karenmarie's 17th year in the 75ers - part VIII - my lucky number!
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1karenmarie
Welcome to my eighth thread of 2024
Six Seven ways to describe me and books: bibliolater, bibliomaniac, bibliophile, lectiophiliac, bookworm (still a bookworm, because Jenna and Bill got me this bookworm for Christmas one year), Book Dragon thanks to Janet, and biblioflâneuse thanks to Richard!
@lizzied, Peggy, wrote “If I’m kind, I’ll get the day I deserve.” I’m going to try to implement that. No guarantees, but I may get through an hour or two before snark and unhappiness overcome my desire to be a better person.
I found an old post-it note recently, and love the quote:
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The Good: Family, friends, two kitties, books, and soccer in constantly-rotating order. I’m still recovering from right knee replacement surgery in early May, which will take up to a year to get completely healed although I graduated from PT mid-September and am doing well. Jenna is living with her girlfriend. I am happy for her and miss having her here. I can finally breathe a bit now that it’s Harris – Walz against The Idiot Boys.
The Bad and the Sad: Sad is Inara’s passing at the age of 17 on August 26th.
From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock. This information was published in January of this year when the clock was set to 90 seconds before midnight, apocalypse. 90 seconds is the shortest time to apocalypse since the clock was created in 1945.
The Ugly: The Gang of Psychos is the ugliest thing going on in this country right now. Vicious, evil people in power with a pseudo-Christian agenda that does not come close to following the Christianity they profess but profane.
The Scary: Two hospitalizations in September, slowly recovering.
I turned 71 this year. I think “How did I get to be old?”
I read and am a charter member of the Redbud and Beyond Book Club, started in 1997. We’ve chosen books for our 2024-2025 Book Club Year.
Aug – The End of the Affair by Graham Greene – started, abandoned.
Sep – Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt – finished. Loved.
Oct – Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain – yikes. Book club meeting in a week, yet with my strange September, don’t think I’ll get much more read than what I already have, which is not much at all.
Nov – Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
Dec – Foster by Claire Keegan
Jan – James by Percival Everett
Feb – Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Mar - The Mitford Affair by Marie Benedict
Apr – The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
May – Dinosaurs by Linda Millet
Jun 8 - book selection
I have been married to Bill for 33 years and am mother to Jenna, who turned 31 this year. It’s back to the two of us on 8 acres in central NC with 2 kitties and a daughter 40 minutes away.
Just two cute gingers this time, pics taken this month.
Zoe Rose hovering. Wash looking bookish.
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Jenna and Kitty William, her boy. November 2016.
My goal last year was 75 books, based on what I thought would be a tough reading year because of my health. Ha. I read 393 books, mostly on my Kindle, mostly using Kindle Unlimited. They were, as my daughter calls them, smut, and my friend Karen in Montana calls them, porn. *shrugs* I still really, really enjoy reading this subgenre of contemporary fiction/romance and will continue until it no longer interests me. It’s getting more challenging to find books as I’ve refined my targeted trope(s), but I’ve become a great detective. This coming year’s goal may be 200 based on still reading smut. I didn’t make the goal higher this year because of my knee replacement surgery, and as I recall from last year, the first month following surgery was not much reading. However, I’ve already read 310 books.
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Express gratitude for what I have - family, friends, intangibles and tangibles - every day.
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2024. Most of the rest of the year will be taking deep breaths from My Awful September. Ugh. The new normal for Covid will, I hope, be continued vigilance and an eventual regimen of yearly vaccines as we do with flu. With politics, who knows, but I have hope now where I didn’t until it became Harris – Walz 2024. The Democrats need to be vigilant in continuing to keep the Gang of Psychos in check. News avoidance as written above, except when I need my dose of schadenfreude, aka epicaricacy, and continue to revel in any and everything that politically or legally injures Trump. Not in line with what Peggy said, above, but I admit to not being perfect and reserving the right to be inconsistent.
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Currently Reading:
Misfits Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 11/17/24 Kindle Luna and Donnelly Like Us series 11 2022
L.A. Math: Romance, Crime, and Mathematics in the City of Angels by James D. Stein 11/13/24 hardcover 250 pages 2016
Unscripted by JR Gray 11/15/24 Audible audio book narrated by John Solo and Joel Leslie 8.5 hours Quell and Hale Unscripted 1 2019
Foster by Claire Keegan xx/xx/24 Audible audio book narrated by xx
The Federalist edited by Jacob E. Cooke 5/28/22 656 pages hardcover 1961
@lizzied, Peggy, wrote “If I’m kind, I’ll get the day I deserve.” I’m going to try to implement that. No guarantees, but I may get through an hour or two before snark and unhappiness overcome my desire to be a better person.
I found an old post-it note recently, and love the quote:
‘She is currently lost to her better self.’ – Daniel Mallory Ortberg in Slate’s Dear Prudence column
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The Good: Family, friends, two kitties, books, and soccer in constantly-rotating order. I’m still recovering from right knee replacement surgery in early May, which will take up to a year to get completely healed although I graduated from PT mid-September and am doing well. Jenna is living with her girlfriend. I am happy for her and miss having her here. I can finally breathe a bit now that it’s Harris – Walz against The Idiot Boys.
The Bad and the Sad: Sad is Inara’s passing at the age of 17 on August 26th.
From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock. This information was published in January of this year when the clock was set to 90 seconds before midnight, apocalypse. 90 seconds is the shortest time to apocalypse since the clock was created in 1945.
A moment of historic danger: It is still 90 seconds to midnight
Ominous trends continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. The war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear escalation. China, Russia, and the United States are all spending huge sums to expand or modernize their nuclear arsenals, adding to the ever-present danger of nuclear war through mistake or miscalculation.
In 2023, Earth experienced its hottest year on record, and massive floods, wildfires, and other climate-related disasters affected millions of people around the world. Meanwhile, rapid and worrisome developments in the life sciences and other disruptive technologies accelerated, while governments made only feeble efforts to control them.
The Ugly: The Gang of Psychos is the ugliest thing going on in this country right now. Vicious, evil people in power with a pseudo-Christian agenda that does not come close to following the Christianity they profess but profane.
The Scary: Two hospitalizations in September, slowly recovering.
I turned 71 this year. I think “How did I get to be old?”
I read and am a charter member of the Redbud and Beyond Book Club, started in 1997. We’ve chosen books for our 2024-2025 Book Club Year.
Aug – The End of the Affair by Graham Greene – started, abandoned.
Sep – Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt – finished. Loved.
Oct – Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain – yikes. Book club meeting in a week, yet with my strange September, don’t think I’ll get much more read than what I already have, which is not much at all.
Nov – Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
Dec – Foster by Claire Keegan
Jan – James by Percival Everett
Feb – Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Mar - The Mitford Affair by Marie Benedict
Apr – The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
May – Dinosaurs by Linda Millet
Jun 8 - book selection
I have been married to Bill for 33 years and am mother to Jenna, who turned 31 this year. It’s back to the two of us on 8 acres in central NC with 2 kitties and a daughter 40 minutes away.
Just two cute gingers this time, pics taken this month.
Zoe Rose hovering. Wash looking bookish.
.
Jenna and Kitty William, her boy. November 2016.
My goal last year was 75 books, based on what I thought would be a tough reading year because of my health. Ha. I read 393 books, mostly on my Kindle, mostly using Kindle Unlimited. They were, as my daughter calls them, smut, and my friend Karen in Montana calls them, porn. *shrugs* I still really, really enjoy reading this subgenre of contemporary fiction/romance and will continue until it no longer interests me. It’s getting more challenging to find books as I’ve refined my targeted trope(s), but I’ve become a great detective. This coming year’s goal may be 200 based on still reading smut. I didn’t make the goal higher this year because of my knee replacement surgery, and as I recall from last year, the first month following surgery was not much reading. However, I’ve already read 310 books.
.
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Express gratitude for what I have - family, friends, intangibles and tangibles - every day.
.
2024. Most of the rest of the year will be taking deep breaths from My Awful September. Ugh. The new normal for Covid will, I hope, be continued vigilance and an eventual regimen of yearly vaccines as we do with flu. With politics, who knows, but I have hope now where I didn’t until it became Harris – Walz 2024. The Democrats need to be vigilant in continuing to keep the Gang of Psychos in check. News avoidance as written above, except when I need my dose of schadenfreude, aka epicaricacy, and continue to revel in any and everything that politically or legally injures Trump. Not in line with what Peggy said, above, but I admit to not being perfect and reserving the right to be inconsistent.
...
Currently Reading:
Misfits Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 11/17/24 Kindle Luna and Donnelly Like Us series 11 2022
L.A. Math: Romance, Crime, and Mathematics in the City of Angels by James D. Stein 11/13/24 hardcover 250 pages 2016
Unscripted by JR Gray 11/15/24 Audible audio book narrated by John Solo and Joel Leslie 8.5 hours Quell and Hale Unscripted 1 2019
Foster by Claire Keegan xx/xx/24 Audible audio book narrated by xx
The Federalist edited by Jacob E. Cooke 5/28/22 656 pages hardcover 1961
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read - 393 last year
1. Just a Bit Wrecked by Alessandra Hazard 12/31/23 1/1/24 205 pages Kindle
Logan and Andrew Straight Guys 11 2020
2. Just a Bit Captivated by Alessandra Hazard 1/1/24 1/1/24 239 pages Kindle
Aiden and Zain Straight Guys 14 2023
3. Tell No One by Barbara Elsborg 1/1/24 1/2/24 280 pages Kindle Tag and Delaney 2022
4. The Making of Jonty Bloom by Barbara Elsborg 1/2/24 1/3/24 383 pages Kindle Jonty and Devan Unfinished Business 1 2020
5. Reinventing Cato by Barbara Elsborg 1/3/24 1/4/24 327 pages KindleCato and Vigge Unfinished Business 3 2021
6. Waiting for Ru by Barbara Elsborg 1/4/24 1/5/24 352 pages Kindle Ru and Jasim Unfinished Business 4 2021
**abandoned Brave for You by Crystal Lacy** 166 pages
7. Fairy Tales for Angry Little Girls by Lela Lee 1/5/24 1/6/24 168 pages Hardcover
8. Falling by Barbara Elsborg 1/5/24 1/6/24 333 pages Kindle Malachi and Harper Fall and Break 1 2017
9. Breaking by Barbara Elsborg 1/6/24 1/7/24 333 pages Kindle
Archer and Conrad Fall and Break 2 2017
10. He's the One by Barbara Elsborg 1/7/24 1/8/24 377 pages Kindle Col and Theo Fate We Make 1 2023
11. Hold On by Barbara Elsborg 1/8/24 1/9/24 322 pages KindleDominic and Ren Fate We Make 2 2023
12. This is Real by Barbara Elsborg 1/9/24 1/9/24 262 pages Kindle Murdo and Lukas 2022
13. Edge of Forever by Barbara Elsborg 1/10/24 1/11/24 348 pages KindlePasha and Levi 2018
14. Zeke's Wood by Barbara Elsborg 1/11/24 1/11/24 68 pages Kindle Zeke and Gideon 2017
15. With Or Without Him by Barbara Elsborg 1/11/24 1/12/24 306 pages KindleHaris and Tyler 2017
16. Drawn In by Barbara Elsborg 1/12/24 1/13/24 335 pages Kindle Kell and Gethin 2016
17. Cowboys Down by Barbara Elsborg 1/13/24 1/14/24 287 pages Kindle
Jasper and Calum 2017
18. Give Yourself Away by Barbara Elsborg 1/14/24 1/15/24 353 pages Kindle March and Caleb 2017
19. Every Move He Makes by Barbara Elsborg 1/15/24 1/16/24 277 pages Kindle Logan and Zak 2017
20. Dirty Games by Barbara Elsborg 1/16/24 1/17/24 346 pages KindleLinton and Thorne 2017
21. Where Forever Started by Barbara Elsborg 1/17/24 1/18/24 Kindle Barney and Raf 2017
22. The Bastard and the Heir by Eden Finley and Saxon James 1/19/24 /1/19/24 337 pages Kindle Darcy and Wren 2024
**abandoned The Fake Boyfriends Debacle by Hayden Hall** 79 pages
**abandoned In The Gray by Christina Lee** 140 pages
23. A Wedding in a Week by Con Riley 1/19/24 1/20/24 292 pages Kindle Marc and Stef 2023
24. Assassins Are People Too by S. C. Wynne 1/20/24 1/21/24 133 pages Kindle Marc and Dillon Assassins in Love Series 1 2019
25. Assassins Love People Too by S. C. Wynne 1/21/24 1/21/24 131 pages Kindle Marc and Dillon Assassins in Love Series 2 2019
