Shawneinfl
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I just want to say I'm thankful for this group. You all are always kind, friendly and helpful - I've had some facebook interactions lately that have me shaking my head and fearing for the future of humanity. After all, if homeschool moms can't deal with each other with grace then what hope is there? I wish I could have a real life book meeting with all of you rather than being stuck in virtual world.
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And, these days, I think escapist reading is what I need. My life has been a total chaotic, stressful mess for six months now. On top of everything else, our A/C broke a couple of weeks ago -- at least it was a fairly easy fix, but a hot couple of days until I could get someone out to fix it. Just now, it appears that my 23-year-old washing machine has broken mid-cycle, so I'm posting here rather than bailing soapy water. Wah. I liked my washing machine.
I'm sorry for your appliance troubles. I didn't want to "like" your post but I do feel for you.
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Speaking of moms & mother's day, I'd appreciate any good thoughts or prayers for my mom. She was just diagnosed with breast cancer.
Thanks. :grouphug:
Aw man Stacia. Hugs and prayers for you and for your mom.
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I'm not sure if you realize it but your book link brings up The Florida Museum of Natural History - free admission for Mother's Day. :)
That's so weird. Here's the proper link (I hope). http://www.amazon.com/Girl-No-Name-Incredible-Monkeys/dp/1605985457/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1462765597&sr=1-1&keywords=a+girl+with+no+name
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Hello everyone and Happy Mother's Day. This is proving to be a slow reading year for me however I did finish a book this week. A Girl With No Name: The Incredible Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys by Marina Chapman. It was as fascinating as it sounds. I think they are writing a part two of her life which tells of her adult life after she was rescued. I had a funny library moment last week. My local librarian called to tell me that a book that I reserved was available. I asked her what it was and she hesitatingly replied "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu" :laugh: . I apologized profusely for making her say that aloud but it sounds like all the librarians had a good laugh over it.
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If y'all ever want to do a Florida meetup just pick a date. I'm happy to host.
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I'm about halfway through Something Will Happen, You'll See, a short story collection by the Greek writer Christos Ikonomou. These stories of working class people struggling to survive the shaky Greek economy were depressing me so I decided to take a break with a French novel, The 6:41 to Paris, by Jean-Philipe Blondel. I'm about halfway through that one too.
This past week was really fun. My best friend and her husband have been doing an annual rental in February or March at Saint Simons Island along the Georgia coast. They always invite me to join them for a few days. On this go around, I put my bike on the car and loaded Pratchett's Discworld novel Making Money in the CD player to help entertain me through the drive. Among the things we did was spend a day on Jekyll Island where we rode bikes, toured the art association's annual art fair, and visited the sea turtle rehab hospital there. I also came home with a bag of yarn from SSI's amazing yarn store--and books for the grand nephews from the independent book store. Lovely time.
Jane, I remember you talking about this last year. I'll have to try to meet you there next year! We are just down the road a bit and I love Jekyll and St. Simon's. Do you ever make it down to Amelia Island in FL? There is much to do there as well as a pretty nice inde bookstore. It is the perfect time of year to do some biking around the islands.
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Anyone else excited that tomorrow is Sunday and the start of a new thread? Whew.
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I finished my first book of the year. For some reason I don't think to count the books I read for homeschooling. My son and I are reading Annals of the Fallen World by John McPhee (the boy is doing a half-credit in Geology for an elective and I like to read what he's reading) but it's really 6 books put together in one volume. I finished the first, Basin and Range today.
Like all John McPhee books, it is excellent. I have such a crush on him. He can make any topic interesting. If there is a better general non-fiction writer out there, I'd like to know who it is.
Marbel, I'm a huge fan of non-fiction so I'll have to check this author out. :)
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I've catalogued 346 books and that was just the office and my bedroom...now moving on to the living room and my husband's office. BTW, this is NOT helping pare down my tbr pile any. :lol:
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I have started a massive cataloging project since I went ahead and downloaded the full version of collectorz.com book collector software. I'm scanning in all the books in my house while listening to SWB's History of the Ancient World on Audible.com. Let's see if I can get the whole project done before the end of the book. :001_smile: :blink:
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I have a friend who posts "Rabbit, rabbit" but I've always been too embarrassed to ask what it means.
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That was my first book last year! How did you like it?
It was pretty good but for me it will be forgettable in a few months. I prefer books that stay with you.
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I just finished The Alchemist, and I liked it. It wasn't "life changing," like I've heard, but I can appreciate it as a fable. I don't know, maybe it's the new year and the possibilities that are making me feel this way. Haha!
My daughter asked for this book for a Christmas gift. I'll have to borrow it back from her when she finishes it.
I just completed book #1 for the new year: The Girl On the Train by Paula Hawkins.
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Welcome to all the new BaWers. You will find this will become one of your favorite places on WTM. It's pretty much my only hangout here after many years. I was trying to remember if I was on it the year you started in 2009 Robin - hard to believe it's been that long. I didn't start Goodreads until 2012 and I can't remember how I kept track before then.
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I am trying to finish The Girl on the Train. I started it on audio cds last year which were borrowed from the library; then I had to return them before I finished. Now I have borrowed the regular book but a couple months have gone by and I'm trying to backtrack to the place where I can remember the storyline. I saw that it is going to be a movie in 2016 so I want to go ahead and finish this one.
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I just checked, my library has two copies by Per Petterson - I just put Out Stealing Horses on hold. Thanks again group for putting one more author on my horizon. I'm just going to have to get really healthy this year so I can live long enough to read all these books on my tbr pile. :lol:
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How many books did you read this year and did you meet or beat your own personal goal?
93. I don't have a personal goal, although I admit it turned out to be more then I thought. I go through periods where I finish a lot and periods where I read hardly anything.
