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  1. Thank you for the honest review. I've loved most of Kristin Hannah's books, so glad to know this one may not be worth reading. We didn't read this one, but Charlotte's Web was one that grabbed me and made me cry while reading aloud to the kiddo. Woot Woot! I really want to read this one. Adding to my christmas wish list. Hubby likes buying me chunky books. Why I have not read anything by her.... Loving the post and her recommended readings. Off to peruse her book list.
  2. It’s all kindle unlimited fault. They sucked me in to Kate Shugak’s story through book 9 and I just couldn’t stop. It’s like an addiction now. That happened and then this happened and oh my gosh, what will she do, and I have to know what happens next. And the only reason I’m buying the rest of the series is because I know down the line, I’ll read them again. Currently on #13 A Grave Denied.
  3. Glad you a feeling better but sorry hubby got it. When my hubby gets sick, he's usually 'ten times worse ' than I am and loves sympathy and TLC. Me, I just like to be left alone to sleep. I stay in my pajamas as long as possible, because the moment I get dressed, the guys think all is right with their world again and I'm no longer sick. LOL.
  4. Yes, that's right. Fixed it in the intro thread. Thanks!
  5. So many books on the wish list with an ice theme as well as dragons and on the shelves including Proust's volume two in his Search for Lost Times Books -- In the Shadow of Young Girls. I read Swann's Way a couple years ago and once I got used to his writing, got a lot out of it. I'll be trying to get back into it come 2023. I'm currently on #9 in the Kate Shugak series with Hunter's Moon. "It's autumn in Alaska: hunting season. Kate Shugak is acting guide to ten big game hunters carrying an arsenal of expensive weaponry. Unfortunately, not one of them seems to know one end of a shotgun from the other, and all are a danger to themselves and anyone else in range. So when one of the men is killed, his death is dismissed as a tragic accidental shooting. But when the weather worsens and Kate finds herself stranded in the wilderness with the hunting party, she begins to have her doubts about the group. And when she discovers another body in gruesome circumstances, Kate realizes that someone is after more than just four-legged trophies..."
  6. Happy Sunday! I'm leaping down rabbit holes today on the internet, exploring this, that, and the other. Kind of like my sleep lately. Ever since the time change, I've been waking up around 4, unable to get back to sleep for a while. Ideas bounce through my head for the story I'm working on as well as book ideas and book bingo, too tired to write them down and hope I'll remember them in the morning. Some ideas remain when I wake, others are still floating around in my mind, on the tip of my tongue but not quite there. Oh well. What was I saying. Oh yes. *grin* I've been exploring, letting my fingers do the walking through the web. A sample of today's finds. Enjoy! In Search of Marcel Proust Where to Start with Nora Ephron Entangled Publishing Launches Red Tower Books, Focused on Romantic SFF On writing a New Take on the Thin Man, set in Space Hungarian Speculative Fiction: Forceful, Vicious, Viscous Murder in the Moors: Crime Fiction Books Set in the English Moors True Life: I was a Dragon Book Kid Antarctica Reading List. 25 Best Steampunk Books (2022) Our A to Z and Back Again letter and word of the week are G and Grateful. ** Link to Book Week 45 Visit 52 Books in 52 Weeks where you can find all the information on the annual, mini, and perpetual challenges.
  7. Sorry you all got covid. Route 66 is a fun route. You'll have finishing it later to look forward to. Kind of like the Appalachian trail. One part at a time.
  8. Is The Dark is Rising the series by Susan Cooper? If so, looks pretty good.
  9. I detoured back into Dana Stabenow’s Kate Shugak series. So glad most of the books are available on kindle unlimited because I’m enjoying the heck out of the series. She’s a great character as well as the setting. Don’t know what it is about ice and snow and braving the elements, something I totally hate, but I enjoy reading about it. Man vs Nature thing. Currently on #7 Breakup in which Kate is having a really terrible, horrible, very bad, no good day.
  10. I think what the writer proposes is next to impossible. 1.5 minutes? Don't think I can agree with that. It takes time to process emotions which can't be done in 1.5 minutes. Can't say how much time. It just takes time. And there will be things like the crowd surge in Seoul which will bring it all back. Maybe time changes perspective, maybe it doesn't. It wouldn't be something I could think about once, then forget about it. It's kind of like grief, emotions come in waves. You experienced it and something will trigger that memory and you have to work through it. It's a part of being who we are. I think it's better to deal with it, than to lock it all away and try to forget. And yes it probably does helps us develop empathy for ourselves and others. But at the same time, we don't want to be so empathetic that we are reacting to every single bad thing that happens in the world. I totally get wanting to leave the experience sitting on the shelf and not think about it at all. I'm so sorry you experienced that in Lisbon. I totally avoided watching the news about Seoul because I knew I wouldn't be unable to see the images if I did. Sometimes avoidance is a good thing. 😘
  11. An interesting website I stumbled across that lead me on a variety of rabbit trails Warwick Price for Women in Translation Haruki Murakami’s Novelist as a Vocation is being released tomorrow. All the new Fantasy Books Arriving in November. — Lots of good authors include the long awaited sequel to Diana Rowland’s Kara Gillian series is coming out. Yeah!
