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    Little Pixie`s Bookshelf 2016

    in Past Book Logs

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    Hi! Sorry, I haven't been on much! I did feel like he did better on raw food, but he's 12 now (they can live to be 18) and he's been eating baked chicken breast and white rice :D. Which might seem spoiled by most... but he deserves it :)

    That's amazing you're over 100 books read already! :o

    They're family members ! I think pets do deserve decent food. :)

     

    Xiao-Xiao had raw beef again this week and ran about afterwards, shouting and pouncing. I think that means she enjoyed it. :lol:

    Little Pixie`s Bookshelf 2016

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    Spoilers regarding The Killing of Polly Carter:

     

     

    I totally agree with your points :)! I wasn't expecting that sub-plot either but I really liked it. Dwayne is a great character. To me the howdunnit and whydunnit (I didn't know these words existed haha) made perfect sense too. And I didn't know that there was going to be a new book next year, that's great :D. My edition of the book just has an excerpt in it from the previous book (A Meditation on Murder).

     

     

     

     

    Yes, my book has the same excerpt -. I looked on the author`s Twitter feed and it says he`s writing/editing the third book in the series ( couldn`t see the name of it ). :)

     

    *I think* that howdunnit and whtdunnit should exist `cos `whodunnit` is in common parlance. :D

     

     

    Twitter - Robert Thorogood :)

    Little Pixie`s Bookshelf 2016

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    I hope you enjoy all of your new books :)!

     

    Thanks ! :D

     

     Polly Carter review with spoilers :

     

     

    I thought the ending was excellent and sneakily clever ; howdunnit and whydunnit both made sense and it was all very satisying.

    When Richard`s Mother turned up in the story, it was a lovely surprise and made for a fun sub-plot.

    I loved that Dwayne found that he was accidentally dating Richard`s Mum !

    There was a nice bit towards the end when Richard and his Father were just standing at the railing, not speaking but together.

    And hurray, there`s a new Death in Paradise book out next year.

     

    Little Pixie`s Bookshelf 2016

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    What a lot of books you've read this year.  :)

     

    What a lot of Ngaio Marsh books you've read.   That's an author I've been meaning to try. 

    I'm on a Book Roll.:)

     

    I did a Ngaio Marsh reread and loved the books all over again. I highly recommend them ; the main characters are ones I fell in love with. Do give them a go if you're into Golden Age mysteries. :)

    Little Pixie`s Bookshelf 2016

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    New books ; 

     

     Quiller Balalaika - Adam Hall ( £5.85), Time is the Fire - Connie Willis (£6.71 ), The Seventh Sinner - Elizabeth Peters (£2.95 ), Tall Tail - Rita Mae Brown ( £5.99), 

    Die like an Eagle - Donna Andrews (£5.99 ), Through the Grinder - Cleo Coyle ( £2.50 ), Lincoln`s Dreams - Connie Willis ( £2.80 ), Bellwether - Connie Willis ( £2.81 ), Manhattan Memoir - Mary Cantwell ( £2.81 ). Quest of the Bogeyman - Richard lockridge ( £8.86 ).

    Little Pixie`s Bookshelf 2016

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    Books read : 108                      TBR 834              New Books Bought : 115                       Total Cost : £388.25

     

    Time to get up to date ...

     

    109   Lord of the Silent - Elizabeth Peters

    110   The Golden One - Elizabeth Peters

    111   Children of the Storm - Elizabeth Peters

    112   Guardian of the Horizon - Elizabeth Peters 

    113   About face - Donna Leon

    114   Drawing Conclusions -  Donna Leon

    115   Doomsday Book - Connie Willis

    116   Journal of a Solitude - May Sarton

    117   The Joy of doing things badly - Veronica Chambers

    118   A Spell of Trouble - Leighann Dobbs

    119   A Client is Cancelled - Frances and Richard Lockridge

    120   Death and the Gentle Bull - Frances and Richard Lockridge

    121   Wild Strawberries - Angela Thirkell

    122   Burnt Offering - Frances and Richard Lockridge

    123   Write Murder Down - Frances and Richard Lockridge

    124   Let Dead Enough Alone - Frances and Richard Lockridge

    125   Practise to Deceive - Frances and Richard Lockridge

    126   Accent on Murder - Frances and Richard Lockridge

    127   Show Red for Danger - Frances and Richard Lockridge

    128   Cats and People -  Frances and Richard Lockridge

    129   With One Stone - Frances and Richard Lockridge

    130   The Distant Clue - Frances and Richard Lockridge

    131   Death by Association - Frances and Richard Lockridge

    132   Murder Can`t Wait - Frances and Richard Lockridge

    133   Or was he Pushed ? - Richard Lockridge

    134   Murder Roundabout -  Richard Lockridge

    135   With Option to Die - Richard Lockridge

    136   The Killing of Polly Carter - Robert Thorogood

     

    :)

    What Are You Watching Now? - 2016

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    I've watched a few episodes of Beck and it's OK but it hasn't grabbed me so I can take it or leave it.  My favourite foreign dramas are The Bridge, Montalbano (especially the younger one :giggle2: ) and The Legacy, which is a Danish series shown on Sky Arts.