26. Assassins Save People Too by S. C. Wynne 1/21/24 1/21/24 122 pages KindleMarc and Dillon Assassins in Love Series 3 2019
**abandoned Love Me Again by Max Walker** 70 pages
27. Crashing Upwards by S.C. Wynne 1/21/24 1/22/24 314 pages KindleHarper and Sam 2018
28. His Death Bringer by Courtney W. Dixon 1/22/24 1/23/24 316 pages Kindle Luca and Dante The District 1 2023
29. Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen read by Arte Johnson 12/31/23 1/23/24 11.5 hours audiobook
30. Keeping It Casual by Jax Calder 1/23/24 1/23/24 140 pages KindleDustin and Jeremy 2023
31. The Anonymous Hookup 1/23/24 1/24/24 121 pages Kindle Lane and Sam 2022
**abandoned Love is Blind by S.C. Wynne** 30 pages
**abandoned Head Over Feels by Bix Barrow** 284 pages
32. The Mission by Barbara Elsborg 1/24/24 1/25/24 146 pages Kindle Conrad and Arlo 2023
33. A Spaceman Came Traveling by Barbara Elsborg 1/25/24 1/25/24 62 pages Kindle Seven and Cooper 2023
34. Trapped for the Holidays by Courtney W. Dixon 1/25/24 1/25/24 98 pages Kindle Rhett and Patrick 2023
**abandoned Return by Fire by Tracey Jerald** 34 pages
**abandoned Stix & Stones by Courtney W. Dixon** 191 pages
35. Anticipating Disaster by Silvia Violet 1/26/24 1/26/24 248 pages Kindle David and Oliver Anticipation 1 2019
36. His To Own by Leo Rivers 1/26/24 1/27/24 151 pages Kindle Rowan and Zane Heart of Thornes 1 2023
37. Mine to Claim by E.V. Olsen 1/27/24 1/27/24 Kindle Rex and Devon Wasteland Temptations 1 2023
38. Mine to Protect by E.V. Olsen 1/27/24 1/28/24 62 pages Kindle Rex and Devon Wasteland Temptations 2 2023
39. His to Break by E.V. Olsen 1/28/24 1/28/24 51 pages Kindle Mac and Cal Wasteland Temptations 3 2024
40. Nixon by Laura John 1/28/24 1/28/24 238 pages Kindle Dante and Nixon Hunter Security 1 2023
41. Kissing in the Snow by Laura John 1/29/24 1/29/24 101 pages Kindle Dane and Ryan related to Sentinel Protection Duology 1 2021
42. Damaged Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 1/29/24 1/29/24 399 pages Kindle Maximoff and Farrow Like Us 1 2017
43. The Plus-One Entanglement by Paulina Ian-Kane 1/29/24 1/30/24 127 pages Kindle Asher and Jordan Love After Forty 1 2023
**abandoned One by Paulina Ian-Kane** 197 pages
44. His Mafia Prince by Leo Rivers 1/30/24 1/31/24 133 pages Kindle
Angelo and Sebastian Toscano Doms 1 2023
45. The Billionaire's Rival by Silvia Violet 1/31/24 1/31/24 276 pages Kindle Ford and Jay Bad Boy Billionaires 2 2023
46. True North by C.E. Kilgore 1/31/24 1/31/24 57 pages Kindle Chris and Joshua Hearts Compass 1 2015
47. Down South by C.E. Kilgore 1/31/24 1/31/24 61 pages Kindle Gabe and Liam Hearts Compass 3 2015
48. Back East by C.E. Kilgore 1/31/24 2/1/24 57 pages Kindle Eli and David Hearts Compass 2 2015
49. Out West by C.E. Kilgore 2/1/24 2/1/24 62 pages Kindle Alex and Mateo Hearts Compass 4 2015
50. Objectified by C.E. Kilgore 2/1/24 2/1/24 48 pages Kindle Zane and Tyler 2015
51. Shades by Jaime Reese 2/1/24 2/3/24 340 pages Kindle Killian and Nick 2018
52. Grayson Ryder: A Thief's Thrill by M.L. Giles 2/3/24 2/3/24 244 pages Kindle Grayson and Colson Grayson Ryder 1 2018
53. Just Friends by Tina Kove 2/4/24 2/4/24 159 pages Kindle Ben and Tarjei 2020
54. Love and Moonlight by Killian Ford 2/4/24 2/24 177 pages Kindle Jax and Victor 2023
55. The Escape: Soren's Saga by Nicky James 2/4/24 2/25/24 291 pages Kindle Soren and Remy Healing Hearts 3 2017
56. A Day Makes by Mary Calmes 2/5/24 2/6/24 236 pages Kindle Ceaton and Brin The Vault 1 2021
57. Not What It Seems by Nicky James 2/6/24 2/7/24 442 pages Kindle Cyrus and River 2021
58. Cravings of the Heart by Nicky James 2/7/24 2/7/24 298 pages Kindle Arden and Iggy Trials of Fear 6 2019
59. Accidentally August by E.M. Denning 2/7/24 2/7/24 191 pages KindleAugust and Crispin Walking Disaster 1 2023
60. As Much As I Try by Erica Montrose 2/8/24 2/9/24 208 pages KindleEdwin and Liam 2022
61. Oliver by E.M. Denning 2/9/24 2/10/24 195 pages Kindle Oliver and Jordan Walking Disaster 2 2023
62. Last First Kiss by E.M. Denning 2/10/24 2/10/24 201 pages pages Kindle Logan and Ezra 2021
**abandoned Murder Husbands by E.M. Denning** 96 pages
**abandoned Dario: Wicked Legacies by Victoria Sue** 146 pages
63. Mafia Target by Mila Finelli 2/12/24 2/13/24 301 pages Kindle Giulio and Alessio Kings of Italy 4 2023
64. Afogato by E.M. Lindsey 2/13/24 2/13/24 262 pages Kindle Caleb and Bodhi Brew Biz 1 2023
65. Most Of You by E.M. Lindsey 2/13/24 2/16/24 280 pages Kindle Emil and Renzo The Beginning of Always 2 2023
**The Kidnapping of Roan Sinclair by Ashlyn Drewek** 131 pages
66. The Dotted Line by Claire Cullen 2/16/24/ 2/16/24 121 pages Kindle Benn and Leo Tangled Gentry 1 2017
67. Branded by Roelle Denning 2/16/24 2/16/24 277 pages Kindle Declan and Remi Allies 1 2023
68. Stepbrother Dearest by Willow Dixon 2/17/24 2/17/24 314 pages KindleCaleb and Gray Crimson Club 1 2023
69. Fakers With Benefits by Willow Dixon 2/17/24 2/18/24 330 pages KindleCaleb and Gray Crimson Club 2 2023
70. Surviving the Break by C.P. Harris 2/18/24 2/19/24 289 pages Kindle Max and Ash Chadwick 2 2020
**abandoned Staking His Claim by Ki Brightly and M.D. Gregory** 135 pages
**abandoned The Former Assassin's Guide to Snagging a Reluctant Boyfriend by Alice Winters** 96 pages
71. Reindeer Games by N.R. Walker 2/20/23 2/20/23 157 pages Kindle Leif and Russ Ace's Wild 6 2019
72. Nuts by S.E. Jakes and Stephanie Tyler 2/20/24 2/20/24 90 pages Kindle Preston and Jagger Ace's Wild 2 2019
73. Reunion by Neve Wilder 2/20/24 2/20/24 132 pages Kindle Cole and Dane Ace's Wild 7 2019
74. The Good Liar by C.P. Harris 2/20/24 2/21/24 346 pages Kindle Cole and Jasper Infidelity 1 2023
75. The Boss's Boy by Aja Foxx 2/22/24 2/22/24 379 pages Kindle Dmitri and Eiji Mafia Mayhem 2 2023
76. Love Language by Jax Calder 2/22/24 2/22/24 59 pages Kindle Ash and Dominic 2024
77. The Fishermen by C.P. Harris 2/23/24 2/24/22 474 pages Kindle Leland and Franklin Infidelity 2 2023
78. Want You Still by C.E. Ricci and Marley Valentine 2/24/24 2/25/24 366 pages Kindle Kindle Will and Pierce 2024
**abandoned The Way We Hate by Myka Loren** 196 pages
79. The Truth of Loving You by Heather Leighson 2/25/24 2/26/24 383 pages Kindle Cole and Shane Unframed Art MM Romance 1 2023
80. You Have Arrived At Your Destination by Amor Towles 2/27/24 2/27/24 50 pages Kindle 2019
81. Crankshaft by K.M. Neuhold 2/26/24 2/27/24 245 pages Kindle Porter and Steele Big Bull Mechanics 1 2022
**abandoned Fool's Gold by J.V. Speyer** 99 pages
82. Rhythmic Bliss by Leigh Jarrett 2/27/24 2/27/24 140 pages Kindle Lucas and Nick LJ M/M/ romance 7 2023
83. From the Ground Up by Harper Robson 2/27/24 2/27/24 263 pages Kindle Mason and Jackson Hot Dam Homes 1 2022
84. Falling for Raine by Lane Hayes 2/27/24 2/28/24 208 pages Kindle Raine and Graham 2024
**abandoned Dearly & Deviant Daniel by L.A. Kaye** 159 pages
85. Lovers Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 2/28/24 2/29/24 467 pages Kindle Maximoff and Farrow Like Us 2 2017
**abandoned Dearly Deviant Daniel by L.A. Kaye** 159 pages
86. Alphas Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 2/29/24 3/1/24 488 pages Kindle Maximoff and Farrow Like Us 3 2018
87. Tangled Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/1/24 3/1/24 483 pages KindleJane and Thatcher Like Us 4 2019
88. Sinful Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/1/24 3/2/24 501 pages Kindle Jane and Thatcher Like Us 5 2019
89. Headstrong Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/2/24 3/3/24 468 pages Kindle Maximoff and Farrow Like Us 6 2019
90. Charming Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/3/24 3/4/24 499 pages Kindle Oscar and Jack Like Us 7 2020
91. Wild Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/5/24 3/5/24 498 pages Kindle Akara, Banks, and Sulli Like Us 8 2020
92. Fearless Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/5/24 3/6/24 587 pages Kindle Akara, Banks, and Sulli Like Us 9 2021
93. Infamous Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/6/24 3/7/24 587 pages Kindle Akara, Banks, and Sulli Like Us 10 2021
94. Misfits Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/7/24 3/8/24 464 pages Kindle Luna and Donnelly Like Us 11 2022
95. Unlucky Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/8/24 3/9/24 588 pages Kindle Luna and Donnelly Like Us 12 2023
96. Nobody Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/9/24 3/10/24 812 pages Kindle Luna and Donnelly Like Us 13 2024
97. Damaged Like Us 3/11/24 3/11/24 399 pages Kindle **reread** Maximoff and Farrow Like Us 1 2017
98. A Bit of Rough by Laura Baumbach 3/13/24 3/13/24 217 pages Kindle Rough Series Book 1 2007
99. Lovers Like Us 3/11/24 3/14/24 466 pages Kindle **reread** Maximoff and Farrow Like Us 2 2017
100. Fire and Sand by Louise Collins 3/14/24 3/14/24 108 pages Kindle Jake & Maddox Adrenaline Jake 3 2018
101. Guns and Shadows by Louise Collins 3/14/24 3/14/24 130 pages Kindle Jake & Maddox Adrenaline Jake 4 2018
102. Diamond in the Rough by Louise Collins 3/14/24 3/14/24 207 pages KindleJake & Maddox Adrenaline Jake 5 2019
103. #20DaystoLA by Tanya Chris 3/14/24 3/15/24 252 pages Braxton and Craig 2020
**abandoned Kept in the Dark by Charlie Cochet** 137 pages
104. Stealing the Silver Fox by Daniel May 3/15/24 3/16/24 170 pages Kindle Ezra and Tony Obsessed With Him 3 2023
105. No Angel by Daniel May 3/16/24 3/16/24 194 pages Kindle Enzo and Hill Obsessed With Him 4 2024
106. Christmas With The Billionaire by Amber Ridge 3/16/24 3/16/24 58 pages Kindle Wyatt and Drake Boy Next Door 5 2015
**abandoned My Chaos, His Calm by Romeo Alexander** 65 pages
107. My Brother's Best Friend by Aiden Bates and Ali Lyda 3/16/24 3/17/24 258 pages KindleJamie and Nico Caldwell Brothers 1 2020
**abandoned Touch and Go by Aiden Bates** 177 pages
**abandoned Alphas Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 73 pages
108. The Flirty Vet by Casey Cox 3/17/24 3/18/24 401 pages Kindle Col and Wilby Vet Shop Boys Down Under 1 2024
109. Runaway by Casey Cox 3/18/24 3/19/24 260 pages Kindle Conrad and Jedfire Escape 2 2021
110. Conversation Hearts by Avon Gale 3/19/24 3/19/24 28 page short story Kindle Sinjin and Levi 2019
111. Learning to Feel by N.R. Walker 3/19/24 3/19/24 252 pages KindleNathan and Trent 2015
112. Old Acquaintance by Avon Gale 3/19/24 3/19/24 31 pages Kindle Andrew and Elias 2019
113. The Revenge Agenda by Saxon James 3/19/24 3/20/24 276 pages KindleRush and Hunter Accidental Love 3 2024
114. Alaskan Thunder by Nando Gray 3/20/24 3/21/24 104 pages Calvin and Zayne 2024
115. Without You by Marley Valentine 3/21/24 3/21/24 290 pages Kindle Deacon and Julian 2020
116. In the Eye of the Beholder by Dianna Roman 3/21/24 3/22/24 387 pages KindleDaniel and Eric 2023
117. The Gentleman by Dianna Roman 3/22/24 3/23/24 257 pages Kindle Cameron and Pete 2024
118. You Again by Dianna Roman 3/23/24 3/24/25 262 pages Kindle Johnny and Aiden Men of Olympus 1 2022
119. A Minute More by Cora Rose 3/25/24 3/25/24 210 pages Kindle Wesley and Simon Timeless 1 2023
**abandoned Say I Do by Brea Alepoú and Skyler Snow** 170 pages
**abandoned Blu, My Protector by RS McKenzie** 156 pages
120. The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman 1/26/24 3/27/24 15.5 hours audio book2005
121. Hot Mess by Misha Horne 3/26/24 3/27/24 309 pages Kindle London and Erik 2020
122. Little Demon in the Details by Nordika Night 3/27/24 3/29/24 376 pages Kindle Blake and Mercer 2023
123. The Caretaker by C.P. Harris 3/29/24 3/29/24 265 pages Kindle Noon and Solace Infidelity 3 2024
124. Bad Boy by Emma Alcott 3/29/24 3/30/24 398 pages Kindle Colton and Russ Masters of Romance 1 2021
**abandoned Sweet Thing by Emma Alcott** 121 pages
**abandoned Picture Love by A.F. Zoelle** 149 pages
125. Wedding Bells by Peter Styles and J.P. Oliver 3/31/24 4/2/24 Kindle Sebastian and Matt Finding Shore 3 2018
126. Endless Stretch of Blue by Riley Hart 4/2/24 4/3/24 253 pages Kindle Enzo and Damon 2019
**abandoned Boss of Attraction by Kimberly Knight and Rachel Lyn Adams ** 51 pages
**abandoned Losing Control by Riley Hart Ben and Dante Broken Pieces 3 2015**48 pages
127. Monopolize Me by Evie Noir 4/4/24 4/5/24 468 pages Kindle Dakota and Lirio The New York Series 1 2020
128. Monopolize You by Evie Noir 4/5/24 4/6/24 479 pages Kindle Dakota and Lirio The New York Series 2 2021
129. The Secret Lives of CEOs by Joey Mayble 4/6/24 4/6/24 197 pages Kindle
Max and Cameron Gay Awakenings 2
130. Monopolize Us by Evie Noir 4/7/24 4/9/24 499 pages Kindle Dakota and Lirio The New York Series 3 2022
131. Unforgettable by Marley Valentine 4/8/24 Kindle Oz and Reeve Vino and Veritas 18 2021
132. Secret Desires by Amber Ridge 4/10/24 4/10/24 34 pages Kindle Nicholas and Daniel Boy Next Door 4 2014
**abandoned White Noise by Lark Taylor ** 168 pages
133. To Have and to Hold: Taken by Abigail Kade 4/10/24 4/11/24 170 pages Kindle Worthy and Crow Criminal Delights 12 2019
134. Brazen Affairs by Ashley James 4/11/24 4/12/24 295 pages Kindle Vaughn and Camden Hidden Affairs 1 2023
135. Eden by Avon Gale and Emily Rossman 4/12/24 4/12/24 224 pages Kindle Rayne and Brandon 2022
136. RPF - When Fiction Gets A Little Too Real by M. Grano and C. Azzo 4/12/24 4/16/24 458 pages Kindle Sam and Levi 2024
**abandoned Drawn In By You by R.M. Neill** 106 pages way too precocious daughter, too angsty Travis, too much
137. Storm Clouds and Devastation by Ashley James 4/16/24 4/17/24 286 pages Kindle Bodhi and Jules Hidden Affairs 2 2023
**abandoned Embracing His Shame by Brigham Vaughn** 212 pages Kink okay, but Forrest's fear of relationships irrational and Jarod starts being interested.
