Little Pixie

Thanks Gaia and Anna. Yes, 150 looks doable.

Glad you still have electricity at least. How`s the doggie coping ? Flooding is awful - it`s freezing cold and dirty, then takes aaages to sort out. It looks awful on the News.

I love the Mrs Murphy, and Sister Jane books. I`m not sure that the later Mrs Murphy ones ( she`s now up to book #25 ) are as good as the earlier ones, but that`s cos she`s had to invent new characters with each later book, so that someone can be bumped off : Otherwise it`d be a ghost town by now. Some of them have had bits of preachiness* in them, but I don`t feel nagged and I do learn things. I`m still buying them though, and still keeping them to read when I need a treat. * Preachiness is the wrong word, but I can`t offhand think of a better one. How`s the weather now ? Still safe ?

Off to look up Eleanor and Park. Hopefully your reading mojo is back now ; I sometimes stick to magazines if I really can't get into any books ( I get Oprah, American Vogue, Red and the Australian Women's Weekly - all have book reviews ).

135 so far. I was aiming for 200, but getting some virus and a slew of migraines put paid to that. Hoping for 150 now.

Chairlift, congrats on the job. Autocorrect !!! Virginia, hope you're still safe.

Scary. Hope everyone will be okay. I caught a weather forecast on the BBC and they were guessing that the hurricane could even double back to the Caribbean again. Yikes.

Ooh, will there be library pics ?

I`ve seen `found cat` and `found dog` posters.. I think it would be fun to put up a `found chicken` poster.

Poor thing ; it must be scary being an animal in that weather. Gaia, best wishes to your Uncle ( and Grandma, too ).

Hope you'll be okay, Virginia ; it looks scary on the news ! Had my flu jab today ( the nurse took my temperature cos I've had some bug for a couple of weeks, but it was fine, so she could go ahead with the vaccination ). So far, so good. I treated myself to a lovely candle ( vanilla frosting scent )afterwards. Hope everyone else is doing okay.

Yikes !! Poor Anna. It took me ages to finish Ken Folletts Pillars of the Earth, cos I cared so much for the characters. I couldn't bear putting the book down if someone was in the midst of some awful experience, so I'd read until all was fine, then put the book down until I felt up to tackling it again... and since the characters had a real roller coaster time of it, there w s a lot of putting the book down.

Ooh, enjoy the play. I hope someone rediscovers the Time Plays for TV or film ; those are brilliant.

Erm, it`s not Walden, is it ?

Free today for Kindle - The Coldstone by Patricia Wentworth.

Lovely - 16C and sunny.

At least I can pick up Xiao-Xiao is there`s too much in/out business and it`s getting too cold. I think that`s not an option with Boris.

Goodreads - Jim Butcher - Hayley, there are some ` fill in the gaps` short stories, and a book callled Side Jobs, with some of them in it. I`m up to Book 12 of the Dresden Files, and still sometimes get the ` have I missed a bit ?` feeling.

Ooh, sounds like the sort of snuggly read you need for the colder weather now. Off to take a look at it on Amazon.

Great book haul ! And how lovely of the people running the shop to give a discount !

Ooh, I was a big fan of JB Priestley as a teen. they recently remade An Inspector Calls, but I've only seen the Alistair SIM version ( excellent ).

There a site called ebooks.com which sells books in PdF ; it says they're not DRM free, so I don't know if that helps you ? I've never used that site myself, butt they seem to do a lot of academic books.

Google PDF books. - There`s a list of sites where you can download PDF books - no idea if that`s any help, I`ve never used them. A list of countries which Amazon will send books to - HERE - not Iraq, but some countries in the Middle East.

Thanks ! She`s currently in the sitting room, with her head poking out of the French windows - she wanted to be both `in` and `out`. It`s a Cat Thing.

I'm just working my way through a bunch of France's & Richard Lockridge thrillers, then I might try The Girl on the Train.