Frankie reads 2013

[Devi]

Sounds like you had a good first week Frankie! I hope it continues.

[julie]

Frankie

Good job on your first week. I'm sure you will soon make friends and fit in with the others. It's always a little tough being the "new kid" ,whether it's school or work, or anyplace else with lots of people I guess .

You'll do great  ,we all have confidence in you .

 

Also I hope you get to take your trip . Maybe you could pick a centrally located area that several of the UK people could get to,so you could meet them all in one big bunch. Wouldn't that be fun ?

[poppyshake]

You should definitely come to the UK if you can!  And specifically Somerset!.  

You should definitely come to the UK if you can! And specifically Gloucestershire!  

 

Your first week at work sounds exhausting frankie but rewarding, it's something that's going to get easier with time. I hope you find some nice people to chat with at breaktimes .. nice booky people. You've done marvellously so big hugs and a pat on the back is called for I think xx      

 

I think I've made it clear already that you really need to come and visit the UK  (we promise we'll be civilised and not fight over you ) .. think of all the literary things you could do  

[frankie]

You should definitely come to the UK if you can!  And specifically Somerset!.  

 

I think a trip to Bath would be in order and I believe that is close enough to where you live, and you could visit me there? You could by my tourist guide in all the Jane Austen places

 

Your first week sounds like an overall fantastic, and educational one.  I'm so happy for your frankie!

It's always difficult fitting into a new job, but it seems as though they know how to start newbies off right.  What great training, no matter how this goes.  I can't imagine they won't keep you after the month.  Only thing stopping them, I'd think, would be their own financial considerations. 

 

At least the woman whose poster I proof-read and already delivered said it was useful to have me around. I'm going to do my best on translating the report and see what happens. I think I might actually be useful: apparently they need a translator because the regular staff doesn't have time to do translations on top of their normal work, and if I can do a good job on the report, I think it would make sense to keep me. But it might come down to finances. Although, they did have the funds to hire me on such short notice, and so late in the year, too... So maybe they might be able to continue to pay for me. Which is quite odd because they complained about not having the funds to buy new computers for new workers like me

 

Well, the U.K. is closer to the U.S..........

 

Maybe you could come and visit UK at the same time?!

 

 

Sounds like a great first week frankie, I hope it continues for a long long time, it would be lovely to see you over here in the not too distant future!

 

I'm sure you and I will definitely be able to meet if/when I come over, you living in a very convenient area I wouldn't have to travel far far away!

 

Sounds like you had a good first week Frankie! I hope it continues.

 

Thanks Devi, I need all the luck!

 

Frankie

Good job on your first week. I'm sure you will soon make friends and fit in with the others. It's always a little tough being the "new kid" ,whether it's school or work, or anyplace else with lots of people I guess .

You'll do great  ,we all have confidence in you .

 

It's funny how I always expect to connect with people right off the bat. But that's now how it goes. I'm personally very slow in getting acquainted with people, because I always want to know that the other person wants to get to know me, too. I'm not one to impose myself upon other people. Which is something other people might take as being stand offish, unfortunately. I don't mean I'm unfriendly, I'm just much more likely to stay quiet and observe other people for a while than just start chattering. But in a way I think that has worked for me well enough in the past: I have a very sufficient number of close friends with whom I've been friends for years.

 

Also I hope you get to take your trip . Maybe you could pick a centrally located area that several of the UK people could get to,so you could meet them all in one big bunch. Wouldn't that be fun ?

 

You've read my mind That's what I was planning on. But I think I might go for two different locations and set up a 'meeting base' in them. London is inevitably one of the places, and the other one is wherever poppyshake will have me And I believe poppyshake is close enough to Bath, which will enable a trip to Bath, to get on Jänet's nerves meet up with Jänet

 

 

You should definitely come to the UK if you can! And specifically Gloucestershire!  

 

So at first I was invited, but then you changed your mind?