138. Say My Name by Ashley James 4/18/24 4/19/24 308 pages Kindle Travis and Mateo 2023
139. Insatiable Hunger by Ashley James 4/17/24 4/18/24 340 pages Kindle Elias and Zeke Hidden Affairs 3 2023
140. Aftercare by Tanya Chris 4/18/24 4/19/24 211 pages Kindle Garrett and Aayan Ever After 1 2017
141. Aftershock by Tanya Chris 4/19/24 4/20/24 218 pages Kindle Garrett and Aayan Ever After 2 2017
142. Aftermath by Tanya Chris 4/19/24 4/20/24 236 pages Kindle Casey and Brooks Ever After 3 2019
143. Red Flags and Tuesdays by Nordika Night 4/20/24 4/21/24 251 pages Kindle Reid and Atticus Weekday Weirdos 1 2024
144. Professor Platonic by Lucy Lennox 4/21/24 4/21/24 42 pages Kindle Jack and River 2023
**abandoned Hired Hadley by Nora Phoenix** 211 pages To use a phrase seen most recently on Richard's thread: Couldn't be arsed.
**abandoned various and sundry** 50 pages
**abandoned An Immense World by Ed Yong** 144 pages I do not have the mental bandwidth for this and it's been 6 months
145. Out of the Office Romance by Twoony 4/22/24 4/24/24 536 pages KindleKade and Nolen AND Louis and Mason 2023
146. The House of Being by Natasha Trethewey 4/12/24 4/24/24 hardcover 77 pages
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**abandoned Blue's Boss by Candice Blake** 76 pages Ugh. Poor writing, too many shortcuts, ridiculous situations.
147. Six Feet Apart by 4/24/24 4/24/24 113 pages Alina Popescu and A L Bates KindleDarius and Aadi 2020
**abandoned No Secrets by Nora Phoenix** 123 pages
148. Gentle Hands by Emily Buckley 4/24/24 4/25/24 159 pages Kindle Matthew and Tom Growing Pains 1 2020
149. Payback by Alexa Land Kindle 4/25/24 4/25/24 182 pages Kindle Malcolm and Daniel Firsts and Forever Stories 10 2023
150. Message Received 4/25/24 4/26/24 by D.K. Sutton 314 pages Kindle Ben and Sean Sloan Brothers Book 2 2023 my library call center, ben sub Sean dom trust fund
151. The Heir's Disgrace by August Jones 4/26/24 4/27/24 426 PAGES Kindle Drew and Ollivier Doormen of the Upper East Side 1 2024
152. Say Yes by Jen Samson 4/27/24 4/28/24 422 pages Kindle Colt and Sebastian 2022
153. For You, Sir by Emily Brandish 4/28/24 4/29/24 306 pages Kindle Jun and Einar 2023
154. Deep Under by Tanya Chris 4/29/24 4/29/24 47 pages Kindle Maddox and Jack Deep Under 1 2016
155. Back Under by Tanya Chris 4/29/24 4/29/24 47 pages Kindle Maddox and Jack Deep Under 1 2021
156. How to Shield an Assassin by AJ Sherwood 4/29/24 4/30/24 254 pages Kindle Ari and Carter Unholy Trifecta Book 1 2019
157. How to Steal a Thief by AJ Sherwood 4/30/24 5/1/24 197 pages Kindle Ivan and Aiden Unholy Trifecta Book 2 2020
**abandoned Finding Him by Chad Lane** 87 pages
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158. Dual Destruction by Kate Hawthorne 5/1/24 5/3/24 246 pages KindleSage and Golden Duality 1 2021
159. Hitman's Secret by MJ Red 5/6/24 5/6/24 32 pages Kindle Charles and Oliver 2021
**abandoned How to Hack a Hacker by AJ Sherwood** 132 pages
160. 10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall 5/7/24 5/9/24 386 pages Kindle Sam and Jonathan Material World 1 2023
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**abandoned A Christmas Reunion by Nic Starr ** 41 pages
161. Employing Patience by Saxon James 5/11/24 5/12/24 290 pages Kindle Art and Joey Divorced Men's Club 4 2023
162. Glory by Leo Rivers 5/12/24 5/12/24 81 pages Kindle Zach and Wyatt 2023
**abandoned Pretty Things by Devon McCormack ** 49 pages - already read it and only gave it 3*
163. Lights, Camera, Passion by Isabel Lucero 5/12/24 5/14/24 396 pages KindleJacoby and Roman 2024
164. A Mountain Man Walks into a Coffee Shop by Mal Trevino 5/14/24 5/15/24 81 pages Kindle Josiah and Lennon Harlow Mountain Men 1 2023
165. A Mountain Man Walks into a Library by Mal Trevino 5/15/24 5/15/24 81 pages Kindle Samuel and Remy Harlow Mountain Men 2 2023
166. A Mountain Man Walks Into His Brother's Best Friend by Mal Trevino 5/16/24 5/16/24 87 pages Kindle Noah and Gabriel Harlow Mountain Men 3 2023
167. Snowflake Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses by M.J. O'Shea 5/16/24 5/16/24 52 pages Kindle Toby and Cook 2023
**abandoned Touch Me Gently by J.R. Loveless** 102 pages Ugh. Just... ugh. Soppy, inexplicably gay for you, too many mentions of how feminine Kaden is
168. Nothing Special by Casey Cox 5/17/24 5/18/24 247 pages Kindle Benji and Darren 2022
169. When London Snow Falls by Hayden Stone 5/18/24 5/20/24 320 pages KindleCharlie and Ben When Snow Falls 2 2022
170. Scandal by T. Ashleigh 5/20/24 5/22/24 197 pages Kindle Austin and Beckett Black Diamond 6 2023 too trope-y no explanations for certain things
171. Tripwrecked by A. Poland 5/22/24 5/23/24 311 pages Kindle Aiden and Finn 2022
172. Ambiguous by Leslie McAdam 5/23/24 5/24/24 286 pages Kindle Sam and Julian IOU 1 2022
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173. Studious by Leslie McAdam 5/24/24 5/25/24 248 pages Kindle Danny and Alden IOU 2 2022
174. Oblivious by Leslie McAdam 5/25/24 5/26/24 185 pages Kindle Noah and August IOU 3 2023
**abandoned Curious by Leslie McAdam** 150 pages
175. Unmanageable by Leslie McAdam 5/27/24 5/28/24 242 pages Kindle Scott and Luke In Vino Veritas 3 2022
176. Survive the Streets by Alex Timothy 5/29/24 5/30/24 264 pages Kindle Bailey and Gabriel Survive Series 1 2022
177. Survive the City by Alex Timothy 5/30/24 5/31/24 258 pages Kindle Bailey and Gabriel, Renée and Peyton Survive Series 2 2022
**abandoned The Gardener by Charles Reeza** 122 pages
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178. Too Hostile by Nicole Dykes 5/31/24 6/2/24 214 pages Kindle Fletcher and Ronan 2024
179. Greyson Fox by TL Travis 6/2/24 6/2/24 287 pages KindleGreyson and Samuel Greyson Fox Saga 1 2019
180. The New Neighbor by Rye Cox 6/2/24 6/3/24 204 pages Kindle Caleb and Zack Corio Heights 1 2021
**abandoned The Obsession by Christie Gordon** 67 pages
181. The Law of Attraction by Jay Northcote 6/3/24 6/4/24 238 pages Kindle Alec and Ed 2016
182. Like a Lover by Jay Northcote 6/4/24 6/4/24 193 pages Kindle Josh and Rupert Housemates 2 2015
183. A Betting Man by Sandrine Gasq-Dion 6/4/24 6/4/24 158 pages Kindle Kent and Terry Men of Manhattan 1 2017
**abandoned The Cocky Neighbor by Rye Cox** 120 pages
184. Just a Bit Heartless by Alessandra Hazard 6/5/24 6/6/24 224 pages Kindle Jordan and Damiano Straight Guys 13 2022
185. Himbo by Emmy Sanders 6/6/24 6/7/24 296 pages KindleCas and Jason Elite 8 Studios 6 2023
186. Right-Hand Man by T.S. Ankney 6/7/24 6/7/24 112 pages Kindle Eli and Dante Hot Take 1 2022
187. I've Been Careless With a Delicate Thing by Marina Vivancos 6/7/24 6/7/24 99 pages Kindle Silas and Oscar
188. Truth By His Hand by Casey Cameron 6/7/24 6/9/24 402 pages Kindle River and Ellison 2017
189. Submission by by Jodi Payne and Chris Owen 6/9/24 6/10/24 318 pages Kindle Tobias and Noah Deviations 1 2019
190. These Monstrous Deeds by TJ Hamel 6/10/24 6/11/24 435 pages Kindle Carter and Nathan/Travis Monstrous Deeds 1 2021
191. A Dangerous Game by TJ Hamel 6/11/24 6/12/24 325 pages Kindle Carter and Nathan/Travis Monstrous Deeds 2 2022
192. One Last Time by TJ Hamel 6/12/24 6/13/24 354 pages Kindle Carter and Travis Monstrous Deeds 3 2023
193. Drown in You by TJ Hamel aka Taylor McNiff 6/13/24 6/14/24 557 pages Kindle Casey and Jake Monstrous Survivors 1 2023
**abandoned Domination by Jodi Payne and Chris Owen** 189 pages
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194. Heat by TL Travis 6/15/24 6/15/24 227 pages Kindle Daughtry and Campbell 2022 one skeeter shy of a blood transfusion
195. Craving the Chase by Syn Blackrose 6/15/24 6/15/24 264 pages Kindle Noah and Chase 2024
196. You've Got Male by DJ Jamison 6/16/24 6/17/24 164 pages Kindle Chase and Austin Rom-Com Reboot 2 2024
197. Where There's a Wil, There's a Way by PT Ambler 6/17/24 6/17/24 264 pages Kindle Rhys and Wil Duly Domesticated 1 2024
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198. Splintered by SJD Peterson 6/18/24 6/19/24 196 pages KindleHutch and Noah 2016
199. Under the Alpenglow by TH Compton 6/19/24 6/19/24 151 pages Kindle Elijah and Nyx Love Abroad 8 2023
200. The Truth In My Lies by LA Witt 6/19/24 6/20/24 294 pages Kindle Seth and Brandon 2024 purchased
201. Stealing His Heart by Marina Lander 6/20/24 6/20/24 43 pages Kindle Antonio and Eric 2017
202. Just a Taste by Briar Prescott 6/20/24 6/22/24 351 pages Kindle Lake and Ryker 2024
203. My Best Friend's Secret by Romeo Alexander 6/22/24 6/22/24 297 pages Kindle Adam and Bennett Men of Fairlake 1 2023
204. Attraction by Carly Marie 6/22/24 6/23/24 354 pages Kindle Dexter and James Undisclosed 3 2020
205. Stalked But Not Afraid by Nicole Dykes 6/23/24 6/24/25 196 pages Kindle Roman and Brooks Spark of Hope 2 2020
206. The Bouncer by Heath Grayson 6/24/24 6/25/24 291 pages Kindle Blake and Kane But We're Bros! 1 2023
**abandoned Nathan by Carly Marie** 198 pages family BDSM club including grandma, eliot immediately telling Austin he's gay after 35 years in the closet and etc.
