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    What Are You Watching Now? - 2015

    in Music / TV / Films

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    Must admit, I gave up on Sleepy Hollow half way through the second season.  I really liked it at first but I thought Nicole Beharie's acting in the second season was appalling - it was like she was phoning it in from half a world away  :banghead:

     

    I may have been focusing on Tom Mison too much to notice.  :blush2:

    Little Pixie`s Bookshelf 2015

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted · Edited by Little Pixie

     Books read : 147                        TBR 790             New Books Bought : 164                      Total Cost : £ 476.45

     

    #146   The Messenger - Daniel Silva

     

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    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.   :o  :blush2:

     

    #147   The Ladies Auxiliary - Tova Mirvis

     

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    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. 

    What Are You Watching Now? - 2015

    in Music / TV / Films

    Posted

    Arrow 3 x 09  

     

     

    Noo ! Nooo ! NOOOOOOOOOO !!!

    They (almost) killed Oliver ! Thankfully, I know he`ll be back, `cos I`ve already seen him turn up in The Flash finale, but I squeaked when he had his throat cut, and then double-squeaked when he got run through with a sword. The Horror !

    And Boo! to SKY2 for not turning on for the ep before that, which turns out to be a Flash/Arrow croosover - thankfully I can watch it this Thursday.

       :o  :o  :o

     

    Dr Who.  Quite disappointed. Meh. 

    Laura's Fantasy Corner 2015

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted

    Here's a practice shot to tide you over! :giggle2:

     

     

     

    Adorable !! I think you`ve just made my day, and not in a Dirty Harry way at all.   :D  

     

    Yes, he's half asleep in a washing-up bowl - don't ask.  :giggle2:

     

     

    But what if I want to ?  :giggle2:

     

    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.  :hide:

    Little Pixie`s Bookshelf 2015

    in Past Book Logs

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    Thanks for that :)!

     

    Well, I should explain that Dutch library books are not like library books from the UK or US. I'm not sure I can explain it properly, but the IBSN is the same as a hardcover or paperback (both are possible) and the inside pages of the book are the same, but the cover of the book is hard and plastified (in almost all cases, with a few exceptions). If the original was a hardcover with a flappy bit, the flappy bit 'becomes' the picture on the solid heavy cover, and if it was a paperback the cover of the paperback becomes the solid heavy cover (so no flappy bits with library books). Sometimes there is an outside border to the cover.

     

    It's not something I can explain properly if you haven't seen it for yourself but I've always wondered if they take just normal books and cut out the cover and make it firmer and plastified or whether the books are specially printed in such a way. Unfortunately Google doesn't show me any clear pictures of what I mean :doh: and it appears I haven't got any on the computer either :blush2:. Yes, I'm a book nerd :giggle2::readingtwo:.

     

    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...  :D

    What Are You Watching Now? - 2015

    in Music / TV / Films

    Posted · Edited by Little Pixie

    Ah right, I forgot you'd missed all of that :smile:   It also occurred to me that you missed the season 2 episodes where Barry Allen was introduced - before he became The Flash and got his own series :lol:

     

    Yes - my response to ` previously on...` is Whaaattt ??  :giggle2: 

    Little Pixie`s Bookshelf 2015

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted

    Thanks :D! I don't know, I wouldn't mind finding out but I don't think the library posts such statistics anywhere. I'd love to see statistics on what are the top 20 books most loaned out and such, or how often the average book is loaned out, or on average how many books are loaned out vs. how many are on the shelves etc. I like numbers :blush2:. And I'd still like to know how Dutch library books are made, but I'm a bit of a wuss in that I haven't yet dared to ask the library personnel about it :hide: (I doubt if they know it to be honest).

     

    There`s UK info HERE on library loans, which you might like. :smile: 

     

    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 ?  :unsure:

    Little Pixie`s Bookshelf 2015

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted

    Books read : 145                        TBR 792             New Books Bought : 164                      Total Cost : £ 476.45

     

    #145    Death in August - Marco Vichi

     

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    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.  :smile:

    Little Pixie`s Bookshelf 2015

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted

    I read 358 books and I bought 336 books, but when you take into account that out of those 358 books 40 were re-reads and 210 were library loans, the ratio is suddenly looking a lot less good :doh:.

     

    Wow !! 358 books ! Well done.  :D

     

    And that`s great that you read so many from the Library - are you their top reader ?  :smile:

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