 

Your first week at work sounds exhausting frankie but rewarding, it's something that's going to get easier with time. I hope you find some nice people to chat with at breaktimes .. nice booky people. You've done marvellously so big hugs and a pat on the back is called for I think xx

 

I was thinking that maybe I could take a book with me to lunch at some point and see if any of the other people having lunch will comment on me reading, and if I could start a bookish conversation from there. Although it's pretty difficult, I think I would have to do a lot of stalking for a whole week just to see when people go and have their lunch Sometimes there are five other people, sometimes there's absolutely no one there when I go to eat at the lounge.

 

I think I've made it clear already that you really need to come and visit the UK  (we promise we'll be civilised and not fight over you ) .. think of all the literary things you could do  

 

There'll be so much to do and see... But for me it would be about meeting the people, first and foremost   And maybe going to a few secondhand bookshops. I miss that about Australia: all the books were in English!

[Timstar]

I'd always recommend a trip to the UK, especially Cambridge! tonnes of bookshops and lovely people  but I may be bias in that. 

[frankie]

I'd always recommend a trip to the UK, especially Cambridge! tonnes of bookshops and lovely people  but I may be bias in that. 

 

Biased re: UK or Cambridge?   Actually I have no idea where Cambridge is... I'm quite useless at geography Especially UK-related geography! If I had to put London on the map, I might get it wrong by 300 miles

[chaliepud]

Cambridge is lovely, very English! It's about 50 miles northish of London, opposite side to me, an easy train journey though.

[frankie]

I've updated my recommendations list, and I thought I'd post it in here in case Kylie and poppyshake (or anyone else, for that matter) are interested And of course, if said ladies have updated theirs, or will want to do so in the near future (or whenever is convenient), please let me know and share the updated list!

 

Here's the previous list, the first official one, from 29.1.2012, in spoilers.

 

 

 

Frankie recommends:

Fiction (67 titles):
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Northanger Abby by Jane Austen
Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Psycho by Robert Bloch
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
Crippen by John Boyne
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Ten Little Niggers by Agatha Christie
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Room by Emma Donoghue
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Marley and Me by John Grogan
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Last Family in England by Matt Haig
Incidences by Daniil Harms
Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Green Mile by Stephen King
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Dexter series by Jeff Lindsay
The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch (and you need to watch the TV show!!)
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery
Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Purge by Sofi Oksanen
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Gold by Dan Rhodes
Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Push! by Sapphire
Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
She Who Remembers by Linda Lay Shuler
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
Q&A by Vikas Swarup
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Candide by Voltaire
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak


Non-fiction
Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath by Ronald Hayman
Between the Sheets – The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers by Lesley McDowell
Please Kill Me – The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain
The Dirt by Mötley Crüe
Stiff – The Life of the Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
Sybil by Flora Rheta Scheiber
And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder by Deborah Spungen


Young Adult
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
The Bill Bergson series by Astrid Lindgren
Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
Anastasia Krupnik series by Lois Lowry
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Emily of New Moon (series) by Lucy M. Montgomery
Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley
Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
The Little Vampire by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg
The Secred Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 12 ¾ by Sue Townsend

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the updated list: 8.9.2013

 

(in the order they come up in my manual reading log)

*NEW* = new addition

(FIN) = Finnish novel which hasn't unfortunately been translate into English, at least not yet, and therefore they are listed only for my own benefit

 

 

 

Fiction

Linda Lay Shuler: She Who Remembers

Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None

Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting
Stephen King: Misery *NEW*

Kauko Röyhkä: Kaksi aurinkoa *NEW* (FIN)

Jennifer Lynch: The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (also: watch the TV show!)