Share your top 5 (or more) favorite books.
The Demon under the Microscope~non-fiction, pretty cool look at the invention of sulfa drugs over the 20th century.
Ship Fever and other Stories~short stories with a biological perspective, the title story is based on the true story of a cholera epidemic on immigrant ships coming into Canada in the 19th century.
The October Country~early, slightly ghoulish stories by Ray Bradbury. Neatly crafted.
Ancillary Justice~like a really great episode of Farscape (SF tv show) but with the best of Ursula LeGuin’s insight into gender and identity.
and the best was Labyrinths~Borges. What can I say…long awaited and so worthwhile. Dense. I read this a little at a time
Which books or authors you thought you'd never read and were pleasantly surprised to like them?
I wasn't expecting to enjoy the Robopocalypse books or the Larry Niven (Draco's Tavern) all that much, but I had a great time reading both out loud to dh.
One book that touched you - made you laugh, cry, sing or dance!
I had a real sense of wonder from the Green Knowe books (I've never read them before) and Clive Barker's youth novel The Thief of Always.
Share your most favorite character, covers and/or quotes?
One book you thought you'd love but didn't?
The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart...too much hype I guess.
What countries or centuries did you explore?
I did a lot of Greenland and northern Canada, a lot of Eskimo and Inuit. Plus Europe, Russia, China, the Mediterranean, Japan, Persia, Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, central Africa.
I tried to hit more pre-15th century...and I even got a 1st BCE, 12th BCE, and 15th BCE (and 5th, 6th, 12th, -15th) but mostly I read post-16th as usual. Especially crime novels...for some reason.
What books would you recommend everybody read?
Borges' Labyrinths.
What was your favorite part of the challenge?
That I get to tell you all about it now. For whatever reason I could not post here after June (Chrome problem, maybe?). I couldn't even contact support. I just stopped by to read everyone's lists. What a wonderful surprise that I could post!
I love those book covers!
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Well this was a strange year for me. I'm not going to focus on the number of books I completed because I started many books this year but didn't get through them. And even though I wasn't reading books I was constantly handling and talking about books all year with my book rep job. I have learned something - that dream of having "The Shop Around the Corner" maybe isn't the best idea. It really cuts into your personal reading time. Anyway, today ds (16) and I packed up 78 boxes of book inventory and hauled it all to a storage unit since I am not renewing my book rep contract for next year. Hopefully I will have a better reading year in 2016.
Share your top 5 favorite books:
Excellent Sheep by Deresiewicz
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Day the World Came To Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede
Which books or authors you thought you'd never read and were pleasantly surprised to like them?
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
One book you thought you'd love but didn't?
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
What books would you recommend everybody read?
Excellent Sheep by William DeresciewiczNomad by Aayan Hirsi Ali
Share your most favorite character, covers and/or quotes?
My favorite cover:
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No books for me. Dh and I didn't do gifts for each other so not much under the tree for adults. Dd received a book of bobbin lace making patterns and ds a Christmas music book for his ukulele.
Are ukulele's a huge fad in the States? Groups are all over the place here. Our village has one with 70 people in it. Ds just plays with a friend for fun. She (friend) received the music book also. My current book (my first village cozy preview) is about a murder in a ukulele group. Lucy Cookman's Murder out of Tune.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21814388-murder-out-of-tune. So far really enjoyable.
We have had a quiet day. Plenty of goodies. We watched Shrek movies while the dc's decorated their gingerbread house and assembled their Christmas lego...Scooby this year.
Everyone's stacks look fun. I am enjoying the pictures.
My mom is in a group called the Kooky Ukes - it's mostly ladies in their 70's and 80's. My mom has always been a performer and thinks everyone else should be too. She's had frustrations getting this group on the road though - she says they never want to practice to perfection, they won't do choreography, and then, well, there is the one lady who has narcolepsy and falls asleep during performances. I think mom's about to give up on them and go back to singing with her quartet.
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You are as much an overachiever as anyone here - you are reading things you love, you are reading in ways that match your self, your desires, and where you are in life right now. There is no higher, better level.
Our reading journeys aren't (and shouldn't be) about amassing mythical (sorry, Robin) cultural virtue points, they are about being the reader we want to be, using books and reading and the companionship here to enhance our lives in ways that work for us.
...and 50 Shades of Gray can achieve that for some readers and Plato for others.... and the one reader isn't somehow a better reader (or person!!!) than the other. ...they just want different things from their reading. ...either in general or at this season in their lives.
And the most beautiful thing about our group here is that both those readers, and every shade (*giggle*) between can be her real self here - and we can all live a little vicariously through each other's journeys... and there will be times when we'll walk along a stretch of road together, and others when we won't.... but always every person's journey will be equally celebrated and valued.... (though we won't all equally value each book itself! As we've all demonstrated a few times over.... but that, too, is part of the specialness here... that we can each have our own experience with a book and share it here and be heard, if not always agreed with!)
You're perfect just the way you are. :grouphug:
Beautifully said, Eliana!
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Stacia :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:
We went through a major job change for dh this year and it actually ended up well. We started our own business. Best of luck to you and I pray things are looking up soon.
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Kind of off topic but has anyone used collectorz.com to catalog their books? I'm looking for an inexpensive and user friendly program so I can finally keep track of everything.
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Oh yeah, and speaking of sauce, I'm going to make me up some huevos rancheros WITH vodka. That's my kind of cooking style. Then I'm doing up a Weight Watchers card for it.
I can't wait. :hurray:
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Book a Week 2016 - BW19: Happy Mother's Day
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BTW, if anyone wants to see a cute movie, "Mother's Day" was perfect for our mom's night last night. Light, predictable fare with lots of your favorite stars and lots of laughs. :laugh: