Little Pixie

Nooo ! Don`t feel bullied ! We all love reading here.

I may have been focusing on Tom Mison too much to notice.

The House of Shattered Wings looks good.

Thanks. I`m stuck a bit today, wondering which book to pick to read next.

Arrow 3 x 10 I also saw `coming soon` trailers for The Flash/Arrow and Sleepy hollow - whee !

Books read : 147 TBR 790 New Books Bought : 164 Total Cost : £ 476.45 #146 The Messenger - Daniel Silva Excerpt A Professor involved in peace charities is killed in London, and his briefcase reveals that he was really a recruiter for Al-Qaeda and involved in plans to attack The Vatican. Retired spy Gabriel Allon is called back to work, since he previously foiled an attack in Rome, and the hunt for info on the attack begins. It`s a real nail-biter ; with 70 pages to go, I had a quick peek at the end of the book, since the tension got too much for me. #147 The Ladies Auxiliary - Tova Mirvis Excerpt Widow Batsheva and her small child move from New York to Memphis in the Southern US, to join the Orthodox Jewish community in which her husband grew up. She`s a convert with some different ideas, and the community has to reassess their own Faith and beliefs when exposed to her. There are echoes of The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter. It`s a very readable book about a very different lifestyle.

Arrow 3 x 09 Dr Who. Quite disappointed. Meh.

I haven`t been able to find a link yet where you can see the top loans for specific genres.

I`ved got the last 4 or 5 eps to go - I thought it took off when they introduced the spying element to it.

Adorable !! I think you`ve just made my day, and not in a Dirty Harry way at all. But what if I want to ? My little one won`t go into boxes or tight spaces; I wonder if she got trapped in a box once, `cos she`s petrified of her travel basket too.

I assume it`s this book ? I put your info into GoogleBooks.

* Settles in for loong wait *

Happy belated Birthday. Oooh ! Kitties !! Such cutiepies ; I love the ` I haz a pink hat` pic.

I`ve got some used books which sound ( a bit ? ) similar ; a paperback with a laminated cover, for instance - but your library books sound specially made. Oooh...

Yes - my response to ` previously on...` is Whaaattt ??

There`s UK info HERE on library loans, which you might like. I`m not sure what you mean by how the library books are made - I`ve not been in a library for years - do you mean the security thingies in the books ?

They`re making more Lewis eps atm - so excited, `cos it looked like it was cancelled for good. And there are 6 more Midsomer eps to come, too.

Hurray for the latest books !

Aw, it`s a great feeling when you have re-reads to really look forward to. Glad that the final book was as good as the rest ; are you going to give the unfinished book a looksie next ?

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Books read : 145 TBR 792 New Books Bought : 164 Total Cost : £ 476.45 #145 Death in August - Marco Vichi Excerpt. The first of the Inspector Bordelli mysteries, set in 1960`s Florence. This reminded me an awful lot of the Inspector Montalbano ( Andrea Camilleri ) books, and they have the same translator. A little old lady dies of an asthma attack in a deserted villa during the August heatwave, and Bordelli is on the case ( along with an assortment of friends and colleagues). The only suspects have alibis and there`s no way it could`ve been murder, and yet... It`s light-hearted, with a very clever howdunnit. There is some padding in the middle - there`s a dinner party where they exchange stories of Italy in WW2, and Bordelli reminisces about his childhood ( In a story which made me think Yikes ! Inappropriate !! ) - but it`s so well-written, that it doesn`t seem to slow down the investigation. Looking forward to the other books in the series.

Yup. They also make Lewis just for me, too.

Good grief ! That`s some list there. I love Midsomer Murders, I don`t care who knows it.

Wow !! 358 books ! Well done. And that`s great that you read so many from the Library - are you their top reader ?