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    What's Up in October 2016?

    in General Chat

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    My town has been flooded and it looks really, really bad. The wind is pretty fierce in the capitol also. So far we have power but many in the area have been without since the early am. Nothing to do today but wait it out. Between this hurricane and the latest Trump scandal (2005 audio leaked of him admitting to sexual assault and grabbing women by the "p**y, l lie to you not) it feels strangely like Armageddon. Even so, I fear Trump more than this Cat 4 hurricane.

     

    Glad you still have electricity at least. :( How`s the doggie coping ?  :smile:

     

    Flooding is awful - it`s freezing cold and dirty, then takes aaages to sort out. It looks awful on the News.  :hide:

    Little Pixie`s Bookshelf 2016

    in Past Book Logs

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    What is your rating on Rita Mae Brown. She and I lived in the same small town a few years ago. :) My memory's slipping, I think I already told you that. :)

     

    I love the Mrs Murphy, and Sister Jane books. :D 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.  :giggle2:

     

    * Preachiness is the wrong word, but I can`t offhand think of a better one.

     

    How`s the weather now ? Still safe ? :)

    Anna's Reading in 2016

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted · Edited by Little Pixie

    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 :) ).

    What's Up in October 2016?

    in General Chat

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    Thanks, Sarah :). My uncle is doing okay, under the circumstances, from what I've heard.

     

    There was a guy at the door earlier, carrying a chicken in a box. My dad was just about to leave for work. The guy said the hen was walking around outside on the roundabout. He asked other people in the street but the chicken wasn't theirs. We've made her comfortable in an area on her own. We have to ask around and see if we can find the owner, I think otherwise we'll just keep her (unless she is ill or something). I have one person in mind who lives nearby and I know owns chicken, I don't know anyone else nearby who owns chicken. But I think he has many of them so whether he can say for sure if it's his, I don't know. I guess we'll have to see what he says. The hen's beautiful, if you ask me.

     

    I`ve seen `found cat` and `found dog` posters.. I think it would be fun to put up a `found chicken` poster.  :giggle2:

    What's Up in October 2016?

    in General Chat

    Posted

    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. :D

    Top 5 (or 10) Wednesday

    in General Book Discussions

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    What readily comes to mind is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (who I like a lot btw), it took me, I think, 23 days. Which is a long time for me. I know it took me ages to read Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show too, but that was about 18 years ago and I was hit by a car :D. (I was on foot!) It was good though and I enjoyed it. Even The Stand didn't take me longer than 10 days.

    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.:)

    Willoyd's Reading 2016

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted

    Little Pixie - we're (OH and I) off to see When We Are Married later on this autumn.  Everything says to me that Priestley is distinctly underrated nowadays.  I'm looking forward to getting my head into his essays.

     

    Ooh, enjoy the play.  :smile:

     

    I hope someone rediscovers the Time Plays for TV or film ; those are brilliant. :)

    Little Pixie`s Bookshelf 2016

    in Past Book Logs

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    Haha :giggle2:. Boris (one of our dogs) is like that sometimes. Then it seems like he wants to come inside, or go outside (depending on which direction he came from), then waits in the doorway while he's not sure what he wants. Then I tell him, he can be inside, or outside, there aren't any other options :P (at least, while it's cold outside, if it's warm then some doors could stay open).

     

    :giggle2:  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.  ;)

    Little Pixie`s Bookshelf 2016

    in Past Book Logs

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    Grrr, can't quote a long post with kindle, too awkward.

     

    Still loving my alarm clock ! :)

     

    The last Cat Who book which I read was #24, The cat who went up a creek ; I have one of the later ones, but I think they went downhill too much to keep buying all of them. Kate, did you at all like the last few ? I wondered if it would change my memories of the loveliness of the characters she created to keep reading them ?

     

     

    Xiao-Xiao' s fully recovered, thanks for

    asking. I asked a neighbour who has a relative in the Police here, and she hadn't heard of any other cat incidents nearby. Just no idea what happened.:(

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