  12. Waving hello. Great series which I enjoyed and glad you like it so far. I'll be cheering you on the finish line. It's well worth it.
  13. I finished Carlos Ruiz Zafon's Angel's Game, #2 in the Cemetery of Lost Books in which Daniel slowly loses his mind as people he loves and those surrounding a long ago mysterious disappearance are never what they seem to be. "In this powerful, labyrinthian thriller, David Martín is a pulp fiction writer struggling to stay afloat. Holed up in a haunting abandoned mansion in the heart of Barcelona, he furiously taps out story after story, becoming increasingly desperate and frustrated. Thus, when he is approached by a mysterious publisher offering a book deal that seems almost too good to be real, David leaps at the chance. But as he begins the work, and after a visit to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, he realizes that there is a connection between his book and the shadows that surround his dilapidated home and that the publisher may be hiding a few troubling secrets of his own. Once again, Ruiz Zafón takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and creates a breathtaking tale of intrigue, romance, and tragedy." Next up #3 in the Cemetery of Lost books - The Prisoner of Heaven. "Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife, Bea, have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julián, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is about to be wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past. His appearance plunges Fermín and Daniel into a dangerous adventure that will take them back to the 1940s and the early days of Franco's dictatorship. The terrifying events of that time launch them on a search for the truth that will put into peril everything they love, and will ultimately transform their lives."
  14. Happy Sunday. Our next 52 Books Bingo category is a Different Culture which links up quite well with our Crime Spree Around the world for this month. Why Diverse Books Matter: Mirrors and Windows 20 Fascinating Cultural Traditions Around the World What Colors Mean in Other Cultures Experience New Things with These 21 Books About Cultures That May Not Be Your Own 10 Cross-Cultural Novels that Illuminate the World We Live In 27 Books About Different Cultures & Faraway Places: Travel Writers’ Recommendations RD's best books by Native American, Black, Hispanic, and Asian Authors. GQ's Best Modern Middle Eastern Literature to read right now. Europa Editions World Noir: International Mysteries and Crime Fiction. 12 classic European novels to add to your reading list Our A to Z and Back Again Letter and Word of the Week are H and Hubris. Link to Book Week 44 Visit 52 Books in 52 Weeks where you can find all the information on the annual, mini, and perpetual challenges.
  15. I love reading translated books and Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s Cemetery of Forgotten Books are on my ebook nightstand. Already read Shadow of the Wind so next up is The Angel’s Game. It’s now 12:30 and its the first time I had to sit down all evening. Movie night was called on account of a plumbing emergency. Hubby decided to use Liquid Plumber, even though a plumber told him in the past never to use. He used it on the slow draining kitchen sink and snaked the outside drain, blasting the lines with water. James goes into the bathroom and starts yelling. The seal on his toilet broke and the bathroom was flooded. Stuff had backed up in both the bathtub and the shower. We’ve spent the past few hours running snakes, wiping up messes for each try, and cleaning all the drains. It’s finally fixed. Hubby’s bleaching everything now. Lesson learned: Don’t Use Liquid Plumber. Ugg!
  16. Happy Sunday, dear hearts. November is upon us and our newest crime spree category brought to us by Sandy and Amy is all about translated books. Crime isn’t limited to the US (or England for us Anglophiles). Some of the most interesting, translated works are mysteries from the Around the World, including the tortured protagonists and bleak settings of Scandinavia to the creepiness of Japanese mysteries to the sunshine noir of African authors. Places to explore: Africa: The Missing American by Kwei Quartey Nordic: Jussi Alder-Olsen and Arnaldur Indriðason Japan: Seishi Yokomizo’s Detective Kosuke Kindaichi series and The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino Australia: Jane Harper Spanish: Carlos Ruiz Zafron Challenge: Dust off your forged passport and get on Interpol’s most wanted list by reading a translated mystery. Our A to Z and Back Again letter and word of the week are I and Inspect. Link to Book Week 43 Visit 52 Books in 52 Weeks where you can find all the information on the annual, mini, and perpetual challenges.
  17. I just finished Nalini Singh’s Archangel’s Resurrection about Zanaya and Alexander, two Archangels whose love affair lasted eons so it covered vast periods of time. Many, but not all of the other characters made appearances. It was different with a lot more telling than showing and angst over the relationship. Not one I’d be eager to reread over and over again, but good nonetheless.
  18. I've been thoroughly enjoying M.L. Buchman's Miranda Chase series about an autistic NTSB agent and her cohorts. I caught up with the series just in the time for book #11 Skibird which is being released tuesday. "Those who work there call Antarctica “The Ice.” A secret Russian cargo jet crashes into a crevasse near an Australian Station. The Aussies call in the top air-crash investigators on the planet. The best of them all, Miranda Chase, must face the Russians, Chinese, and use her own autistic abilities to keep her team alive. As the battle spreads across The Ice, are even her incredible skills enough? Or will they all be buried in the frozen wasteland?" And excited for the new release of Nalini Singh's 15th book in the Guild Hunter series "Archangel's Resurrection on the 25th as well. Tonight our family movie choice was Replicas with Keenu Reeves. It was quite intense as he is a neuroscientists and tries to clone his family when they die in an accident.
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