Stephen King: Green Mile

Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones books

Jane Austen: Northanger Abby

Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities

Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest

Jane Austen: Persuasion *NEW*

Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five

Stephen King: Cujo *NEW*

Katja Kallio: Kuutamolla *NEW* (FIN)

Ingvar Ambjørnsen: Elling series *NEW*

Donna Tartt: The Secret History

Anita Shreve: The Weight of Water

Fannie Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair

Patrick Süskind: Perfume

Andrey Kurkov: Death and the Penguin

Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Shadow of the Wind

Jeff Lindsay: Dexter series

Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex

Stephen King: The Stand *NEW*

Joanne Harris: Gentlemen & Players

Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Sarah Waters: Fingersmith

Markus Zusak: The Book Thief

Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Lloyd Jones: Mister Pip

John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces *NEW*

Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Bram Stoker: Dracula

Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange

Anne Rice: Interview with a Vampire

Sofi Oksanen: Purge

John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Iain Banks: Wasp Factory

Vikas Swarup: Q&A

Jeffery Deaver: Lincoln Rhyme series *NEW*

Chelsea Cain: Heartsick *NEW*

Robert Bloch: Psycho

Haruki Murakami: Sputnik Sweetheart

Michel Faber: Under the Skin

Charlaine Harris: Sookie Stackhouse series *NEW*

Garth Stein: The Art of Racing in the Rain

Karin Slaughter: Grant County + Will Trent series *NEW*

Sophie Kinsella: Twenties Girl *NEW*

Väinö Linna: The Unknown Soldier

Linwood Barclay: Too Close To Home *NEW*

Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion

Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind

Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's

Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon *NEW*

Dan Rhodes: Gold

Ira Levin: Rosemary's Baby *NEW*

Sapphire: Push!

Nick Hornby: Juliet, Naked *NEW*

Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Voltaire: Candide

Grace Metalious: Peyton Place *NEW*

Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

Poppy Z. Brite: Exquisite Corpse *NEW*

Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Matt Haig: The Last Family in England

Ann Patchett: Bel Canto

John Steinbeck: The Wayward Bus

Erich Segal: Love Story *NEW*

Kazuo Ishiguro: A Pale View of Hills

Emma Donoghue: Room

Irene Nemirovsky: The Ball *NEW*

Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons: Watchmen

Peter Franzén: Tumman veden päällä *NEW* (FIN)

Daniil Harms: Incidences

Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises

Linda Gillard: Emotional Geology *NEW*

Daphne du Maurier: My Cousin Rachel

Pirkko Saisio: Punainen erokirja *NEW* (FIN)

Boris Akunin: The Winter Queen *NEW*

L. M. Montgomery: The Blue Castle

Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita *NEW*

Tuomas Kyrö: Mielensäpahoittaja *NEW* (FIN)

John Boyne: Crippen

Siri Hustvedt: The Summer Without Men
Dai Sijie: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress *NEW*
Anna-Leena Härkönen: Häräntappoase *NEW* (FIN)

Nevil Shute: Pied Piper *NEW*

William Goldman: The Marathon Man *NEW*
Stephen Fry: The Hippopotamus *NEW*

Dennis Lehane: Shutter Island *NEW*

Muriel Barbery: The Elegance of the Hedgehog *NEW*

Inna Patrakova: Naapurit *NEW*

Guy Gavriel Kay: The Lions of Al-Rassan *NEW*

Karin Brunk Holmqvist: Pieni potenssipuoti *NEW*

Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret of Bees *NEW*

Alex Garland: The Beach *NEW*

David Mitchell: Black Swan Green *NEW*

Lucy Dillon: The Secret of Happy Ever After *NEW*

Jari Tervo: Pyhiesi yhteyteen *NEW* (FIN)

Kathryn Stockett: Help *NEW*

 

Non-fiction

Deborah Spungen: And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Sylvia Beach: Shakespeare and Company

Augusten Burroughs: Running with Scissors

Alain de Botton: How Proust Can Change Your Life

Tuula-Liina Varis: Kilpikonna ja olkimarsalkka *NEW* (FIN)

Ronald Hayman: The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath

Augusten Burroughs: Dry *NEW*

Augusten Burroughs: A Wolf at the Table

John Grogan: Marley and Me

Ann Rule: The Stranger Beside Me

Vicki Myron: Dewey - The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World *NEW*

Dave Peltzer: A Child Called It *NEW*  (this is very disturbing, though, so beware!)

