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Give it a try, the next time you are in there* *Don't come crying to me if you get banned from the shop, though... Yay!

Pff... After five minutes in the shop you'll be cracking open the nearest tome and rubbing your face in fresh book pages again, just like the rest of us. Hope everything is okay and you managed to get some reading done!

Popped into my local Waterstone's last Saturday. Whilst I was walking around it was rather sobering to realise the last time I had been in there was Christmas Eve, the day the shop was last open before Lockdown 2: The Tricky Second Act.

It's a pass, then.

Are they likely to do the washing up?

Being really old, I have no idea what a teenager sounds like these days, but I thought Ben did a convincing job (well, convincing enough for me, anyway).

Five Neil Gaiman novels on Kindle for 99p each, today.

Nah, I was thinking about Paul Newman. Again... What a nice way of saying "you're really old..." Now that actually works for me, because it is her stream of consciousness. If is wasn't written so, then I think it would have read too much like Peter again, which was a criticism I had of Oktober Man.

Or you could always double post to show your enthusiasm!

I very occasionally underline something I might want to quote or find again easily in red, but that is very occasionally indeed. I otherwise try to keep books in pristine condition, where possible. I'm with your brother on this one, and I'll add a Gollumesque Murderer! for emphasis!

I was at work, sadly. ETA: I have been looking at other people's pictures of bookshops on social media, however...

Okay, fess up, who went to a book shop today?

My sister had half a shelf full of them!

Scum! Mention them not!

I think someone was talking about trying this the other day, but Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami is 99p on the Kindle today. As is the first Hornblower novel by CS Forester.

Well, you're only human. This might take a while... (expect a long post!)

Ear wax.

'lo! It has been a number of years since I read it, but I would say Pyramids is typical of Pratchett's books, if I remember correctly it is a little more surreal than most of his other works. I think you would find the Tiffany Aching books are more in line with what you are after.

Sorry, I know what she meant, I was making a rather oblique Black Adder reference!

Well, I don't know what a woldhound is (does it come from Dunny?) but it looks like the first book in this series - Hounded(?) - is just 99p on Kindle at the moment (yes, @Hayley, another book you cannot read at a discount price, until you find and charge up your Kindle!)

Sounds like you might like Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series (and possibly, by extension, his Discworld series of books). Also, for a more contemporary take, you might want to take a look at Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series.

That puts you just over half way through the first day. The theme from Close Encounters should be on soon, if I remember rightly.

Last week I walked into work wearing shorts and a t-shirt, today it was back to jeans and my winter coat. On the way home this evening I found myself walking towards a wall of grey cloud, with wisps of white being blown across it. I don't think I've ever seen snow falling ahead of me quite like that before, I've usually been in the middle of it, which is - of course - what happened in this case, about five minutes later. The thought of walking in the snow usually conjures a kind of Christmas card nostalgia, but the reality is far less pleasant - especially when you are walking into a strong northerly wind that makes the use of an umbrella impossible. At least I was wearing my winter coat... I'm not the only one finding the weather confusing though; when I got in there was a pigeon was sitting on the the fence in my back garden, looking very bewildered by the sudden change in conditions*. Okay, so pigeons always look very bewildered, but that's not the point...

Don't think that counts! (I also read some magazines as well!) You have 48 hours of music to listen too, if you work your way through the whole thing!

It was okay; spent most of it listening to Classic FM's annual top 300 countdown whilst doing other stuff!