**abandoned Hit or Miss, to Kill or Kiss by Romeo Alexander** 53 pages
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207. Mr. Right Now by Ilsa Olsen 6/26/24 6/27/24 190 pages Kindle Drew and Sullivan Suits & Sevens 2 2021
208. The Redemption of Roman by T. Ashleigh 6/27/24 6/28/24 348 pages Kindle Alex and Roman 2022
209. Under Your Skin by Lee McCormick 6/28/24 6/29/24 370 pages Kindle Levi and Jonah 2024
210. Fen by Barbara Elsborg 6/29/24 6/30/24 395 pages Kindle Fen and Ripley 2024
211. Work: Strictly Professional by Jesse H Reign 7/1/24 7/2/24 284 pages Kindle Wyn and Derek Bad Decisions 2 2024
212. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S. Wood 4/1/24 7/2/24 audio book 10 1/2 hours
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213. Twisted Rivalry by Devon McCormack 7/2/24 7/3/24 316 pages Kindle Jonas and Ryan 2024
**abandoned First Comes Marriage by Shira Anthony** 144 pages
214. Ignite by Abigail Glenn 7/3/24 7/4/24 317 pages Kindle Ezra and Cain Sinro Enterprises 1 2024
**abandoned Fool's Spring by Roe Horvat** 141 pages
215. Salt by Fearne Hill 7/4/24 7/4/24 268 pages Kindle Florian and Charles Island Love 1 2024
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216. Notorious by Leslie McAdam 7/5/24 7/7/24 358 pages KindleJohnny and Kurt IOU 5 2024
217. Marked by the Omega by Ashe Moon 7/7/24 7/7/24 258 pages Kindle Mason and Christophe Luna Brothers 3 2017
**abandoned Brushed with Love by Fearne Hill** 164 pages
218. Dangerously Happy by Varian Krylov 7/7/24 7/7/24 213 pages Kindle Adrian and Dario Fault Lines 1 2014
219. Bad Things by Varian Krylov 7/8/24 7/9/24 380 pages Kindle Xavi and Carson Fault Lines 2 2024
220. P.S. I Loathe You by Isla Olsen 7/9/24 7/10/24 276 pages Kindle Wes and Devon 2022
221. The Good Boy by Lisa Henry and JA Rock 7/10/24 7/11/24 330 pages Kindle Lane and Derek The Boy 1 2021
**abandoned By His Rules by JA Rock** 170 pages
222. Among the Living by Jordan Castillo Price 7/11/24 7/12/24 143 pages Kindle Victor and Jacob PsyCop 1 2009
223. Criss Cross by Jordan Castillo Price 7/12/24 7/13/24 149 pages Kindle Victor and Jacob PsyCop 2 2009
224. Body and Soul by Jordan Castillo Price 7/13/24 7/13/24 158 pages Kindle Victor and Jacob PsyCop 3 2009
225. Secrets by Jordan Castillo Price 7/13/24 7/14/24 200 pages Kindle Victor and Jacob PsyCop 4 2009
226. Camp Hell by Jordan Castillo Price 7/14/24 7/15/24 246 pages Kindle Victor and Jacob PsyCop 5 2009
227. GhosTV by Jordan Castillo Price 7/15/24 7/18/24 330 pages Kindle Victor and Jacob PsyCop 6 2011
228. Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles 7/18/24 7/19/24 248 pages Kindle Will and Kim The Will Darling Adventures 1 2020
229. The Sugared Game by KJ Charles 7/19/24 7/20/24 268 pages Kindle Will and Kim The Will Darling Adventures 2 2020
**abandoned Sapphire Sunset by C Travis Rice** 170 pages trite, predictable, stupid actions, weird plot
230. Subtle Blood by KJ Charles 7/20/24 7/21/24 274 pages KindleWill and Kim The Will Darling Adventures 3 2021
231. Married to His Marshal by Shiloh Swift 7/21/24 7/22/24 87 pages Kindle Benoit and Nicky His Blue Collar Man 5 2023
**abandoned Ancient History by AJ Truman** 77 pages
232. Rehearsal with my Groom-to-be-Boss by MM Angeles 7/23/24 7/23/24 26 pages Kindle
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233. Filthy Sweet by R Cayden 7/23/24 7/24/24 217 pages KindleOwen and Fox Love Unexpected 1 2021
234. Second Chance at First Love by NR Walker 7/24/24 7/24/24 88 pages Kindle Paul and Derek The Storm Boys 0 2023
**abandoned New Tricks by Jodi Payne** 164 pages
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235. Cryptic by Jodi Payne and BA Tortuga 7/24/24 7/25/24 175 pages Kindle Derek and Matt Puzzles 1 2021
236. Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by The Countess of Carnarvon 7/15/24 7/26/24 audiobook 8 hours narrated by Wanda McCaddon 2012
237. Mine to Hold by Sullyn Shaw 7/27/24 7/27/24 79 pages KindleBrohm and Draven 2023
238. The Amazing Alpha Tau Boyfriend Project by Lisa Henry and Sarah Honey 7/27/24 7/28/24 KindleArcher and Eli Alpha Tau 1 2023
**abandoned Boss of Attraction by Kimberly Knight** 62 pages
**abandoned Blue Harbor Billionaire by Declan Rhodes** 29 pages
**abandoned Dominated: His Rough Protector by Jamie Harlock** 107 pages
**abandoned The Time-Out by Vinni George** 89 pages
**abandoned Filthy and the Beast by R Cayden** 104 pages
239. Wobble by Becca Seymour 7/28/24 7/29/24 60 pages (?) Kindle Cory and Eric Outback Boys 1 2023
240. The Harder We Fall by Rebecca Raine 7/29/24 7/29/24 254 pages Kindle Tristan and Sam 2021
241. Skeletons in the Closet by Nicky James 7/29/24 7/31/24 360 pages Kindle Tal and Diem Shadowy Solutions 1 2024
**abandoned The Hitman Vs Cade: Complete by Maddox Auheim** 53 pages
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242. Broken by Nicola Haken 7/31/24 8/2/24 329 pages Kindle Theodore and James 2016
243. The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely read by Simon Jones 7/27/24 8/2/24 9 hours audio book
244. Brutal Souls by Quell T. Fox 8/2/24 8/4/24 395 pages Kindle Justin and Sevastian Dark Hearts 1 2024
245. Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg 8/4/24 8/4/24 28 pages hardcover
246. Ginger Snapping All The Way by Gabbi Grey 8/4/24 8/4/24 267 pages Kindle Maddox and Ravi Love In Mission City 1 2021
247. Marrying Mr. Majestic by Lucy Lennox 8/4/24 8/5/24 286 pages Kindle Waylon and Silas 2024
**abandoned Three Ties to Bind by Michelle Dare** 135 pages
**abandoned Time for Love by Laura N. Andrews** 84 pages
**abandoned First Comes Marriage by Shira Anthony** 101 pages
**abandoned Forever You: Trade Me by Laura N. Andrews** 44 pages
**abandoned The Cowboy and the Barista by SC Wynne** 41 pages
**abandoned All The Broken Pieces by Rebecca Raine** 46 pages
248. The Sweetheart Quest by Jacy Braegan 8/7/24 8/8/24 167 pages Kindle Rhodes and Trevor Sweetheart Escapes 4 2023
249. Deadly Little Sparrow by K.M. Neuhold 283 pages 8/8/24 8/8/24 283 pages Kindle Xaviaro and Sparrow Mafia Bound 1 2024
250. Ace in the Hole by Ava Drake 8/5/24 8/09/24 5.75 hours Audible audio book narrated by John Solo Christian and Stone Wild Cards 1 2016
251. Protecting the Nerd by Nora Phoenix 8/9/24 8/9/24 296 pages Kindle York and Quillon Forestville Silverfoxes 4 2024
252. One More Night by Charlie Novak 8/11/24 8/11/24 40 pages Kindle Jack and Harry 2020
253. Diamonds in the Rough by Jodi Payne and BA Tortuga 8/11/24 8/12/24 223 pages Kindle Ash and Sebastian On the Ranch 3 2024
254. Seven-Card Stud by Ava Drake 8/10/24 8/13/24 6.5 hours Audible audio book narrated by John Solo Collin and Oliver Wild Cards 2 2016
255. First Rodeo by Jodi Payne and BA Tortuga 8/12/24 8/13/24 293 pages Kindle Sam and Thomas The Cowboy and the Dom 1 2020
**abandoned Too Close to the Flame by Ryan Taylor** 100 pages
**abandoned The Billionaire: The Portland Protectors by Emerson Beckett and Rheland Richmond** 150 pages
256. Silver Buckle Linings by BA Tortuga 8/14/24 8/15/24 238 pages KindleBenji and Sterling 2024
**abandoned The Silencer by Cora Rose** 163 pages
257. Snow on the Roof by Sean Ashcroft 8/16/24 8/17/24 201 pages Kindle Grant and Sunny 2017
258. Make Me Burn by Avril Ashton 8/17/24 8/17/24 90 pages Kindle Wes and Jayce The Make Me Series 2 2018
259. Make Me Blaze by Avril Ashton 8/17/24 8/17/24 101 pages Kindle Dominic and Siva The Make Me Series 3 2018
260. The Substitute by Sean Ashcroft 8/17/24 8/17/24 253 pages Kindle Flynn and Zach 2018
261. Christmas Bubble by Ana Ashley 8/17/14 8/17/24 254 pages Kindle Coach and Bubble 2022
262. Under His Name by MA Grant 8/17/24 8/18/24 179 pages Kindle Sam and Nicholas Accidentally Undercover 5 2024
263. Under the Radar by Linden Bell 8/18/24 8/18/24 213 pages Kindle Logan and Jared Accidentally Undercover 6 2024
264. The Law of Seduction by MM Phoenix 8/18/24 8/19/24 243 pages Kindle Nate and Ethan Suit Up 1 2024
265. High Balls by Tara Lain 8/19/24 8/19/24 8/20/24 196 pages Kindle Theodore and Snake Balls to the Wall 5 2020
266. Snow Balls by Tara Lain 8/20/24 8/20/24 134 pages Kindle JJ and Ryan Balls to the Wall 6 2020
267. All In by Ava Drake 8/14/24 8/20/24 6 hours Audible audio book narrated by John Solo Zane and Sebastian Wild Cards 3 2017
268. Partnership by Valerie Vaughn 8/20/24 8/22/24 212 pages Kindle Syler and Arthur Covert Affairs 1 2020
269. Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts by Charlie Cochet 8/22/24 8/22/24 112 pages Kindle Quinn and Spencer Four Kings Security Universe Novellas 1 2020
270. A Very Gay Dare by MM Phoenix 8/23/24 8/23/24 49 pages Kindle Shawn and Justin Curious 1 2022
271. Just for Tonight by MM Phoenix 8/23/24 8/23/24 20 pages Kindle Sander and sub, not named Curious 3 2021
272. Modern Warfare by Valerie Vaughn 8/23/24 8/24/24 194 pages Kindle Syler and Arthur Covert Affairs 2 2020
**abandoned Employing Patience by Saxon James** 257 pages, actually read and finished it in May. sheesh.
273. Pretty Policeman by Fifer Rose 8/22/24 8/25/24 391 pages Kindle Micah and Damon Pretty Policeman 1 2022
274. Fauxmance in the Falls by JE Birk 8/25/24 8/26/24 304 pages Kindle Benson and Jack Devon Falls 1 2023
275. Sub Mission by TS McKinney 8/26/24 8/27/24 260 pages Kindle Seth and Baker Sub Mission 1 2018
276. Noah by Cara Dee 8/28/24 8/29/24 286 pages Kindle Noah and Julian related to series Breaking Free 2016
277. Hot Conduit by Katherine McIntyre 8/29/24 8/29/24 175 pages KindleTheo and Lex Hot Under the Collar 2 2024
278. We Have Til Dawn by Cara Dee 8/9/24 8/30/24 194 pages Kindle Nicky and Gideon The Fender Brothers 1 2020
**abandoned Forbidden in the Falls by JE Birk** 83 pages
**abandoned His Forged Savior by Leo Rivers** 25 pages "You deserve the world, my darling boy. As long as I draw breath, I will strive to give you all you need." He sealed his vow with a tender kiss. 🙄
279. Inferno by Scarlet Blackwell 8/30/24 8/31/24 374 pages Kindle Dante and Zack 2016
280. Rhino Ash by Lindsey Black 9/1/24 9/2/24 268 pages Kindle Ashley and Finn Saturday Barbies 1 or 2 ? 2017
281. Hard Stop by Kay Simone 9/2/24 9/2/24 144 pages Kindle Mitchell and James, Marek 2016
282. Untouchable by Ruthie Luhnow and Kay Simone 9/2/24 9/5/24 714 pages Kindle Parker and Harp 2018
283. Maybe You by Briar Prescott 9/5/24 9/6/24 338 pages Kindle Wren and Sutton 2024
284. Hard Bargain by Scarlet Blackwell 9/6/24 9/6/24 117 pages Kindle Austin and Lynton 2024
285. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 8/28/24 9/7/24 hardcover 355 pages 2022
**abandoned Finding Myself by Ruby Neal 9/6/24 Kindle Zach and Jude Love in Prophetstown 1 2020** 86 pages new sheriff in town, immediately tells 'weird' guy he gets him, starts calling him beautiful... ugh.
**abandoned He's Mine by Scarlet Blackwell 8/31/24 Kindle short stories 2024** 78 pages should have known... short stories...
286. Before You Break by KC Wells and Parker Williams 8/21/24 9/8/24 13.5 hours Audible Audio book narrated by Joel Leslie Ellis and Wayne Secrets 1 13.5 hours 2018
**abandoned Aiden's Luck by Con Riley** 64 pages Aiden is so angry, completely put me off
**abandoned One Step Sideways by Victoria Sue** 90 pages Kane and Danny Enhanced World Security 1 2024 Kane never formally educated, never anything, is way too smart, emotionally and etc.