Vincent Bugliosi: Helter Skelter *NEW*

Nick Hornby: The Complete Polysyllabic Spree *NEW*

Mötley Crüe: The Dirt

Augusten Burroughs: Magical Thinking *NEW*

Mary Roach: Stiff – The Life of the Human Cadavers

Augusten Burroughs: Possible Side Effects *NEW*

Flora Rheta Scheiber: Sybil

Peggy Claude-Pierre: The Secret Language of Eating Disorders *NEW*

Philip Gonzalez: The Dog Who Rescues Cats *NEW*

Lesley McDowell: Between the Sheets – The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers

Tobias Wolff: This Boy's Life *NEW*

Constance Briscoe: Ugly *NEW*

Christopher V. V. Parnell: Hell's Prisoner *NEW*

Danny Wallace: Yes Man *NEW*

Pamela Druckerson: French Children Don't Throw Food *NEW*


 

Children/Young Adult

Angela Sommer-Bodenburg: The Little Vampire

Maria Gripe: Salaisuus varjossa *NEW*

Lois Lowry: Anastasia series

Anu Jaantila: Dear Sanna *NEW* (FIN)

Astrid Lindgren: Brothers Lionheart

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter series
Lucy M. Montgomery: Emily of New Moon series

Astrid Lindgren: Bill Bergson series

Sue Townsend: Adrian Mole series

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince

Diana Wynne Jones: Fire and Hemlock

Lois Lowry: The Giver

Georgia Byng: Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism

Mary Rodgers: Freaky Friday *NEW*

Chris Priestley: Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror

Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden

Roald Dahl: Matilda *NEW*
Cornelia Funke: Inkheart *NEW*
 

 

 

removed:

Margaret Atwood: Handmaid's Tale

Diane Setterfield: Thirteenth Tale

Michael Cunningham: A Home at the End of the World

Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye
Elie Wiesel: Night

Charles Bukowski: Ham on Rye

Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain: Please Kill Me – The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

 

 

*I think I will have to make another, very, extremely, decidedly compact list. Say, 15 fiction, 10 non-fiction, and 10 Childrens/YA books.

Edit: I don't think Kylie and poppyshake will be too pleased with the new, loads longer list

 

And I've just realised that now I have to do another combined list of the books we've all liked, because I've added new titles. Darn  

 

Note: I just realised that it might seem odd to some people, especially the new comers, that I'm doing this thing with Kylie and poppyshake only. The reason for this is that the idea of comparing lists of favorite books (fiction, non-fiction, childrens/YA) came to me when I was living with Kylie and had the chance to see her bookcases and talk books with her 24/7. So it was just an idea to ask her to make a list of her favorite books for me to read and observe, and I was to make a list for her. It was fun to see how many books we had in common, and how many of her books were on my wishlist or TBR. When I posted the lists on a reading log, poppyshake took interest in it and because she has a very similar taste in books to ours, I think I asked her if she could make a list of her own and share it with us

Edited September 8, 2013 by frankie

[Kylie]

Good grief, woman! What are you trying to do to me?!

[frankie]

Cambridge is lovely, very English! It's about 50 miles northish of London, opposite side to me, an easy train journey though.

 

That's not far away from London, I think it's doable! I wonder if there are more people on here from Cambridge... !

 

Good grief, woman! What are you trying to do to me?!

 

I'm trying to inspire your mojo ..

 

[poppyshake]

When I posted the lists on a reading log, poppyshake took interest in it because she's very nosey and has to get in on everything that Kylie and I do .. like a stalker. The easiest thing was to tell her she could join in .. but we haven't ruled out a restraining order.

