Athena Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 Thanks . -1C tomorrow night here, bleah. I quite like the crispy cold, but this is muggy and overcast. Stay warm ! Cold! Here the temperature has dropped, it's now only about 6 °C maximum I think. It is overcast but at least it's not raining at the moment. You stay warm too . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted November 8, 2016 Author Share Posted November 8, 2016 (edited) So, I read Banana Yoshimoto`s Kitchen / Moonlight Shadow, a couple of days ago. Both novellas were excellent and I'm now a convert. She deals with the big questions - love and death - and does it in a beautifully meditative style. The language is just glorious ! An excerpt from Kitchen : I saw myself reflected in the glass of the large terrace window while black gloom spread over the rain-hounded night panorama. I was tied by blood to no creature in this world. I could go anywhere, do anything. It was dizzying. Edited November 8, 2016 by Little Pixie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 I read the novellas Hardboiled & Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto and liked those. I'm glad to find someone else who's read something by her! I'm glad you liked the novellas you read . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted November 9, 2016 Author Share Posted November 9, 2016 (edited) I read the novellas Hardboiled & Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto and liked those. I'm glad to find someone else who's read something by her! I'm glad you liked the novellas you read . Ooh, I`ll give those a go ; I was wondering which book of hers to try next. Edit - I`ve ordered it now ! Edited November 9, 2016 by Little Pixie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Ooh, I`ll give those a go ; I was wondering which book of hers to try next. Edit - I`ve ordered it now ! How exciting! I hope you like them . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted November 19, 2016 Author Share Posted November 19, 2016 How exciting! I hope you like them . The book`s arrived already ! Looking forward to reading it. I also ordered a book by Frances Crane, called The Applegreen Cat ; unfortunately, someone read a book code wrong and I`ve been sent a non-fiction book set in the Middle East by Joseph Braude called The Honoured Dead ( which does look interesting, anyway ). I`ve emailed the bopokseller to sort it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted November 19, 2016 Author Share Posted November 19, 2016 Hurray ! Jill Paton Walsh is writing another Lord Peter Wimsey book. I`ve read her other ones, continuing Dorothy L Sayers` series, so I`m thrilled that there`s going to be another one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 Hurray ! Jill Paton Walsh is writing another Lord Peter Wimsey book. I`ve read her other ones, continuing Dorothy L Sayers` series, so I`m thrilled that there`s going to be another one. I love the Lord Peter Wimsey series, and have been impressed by Jill Paton Walsh's continuation of them. The Attenbury Emeralds were great, although I was a tad less happy with The Late Scholar, which I felt missed the mark at times. It will be good to see what JPW comes up with, especially now the next generation Wimseys and Bunters are getting older. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 I also ordered a book by Frances Crane, called The Applegreen Cat ; unfortunately, someone read a book code wrong and I`ve been sent a non-fiction book set in the Middle East by Joseph Braude called The Honoured Dead ( which does look interesting, anyway ). I`ve emailed the bopokseller to sort it out. I hope you can get it sorted . It sounds like a hassle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted November 20, 2016 Author Share Posted November 20, 2016 I hope you can get it sorted . It sounds like a hassle. It was okay. They sorted it out within hours - full refund and I can keep the book too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted November 20, 2016 Author Share Posted November 20, 2016 I love the Lord Peter Wimsey series, and have been impressed by Jill Paton Walsh's continuation of them. The Attenbury Emeralds were great, although I was a tad less happy with The Late Scholar, which I felt missed the mark at times. It will be good to see what JPW comes up with, especially now the next generation Wimseys and Bunters are getting older. I wasn`t fussy - I enjoyed all the continuations. Have you tried any of Jill Paton Walsh`s other books ? I read The Wyndham Case, but wasn`t enthused by it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 No I haven't, and strangely have never even thought of them. Oh dear, I feel a bit guilty that I had only thought of her writings in context to Dorothy L Sayers. Oops! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted November 21, 2016 Author Share Posted November 21, 2016 No I haven't, and strangely have never even thought of them. Oh dear, I feel a bit guilty that I had only thought of her writings in context to Dorothy L Sayers. Oops! There are far too many books out there to keep up anyway.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 There are far too many books out there to keep up anyway.... Hell to the yeah! I am currently struggling to choose my next read - too much choice on my kindle and shelves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted November 21, 2016 Author Share Posted November 21, 2016 Hell to the yeah! I am currently struggling to choose my next read - too much choice on my kindle and shelves. Ditto. I might go for another Constance & Gwenyth Little book - they wrote some lovely screwball mysteries from the 1930`s onwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 Good grief, almost another year over. I`ve been a bit bleurgh lately - some medication I was taking affected my liver, leading to my hair thinning out ( luckily just at the front, so it`s disguisable ) and a general feeling of awfulness. I`ve stopped the tablets and will have another blood test in Feb, to check that the liver`s back to normal and it was definitely the medication causing it. Oh, and the BT engineer had to come out again to fix the phone line, which stopped working. Slow/ non-existent internets - the horror ! : Anyhoo, to the books ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 (edited) Books read : 152 TBR 831 New Books Bought : 156 Total Cost : £582.72 Books ordered - Something New( £8.84), Displacement (£10.45 ) , Relish (£8.29 ) - Lucy Knisley Hardboiled and Hardluck - Banana Yoshimoto ( £2.81 ), Adam Hall - Pekin Target (£2.81), Quiller KGB (£2.81), The warsaw document (£ 3.84 ) The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield (£2.01), Thyme of Death - Susan Wittig Albert (£2.81), Japanland - Karen Muller ( £2.80), The Rabbit Back Literature Society - Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen ( £2.80 ), Murder most frothy - Cleo Coyle ( £2.80 ), A plateful of murder - Claudia Bishop (£3.19 ), Night of the living deed - EJ Copperman ( £2.81 ), Finding your way - Martha Beck (£2.81 ), Pilgrimage Vol2 - Dorothy Richardson (£6.24 ). Edited December 11, 2016 by Little Pixie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 Twitter - Amazing Maps. - Some fun - and thought provoking - stuff here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 I`ve been a bit bleurgh lately - some medication I was taking affected my liver, leading to my hair thinning out ( luckily just at the front, so it`s disguisable ) and a general feeling of awfulness. I`ve stopped the tablets and will have another blood test in Feb, to check that the liver`s back to normal and it was definitely the medication causing it. Oh, and the BT engineer had to come out again to fix the phone line, which stopped working. Slow/ non-existent internets - the horror ! : I'm sorry you haven't been feeling well . I hope you feel better soon ! Glad the internet is fixed ! Books ordered - Something New( £8.84), Displacement (£10.45 ) , Relish (£8.29 ) - Lucy Knisley Hardboiled and Hardluck - Banana Yoshimoto ( £2.81 ), Adam Hall - Pekin Target (£2.81), Quiller KGB (£2.81), The warsaw document (£ 3.84 ) The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield (£2.01), Thyme of Death - Susan Wittig Albert (£2.81), Japanland - Karen Muller ( £2.80), The Rabbit Back Literature Society - Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen ( £2.80 ), Murder most frothy - Cleo Coyle ( £2.80 ), A plateful of murder - Claudia Bishop (£3.19 ), Night of the living deed - EJ Copperman ( £2.81 ), Finding your way - Martha Beck (£2.81 ), Pilgrimage Vol2 - Dorothy Richardson (£6.24 ). I hope you enjoy all your new books . I see you ordered Hardboiled and Hardluck, I hope you like it . Twitter - Amazing Maps. - Some fun - and thought provoking - stuff here. Some of those maps are quite interesting ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted December 12, 2016 Author Share Posted December 12, 2016 I'm sorry you haven't been feeling well . I hope you feel better soon ! Glad the internet is fixed ! I hope you enjoy all your new books . I see you ordered Hardboiled and Hardluck, I hope you like it . Some of those maps are quite interesting ! Thank you ! And now to get up to date with Books Read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted December 12, 2016 Author Share Posted December 12, 2016 #153 Honest Doubt - Amanda Cross #154 The Letters of Dorothy L Sayers 1899-1936 #155 I Remember Nothing - Nora Ephron #156 The Empty Day - Richard lockridge #157 Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto #158 Painted Roofs - Dorothy Richardson #159 Backwater - Dorothy Richardson #160 The Saturday Morning Murder - Batya Gur #161 Visible City - Tova Mirvis #162 Asking for murder - Roberta Isleib #163 Something new - Lucy Knisley #164 The grey Mist Murders - Constance and Gwenyth Little #165 Honeycomb - Dorothy richardson #166 the Black Coat - Constance and Gwenyth Little #167 Thyme of Death - Susan Wittig Albert #168 murder on a Kibbutz - Batya Gur #169 Murder Duet - Batya Gur #170 The Passover Murder - Lee Harris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 Nice ! Do you think you'll get to 175 this year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted December 13, 2016 Author Share Posted December 13, 2016 Nice ! Do you think you'll get to 175 this year? Maybe. I was thinking of reading one big book to finish - like The Luminaries ( Eleanor Catton ) or The Valley of Amazement ( Amy Tan ) - but now I`m thinking that to feel a bit more Christmassy, I could dig into some Festive Books. Do you think you`ll get to 450? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 Maybe. I was thinking of reading one big book to finish - like The Luminaries ( Eleanor Catton ) or The Valley of Amazement ( Amy Tan ) - but now I`m thinking that to feel a bit more Christmassy, I could dig into some Festive Books. Do you think you`ll get to 450? Those are both good ideas . I'm thinking of doing some festive reads myself (my current one is festive). Haha, no . I doubt I'm going to get to 425 to be honest. I've currently read 416 books. December is always a busy month for me and I want to focus on some festive reads and books for adults and YA for a while, generally longer books than the short children's books I have been reading the past while, so I don't think I'll get to even 425. It also doesn't help that I've got a new hobby now - colouring for adults, and I'm doing a lot of book cataloguing, fixing things up in my database. But who knows, maybe it'll be around 425. I'm kind of saddened I won't be getting to 100,000 pages this year - currently I've read 92944 pages (minus my current read) and I'd have to read a whole lot to get to 100,000. It was a nice accomplishment in 2015 though (as was 502 books). But for the next while I plan to focus on longer books for adults and YA rather than short children's books and not go to the library as often, just read what I want to when I feel like it. We'll see how things go though, I probably won't be able to resist going to the library in a while so . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted December 13, 2016 Author Share Posted December 13, 2016 Those are both good ideas . I'm thinking of doing some festive reads myself (my current one is festive). Haha, no . I doubt I'm going to get to 425 to be honest. I've currently read 416 books. December is always a busy month for me and I want to focus on some festive reads and books for adults and YA for a while, generally longer books than the short children's books I have been reading the past while, so I don't think I'll get to even 425. It also doesn't help that I've got a new hobby now - colouring for adults, and I'm doing a lot of book cataloguing, fixing things up in my database. But who knows, maybe it'll be around 425. I'm kind of saddened I won't be getting to 100,000 pages this year - currently I've read 92944 pages (minus my current read) and I'd have to read a whole lot to get to 100,000. It was a nice accomplishment in 2015 though (as was 502 books). But for the next while I plan to focus on longer books for adults and YA rather than short children's books and not go to the library as often, just read what I want to when I feel like it. We'll see how things go though, I probably won't be able to resist going to the library in a while so . You`ve had a really productive year ( and colouring books still count, right ? ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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