bobblybear
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Have a great reading year, Andrea.
I have the Sarah Millican book on my TBR list, so I'm glad you have given it a good review.
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Have a great reading year in 2018, Willoyd. I enjoyed your review of I Am Pilgrim immensely.
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Happy reading in 2018, Karen.
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Have a great reading year, Brian. I hope War & Peace goes well for you. It's one of those books that I vaguely intend to read, but it's just too intimidating to start.
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Have a great reading year, Gaia!
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Have a great reading year, Muggle Not. I'm glad you enjoyed Sleeping Beauties. I couldn't finish it; it just seemed to drag on.
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On 2/27/2018 at 2:32 PM, Nollaig said:
Just started The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt today. Really liked the first two eps.
I keep meaning to start this. It's been on my Netflix List for ages.
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Have a great reading year in 2018, Little Pixie!.
I'm flattered that you have my recommendations on your thread.
Hope you enjoy them as much as I did! 
And congrats on reading so many books so far!!
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Have a great reading year, Noll. And good luck with the Masters.
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Have a great reading year in 2018, Kay!
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Have a great reading year in 2018, Frankie!
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Happy reading in 2018, Claire. I'm in awe that you have finished 30 books already this year!
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Happy reading in 2018, Alexander.
I'm another fan of Misery, both the book and the movie.
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Happy reading in 2018, Ian.
Shame about Children of Men, as it's a book I've had high hopes for.
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Happy reading in 2018, Kylie! You have so many books to keep you busy!
Helter Skelter is a brilliant read, isn't it?
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Have a great reading year in 2018, Janet! Sounds like you are making a good start to it.
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Have a great reading year in 2018!
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Terrible! Last night it took me 6 hours to get home from work, and I only work 7 miles away. I didn't get home until 8pm, and ended up having to abandon my car on the seafront when it got stuck in the snow.
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Oh, I forgot there are new Kindle deals. I shall check them out immediately!
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On 2/28/2018 at 6:09 PM, claudibee said:
I've just tried to compile a proper reading list for myself from the stupidly large piles of reading lists I've managed to scribble out over the years so my first book to read is 'Empire of the Sun' by J G Ballard. I've only read a couple of chapters so I've no idea if I'll like it enough to stay the course but I'd like to try because I'm not getting any younger and the lists are getting longer, they have to be controlled or one of us will die.
"...one of use will die..."
I wasn't a big fan of Empire of the Sun. I struggled to finish it (and I also had to read it when I was in school), but I hope you enjoy it more than I did.
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Happy reading in 2018!
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Hope you have a great reading year, Michelle. And good luck with the studies. I know how difficult it is to balance studying with full time working!
I see you've read Why We Sleep. I bought it earlier in the month (Kindle Daily Deal), and thought it would be interesting as I always feel behind in sleep (even when I get 8 hours)!
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On 1/20/2018 at 9:06 AM, willoyd said:
Finished and now moved on to Terry Hayes's I Am Pilgrim, both a Round Robin challenge, and a reading group selection. Around 150 pages into this 800+ page tome, and almost certain I'm not going to finish. Started well, although the warning signs were there, but the last hundred pages have been pretty dire. So bad on so many levels. Will keep going for the present - it is a reading group book after all, and you never know, it might pick up - but this so far is not a book with which to waste much of either my time or shelf space.
I read I Am Pilgrim a couple of years ago and loved it. I decided to give it a re-read a couple of weeks ago, and I couldn't finish it. I read the first quarter, then started skimming and just eventually gave up. So strange how I enjoyed it so much on the first read (to the point where I even recommended it to loads of people!) but just couldn't even finish it the second time around. And it's not because I knew how it ended - I had forgotten the finer details. I just thought it was a pretty poorly written book this time around.
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I hope you have a great reading year in 2018!
A 2018 Book blog by Books do Furnish a Room
in Past Book Logs
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Have a great reading year in 2018.
I read Thin Air last year and enjoyed it. Not quite as much as Dark Matter, but it was still pretty good.