 

Lordy lordy! That is a list and a half!  I can see I'll be busy editing your old list and updating it with the new. I'll take a look at my own list this week (as you have done yours ) and see if I haven't got some gems to add (if only to let Steve update his list of books to avoid )

 

Good idea about taking your book to work .. that's bound to catch you some book lovers

 

Of course you're invited .. it goes without saying (I hope .. if not I'll say it louder .. WHEN ARE YOU COMING FRANKIE?  HURRY UP!! ) I have already ordered the tarpaulin for the sofa  A big meet up would be good .. however, I do believe I'm nice and central ... ish   

[Janet]

I think a trip to Bath would be in order and I believe that is close enough to where you live, and you could visit me there? You could by my tourist guide in all the Jane Austen places

Definitely - around 25 minutes by car!  And Bath rocks - not only Jane Austen but lots of other things too, including a couple of gorgeous independent book shops! 

[Timstar]

Biased re: UK or Cambridge?   Actually I have no idea where Cambridge is... I'm quite useless at geography Especially UK-related geography! If I had to put London on the map, I might get it wrong by 300 miles

 

Cambridge, I live and work there, but only for the last couple of years and I absolutely love it! So much character and so many academics.

 

That's not far away from London, I think it's doable! I wonder if there are more people on here from Cambridge... !

 

Yay! 

 

Not sure if there are others from BCF near Cambridge...

[Brian.]

I'm in Bedford which isn't a huge distance from Cambridge. Cambridge is lovely and I've enjoyed a few days and nights out there, I work with a few people who live there and they also love it.

[Athena]

One of my fears in life (and this is quite silly) is that somehow, by some unnatural or natural disaster, this forum will explode or something, and then I'll lose my lists!!   Which is why I continue to keep my manual list of read books, on a notebook. It's one of my most precious items, I will never get rid of it.

x

I fully understand this! I have my wishlist in several places but they're not in paper.. maybe I should do that.. but it would take a while to write it all down. Still, it'd be great with a nice notepad or booklet to write things down in.. I have a few nice ones .

x

Frankie, I'm glad your first week at work went well! It's really great to read about your experience. I hope you'll make some friends at work . I feel like I'm terrible with that, so I can understand if you feel a bit nervous or something.

x 

There's something I've been thinking about... If they were happy with my work at the office, and if they were to continue my contract, I would actually have some money... And I've been thinking that I would love to visit the UK. I shouldn't really think about this at this point, because maybe they only want me for this month. But if I got to work there for longer... I would really like to visit the UK. I've never actually traveled just for fun on my own, Denmark and Australia were language practice related (although both visits were a whole helluva lot of fun! ), and I feel like if I were able to land a steady job for even a few more months, I would really like to travel. And UK's pretty close, and I'd love to meet some of the folks on here... And go book shopping... There'd be so many people to meet, though, that it might be tricky to fit it all in. Where and when!

x

If you do go to the UK, in the not too near future from now, I might be able to come to the UK too (that is, if you don't mind). We always fly to London, my boyfriend lives in Portsmouth, though I could travel elsewhere (perhaps thinking about accommodation), I've been to Bath before, really nice place, but meeting lots of people will be tiring for me so I'd have to think about that. It'd be so nice to meet you and others, though! Let me know if you make any plans (and are interested in meeting me of course). Anywhere that's easy to get to with public transport and doesn't take too long to get to from either London or Portsmouth, may be a possibility. Technically seen I could, for example, be in a hotel somewhere, but the journey should be possible to make. It is also possible to fly somewhere that's not London, ie. Southhampton or Manchester perhaps, but it would cost more money since I have to fly with a different company and travel to a further away airport here. The UK is great for book shopping! I always try to go to WHSmith, The Works, charity shops (ie. The British Heartfoundation), Waterstone's. It can be great just to have a look around in a book shop and be inspired. Well, let me know about your plans if you want. I'd love to meet you.

x

I've updated my recommendations list, and I thought I'd post it in here in case Kylie and poppyshake (or anyone else, for that matter) are interested

x

I'll have to go through this list, sometime !