     

    I think the original Montalbano is my favourite, followed by The Killing and Borgen.:)

    Little Pixie`s Bookshelf 2016

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    I'm glad you're almost back to normal! I hope you'll be fully recovered soon. I'm just recovering from a bad cold, I should be fully recovered in a few days. I'm glad the web browser is working.

     

    135, you've read a lot :)! I just finished that book, I hope you enjoy it :D.

     

    I've been well, just now recovering from a bad cold. But, I'm almost recovered so I'm quite happy about that! It's been a week, so that's not too bad. I'm doing well overall :).

     

    Thanks ! :) I hope you`re all better soon too. :D

     

    I`m 41% into the book and really enjoying it. I hope they make radio plays out of those books. :)

    Athena's Reading List 2016

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    I read Robert Thorogood - Death in Paradise 2: The Killing of Polly Carter. This was really good, I enjoyed it. I did guess who the killer was, but not the how and the why. I really liked this book, it's a lot like watching the TV show. I read and liked book 1 in this series too (the previous novel by the author - who is also the writer for the TV series I think). It was great to read this detective story. A lot of the detective / mystery books I've read this year, have been by Baantjer or they were children's mystery books, it was very nice to read something different.

    Oh, you've been reading it too ! Snap ! How nice. :)

    Little Pixie`s Bookshelf 2016

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    Thank you ! Well, the computer now has a new version of my web browser which seems to work with Windows 10' and I'm getting over some bug myself too, so almost back to normal. :)

     

    I'm currently reading book 135 - the death in paradise book called the death of Polly Carter, oslt. Really enjoying it so far.

     

    Hope you've been well ?:)

    Athena's Reading List 2016

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    Very true :friends3:.

     

    No, I haven't. I haven't heard of Cat in the Mirror, but it sounds good! I've heard of A Wrinkle in Time, multiple people have recommended it to me. My library doesn't have it unfortunately and I haven't been able to find it cheap anywhere here. With children's books I'm reluctant to buy them at a higher price unless I'm really sure I'll love them. Most of the children's books I read I already owned from when I was a child, or are from the library or I bought really cheap at the book fair or second-hand in the charity shop. Maybe I'll find it some day.

     

     

    That`s what`s putting me off giving them a go - childrens` books seem more expensive for fewer pages. 

    Athena's Reading List 2016

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    I think the longest book I've ever read is, I think, IT by Stephen King. My English copy has 1376 pages. The Dutch small paperback I have (which is what I read the first time I read the book), has less pages for some reason (usually Dutch translated books have more pages than the English). Other long books I've read include The Stand by Stephen King, 1327 pages and some of Peter F. Hamilton's books (ie. his The Night's Dawn trilogy), some of the The Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, one of Tad William's Otherland series books and The Pillars of the Earth series by Ken Follett (2 books). Hmm, that's more than I thought, when I think about it. But the average page count I read this year so far, is ~235 - 240 pages. I read quite a few books under 300 pages. This year so far, only ~7% of the books I read was over 500 pages, and ~63% was under 250 pages (~30% were between 250 and 500 pages). So I read much more shorter books than longer ones, but I do enjoy a long book every once in a while (I hope none of this comes across as bragging, that's not how I intended it :hide:). I used to read a lot more longer books but since I became a member of the library two years ago, I'm reading more children's books and more shorter books. I also used to read more fantasy (for adults) and not so much contemporary fiction whereas nowadays I read more contemporary fiction (for children, young-adults and adults) than I used to.

     

    It depends on what kind of books a person normally reads I think, all those I've mentioned are fantasy, science-fiction, horror or historical fiction. Epic fantasy and epic space opera science-fiction are known for being quite long books normally, and most are series rather than standalone books. You read more mystery books, I think? Those are usually not as long (at least, not the ones I own).

     

    We're all readers and a short book can be just as nice as a long one, in my opinion :).

     

    Exactly :D - it`s that we all love reading that`s important, not how much or what type of book.   :friends3:

     

    I think the mystery books I`ve read lately are around 200-230 pages ; I can`t recall ones which are much longer. :) I like Urban fantasy too, but even those don`t tend to be of the same length as Epic Fantasy. 

     

    BTY, Have you read A Wrinkle in Time or Cat in the Mirror ?  They`re in my ` maybe buy and try in the future` list. :)

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