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Chrissy

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  1. I bought The Winter Spirits:Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights. (UK currently 99p on kindle). How could I resist? Thanks @Hayley
  2. I consider myself 'caught up' for the 2023 BCF Book Club Reading challenge, and indeed ahead of myself for this quarters Winter themed challenge. Although, for the sake of clarity I should admit to cheating! @France had recommended Herman Melville's Moby Dick as a Victorian / At Sea / Winter as a means of my fulfilling the last 2 challenges of 2023 , and meeting the current one. Although I did go ahead and purchase this, I know that this monster book (at 500+ pages) is a little out of my reach for now. @Hayley then suggested The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins. At 70 pages, this story of love, friendship and duty was eminently readable in one sitting. The entire story wears the chill of winter. The sea is the backdrop to most of the story, and it is most definitely Victorian. Cheat I may be, but I will forgive myself and nestle into the glow of having completed a little reading.
  3. It makes one feel cosy and content just looking at it.
  4. It certainly fits my brief, although with my reading mojo problems, it may be a while before I read my way through the big beasty of a book! πŸ™‚
  5. Now, if I can only find a Victorian novel based at sea in the winter, I will be able to do a complete catch up of the Book Club reads to date! πŸ˜‰ Winter as a theme is most definitely appropriate at the moment, although I think mythology and folklore later on might be interesting.
  6. Oh Luna, so sorry to read this. My best wishes to you in your recovery. xx
  7. I would like to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas! May your days be peaceful, happy, safe and well. Filled with laughter and love. And may we all walk into 2024 with smiles in our hearts.
  8. Two very wonderful words! I am so pleased for you. x
  9. So pleased to read this. I hope the pain eases very soon for you and the pathology results bring good news. My very best wishes to you.
  10. Glad to read that you are currently home, and that you have a date for the surgery you need. Sending you my best wishes.
  11. My goodness, @lunababymoonchild. I send you my warmest and sincerest wishes for your recovery. Take very good care of yourself and know we will all be holding you in our thoughts. xx
  12. Sorry about the loss of your Nan, Hayley. I hope you and your family are doing OK. x
  13. Hello there Ania. I have read three novels by the German author Sebastian Fitzek and found them to be unpredictable. 'Therapy', 'Splinter' and 'The Eye Collector' are the three I have read, although he has written 10 more that I am yet to read.
  14. Yippee! I can extend my 'Sea' challenge into 'Victorian' with Treasure Island. When I finally find the headspace to read more than an E Mail that is! πŸ˜‰
  15. My current approach is to add 'ish to the end of September. I hope to have read a few bits by the end'ish of September'ish! πŸ˜„
  16. I have hit a humongous reading slump, although I still consider myself on this reading challenge! I have read an entire paragraph of Treasure Island, and have bought The Devil & The Dark Water (how could I not?). This morning I bought for 99p on kindle, a YA thriller called The Girl Who Broke The Sea. It intrigued me. September may leech into October for me and this challenge, but dammit I WILL get there! ☺️
  17. So sorry to read that you have covid , @muggle not It's horrible, isn't it? I've had it twice now, and all I can say is rest, rest, then rest some more! I found for a few weeks afterwards on both occasions that I was ridiculously tired, even though I had completely recovered from all the other symptoms. And let your body dictate what it wants to do and have. I found that was the only way to go, so I napped when it came over me to do so, and ate exactly what I fancied when I wanted it. Food wise I found myself craving 'clean' foods, so lots of fruit and vegetables and the like. I hope you are fully recovered soon. Sorry for my absence on the forum. I have been busy combined with being quite down, which is a terrible combination and makes me much less sociable. It also brings any reading to a complete halt, a fact I loathe as I always found losing myself in a book as wonderfully rejuvenating. I am climbing out the current pit of bleurgh, so will be more active. ☺️
  18. I have this on my kindle, ready to read. I'll be making a start any day now!
  19. Peach muffins? My mouth just watered! They sound so yummy. Why aren't we neighbours, @muggle not ?
  20. Has this thread had any winners yet?
  21. Just read the latest book in Jodi Taylor's Chronicles of St Mary's, The Good, The Bad & The History. I have so enjoyed this series, and this carried on my enjoyment, with it's usual combination of history, humour and fast paced story telling. They won't be to everyone's taste, but I love 'em!
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