't wait to get to my next read! I almost forgot.... I ordered these cute magnetic bookmarks a few weeks ago and now they've arrived. Here's one of them:

It's the last day of May, and I can say this month was better for me reading-wise! For the first time this year, I managed to read more than 3 books per month! I read 5 books altogether. This makes me very happy! And even though my latest read was a 2/5, it at least made me more interested in reading again. I would not watch TV or be online as much, because I'd read instead! Hurrah!

17. The Best of Adam Sharp by Graeme Simsion Blurb: I was back home in Norwich, reading up on Pete Best, the Beatles' forgotten first drummer, when the email popped up in the bottom corner of my screen. From: angelina.brown@tpg.com.au Hi That was it. Hi. After twenty-to years without any contact at all, out of the blue, Angelina Brown, my Great Lost Love, decides to change the world and writes Hi. Thoughts: Being a big fan of Simsion's Don Tillman books, I had to try this new book by the author. I think I had high hopes for the book, but then I read Athena's thoughts of it and thought I'd have to be careful. It was a great book in that I found it unputdownable. I read it in three days and that's not something that's happened to me often this year. I read and read, and kept wanting to read it when I couldn't, because of work or sleep. The story flowed nicely and it was easy to read. However, the characters didn't really grow on me. For a while I was interested in how things would pan out for the protagonist, but after a certain point * I got really annoyed by some of the characters and just wanted to finish the novel as quick as possible. Music plays an important part in the novel and songs are mentioned on every other page or so it seems, at least. I love music, but it was either too much for me, and too often, or maybe it was just that it wasn't my type of music. Apart from I Will Survive and a few Beatles songs I don't think I know any of the rest. Maybe it was just as well that it wasn't my type of music, because I didn't like the characters, either. Rather disappointed with this one. * Athena, you can read this spoiler if you're interested in more detailed thoughts: 2/5

I dare say I don't think I did

Does that basically mean you would like us to help you do your homework?

If this is the kind of book you don't enjoy reading, why would you need a detailed summary of it?

16. When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow by Dan Rhodes Blurb: Everybody at the Women's Institute in the village of Upper Bottom is eagerly awaiting the arrival of a very special guest speaker: the world famous evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins. But with a blizzard setting in, their visitor finds himself trapped in the nearby town of Market Horten, with no choice but to take lodgings with the local Anglican vicar. Will the professor be able to abide by his motto cordiality always while surrounded by Christians? Will he ever reach Upper Bottom? And can his assistant, Smee, save the day? Thoughts: I will freely and without any feelings of shame confess I didn't know this Richard Dawkins is a real person I went into the novel thinking it's about made up people. It was Kylie's comment in the Book Activity section that made me realize I needed to google Richard Dawkins. I've heard of The God Delusion before, I know some on here have read the book, but I didn't know much about it, or the author. I liked the first third of the novel and got a few LOLs out of it. It did get a bit repetitive after a while, though. Dawkins kept on hammering people in the head with his opinions and I started to wonder what the point was, if there was any. I did enjoy the characters and the rural setting, but I think Rhodes could've done so much more with the religious vs atheist, or he could've at least approached it from different angles. Without the twist in the end, it would've been a rather dull book by the end, in my humble opinion. However, I can't say it was a brilliant twist, at least as far as I'm concerned. I hope it will work better for other Rhodes fans. Sad to give it a 2/5

I finished reading When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow by Dan Rhodes last night, and started reading The Best of Adam Sharp by Graeme Simsion.

^ It's one way of measuring things, yes Boss and I went to a flea market today, Boss bought 4 books and I settled for three. I bought two novels by Finnish authors, and How the Dead Live by Will Self. I've never read anything by him, and have always thought his books are too out there. That might still be the case, but I was intrigued by the blurb of this particular title. I've just checked my list and I'm happy to say it's on the 1001 Books list I met a few friends and we went to have a picnic at a park (well, everyone bought something to drink and something to eat. It was not fancy at all.) and I was very pleasantly surprised when a friend of my friend mentioned a few books and I realized he was a reader. I've just started reading When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow by Dan Rhodes, which is about Richard Dawkins, and I asked if anyone had read The God Delusion. The guy had read it! We talked about it a bit. I should've pushed him to read the Dan Rhodes book. But we started talking about infanticide and eugenics. A bit heavy for a picnic in my opinion, but I had such a great time! Considering I only knew two of the people and three were perfect strangers. They were all so nice and interesting! I reserved a copy of The God Delusion and it arrived at the library today. I hope to get to it soon.

Well, he's a bit of a self-important pompous dick in the book, at least so far. Maybe you might not enjoy the book.

Oh wow! I don't know if I should say this... but for some reason or another, Turku is considered the asshole of Finland I don't know why!!! I've never been there. I want to visit someday. I'm sure it'll be beautiful. But it's a place of its own.

Yes indeed Saksa means Germany, Saksan means Germany's. I can't help it, I'm a linguist at heart! I try to keep it to the things I think others might find interesting or funny. You're welcome Athena!

Thanks Athena!

I'm sorry you were disappointed with Simsion's new book Coincidentally my copy of the book will be at the library next week so I can have a go at it soon enough. I want to see if I'll be disappointed too!