287. Chained by Fate: Spark by Zara Lee 9/8/24 9/9/24 242 pages Kindle Andy and Matt Vegas Billionaires 1 2024
288. Chained by Fate: Passion by Zara Lee 9/9/24 9/9/24 202 pages Kindle Andy and Matt Vegas Billionaires 2 2024
289. Rent: Paid in Full by Jesse H Reign 9/11/24 9/12/24 395 pages Kindle Ryan and Miller Bad Decisions 1 2024
**abandoned Who Said Mobsters Were Scary? by JF Miev** 192 pages
290. Work: Strictly Professional by Jesse H Reign 9/12/24 9/14/24 377 pages Kindle Wyn and Derek Bad Decisions 2 2024
291. The Muse's Undoing by August Jones 9/14/24 9/16/24 500 pages KindleFischer and Matthew Doormen of the Upper East Side 2 2024
292. Best Wrong Thing by Colette Davison 9/16/24 9/16/24 226 pages Kindle Jacob and Archer 2024
293. Bent by Jesse H Reign 9/17/24 9/17/24 110 pages Kindle Oliver and Ethan Bent Series 1 2021
294. Unbreak Me by Jesse H Reign 9/17/24 9/19/24 413 pages Kindle Jon and Davey 2022
295. All the Wrong Pages by Katherine McIntyre 9/21/24 9/21/24 179 pages Kindle Cooper and Logan Collier's Creek 4 2023
**abandoned Dirty Martini by Addison Beck** 214 pages
**abandoned Power of the Mind by Nicky James** 73 pages
**abandoned Suddenly You by Cora Rose** 58 pages
**abandoned Starboard by Ava Olsen** 74 pages
296. The Fall by Kate Sherwood 9/22/24 9/24/24 181 pagesKindle Mackenzie and Joe 2019
297. Man of His Dreams by Kim Fielding 9/24/24 9/25/24 133 pages Kindle Tony and Flip Hot Nights in the Big Easy 1 2024
298. Love is Heartless by Kim Fielding 9/24/24 9/25/24 234 pages Kindle Nevin and Colin Love Can't Book 2 2017
299. Whiskey and Moonshine by Elizabeth Noble 9/25/24 9/25/24 172 pages Kindle Colt and Malone 2020
300. Suddenly You by Cora Rose 9/25/24 9/27/24 290 pages Kindle Matt and Coop 2024
**abandoned Meant To Be Gay by Lara Hale** 91 pages
**abandoned Starboard by Ava Olsen** 79 pages
**abandoned The Truth of Our Past by Heather Leighson** 29 pages
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**abandoned Power of the Mind by Nicky James** 72 pages
301. Cherry Picked by Cora Rose 9/27/24 9/29/24 298 pages Kindle Hawk and Jack Sunday Brothers 4 2023
302. The Cattle Baron's Bogus Boyfriend by Nicki Bennett 9/29/24 9/30/24 204 pages Kindle Jonah and Lincoln Dreamspun Desires 5 2016
303. Mangled Argentina Ryder 9/30/24 10/1/24 206 pages Kindle Ben and Leo 2023
**abandoned The Coyboy and the Barista by SC Wynne** 140 pages
304. Debt by Louise Collins 10/2/24 10/2/24 60 pages Kindle Levi and Greyson Romance on the Go 0 2019
305. Saving the Senator's Son by Jacki James 10/2/24 10/3/24 199 pages Kindle Trey and Roman Hart Security 1 2020
306. Bent Backwards by Jesse H Reign 10/3/24 10/3/24 123 pages KindleOllie and Ethan Bent Series 2 2021
307. The Unlikely Pair by Jax Calder 10/3/24 10/4/24 429 pages Kindle Harry and Toby Unlikely Dilemmas 2 2024
308. Hired by the Enemy by Jax Calder 10/4/24 10/4/24 159 pages Kindle Matthew and Liam 2024
309. Knowing You by EM Lindsey 10/4/24 10/5/24 264 pages Kindle Lane and Bowen Words We Never Said 1 2024
310. Wicked Lies Boys Tell by K Webster 10/1/24 10/5/24 251 pages KindleCope and Penn 2019
311. Sheriff's Secret by K Webster 10/5/24 10/6/24 307 pages Kindle Jax and Dante Brigs Ferry Bay 1 2020
312. Callan's Atlas by K Webster 10/6/24 10/6/24 Kindle Callan and Atlas Brigs Ferry Bay 3 2021
313. Why Love Matters by Jay Northcote 10/6/24 10/6/24 52 pages Kindle Alastair and Martin 2016 my library
314. The Heart of Smoke by K Webster 10/6/24 10/7/24 271 pages KindleJude and Tate Shameful Secrets 3 2024
315. Hollywood Hustle by Jon Lindstrom 9/6/24 10/9/24 Audible Audio book narrated by Jon Lindstrom 7.75 hours 2024
316. How to Flirt with a Hellhound by Shannon Mae 10/7/24 10/8/24 230 pages Kindle Toby and Dexter Hellhounds of Paradise Falls Book 1
317. A Hellhound Called Derek by Michelle Frost 10/8/24 10/8/24 81 pages Kindle Derek and Hollis Mated To The Human 1 2022
318. Catching a Con Man by Matt Peters 10/8/24 10/9/24 185 pages Kindle Ade and Tyler Billionaires and Liars 1
319. Double Dealing: A Marriage of Inconvenience by Nicole Colville 10/9/24 10/10/24 228 pages Kindle Trace and Ryder 2016
320. Dominque by Nicole Colville 10/10/24 10/11/24 348 pages Kindle Dominque and Jacob 2015
321. The Marriage Betrothal by Aja Foxx 10/11/24 10/12/24 201 pages Kindle Kyue and Lucas Marriage Mayhem 4 2023
322. Whiskey Neat by Mia Monroe 10/12/24 10/24/24 245 pages Kindle Indy and Salem Last Call 1 2024
323. Handy Man by Matt Peters 10/12/24 10/12/24 139 pages Kindle James and Llywelyn West Wales Romance 1 2022
324. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 10/10/24 10/13/24 374 pages Kindle 1884
325. Hollywood Crush by Matt Peters 10/12/24 10/13/24 Kindle Tudor and Daniel West Wales Romance 2 2022
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326. Reluctantly You by Cora Rose 10/15/24 10/16/24 350 pages Kindle Mitch and Gideon Our Exception 3 2024
327. The Billionaire's Consort by Peter Styles 10/15/24 10/17/24 partial read, 375 pages Kindle various 2019
328. Diablo by Cora Rose 10/17/24 10/17/24 222 pages Kindle Diablo and Skylar Unexpected 7 2023
329. Inheriting Miss Fortune by Lucy Lennox 10/17/24 10/18/24 Kindle 328 pages Kindle Tully and Dev The Billionaire Brotherhood 3 2024
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330. Ilya by Barbara Elsborg 10/18/24 10/19/24 337 pages Kindle Ilya and Julien 2024
331. Welcome to Knockwood by Lucy Lennox 10/19/24 10/19/24 56 pages Kindle Jonah and Pete 2023
332. In a Fix by Mary Calmes 10/19/24 10/19/24 307 pages Kindle Croy and Dallas Torus Intercession 2 2020
333. No Quick Fix by Mary Calmes 10/19/24 10/20/24 307 pages Kindle Brann and Emery Torus Intercession 1 2019
334. Fix It Up by Mary Calmes 10/20/24 10/20/24 348 pages KindleLocryn and Nick Torus Intercession 3 2020
335. The Fix is In by Mary Calmes 10/21/24 10/22/24 293 pages Kindle Shaw and Benji Torus Intercession 4 2021
336. The Big Fix by Mary Calmes 10/22/24 10/23/24 310 pages Kindle Jared and Owen Torus Intercession 5 2022
337. Get a Fix by Mary Calmes 10/23/24 10/23/24 272 pages Kindle Cooper and Ashford Torus Intercession 6 2024
338. Without Warning by Reese Knightley 10/24/24 10/24/24 306 pages Kindle Ryder and Harrison Cobalt Security 1 2019 *unintentional re-read*
339. Again by Mary Calmes 10/24/24 10/24/24 81 pages Kindle Noah and Dante 2022
340. Lay It Down by Mary Calmes 10/24/24 10/24/24 150 pages Kindle Hudson and Miguel 2023
341. A Matter of Time by Mary Calmes 10/25/24 10/25/24 144 pages Kindle Jory and Sam A Matter of Time Series Book 1 2011
342. A Matter of Time by Mary Calmes 10/25/24 10/25/24 122 pages pages Kindle Jory and Sam A Matter of Time Series Book 2 2011
343. A Matter of Time by Mary Calmes 10/25/24 10/26/24 98 pages Kindle Jory and Sam A Matter of Time Series Book 3 2011
344. A Matter of Time by Mary Calmes 10/25/24 10/25/24 188 pages Kindle Jory and Sam A Matter of Time Series Book 4 2011
345. Acrobat by Mary Calmes 10/26/24 10/27/24 236 pages Kindle Nathan and Dreo ML
346. Carte Blanche by Mary Calmes 10/27/24 10/27/24 68 pages Kindle Jude and Devin 2014
347. His Hearth by Mary Calmes 10/27/24 10/27/24 99 pages Kindle Julian and Ryan Warders 1 2020
348. Truth and Betrayal by KC Wells 10/10/24 10/28/24 Audible Audio book narrated by John Solo 12 hrs 52 minutes Jake and Liam The Southern Boys 1 2018
349. Damaged Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 10/28/24 10/29/24 399 pages Kindle Maximoff and Farrow Like Us Series 1 2017
350. Lovers Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 10/29/24 10/31/24 467 pages Kindle Maximoff and Farrow Like Us Series 2 2017
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Logan and Andrew Straight Guys 11 20202. Just a Bit Captivated by Alessandra Hazard 1/1/24 1/1/24 239 pages Kindle
Aiden and Zain Straight Guys 14 20233. Tell No One by Barbara Elsborg 1/1/24 1/2/24 280 pages Kindle
Tag and Delaney 20224. The Making of Jonty Bloom by Barbara Elsborg 1/2/24 1/3/24 383 pages Kindle
Jonty and Devan Unfinished Business 1 20205. Reinventing Cato by Barbara Elsborg 1/3/24 1/4/24 327 pages Kindle
Cato and Vigge Unfinished Business 3 20216. Waiting for Ru by Barbara Elsborg 1/4/24 1/5/24 352 pages Kindle
Ru and Jasim Unfinished Business 4 2021**abandoned Brave for You by Crystal Lacy** 166 pages
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8. Falling by Barbara Elsborg 1/5/24 1/6/24 333 pages Kindle
Malachi and Harper Fall and Break 1 20179. Breaking by Barbara Elsborg 1/6/24 1/7/24 333 pages Kindle
Archer and Conrad Fall and Break 2 201710. He's the One by Barbara Elsborg 1/7/24 1/8/24 377 pages Kindle
Col and Theo Fate We Make 1 202311. Hold On by Barbara Elsborg 1/8/24 1/9/24 322 pages Kindle
Dominic and Ren Fate We Make 2 202312. This is Real by Barbara Elsborg 1/9/24 1/9/24 262 pages Kindle
Murdo and Lukas 202213. Edge of Forever by Barbara Elsborg 1/10/24 1/11/24 348 pages Kindle
Pasha and Levi 201814. Zeke's Wood by Barbara Elsborg 1/11/24 1/11/24 68 pages Kindle
Zeke and Gideon 201715. With Or Without Him by Barbara Elsborg 1/11/24 1/12/24 306 pages Kindle
Haris and Tyler 201716. Drawn In by Barbara Elsborg 1/12/24 1/13/24 335 pages Kindle
Kell and Gethin 201617. Cowboys Down by Barbara Elsborg 1/13/24 1/14/24 287 pages Kindle
Jasper and Calum 201718. Give Yourself Away by Barbara Elsborg 1/14/24 1/15/24 353 pages Kindle
March and Caleb 201719. Every Move He Makes by Barbara Elsborg 1/15/24 1/16/24 277 pages Kindle
Logan and Zak 201720. Dirty Games by Barbara Elsborg 1/16/24 1/17/24 346 pages Kindle
Linton and Thorne 201721. Where Forever Started by Barbara Elsborg 1/17/24 1/18/24 Kindle
Barney and Raf 201722. The Bastard and the Heir by Eden Finley and Saxon James 1/19/24 /1/19/24 337 pages Kindle
Darcy and Wren 2024**abandoned The Fake Boyfriends Debacle by Hayden Hall** 79 pages
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Marc and Stef 202324. Assassins Are People Too by S. C. Wynne 1/20/24 1/21/24 133 pages Kindle
Marc and Dillon Assassins in Love Series 1 201925. Assassins Love People Too by S. C. Wynne 1/21/24 1/21/24 131 pages Kindle
Marc and Dillon Assassins in Love Series 2 2019 26. Assassins Save People Too by S. C. Wynne 1/21/24 1/21/24 122 pages Kindle
Marc and Dillon Assassins in Love Series 3 2019 **abandoned Love Me Again by Max Walker** 70 pages
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Harper and Sam 201828. His Death Bringer by Courtney W. Dixon 1/22/24 1/23/24 316 pages Kindle
Luca and Dante The District 1 202329. Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen read by Arte Johnson 12/31/23 1/23/24 11.5 hours audiobook
30. Keeping It Casual by Jax Calder 1/23/24 1/23/24 140 pages Kindle
Dustin and Jeremy 202331. The Anonymous Hookup 1/23/24 1/24/24 121 pages Kindle
Lane and Sam 2022**abandoned Love is Blind by S.C. Wynne** 30 pages
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Conrad and Arlo 202333. A Spaceman Came Traveling by Barbara Elsborg 1/25/24 1/25/24 62 pages Kindle
Seven and Cooper 202334. Trapped for the Holidays by Courtney W. Dixon 1/25/24 1/25/24 98 pages Kindle
Rhett and Patrick 2023**abandoned Return by Fire by Tracey Jerald** 34 pages
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David and Oliver Anticipation 1 201936. His To Own by Leo Rivers 1/26/24 1/27/24 151 pages Kindle
Rowan and Zane Heart of Thornes 1 202337. Mine to Claim by E.V. Olsen 1/27/24 1/27/24 Kindle
Rex and Devon Wasteland Temptations 1 202338. Mine to Protect by E.V. Olsen 1/27/24 1/28/24 62 pages Kindle
