Little Pixie

I couldn't believe it either, the fiends !! I thought it was excellent, really enjoyed it. Hopefully we get the final six eps this year. I finished Twin Peaks - fantastic, if only for the Lynchian aficionado. I can't tell you my very favourite bit, cos you haven't got to it yet. I've seen the first two eps of China Girl now - loving Gwendoline Thingy in it.

Yes ! It's great that you're back on here. I shall inform Madame Naughtypaws that she has another admirer. The first book is Daughter of Smoke and Bone ; I thought it was really clever, a new twist on the genre.

Thanks.

I don`t feel quite back into Reading Mode ; maybe my brain needs to do some processing of the intense reading earlier in the year. Hopefully, the coming colder months will get us both back into `proper` reading. It`s odd how reading mojo suddenly vanishes. At leasy you`re reading something worthwhile now. It`s difficult when you`re struggling and the the book isn`t brilliant.

Lucifer. Brilliantly funny.

How did the rereads affect your mojo ? Did it give you a kick start, or are you still under the weather, reading -wise ?

I finished Dreams of Gods and Monsters ; an excellent end to the trilogy. Such lyrical writing, and a great, uplifting message. No spoilers, cos it would spoil the whole series, but if you enjoy urban fantasy, it's a winner, and one of my books of the year . I'm now reading Garth Nix' s Clariel, a prequel to the Abhorsen trilogy. I'm three chapters in, and it really hasn't grabbed me so far.

Fingers crossed that everyone will be safe, Virginia. It's been the lead on our news all day, and the news only gets worse, with more hurricanes in the vicinity.

Thank you ! I was quite relieved to finally get to 100 this year. Hope you like the Laini Taylor series when you get to it ; I do think it needs to be read as one long book ( I struggled a bit at the start of Book 3, since it`s been ages since I read the first two).

I love the Hawk /Spenser bromance from Robert B Parker's Spenser private detective books. There's a lot of wisecracking and mutual respect.

I managed to read a whopping three books in August, but all were goodies. I finished Cross Talk ( 500 pages ) in two days. A couple in love - or are they ? - have a brain procedure done which is supposed to enable them to feel each other's emotions... but something goes wrong, and shenanigans ensue. It's like a cross between a screwball comedy and a page-turning thriller, and a book I look forward to rereading in the future. I'm now 150 pages into Laini Taylor's Dreams of God's and Monsters, good so far.

Oof, I hadn't realised I was so behind... # 87. All my Puny Sorrows - Miriam Toews. Excellent. #88. A Thousand Pieces of You - Claudia Gray. Urban fantasy. Not brilliant,but enjoyable. #89. Devotion - Dani Shapiro. Okay memoir #90. At Seventy - May Sarton. Memoir- lovely. #91. Hawthorne - Carol Goodman. The final part of the Blythwood trilogy; not as good as the previous books. #92. Bethlehem Road Murder - Batya Gur. Police procedural set in Israel. Good. #93. May Sarton : Selected letters 1955 -1995. Good. #94. Murder in Jerusalem - Batya Fur. Good. #95. Letter from New York - Helene Hanff. Excellent. #96. The Turquoise Shop - Frances Crane. Good. #97. One coffee with - Margaret Maron. Good. #98. Apple of my Eye - Helene Hanff. Aww. # 99. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt. Excellent. #100. Cross Talk - Connie Willis. Superb.

If you want to try a really good time travel book set during the plague in the Middle Ages, there's Connie Willis' The Doomsday Book. Fingers crossed that September will be great for your reading mojo.

I watched the first eps of Top of the Lake : China Girl ( fantastic) and Midnight Texas ( okay, sticking with it ) I'm up to date with Twin Peaks ( Erm, except for tonight's ep ) , up to ep 4 of Outlander, have watched a couple of eps of a Flemish whodunit called Professor T ( okay ), and am still loving Inspector Montalbano.

Thank you ! I've just finished it ; a brilliant read, and something I'll reread in the future. I have it on kindle - unread - and a neighbour lent me the paperback, so I felt it would be nicer to read a proper book. Plus, with a book needing to go back to its own home, I could push myself a bit, to get through my reading block. Wow, just a fantastic read - the storyline and the wonderful prose. I'm guessing we have another 5 or 6 years till her next book though. « sighs»

Ooh, I loved Memoirs of a Geisha. I have one of those ' Westerner interviews Geishas ' in my TBR .

Hi Anna ! « waves» Hope you're doing okay.

Aw, you`ve already made a Doggy Friend ! Lovely.

It`s brilliant, isn`t it. I love all those different floors.

Ooh, do you get a sunset or sunrise view ? Or both ?

Meh. Needing the heating on for a couple of hours in the evening. Hope all the Americans are okay with the scary hurricane.

Just the essentials then. It looks full of possibilities.

I read Alison Weir' s The Lady Elizabeth ( oslt ), and quite enjoyed it ( but not as much as the superb P.G. I'm up to page 174 of The Goldfinch by Donna Tarry. It's great so far, but I'm still feeling the loss of my reading mono. Hopefully reading something so good will restart my reading engine.

New eps of Inspector Montalbano - brilliant ! Also, watching the last few eps of Hot in Cleveland - so funny.

Aw, what a lovely doggy story ! I met a couple of dogs yesterday - A pitbull called Lola and a lurcher, both so friendly. Their owner was walking them and we had a chat outside my house ( and I told her to help herself to the mirabelles on our tree, which are ripe now, and which I don`t think I`ll be using this year. She was really happy ! )