bookmonkey
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Finished The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness. Really enjoyed this.
Hope the missing mojos come back and your eye feels better soon Kay.
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Enjoy the advent calendar Frankie.
Reading about your family is interesting. My grandmother recently gave me a book about our family that someone put together. I didn't know much about that side of the family as it's my mothers side and my parents are divorced, and I mostly lived with my dad. Turns out my great grandparents married less than a month before my grandmother was born, and one of my great great aunts and uncles (she only passed away 3 years ago!) married when their youngest child, of 8, was about a year old! They were from a very very small town, less than 100 people, so there must have been scandal, but having known that aunt I could see her telling people to butt out of her life. I also found out that that side of the family is from England, and now I even know the name of the ship they came to NZ on. It cost them 14 pounds per adult in the late 1800s!!
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I like this series too. I think I've read two of them.
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Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating.
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Can I join the club? I love notebooks and pretty stationary. I used to buy notebooks when I was depressed, but I ended up with too many that I never used. I haven't completely stopped, but have cut back a lot. I've got three drawers full of unused notebooks. I think I've passed the bug onto my daughter too. We spent ages recently looking for the perfect notebook for her.
I also have piles of rougher notebooks for rough work too. Things like old diaries, and partly used exercise books. They do get used, but the pile gets added to faster than I use them.
I also like nice pens, although I don't have so many of them. They tend to go walkies too much.
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The accuracy doesn't bother me. I read for enjoyment, and most fiction is just that, fiction. You don't expect total accuracy in novels.
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Finished Come Home by Lisa Scottoline. Was OK, but don't think I'll try another of hers.
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It's lovely you got to find out a bit about your grandma Frankie. It's always interesting learning about family history, even if it does stir up the emotions sometimes.
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I just recently discovered this series. I've only finished the first one so far, but I loved it. I didn't think I would, wasn't interested in that sort of period, but it was great. Hopefully I'll eventually read the rest of them, but it might take a while. They're pretty popular at our library.
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Oh you will not believe
I came home to visit my parents just an hour ago and one of the first things I hear is that somebody broke into the library last night!
Apparently a man had smashed in a window and gone in, and a guard had noticed the broken window and called the police. That's all I know about the story so far.So weird... What did he want?
I'm totally anti-breaking and entering to a library (or other facilities), but... think if he wanted very desperately to borrow a book. That was Dad's theory
Hmph.That's terrible. I could see someone doing that here. Our library has quite a few computers in it, so someone might break in to get those. Now I think about it, it's kind of surprising no ones tried before. Our schools are constantly getting broken into and their computer equipment stolen. My daughters school was broken into three times in three months.
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I loved Anne of Green Gables when I was younger. It made me like my red hair colour for a change.
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Now I have that song stuck in my head Frankie.
And your dream sounds interesting. I hardly ever remember mine. I think you'll be a good librarian, you wouldn't do something like that to someone.
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Finished The Killing Room by Richard Montanari.
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Nice that you've all completed the list of all the counties and their books! I have to say it was quite informative for me to read your discussion, I don't know a lot about counties in the UK. Good luck all who do the challenge! I might read some books from it too but not in a challenge kind of way, just because I'm interested (and I don't want to pressure myself).
I'm with you Athena. I won't be doing the challenge, but this thread has given me alot of books to add to my TBR list.
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I should finish Remains of the Day tonight. I've really enjoyed reading this.
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I always like it when a new bookshop opens, or I discover a new one. And the owl story is lovely.
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Oh, piffle, who cares about football? yeech.
No cause for the grumps. 
It turned into a gorgeous day today, after a cloudy morning, the sky turned a clear blue with, finally a few clouds in the late afternoon.
We went out early this morning, and had brek at Starbucks, triple white chocolate lattes and a bacon and egg sandwich. We were only going to go to the grocery afterwards and come home. But once back in the car we thought of driving across the lake to visit our favorite second hand book store in Uptown New Orleans, McKoewn's Books. We managed a few.....
Then we drove over to the French Quarter (about a 10 minute drive from Uptown) and stopped at a hole-in-the-wall po-boy shop.....I had the loveliest roast beef po-boy I've had in ages. YUMMMMM!
Stopped a Whole Foods on the way home, and more grocery shopping.
Long, and wonderful day.
What is a po-boy? I've never heard of it.
We had a beautiful day yesterday that had me thinking summer was here. Went to a fireworks display at the river and even at 9 at night we were in t shirts. Today it's back to wind, rain and cold again.
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What about books that the Disney films/stuff is based on? That might peak her curiosity.
Now, I didn't have children, but let me throw this out there.
Sometimes the more you push, the more they resist. Example is the best teacher, plus leaving things about such as what I mentioned above.Good luck!
I agree with this. I have two kids, both of whom used to love to read, but now hate it. I know if I push them to read they won't.
I also agree with whoever said books based on her TV shows. Maybe leave them lying around rather than saying 'here read this' for example.
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I used to sort the books at the charity shop I worked at. If they were in a rough condition they got chucked. We got so many we would only put out the good ones. I bought way too many myself while doing this, but I loved it. A dream job.
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Glad to hear you all got through OK. We're expecting another storm here in the next few days. We've had one every week for the last four weeks or so. Getting a bit sick of it.
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Depends on the shop. Some of them books are only $1 or occasionally 50c. Others they can be $4 or more.
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Frankie
Do you number them in order of the one you want most ? Or do you just let her choose so it'll be a bit of a surprise ?
This is a much better idea than letting someone choose an item for you when they have no clue what you'd want .
The Hubster found out on one of our first Christmases . He bought me PANS .
He soon found out that I have no interest in getting any item you do HOUSEWORK with for a gift . I can buy the boring crap for myself .
We usually buy our own stuff now so we both choose whatever we want . Not very exciting , but it works .
I've actually asked my dad for pots for Christmas. I badly need new ones, and Dad likes to get practical things.
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I don't buy many books, mostly get them from the library. When I do it's nearly always second hand, charity shops mostly. The second hand shops here are expensive ($10 for a book that's just about falling apart
) and new books are even worse. I have bought a couple of books for Christmas presents off Book Depository. They were about 1/4 of the price that book shops here charge. -
I hope it's not as bad as they're saying. We've had some really nasty storms here in the last month. Stay safe everyone.
Mona's Around The World Challenge
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That sounds interesting. I just finished a book set in the final days of the Communist regime in Romania. I might read this one to get another view of the country.