Little Pixie
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The Shakespeare Secret seems very interesting, I'll keep an eye out for it!
And as much as we'd all like to have friends who read books so we could talk about them, hurrah for friends who don't read and let you have a dig in their book cupboards
You lucky gal! Nice haul!There`s a second book as well, called the Shakespeare Curse. There are potboiler-ish, but I liked them well enough.
Ditto on the friends with books which needed adopting !
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I saw another Sword of Truth book in the shops on Monday with the tagline 'The Legend Concludes'. Hmm, I'm sure they said that about Confessor.
It does mean there are only another 3 books I need to read to finish it off....
See, that`s the problem.
Is it really going to be the end or will there be yet another set of books to `finish off` ? If it was definite, I`d buy the outstanding* books and get to it, but.... * By outstanding, I obvs. mean the ones I haven`t read yet, rather than the really good ones. But that`s probably clear..
<< Back from trip to Amazon >> Good Gad, is there a spin-off series as well now ?! Click.
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Very true! Maybe Konmari is all wrong....
: I`m not sure that`s even possible.
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Books read : 152 TBR 831 New Books Bought : 156 Total Cost : £582.72
Books ordered - Something New( £8.84), Displacement (£10.45 ) , Relish (£8.29 ) - Lucy Knisley Hardboiled and Hardluck - Banana Yoshimoto ( £2.81 ), Adam Hall - Pekin Target (£2.81), Quiller KGB (£2.81), The warsaw document (£ 3.84 ) The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield (£2.01), Thyme of Death - Susan Wittig Albert (£2.81), Japanland - Karen Muller ( £2.80), The Rabbit Back Literature Society - Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen ( £2.80 ), Murder most frothy - Cleo Coyle ( £2.80 ), A plateful of murder - Claudia Bishop (£3.19 ), Night of the living deed - EJ Copperman ( £2.81 ), Finding your way - Martha Beck (£2.81 ), Pilgrimage Vol2 - Dorothy Richardson (£6.24 ).
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Good grief, almost another year over.
I`ve been a bit bleurgh lately - some medication I was taking affected my liver, leading to my hair thinning out ( luckily just at the front, so it`s disguisable ) and a general feeling of awfulness. I`ve stopped the tablets and will have another blood test in Feb, to check that the liver`s back to normal and it was definitely the medication causing it.
Oh, and the BT engineer had to come out again to fix the phone line, which stopped working. Slow/ non-existent internets - the horror !
:Anyhoo, to the books !
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Sauteed mushrooms and onions with garlic or thyme ? Potato, cauliflower, carrots and peas with cumin or curry powder ? Tomato and peppers with paprika ?
Or maybe you can find some vegan sausages and make `fake` sausage rolls ?
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Well at least if there's a war, you'll be clean and smelling nice in the trenches, while the rest of us stink to high heavens
And it would give me something to barter...
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Sorry but I had to laugh How had you managed to forget that the boxes actually contained perfume? But hey, you found what you'd been wanting to purchase Win-win!
I laughed too.
I think I was in a stage of " must finish off old perfume before starting New one " and just forgot the boxes over time.
One thing I do have trouble with is over-buying ; I'll see some offer on and stock up, and stock up again - then ( as I found out recently ) I end up with 10 packs of dental floss and too many to count shower gels.
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Congrats to your Dad !
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It was 2 years ago that I read it so my memory might be impaired.
Although it did only take me 10 days to read (which is not nearly as bad as my reading speed now), so it can't have been all that bad, I hope I think it might have ended on a cliffhanger....
Or at least a "to be continued" type ending....I`ve managed to hold off on buying it, just in case I get sucked in again.
I did read the first few lines though.
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The Netflix trial is free too. Keep up at the back
Shan`t . Nurr.
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It's freezing outside here and got quite cold in the past few days. Some of the water of the animals was frozen. It's still a bit cold inside here though two heaters are trying their best. I guess it will be a bit better in a few hours once they're more warmed up. Yesterday we had meat stew on the heater (with potatoes, carrot, parsnip and tomatoes), we ate it for dinner. It was quite nice.
Eep ! It`s been -6, -7C here overnight, and there was a bowl of water frozen on our balcony. It seems like it was Summer just a few weeks ago.
Virginia - good luck with your final exam !
Noll - Boo at the money issues.