x

Edit: I don't think Kylie and poppyshake will be too pleased with the new, loads longer list

 

And I've just realised that now I have to do another combined list of the books we've all liked, because I've added new titles. Darn  

 

Note: I just realised that it might seem odd to some people, especially the new comers, that I'm doing this thing with Kylie and poppyshake only. The reason for this is that the idea of comparing lists of favorite books (fiction, non-fiction, childrens/YA) came to me when I was living with Kylie and had the chance to see her bookcases and talk books with her 24/7. So it was just an idea to ask her to make a list of her favorite books for me to read and observe, and I was to make a list for her. It was fun to see how many books we had in common, and how many of her books were on my wishlist or TBR. When I posted the lists on a reading log, poppyshake took interest in it and because she has a very similar taste in books to ours, I think I asked her if she could make a list of her own and share it with us

x

It's always difficult to narrow down your list of favourite, recommended books !

 

I'm glad you three have a good relationship and know each other well. It's important to have good / close friends (for most people, at least)!

[frankie]

Well cancel all plans of traveling to UK... I've just heard that they won't continue my contract after September. They don't have the money, and they don't have urgent reports to translate, either. I was only hired because there was this one report no one else had the time to translate.

 

Well, a month is still good and I need the money And the experience.

 

Must continue work ->

[Athena]

Awww sorry to hear that frankie . I hope you enjoy your time there nonetheless, and hopefully it's a good experience for maybe a job later in your life.

[poppyshake]

Awwww .. that's a great shame  Boo on them for spoiling our plans but hooray for giving you the experience and the money .. it may well lead to other things  Sending hugs your way to help temper the disappointment xx 

[Devi]

noooooooo, i had my fingers and toes crossed for you, like Athena, I hope the rest of your experience is enjoyable.

[Kylie]

Aww, Frankie. I'm so sorry to hear that.

 

Awwww .. that's a great shame  Boo on them for spoiling our plans but hooray for giving you the experience and the money .. it may well lead to other things  Sending hugs your way to help temper the disappointment xx 

 

I agree with all of this.

 

They may well keep you in mind for future busy times. You could be a freelance translator and pick up some spare cash here and there. Better than nothing, right? And all of these experiences you're having working in the library and as a translator will be awesome on your resume. It will all contribute to making it easier to find another job. 

[Timstar]

that's such a shame! Hopefully they will need you again in the future.

 

Enjoy the rest of your time there!

[frankie]

x

I fully understand this! I have my wishlist in several places but they're not in paper.. maybe I should do that.. but it would take a while to write it all down. Still, it'd be great with a nice notepad or booklet to write things down in.. I have a few nice ones .

 

I personally would recommend keeping a book journal, on a notebook! I've done so for fifteen years. It's a great back up if things get screwed in the world of internet

 

 

If you do go to the UK, in the not too near future from now, I might be able to come to the UK too (that is, if you don't mind). We always fly to London, my boyfriend lives in Portsmouth, though I could travel elsewhere (perhaps thinking about accommodation), I've been to Bath before, really nice place, but meeting lots of people will be tiring for me so I'd have to think about that. It'd be so nice to meet you and others, though! Let me know if you make any plans (and are interested in meeting me of course). Anywhere that's easy to get to with public transport and doesn't take too long to get to from either London or Portsmouth, may be a possibility. Technically seen I could, for example, be in a hotel somewhere, but the journey should be possible to make. It is also possible to fly somewhere that's not London, ie. Southhampton or Manchester perhaps, but it would cost more money since I have to fly with a different company and travel to a further away airport here. The UK is great for book shopping! I always try to go to WHSmith, The Works, charity shops (ie. The British Heartfoundation), Waterstone's. It can be great just to have a look around in a book shop and be inspired. Well, let me know about your plans if you want. I'd love to meet you.

 

Of course it would be lovely to meet you, too!   If you have the time and money, of course. Unfortunately, it's not going to happen in the near future now because of my not being able to continue at the office after September. But maybe some day....