Rex and Devon Wasteland Temptations 2 202339. His to Break by E.V. Olsen 1/28/24 1/28/24 51 pages Kindle
Mac and Cal Wasteland Temptations 3 202440. Nixon by Laura John 1/28/24 1/28/24 238 pages Kindle
Dante and Nixon Hunter Security 1 202341. Kissing in the Snow by Laura John 1/29/24 1/29/24 101 pages Kindle
Dane and Ryan related to Sentinel Protection Duology 1 202142. Damaged Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 1/29/24 1/29/24 399 pages Kindle
Maximoff and Farrow Like Us 1 201743. The Plus-One Entanglement by Paulina Ian-Kane 1/29/24 1/30/24 127 pages Kindle
Asher and Jordan Love After Forty 1 2023**abandoned One by Paulina Ian-Kane** 197 pages
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Angelo and Sebastian Toscano Doms 1 202345. The Billionaire's Rival by Silvia Violet 1/31/24 1/31/24 276 pages Kindle
Ford and Jay Bad Boy Billionaires 2 202346. True North by C.E. Kilgore 1/31/24 1/31/24 57 pages Kindle
Chris and Joshua Hearts Compass 1 201547. Down South by C.E. Kilgore 1/31/24 1/31/24 61 pages Kindle
Gabe and Liam Hearts Compass 3 201548. Back East by C.E. Kilgore 1/31/24 2/1/24 57 pages Kindle
Eli and David Hearts Compass 2 201549. Out West by C.E. Kilgore 2/1/24 2/1/24 62 pages Kindle
Alex and Mateo Hearts Compass 4 201550. Objectified by C.E. Kilgore 2/1/24 2/1/24 48 pages Kindle
Zane and Tyler 201551. Shades by Jaime Reese 2/1/24 2/3/24 340 pages Kindle
Killian and Nick 2018 52. Grayson Ryder: A Thief's Thrill by M.L. Giles 2/3/24 2/3/24 244 pages Kindle
Grayson and Colson Grayson Ryder 1 201853. Just Friends by Tina Kove 2/4/24 2/4/24 159 pages Kindle
Ben and Tarjei 202054. Love and Moonlight by Killian Ford 2/4/24 2/24 177 pages Kindle
Jax and Victor 202355. The Escape: Soren's Saga by Nicky James 2/4/24 2/25/24 291 pages Kindle
Soren and Remy Healing Hearts 3 201756. A Day Makes by Mary Calmes 2/5/24 2/6/24 236 pages Kindle
Ceaton and Brin The Vault 1 202157. Not What It Seems by Nicky James 2/6/24 2/7/24 442 pages Kindle
Cyrus and River 202158. Cravings of the Heart by Nicky James 2/7/24 2/7/24 298 pages Kindle
Arden and Iggy Trials of Fear 6 201959. Accidentally August by E.M. Denning 2/7/24 2/7/24 191 pages Kindle
August and Crispin Walking Disaster 1 202360. As Much As I Try by Erica Montrose 2/8/24 2/9/24 208 pages Kindle
Edwin and Liam 202261. Oliver by E.M. Denning 2/9/24 2/10/24 195 pages Kindle
Oliver and Jordan Walking Disaster 2 2023 62. Last First Kiss by E.M. Denning 2/10/24 2/10/24 201 pages pages Kindle
Logan and Ezra 2021**abandoned Murder Husbands by E.M. Denning** 96 pages
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Giulio and Alessio Kings of Italy 4 202364. Afogato by E.M. Lindsey 2/13/24 2/13/24 262 pages Kindle
Caleb and Bodhi Brew Biz 1 202365. Most Of You by E.M. Lindsey 2/13/24 2/16/24 280 pages Kindle
Emil and Renzo The Beginning of Always 2 2023**The Kidnapping of Roan Sinclair by Ashlyn Drewek** 131 pages
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Benn and Leo Tangled Gentry 1 201767. Branded by Roelle Denning 2/16/24 2/16/24 277 pages Kindle
Declan and Remi Allies 1 202368. Stepbrother Dearest by Willow Dixon 2/17/24 2/17/24 314 pages Kindle
Caleb and Gray Crimson Club 1 202369. Fakers With Benefits by Willow Dixon 2/17/24 2/18/24 330 pages Kindle
Caleb and Gray Crimson Club 2 202370. Surviving the Break by C.P. Harris 2/18/24 2/19/24 289 pages Kindle
Max and Ash Chadwick 2 2020**abandoned Staking His Claim by Ki Brightly and M.D. Gregory** 135 pages
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Leif and Russ Ace's Wild 6 201972. Nuts by S.E. Jakes and Stephanie Tyler 2/20/24 2/20/24 90 pages Kindle
Preston and Jagger Ace's Wild 2 201973. Reunion by Neve Wilder 2/20/24 2/20/24 132 pages Kindle
Cole and Dane Ace's Wild 7 201974. The Good Liar by C.P. Harris 2/20/24 2/21/24 346 pages Kindle
Cole and Jasper Infidelity 1 202375. The Boss's Boy by Aja Foxx 2/22/24 2/22/24 379 pages Kindle
Dmitri and Eiji Mafia Mayhem 2 202376. Love Language by Jax Calder 2/22/24 2/22/24 59 pages Kindle
Ash and Dominic 202477. The Fishermen by C.P. Harris 2/23/24 2/24/22 474 pages Kindle
Leland and Franklin Infidelity 2 202378. Want You Still by C.E. Ricci and Marley Valentine 2/24/24 2/25/24 366 pages Kindle Kindle
Will and Pierce 2024**abandoned The Way We Hate by Myka Loren** 196 pages
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Cole and Shane Unframed Art MM Romance 1 202380. You Have Arrived At Your Destination by Amor Towles 2/27/24 2/27/24 50 pages Kindle
201981. Crankshaft by K.M. Neuhold 2/26/24 2/27/24 245 pages Kindle
Porter and Steele Big Bull Mechanics 1 2022**abandoned Fool's Gold by J.V. Speyer** 99 pages
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Lucas and Nick LJ M/M/ romance 7 202383. From the Ground Up by Harper Robson 2/27/24 2/27/24 263 pages Kindle
Mason and Jackson Hot Dam Homes 1 202284. Falling for Raine by Lane Hayes 2/27/24 2/28/24 208 pages Kindle
Raine and Graham 2024**abandoned Dearly & Deviant Daniel by L.A. Kaye** 159 pages
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Maximoff and Farrow Like Us 2 2017**abandoned Dearly Deviant Daniel by L.A. Kaye** 159 pages
86. Alphas Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 2/29/24 3/1/24 488 pages Kindle
Maximoff and Farrow Like Us 3 201887. Tangled Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/1/24 3/1/24 483 pages Kindle
Jane and Thatcher Like Us 4 201988. Sinful Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/1/24 3/2/24 501 pages Kindle
Jane and Thatcher Like Us 5 201989. Headstrong Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/2/24 3/3/24 468 pages Kindle
Maximoff and Farrow Like Us 6 201990. Charming Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/3/24 3/4/24 499 pages Kindle
Oscar and Jack Like Us 7 202091. Wild Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/5/24 3/5/24 498 pages Kindle
Akara, Banks, and Sulli Like Us 8 202092. Fearless Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/5/24 3/6/24 587 pages Kindle
Akara, Banks, and Sulli Like Us 9 202193. Infamous Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/6/24 3/7/24 587 pages Kindle
Akara, Banks, and Sulli Like Us 10 202194. Misfits Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/7/24 3/8/24 464 pages Kindle
Luna and Donnelly Like Us 11 202295. Unlucky Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/8/24 3/9/24 588 pages Kindle
Luna and Donnelly Like Us 12 202396. Nobody Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 3/9/24 3/10/24 812 pages Kindle
Luna and Donnelly Like Us 13 202497. Damaged Like Us 3/11/24 3/11/24 399 pages Kindle
**reread** Maximoff and Farrow Like Us 1 201798. A Bit of Rough by Laura Baumbach 3/13/24 3/13/24 217 pages Kindle
Rough Series Book 1 200799. Lovers Like Us 3/11/24 3/14/24 466 pages Kindle
**reread** Maximoff and Farrow Like Us 2 2017100. Fire and Sand by Louise Collins 3/14/24 3/14/24 108 pages Kindle
Jake & Maddox Adrenaline Jake 3 2018101. Guns and Shadows by Louise Collins 3/14/24 3/14/24 130 pages Kindle
Jake & Maddox Adrenaline Jake 4 2018102. Diamond in the Rough by Louise Collins 3/14/24 3/14/24 207 pages Kindle
Jake & Maddox Adrenaline Jake 5 2019103. #20DaystoLA by Tanya Chris 3/14/24 3/15/24 252 pages
Braxton and Craig 2020**abandoned Kept in the Dark by Charlie Cochet** 137 pages
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Ezra and Tony Obsessed With Him 3 2023105. No Angel by Daniel May 3/16/24 3/16/24 194 pages Kindle
Enzo and Hill Obsessed With Him 4 2024106. Christmas With The Billionaire by Amber Ridge 3/16/24 3/16/24 58 pages Kindle
Wyatt and Drake Boy Next Door 5 2015**abandoned My Chaos, His Calm by Romeo Alexander** 65 pages
107. My Brother's Best Friend by Aiden Bates and Ali Lyda 3/16/24 3/17/24 258 pages Kindle
Jamie and Nico Caldwell Brothers 1 2020**abandoned Touch and Go by Aiden Bates** 177 pages
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Col and Wilby Vet Shop Boys Down Under 1 2024109. Runaway by Casey Cox 3/18/24 3/19/24 260 pages Kindle
Conrad and Jedfire Escape 2 2021110. Conversation Hearts by Avon Gale 3/19/24 3/19/24 28 page short story Kindle
Sinjin and Levi 2019111. Learning to Feel by N.R. Walker 3/19/24 3/19/24 252 pages Kindle
Nathan and Trent 2015112. Old Acquaintance by Avon Gale 3/19/24 3/19/24 31 pages Kindle
Andrew and Elias 2019113. The Revenge Agenda by Saxon James 3/19/24 3/20/24 276 pages Kindle
Rush and Hunter Accidental Love 3 2024114. Alaskan Thunder by Nando Gray 3/20/24 3/21/24 104 pages
Calvin and Zayne 2024115. Without You by Marley Valentine 3/21/24 3/21/24 290 pages Kindle
Deacon and Julian 2020116. In the Eye of the Beholder by Dianna Roman 3/21/24 3/22/24 387 pages Kindle
Daniel and Eric 2023117. The Gentleman by Dianna Roman 3/22/24 3/23/24 257 pages Kindle
Cameron and Pete 2024118. You Again by Dianna Roman 3/23/24 3/24/25 262 pages Kindle
Johnny and Aiden Men of Olympus 1 2022119. A Minute More by Cora Rose 3/25/24 3/25/24 210 pages Kindle
Wesley and Simon Timeless 1 2023**abandoned Say I Do by Brea Alepoú and Skyler Snow** 170 pages
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120. The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman 1/26/24 3/27/24 15.5 hours audio book
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London and Erik 2020122. Little Demon in the Details by Nordika Night 3/27/24 3/29/24 376 pages Kindle
Blake and Mercer 2023123. The Caretaker by C.P. Harris 3/29/24 3/29/24 265 pages Kindle
Noon and Solace Infidelity 3 2024124. Bad Boy by Emma Alcott 3/29/24 3/30/24 398 pages Kindle
Colton and Russ Masters of Romance 1 2021 **abandoned Sweet Thing by Emma Alcott** 121 pages
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125. Wedding Bells by Peter Styles and J.P. Oliver 3/31/24 4/2/24 Kindle
Sebastian and Matt Finding Shore 3 2018126. Endless Stretch of Blue by Riley Hart 4/2/24 4/3/24 253 pages Kindle
Enzo and Damon 2019**abandoned Boss of Attraction by Kimberly Knight and Rachel Lyn Adams ** 51 pages
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127. Monopolize Me by Evie Noir 4/4/24 4/5/24 468 pages Kindle
Dakota and Lirio The New York Series 1 2020128. Monopolize You by Evie Noir 4/5/24 4/6/24 479 pages Kindle
Dakota and Lirio The New York Series 2 2021129. The Secret Lives of CEOs by Joey Mayble 4/6/24 4/6/24 197 pages Kindle
Max and Cameron Gay Awakenings 2130. Monopolize Us by Evie Noir 4/7/24 4/9/24 499 pages Kindle
Dakota and Lirio The New York Series 3 2022131. Unforgettable by Marley Valentine 4/8/24 Kindle
Oz and Reeve Vino and Veritas 18 2021132. Secret Desires by Amber Ridge 4/10/24 4/10/24 34 pages Kindle
Nicholas and Daniel Boy Next Door 4 2014**abandoned White Noise by Lark Taylor ** 168 pages
133. To Have and to Hold: Taken by Abigail Kade 4/10/24 4/11/24 170 pages Kindle
Worthy and Crow Criminal Delights 12 2019 134. Brazen Affairs by Ashley James 4/11/24 4/12/24 295 pages Kindle
Vaughn and Camden Hidden Affairs 1 2023135. Eden by Avon Gale and Emily Rossman 4/12/24 4/12/24 224 pages Kindle
Rayne and Brandon 2022136. RPF - When Fiction Gets A Little Too Real by M. Grano and C. Azzo 4/12/24 4/16/24 458 pages Kindle
Sam and Levi 2024**abandoned Drawn In By You by R.M. Neill** 106 pages way too precocious daughter, too angsty Travis, too much
137. Storm Clouds and Devastation by Ashley James 4/16/24 4/17/24 286 pages
Kindle Bodhi and Jules Hidden Affairs 2 2023**abandoned Embracing His Shame by Brigham Vaughn** 212 pages Kink okay, but Forrest's fear of relationships irrational and Jarod starts being interested.
