Little Pixie

Oh, that`s awful. Poor, poor Treacle. Hugs for Pixie.

It`s nice when we all feel excited about a book. Go Laura !

Good Gad, Sir ! Such strength ! Have you read any of her other books ? I like the look of Warrior ( Doppelganger 1 ).

Poor Fili. Xiao-Xiao has supervised play with string, after getting tangled up and nearly throttling herself.

Thanks ! I had to sneak up on her with the books, `cos she runs off squeaking sometimes when she sees the camera ( it`s the flash and the clicky noise ).

I worry about feathers getting stuck in her throat.

Only 3 ? And they`re mini-books ? Barely noticeable. Have you got anything planned for your Milestone Birthday ?

That sounds fantastic ! Are you going to try the sequels ? I`ve put that book in my ` purchase at some point` pile.

That`s a shame. I`ve only recently taken to abandoning books, rather than struggling on.

No - that`s the plain version. I`ve seen the mice ones with the feather, and didn`t think they`d last long. I assume that`s the case ?

A cat-themed pic - Xiao-Xiao with some lovely book covers, and a 5p bag-for-life ( from Oct 5th, all the supermarket bags are charged for instead of free ).

Hi OtherMichelle ! Your TBR actually looks doable.

I think they saved all their money up for the ending.

The last 3 eps of Defiance S3 .

Great site ! It had this link on the front page - Israel open air library. I just love the look of it.

Good loophole.

Thanks ! I`ve forced myself to start a long book which has been on my TBR pile for 2-3 years - Citadel by Kate Mosse - and I`ve read about 300 pages a day ( out of 920: I`ll hopefully finish it tonight ) . I shall push through the Book Blahs. I`m thinking that I should have also put up last year`s total next to it, as a warning sign to myself. I just looked it up : 2014 Books read : 203 TBR 751 New Books Bought : 213 Total Cost : £391.92 And this year`s so far : 2015 Books read : 148 TBR 803 New Books Bought : 178 Total Cost : £ 525.62

Considering the amount of books I`m buying, it`s made me think that at least I`m not spending £1,000s on books. Though it`s also made me think that over 10 years, that would be £5,000. So maybe that thought will slow me down... Or not. I sign up for emails from Gretchen Rubin, and today`s was about Loopholes and self-justification. I`m trying not to think ` Ooh, those are some really good excuses !`.

Camel Library

Did you watch the TV series ? Wonderful.

The delivery dates are mostly Oct 8 - 23. Ooh, I hope I can find something to read in the meantime to keep me going...

Castle 7 x 19

Thank you ! Secretly, I knew it was logical.

Since I was down to under 800 books in my TBR - and having trouble deciding what to read - I ordered some more books. An Age of Licence - Lucy Knisley £9.61 The Diplomat and the Gold Piano - Margaret Scherf £4.54 The Treasure Hunt - Andrea Camilleri £2.97 The Heist - Daniel Silva £4.84 The Joy of Doing Things Badly - Veronica Chambers £2.81 The Long Way Home - Louise Penny £4.66 The J Alfred Prufrock Murders - Corinne Holt Sawyer £2.81 The Age of Doubt - Andrea Camilleri £2.22 The Potters Field - Andrea Camilleri £2.80 Wear More Cashmere - Jennifer Sanders £2.80 First Come, First Kill - Frances and Richard Lockridge £2.49 Small Favour - Jim Butcher £1.98 Happier at Home - Gretchen Rubin £2.80 Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman £1.85 Books read : 148 TBR 803 New Books Bought : 178 Total Cost : £ 525.62

Aw, thanks. I kept picking up books, and putting them down again. I eventually picked Barbara Ehrenreich - Taming a Wild God. Mini-book-crisis averted ! This was so good, I ended up reading it in one sitting. #148 Barbara Ehrenreich - Taming a Wild God Excerpt This is the memoir of an atheist, rationalist, feminist ,scientist, Vietnam War protester . Who has visions. Sorting through her papers before she donates them to a University library, she comes across a journal she kept as a teenager, in which she details her experiences of having visions. It`s meaty and verbose , ie, it has an awful lot of big wordies. It`s also absolutely fascinating. She kept quiet about her mystical experiences because of her atheist parents, and because growing up in the 50`s, she had concerns of being put in a psychiatric hospital. The memoir looks back on her life with alcoholic parents in an honest, unstinting way ; she doesn`t shy away from criticising her own behaviour, either. She gets a chemistry doctorate and becomes active in various protest movements, and yet comes back to how her visions fit into the World. A book about the Big Questions in Life. Books read : 148 TBR 789 New Books Bought : 164 Total Cost : £ 476.45