 

 

I'm glad you three have a good relationship and know each other well. It's important to have good / close friends (for most people, at least)!

 

It's quite odd (but wonderful!) how you can make close friends online... You should know that, of all people

 

 

 

Thanks everyone for the huggles and sympathy, I really appreciate it    I have to stay positive though. Maybe this is for the better. After September I can concentrate on getting my degree and then, who knows... I have a few ideas but let's leave that for later.

 

They may well keep you in mind for future busy times. You could be a freelance translator and pick up some spare cash here and there. Better than nothing, right? And all of these experiences you're having working in the library and as a translator will be awesome on your resume. It will all contribute to making it easier to find another job. 

 

Freelance translating... I don't know if that's for me. But it's an idea.... Thanks darling

[pontalba]

Well cancel all plans of traveling to UK... I've just heard that they won't continue my contract after September. They don't have the money, and they don't have urgent reports to translate, either. I was only hired because there was this one report no one else had the time to translate.

 

Well, a month is still good and I need the money And the experience.

 

Must continue work ->

 

So, you'll only be travelling to the U.S.?  /wishful thinking/

 

Money and experience.  That is the logical and good way to look at it.  You never know, and as mentioned above, it'll look great on your resume. 

Really sorry it didn't turn out to be more permanent though. 

 

Also, wow, the list!!  Good stuff.

[frankie]

Poppyshake, I read the evil alterations you'd made on my post, but completely forgot to respond to that That was so funny! Very untrue, but funny

 

Lordy lordy! That is a list and a half!  I can see I'll be busy editing your old list and updating it with the new. I'll take a look at my own list this week (as you have done yours ) and see if I haven't got some gems to add (if only to let Steve update his list of books to avoid )

 

I didn't even dare to count how many titles there were on the list... But I'm going to do a much more focused one later. And I'll write it down somewhere (besides this reading log) so whenever people (in real life) ask me my favorite books, I will remember the ones I usually don't because I always name the same few titles. When there are so many others that deserve a mention!

 

Don't feel pressured, but do know that I'm very keen on seeing your updated list!   I don't know if I dare to say the same to Kylie, I bet she wanted to whip me when she saw my updated list...

 

Of course you're invited .. it goes without saying (I hope .. if not I'll say it louder .. WHEN ARE YOU COMING FRANKIE?  HURRY UP!! ) I have already ordered the tarpaulin for the sofa  A big meet up would be good .. however, I do believe I'm nice and central ... ish   

 

You are nice and central...ish, and just impossible to try and avoid

 

Definitely - around 25 minutes by car!  And Bath rocks - not only Jane Austen but lots of other things too, including a couple of gorgeous independent book shops! 

 

That's excellent distance. Now you can't say 'no'! I'd love to visit independent bookshops, because as far as I know, there aren't that many over here in Finland. At least owned by individual entrepreneurs (I hate that word. I've had to type it maybe 20 times since I started working and it's such a difficult word to type!)

 

 

So, you'll only be travelling to the U.S.?  /wishful thinking/

 

How could I resist the smell of chicory....

 

[frankie]

I'm probably about 15-16 books behind on my schedule this year. That's okay, but it's a lot worse than last year, especially when it's already September. Now that I work right next to the uni, the uni library is right there and it's easy to visit. So I've been thinking: I really want to read some classic children's books. I think this stems from me reading The Secret of Happy Ever Afters where children's books played a part. And now I'm reading the Inkworld trilogy and there are quotes of famous, popular children's books.

 

I also want to read some of them so that I can cross some books off my reading challenge lists... But also because I'm in the mood. And kids' books are usually a bit shorter, so that would enable me to catch up with my reading schedule.

 

I just need to come up with some titles to read...

 

I think 101 Dalmatians would be one, as well as Babe (can't remember the original title). I should look into the challenge lists and see which titles are listed.

Edited September 10, 2013 by frankie