138. Say My Name by Ashley James 4/18/24 4/19/24 308 pages Kindle
Travis and Mateo 2023139. Insatiable Hunger by Ashley James 4/17/24 4/18/24 340 pages Kindle
Elias and Zeke Hidden Affairs 3 2023140. Aftercare by Tanya Chris 4/18/24 4/19/24 211 pages Kindle
Garrett and Aayan Ever After 1 2017141. Aftershock by Tanya Chris 4/19/24 4/20/24 218 pages Kindle
Garrett and Aayan Ever After 2 2017142. Aftermath by Tanya Chris 4/19/24 4/20/24 236 pages Kindle
Casey and Brooks Ever After 3 2019143. Red Flags and Tuesdays by Nordika Night 4/20/24 4/21/24 251 pages Kindle
Reid and Atticus Weekday Weirdos 1 2024144. Professor Platonic by Lucy Lennox 4/21/24 4/21/24 42 pages Kindle
Jack and River 2023**abandoned Hired Hadley by Nora Phoenix** 211 pages To use a phrase seen most recently on Richard's thread: Couldn't be arsed.
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145. Out of the Office Romance by Twoony 4/22/24 4/24/24 536 pages Kindle
Kade and Nolen AND Louis and Mason 2023146. The House of Being by Natasha Trethewey 4/12/24 4/24/24 hardcover 77 pages
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147. Six Feet Apart by 4/24/24 4/24/24 113 pages Alina Popescu and A L Bates Kindle
Darius and Aadi 2020**abandoned No Secrets by Nora Phoenix** 123 pages
148. Gentle Hands by Emily Buckley 4/24/24 4/25/24 159 pages Kindle
Matthew and Tom Growing Pains 1 2020149. Payback by Alexa Land Kindle 4/25/24 4/25/24 182 pages Kindle
Malcolm and Daniel Firsts and Forever Stories 10 2023150. Message Received 4/25/24 4/26/24 by D.K. Sutton 314 pages Kindle
Ben and Sean Sloan Brothers Book 2 2023 my library call center, ben sub Sean dom trust fund151. The Heir's Disgrace by August Jones 4/26/24 4/27/24 426 PAGES Kindle
Drew and Ollivier Doormen of the Upper East Side 1 2024152. Say Yes by Jen Samson 4/27/24 4/28/24 422 pages Kindle
Colt and Sebastian 2022153. For You, Sir by Emily Brandish 4/28/24 4/29/24 306 pages Kindle
Jun and Einar 2023154. Deep Under by Tanya Chris 4/29/24 4/29/24 47 pages Kindle
Maddox and Jack Deep Under 1 2016155. Back Under by Tanya Chris 4/29/24 4/29/24 47 pages Kindle
Maddox and Jack Deep Under 1 2021156. How to Shield an Assassin by AJ Sherwood 4/29/24 4/30/24 254 pages Kindle
Ari and Carter Unholy Trifecta Book 1 2019 157. How to Steal a Thief by AJ Sherwood 4/30/24 5/1/24 197 pages Kindle
Ivan and Aiden Unholy Trifecta Book 2 2020**abandoned Finding Him by Chad Lane** 87 pages
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Sage and Golden Duality 1 2021159. Hitman's Secret by MJ Red 5/6/24 5/6/24 32 pages Kindle
Charles and Oliver 2021**abandoned How to Hack a Hacker by AJ Sherwood** 132 pages
160. 10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall 5/7/24 5/9/24 386 pages Kindle
Sam and Jonathan Material World 1 2023**abandoned Hunter by M.C. Adams** 95 pages
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Art and Joey Divorced Men's Club 4 2023162. Glory by Leo Rivers 5/12/24 5/12/24 81 pages Kindle
Zach and Wyatt 2023**abandoned Pretty Things by Devon McCormack ** 49 pages - already read it and only gave it 3*
163. Lights, Camera, Passion by Isabel Lucero 5/12/24 5/14/24 396 pages Kindle
Jacoby and Roman 2024164. A Mountain Man Walks into a Coffee Shop by Mal Trevino 5/14/24 5/15/24 81 pages Kindle
Josiah and Lennon Harlow Mountain Men 1 2023165. A Mountain Man Walks into a Library by Mal Trevino 5/15/24 5/15/24 81 pages Kindle
Samuel and Remy Harlow Mountain Men 2 2023166. A Mountain Man Walks Into His Brother's Best Friend by Mal Trevino 5/16/24 5/16/24 87 pages Kindle
Noah and Gabriel Harlow Mountain Men 3 2023167. Snowflake Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses by M.J. O'Shea 5/16/24 5/16/24 52 pages Kindle
Toby and Cook 2023**abandoned Touch Me Gently by J.R. Loveless** 102 pages Ugh. Just... ugh. Soppy, inexplicably gay for you, too many mentions of how feminine Kaden is
168. Nothing Special by Casey Cox 5/17/24 5/18/24 247 pages Kindle
Benji and Darren 2022169. When London Snow Falls by Hayden Stone 5/18/24 5/20/24 320 pages Kindle
Charlie and Ben When Snow Falls 2 2022170. Scandal by T. Ashleigh 5/20/24 5/22/24 197 pages Kindle
Austin and Beckett Black Diamond 6 2023 too trope-y no explanations for certain things171. Tripwrecked by A. Poland 5/22/24 5/23/24 311 pages Kindle
Aiden and Finn 2022172. Ambiguous by Leslie McAdam 5/23/24 5/24/24 286 pages Kindle
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JJ and Ryan Balls to the Wall 6 2020267. All In by Ava Drake 8/14/24 8/20/24 6 hours Audible audio book narrated by John Solo
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364. Wild Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 11/13/24 11/14/24 498 pages Kindle Sullivan, Akara, and Banks Like Us series 8 2020
365. Fearless Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 11/14/24 11/16/24 587 pages Kindle Sullivan, Akara, and Banks Like Us series 9 2021
366. Infamous Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 11/16/24 11/17/24 587 pages Kindle Sullivan, Akara, and Banks Like Us series 10 2021
351. Alphas Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 10/31/24 11/2/24 489 pages Kindle
Maximoff and Farrow Like Us Series 3 2018352. The Tragedy of Felix and Jake by J. Daniels 11/1/24 11/3/24 386 pages Kindle
Jake and Felix 2023353. On Guard by Andi Jaxon and JR Gray 11/3/24 11/3/24 380 pages Kindle
Isaac and Oliver New York Gods 1 2024354. For the Fans by Nyla K 11/3/24 11/5/24 522 pages Kindle
Avi and Kyran 2023355. Say Yes by JR Gray 11/5/24 11/5/24 115 pages Kindle
James and Charles 2017356. Resisting You by EM Lindsey 11/5/24 11/6/24 282 pages Kindle
Frey and Renato Words We Never Said 2 2024357. Tangled Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 11/4/24 11/7/24 483 pages Kindle
Jane and Thatcher Like Us Series 4 2019358. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie 10/29/24 11/08/24 209 pages hardcover
359. Transparent is a Color by Kaje Harper 11/7/24 11/9/24 264 pages Kindle
Perry and Deckard Subparheroes 3 2024360. Sinful Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 11/7/24 11/9/24 509 pages Kindle
Jane and Thatcher Like Us Series 5 2019361. Headstrong Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 11/9/24 11/11/24 468 pages Kindle
Maximoff and Farrow Like Us series 6 2019362. Charming Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 11/11/24 11/13/24 499 pages Kindle
Oscar and Jack Like Us series 7 2020363. Pride and Protection by KC Wells 10/29/24 11/12/24 Audible Audio book narrated by John Solo 8 hrs 20 minutes
Del and Taylor The Southern Boys 2 2019364. Wild Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 11/13/24 11/14/24 498 pages Kindle
Sullivan, Akara, and Banks Like Us series 8 2020365. Fearless Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 11/14/24 11/16/24 587 pages Kindle
Sullivan, Akara, and Banks Like Us series 9 2021366. Infamous Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 11/16/24 11/17/24 587 pages Kindle Sullivan, Akara, and Banks Like Us series 10 2021
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adds - 337 last year
1. Thrift Shop - How to Give Up Plastic by Will McCallum
2. Thrift Shop - Worth Dying For by Lee Child - hardcover upgrade for mass market paperback
3. Thrift Shop - Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorcle
4. Thrift Shop - The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
5. Thrift Shop - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
6. FoCCL - Foreigner by CJ Cherryh
7. Kindle - Where Forever Started by Barbara Elsborg
8. Amazon - Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat because I had to have a book by someone with that name
9. Kindle - Assassins Are People Too by S.C. Wynne
10. Kindle - Assassins Love People Too by S.C. Wynne
11. Kindle - Assassins Save People Too by S.C. Wynne
12. Amazon - The Complete Tutankhamun by Nicholas Reeves
13. Kindle - Trapped for the Holidays by Courtney W. Dixon
14. McIntyre's - Sacred Altars by Anne Strand
15. McIntyre's - On Digital Advocacy by Katie Boue
16. McIntyre's - A Line in the Sand by Kevin Powers
17. McIntyre's - Son of the Old West by Nathan Ward
18. McIntyre's - Boundaries and Protection by Pixie Lighthorse
19. McIntyre's - The Plague by Albert Camus
20. McIntyre's - Transient and Strange by Nell Greenfieldboyce
21. McIntyre's - Building a Better Boomer by Neil Offen
22. McIntyre's - Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! by Julio Vincent Bambuto
23. McIntyre's - The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector
24. McIntyre's - Nuts & Bolts by Roma Agrawal
25. McIntyre's - Longstreet by Elizabeth Varon
26. Kindle - Crashing Upwards by S.C. Wynne
27. Kindle - If I Met You First by A.B. Julian
28. Amazon - The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole World by Matt Kracht
29. Amazon - The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023 edited by Amor Towles
30. Amazon - Random in Death by J.D. Robb
31. Amazon - The Secret by Lee Child and Andrew Child
32. Kindle - A Case of Conscience by James Blish
33. Kindle - A Lesson in Thorns by Sierra Simone - rec by elorin/Robyn
34. Louise - Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs by Lang Elliott with Donald and Louise Stokes - audio book
35. FoCCL - The New York Times Complete Civil War edited by Harold Holzer & Craig L. Symonds
36. FoCCL - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
37. U of Chicago Press - Giza and the Pyramids: The Definitive History by Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass
38. Amazon - Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
39. Kindle - Losing Control by Riley Hart
40. Kindle - Monopolize Me by Evie Noir The New York Series Book 2
41. FoCCL - S24 The Essential Kabbalah by Daniel C. Matt
42. FoCCL - S24 Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography by John Dominic Crossan
43. FoCCL - S24 Just Because They've Left Doesn't Mean They're Gone by Stephen A. Bly
44. Kindle - Monopolize Us by Evie Noir The New York Series book 3
45. Kindle - Monopolize You by Evie Noir The New York Series 2
46. FoCCL - Tenth of December by George Saunders
47. FoCCL - The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament in The Confraternity - Douay Texts and the Entire New Testament in the Confraternity Translation 1959
48. Amazon - The House of Being by Natasha Trethewey
49. FoCCL - Roman Britain by H.H. Scullard
50. FoCCL - What's a Christian to do with Harry Potter? by Connie Neal
51. FoCCL - Androgynous Judaism by Jacob Neusner
52. FoCCL - Citizens of London by Lynne Olson
53. FoCCL - The United States, a Modern History, 2 volumes. U.S. History To 1865 and U.S. History Since 1865 by Michael Kraus and Foster Rhea Dulles
54. FoCCL - Unlucky for Some by Jill McGown
55. FoCCL - Acid Row by Minette Walters
56. FoCCL - Sanctuary by William Faulkner
57. FoCCL - Light in August by William Faulkner
58 - 100. FoCCL - Great Books of the Western World 43 of 54 books, 1952 edition
101. Kindle - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
102. Amazon - The Huguenots or The Early French in New Jersey by Albert F. Koehler
103. Kindle - Finding Him by Chad Lane
104. Kindle - Message Received by D.K. Sutton
105. Kindle - Payback by Avery Mist
106. Kindle - Waiting, Hoping, Wishing by Nic Sparks
107. Kindle - 10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall
108. Amazon - Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
109. Kindle - Thirst by Jaylen Florian
110. Kindle - Long Winter by Rachel Ember
111. Kindle - A Betting Man by Sandrine Gasq-Dion
112. Amazon - The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better . or Worse by Benjamin van Rooij
113. Kindle - Submission by Chris Owen and Jodi Payne
114. Kindle - Domination by Chris Owen and Jodi Payne
115. Kindle First Reads - A Clean Kill by Steve Konkoly
116. Amazon - The Great Gelatin Revival: Savory Aspics, Jiggly Shots, and Outrageous Desserts by Ken Albala
117. Amazon - Jellies & Their Moulds by Peter Brears
118. Kindle - The Truth In My Lies by L.A. Witt
119. FoCCL - Wanderings by Chaim Potok
120. FoCCL - Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
121. FoCCL - Blowout by Rachel Maddow
122. Amazon - Devil is Fine by John Vercher
123. Sister Laura - Kindle - Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
124. Sister Laura - Kindle - North Woods by Daniel Mason
125. Friend Karen - Cauliflower: Over 70 Exciting Ways to Roast, Rice and Fry One of the World's Healthiest Vegetables by Oz Telem
126. Friend Karen - Historical Dictionary of Librarianship by Mary Ellen Quinn
127. Amazon - Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine - in honor of Anita, @fameulstee
128. Amazon - The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
129. Hwan - Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
130. Kindle - Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles
131. Amazon - Selected Works by Franz Kafka
132. Kindle - P.S. I Loathe You by Isla Olsen
133. Kindle - Table for Two by Amor Towles
134. FoCCL - The First American by HW Brands
135. FoCCL - Prayers for Peace compiled by B. Martin Pedersen
136. FoCCL - Salvation by Sholem Asch
137. FoCCL - The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Aschwitz-Birkenau by Ann Weiss
138. Amazon - Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
139. FoCCL - The Pocket Pema Chödrön
140. FoCCL - Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
141. FoCCL - The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
142. FoCCL - The Wall by John Hershey