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Your library book Fluffy and Scruffy looks cute.
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Sooo you've got so much to watch but you'd rather watch 75 episodes of something you've already seen, rather than 10 episodes of something new? That makes a lot of sense
But... it`s 75 eps of something free ! Is it really 75 eps ??
I was thinking more like 50 or so. 
I don`t have The Plan as part of my box set, so I suppose - to get all completist - I`d `need` to get that at some point.
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I did break my promise of ignoring the new books that came out "after the series was finished", because I saw The Omen Machine in the library a few years ago. It wasn't bad actually - strangely comforting.
I haven't got round to picking any of the others up since though.That`s good to know
- I saw the reviews at the time and thought I wouldn`t try it. I might`ve just gone on Amazon to look at it...
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I watched the first episode of Conviction. Saying 'it's better than you'd think' is correct, because I thought it would be 'absolute shite' . . . and it's only 'shite'
Re The Expanse - why don't you cheat? Take the Netflix free 30 day trial, watch The Expanse (and Stranger Things!), and then cancel before the end of the trial
Nooo, good idea but I just have so much to watch.
Plus, I fancy doing a BSG rewatch to deal with my `spaceship craving`. -
Hurray ! Congrats and a huge well done, Talisman.
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*looks for book throwing emoticon*
Actually technically I have re-read Wizard's Own Rule (book 1), as I'd read that years before it got turned into a super duper tv show which made me want to read the whole book series.
Any ill effects ? I see the book series is still going on !
I miss Richard and Kahlan !
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I just finished watching the first season of The Expanse (based on the James S A Corey novels) on Netflix. Loved it - a really slow-burner but easily the best space-based science fiction series since Battlestar Galactica. Up there alongside Stranger Things and Daredevil as my favourite show this year. Can't wait for season 2!
I'm also watching Westworld, which is great, and the usual DC stuff - The Flash, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, and Supergirl, which is my favourite of the bunch at the moment (because it's light and fluffy and fun where everything else seems to be dark and miserable). I'm probably going to dump Legends of Tomorrow soon (cos it's utter pants, frankly), and possibly Arrow (cos the whole Dark/Felicity/nuclear missile thing was beyond stupid, even for Arrow).
I`m watching all the DC stuff since you told me too (
) - and once I`ve started, I just can`t give up till things get reaaalllly bad. I`ll probably hold off on buying the DVD of The Expanse till there`s a box set, if the series is continuing - I got the first 3 seasons of BSG, then `had` to get the complete box set too ( well, it was the BluRays and it was super-cheap on a Black Friday deal years ago ) - and don`t want to do that again.
Also watching - Major Crimes - mid-season finale already next week ! Nooo ! This might be my favourite show atm.
I`m also giving Conviction ( Hayley Atwell ) a go, which is better than you`d think.
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I've done this loads in the past though not so much now as I don't have time
(other than re-reading the first 7 books of The Wheel of Time in order to get to read the later ones for the first time).The Dragonlance Chronicles & Legends trilogies I've read many times, but not for a number of years now
There are certain Stephen King's I've re-read (and I'd like to do this again with The Dark Tower series)
Various Discworld novels have been re-read multiple times, but only once through for the later novels
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
There are a few other re-reads on my TBR that are there because I've bought them whereas I may have borrowed them from the library before (eg. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant)
Hmm, I`m not seeing the Sword of Truth books there ? *ducks*
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I`ve reread Discoworld ( it`s a typo, but it amused me
) and Thursday Next, and I`ll reread them again in a few years. From the mysteries section, I reread Ngaio Marsh this year, and want to reread Margery Allinbgham and Dorothy L Sayers.
I`m looking forward to rereading Frances & Richard Lockridge ( mysteries from the 1930`s onwards - Mr and Mrs North, Inspector Heimrich ) and Patricia Moyes ( Inspector Tibbitt and Emmy ) , but I`ll have to leave it a few years till I can`t recall whodunnit.
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Those covers look lovely ; especially the Stilton ones with the mice.
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Long time no see, Karsa
Hi Steve !
Another vote for Dune.
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Hell to the yeah!
I am currently struggling to choose my next read - too much choice on my kindle and shelves. 
Ditto.
I might go for another Constance & Gwenyth Little book - they wrote some lovely screwball mysteries from the 1930`s onwards.
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