143. eBay - Safari: A Chronicle of Adventure by Bartle Bull
144. ebay - *April* Great Books of the Western World volume 5
145. Amazon - James by Percival Everett
146. Amazon - The Overstory by Richard Powers
147. Amazon - The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
148. Amazon - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
149. Amazon - Knife by Salman Rushdie
150. re-add from stacks of childrens' books - Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
151. FoCCL - The Forgetting Room by Nick Bantock
152. Kindle - What Binds Us Here by M.H. Auheim
153. Amazon - What the Bees See - Photographs by Craig P. Burrows
154. Kindle - The Rest of Forever by Kate Aaron
155. Kindle - I Hear They Burn for Murder by JL Aarne
156. Audible - Misbelief by Dan Ariely
157. Audible - Ace in the Hole by Ava Drake
158. FoCCL - Running the Amazon by Joe Kane
159. FoCCL - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
160. FoCCL - JFK from Parkland to Bethesda by Vincent Palamara
161. FoCCL - Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
162. FoCCL - The Inheritance: Poisoned Fruit of JFK's Assassination by Christopher Fulton and Michelle Fulton
163. FoCCL - French Quarter Fiction: The Newest Stories of America's Oldest Bohemia edited by Joshua Clark
164. FoCCL - Tar Heels: Five Points in the Record of North Carolina by North Carolina Literary and Historical Society
165. FoCCL - Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut **did not add to catalog**
166. FoCCL - What Really Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton, narrated by same
167. McIntyre's - Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
168. FoCCL - The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
169. FoCCL - Eight Detectives by Alex Pavesi
170. FoCCL - Hercule Poirot's Silent Night by Sophie Hannah
171. Audible - Seven Card Stud by Ava Drake
172. Kindle - The Night Will Have Its Say by Ibrahim Al-Koni
173. Amazon - The Mystery of Three Quarters by Sophie Hannah
174. Amazon - The Killings at Kingfisher Hill by Sophie Hannah
175. Kindle - My Fake Billionaire by Ana Ashley
176. FoCCL - The Origins of Intellect: Piaget's Theory by John L Phillips
177. co-opted from Jenna - The Mabinogion by Sioned Davies
178. co-opted from Jenna - Disease and History by Frederick Cartwright
179. co-opted from Jenna - The Remington Historical Treasury of American Guns by Harold L Peterson
180. FoCCL - Once Upon a War: Women in War by Dixie Swanson
181. Kindle - Counsel Culture by Hye-jin Kim translated by Jamie Chang
182. Amazon - Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole
183. Audible - Before You Break by KC Wells and Parker Williams
184. Kindle - The Paper Boys by DP Clarence
185. Amazon - The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
186. Audible - All In by Ava Drake
187. Audible - Assembling California by John McPhee
188. FoCCL - Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes
189. FoCCL - The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
190. FoCCL - Hercule Poirot's Casebook
191. FoCCL - The Book of General Ignorance by John Mitchinson
192. Kindle - Our Culture, wht's Left Of It by Theodore Dalrymple
193. FoCCL - A Time to Dance, A Time to Die by John Walle
194. FoCCL - The Last Word by Elly Griffiths
195-211. FoCCL - Life Nature Library and Life Science Library books that were going to be taken to the thrift shop
212. FoCCL - The Jesus I Never Knew by Phillip Yancy
213. FoCCL - Sorry by Gail Jones
214. Amazon - Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses by David Scheel
215. FoCCL - Remembering Bill Neal by Moreton Neal
216. FoCCL - Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper
217. re-added - First Family by Joseph J. Ellis
218. re-added - Poplar Forest & Thomas Jefferson by S. Allen Chambers Jr.
219. Kindle - The Sugared Game by KJ Charles
220. Kindle - Subtle Blood by KJ Charles
221. Kindle - Wobble by Becca Seymour
222. Kindle - When London Snow Falls by Hayden Stone
223. re-added - Max's Ride by Rosemary Wells
224. re-added - What Happen's Next? by Cheryl Christian
225. readded - The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
226. Karen - The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
227. Karen - A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do by Pete Fromm
228. Amazon - Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
229. Audible - The Devil At His Elbow by Valerie Bauerlein
230. Audible - Hollywood Hustle by Jon Lindstrom
231. FoCCL - 100 of the World's Most Beautiful Paintings edited by R.T.V. Sales
232. Paperbacks Plus - Crooked River by Preston & Child
233. Paperbacks Plus - Fever Dream by Preston & Child
234. Paperbacks Plus - Blasphemy by Douglas Preston
235. Amazon - Deep Into the Dark by PJ Tracy
236. Amazon - MP3 audio - Calico by Lee Goldberg
237. Kindle - Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
238. Kindle - Bent by Jesse H Reign
239. Amazon - Deep Into the Dark by PJ Tracy
240. Audible - Jewish Literacy Revised Ed: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History by Joseph Telushkin
241. Kindle - Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
242. Kindle - Bent Backwards by Jesse H Reign
243. Kindle - Wicked Lies Boys Tell by K Webster
244. Amazon - Straight Acting by Will Tosh
245. FoCCL - A Treatise on the Scurvey by James Lind
246. FoCCL - Religio Medici by Thomas Browne
247. FoCCL - Digitalis and its Allies by Arthur R. Cushny
248. FoCCL - An Account of the Foxglove by Sir William Withering
249. Audible - The Southern Boys Trilogy by K. C. Wells, narrated by John Solo
250. Princeton U. Press - The Fourth Pig by Naomi Mitchison
251. Princeton U. Press - L.A. Math: Romance, Crime, and Mathematics in the City of Angels by James D. Stein
252. Princeton U. Press - Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved - Revised Color Edition by Robin Wilson
253. Princeton U. Press - The Founders on Religion: A Book of Quotations edited by James H. Hutson
254. Princeton U. Press - Pentagons and Pentagrams: An Illustrated History by Eli Maor
255. Princeton U. Press - The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs by Jed Z. Buchwa.d
256. Princeton U. Press - Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human by Rob Dunn
257. Princeton U. Press - Cooking for Crowds: 40th Anniversary Edition by Merry E. White
258. Princeton U. Press - 99 Variations on a Proof by Philip Ording
259. Princeton U. Press - Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller
260. Princeton U. Press - Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium by Levi Roach
261. Princeton U. Press - How Fast Did T. rex Run?: Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science by David Hone
262. FoCCL - Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz
263. FoCCL - A History of God by Karen Armstrong
264. FoCCL - The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage by Kingsley Amis
265. Amazon - Body Phobia by Dianna E. Anderson
266. Kindle - A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill
267. Audible - The Body in the Library by Sulari Gentill, narrated by Katherine Littrell
268. Kindle - Carte Blanche by Nash Summers
269. Thrift Shop - Macbeth: The Graphic Novel by William Shakespeare adaptation by John McDonald
270. Thrift Shop - Spare by Prince Harry
271. FoCCL - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
272. FoCCL - Let Us Die Like Brave Men: Behind The Dying Words Of Confederate Warriors by Daniel W. Barefoot
273. Audible - Unscripted by JR Gray narrated by Joel Leslie and John Solo
274. McIntyre's - Tantra: Liberation in the World by Prabhuji David, Ben Yosef Har-Zion
275. McIntyre's - What is as it is: Satsangs with Prabhuji by Prabhuji David, Ben Yosef Har-Zion
276. McIntyre's - Kundalini Yoga: The power is in you by Prabhuji David, Ben Yosef Har-Zion
277. McIntyre's - Experimenting with the Truth by Prabhuji David, Ben Yosef Har-Zion
278. McIntyre's - Advaita Vedanta: Being the Self by Prabhuji David, Ben Yosef Har-Zion
279. McIntyre's - Ishavasya Upanishad - commented by Prabhuji by Prabhuji David, Ben Yosef Har-Zion
280. McIntyre's - Bhakti Yoga: The path of love by Prabhuji David, Ben Yosef Har-Zion
281. McIntyre's - The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi by Boyce Upholt
282. McIntyre's - Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's by Tiffany Midge
283. McIntyre's - One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware
284. McIntyre's - The Obscene Bird of Night: unabridged, centennial edition by José Donoso
285. McIntyre's - Tar Heel Lightnin': How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World by Daniel S. Pierce
286. McIntyre's - Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up With the Universe by Ken Krimstein
287. McIntyre's - The Little Sparrow Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
culls - 64 last year
1. Grant by Ron Chernow - CDs
2. How to Read and Understand Shakespeare by Professor Marc C. Conner - DVDs
3. The History of the Supreme Court by Professor Peter Irons - DVDs
4. Shakespeare's Tragedies by Professor Clare R. Kinney - DVDs
5. Terror of History by Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz - audio CDs
6. Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance by Professor William Kloss - DVDs
7. The History of Ancient Egypt by Professor Bob Brier DVDs
8. Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama - CDs
9. Fairy Tales for Angry Little Girls by Lela Lee
10. The God Dog Connection by Marti Healy dogs - ugh
11. Nothin' But Good Times Ahead by Molly Ivins - duplicate
12. The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
13. The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith
14. False Impression by Archer, Jeffrey
15. Deep Storm by Child, Lincoln
16. Cat O'Nine Tales: And Other Stories by Archer, Jeffrey
17. Atonement by Mcewan, Ian
18. Faithless by Slaughter, Karin
19. Fatal Burn by Jackson, Lisa
20. At The Stroke Of Madness by Kava, Alex
21. Eden Burning by Lowell, Elizabeth
22. Don't Scream by Staub, Wendy Corsi
23. The Rebel Angels by Davies, Robertson
24. Sphere by Crichton, Michael
25. The Making of the President 1960 by White, Theodore H.
26. Beauty and the Beast by Howell, Hannah
27. The Program by White, Stephen
28. Travels by Crichton, Michael
29. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S. Wood - audio book
30. World of Wonders by Davies, Robertson
31. I Know This Much Is True by Lamb, Wally
32. The Four Feathers by Mason, A.E.W.
33. The Next Accident by Gardner, Lisa
34. The Third Victim by Gardner, Lisa
35. The Survivors Club by Gardner, Lisa
36. The Key to Rebecca by Follett, Ken
37. Perdido Street Station by Mieville, China
38. The Broom of the System by Wallace, David Foster
39. Death's Door by Sawyer, Meryl
40. Why Aren't They Screaming? by Smith, Joan
41. Malice Domestic by Hardwick, Mollie
42. The Sculptress by Walters, Minette
43. Cold Allies by Anthony, Patricia
44. The Divide by Evans, Nicholas
45. A Knife to Remember by Churchill, Jill
46. Sullivan's Evidence by Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor
47. The Times We Had : Life with William Randolph Hearst by Davies, Marion
48. Beneath the Skin by French, Nicci
49. The Winter of Our Discontent by Steinbeck, John
50. Travels with Charley by Steinbeck, John
51. Blind Justice by Alexander, Bruce
52. The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes by Austen, Jane
53. A Regency Christmas 6 by Balogh, Mary
54. Someone Perfect by Balogh, Mary
55. The End of the Road by Barth, John
56. A Seer Out of Season: The Life Of Edgar Cayce by Bro, Harmon H.
57. After the Storm by Castillo, Linda
58. Among the Wicked by Castillo, Linda
59. Down a Dark Road by Castillo, Linda
60. Her Last Breath by Castillo, Linda
61. Shamed by Castillo, Linda
62. Victory by Conrad, Joseph
63. The Last Plantagenets by Costain, Thomas Bertram
64. The Manticore by Davies, Robertson
65. May We Borrow Your Husband?: And Other Comedies of the Sexual Life by Greene, Graham
66. Fever Season by Hambly, Barbara
67. Traveling with the Dead by Hambly, Barbara
68. To Die For by Howard, Linda
69. Mortal Fear by Iles, Greg
70. A Dangerous Man:: A Novel of William Wild Bill Longley by Johnstone, William W.
71. The Ritual Bath by Kellerman, Faye
72. A Grave Talent by King, Laurie R.
73. Night Work by King, Laurie R.
74. O Jerusalem by King, Laurie R.
75. The Miernik Dossier by McCarry, Charles
76. Tularosa by McGarrity, Michael
77. The President's Shadow by Meltzer, Brad
78. Ice Hunt by Rollins, James
79. Bury the Lead by Rosenfelt, David
80. First Degree by Rosenfelt, David
81. Open and Shut by Rosenfelt, David
82. Angle of Repose by Stegner, Wallace
83. Last Breath by Stewart, Mariah
84. The Hellfire Club by Straub, Peter
85. An Autobiography by Trollope, Anthony
86. He Knew He Was Right by Trollope, Anthony
87. Rachel Ray by Trollope, Anthony
88. Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories by Trollope, Anthony
89. Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Bridal Wreath by Undset, Sigrid
90. Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Mistress of Husaby by Undset, Sigrid
91. Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Undset, Sigrid
92. The Ringer by Wallace, Edgar
93. Back Home by Mauldin, Bill
Trollope
94. Barchester Towers & the Last Warden
95. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
96. The Vicar of Bullhampton
97. The American Senator
98. The Claverings
Proust
99. The Captive
100. Cities of the Plain
101. Within a Budding Grove
102. The Sweet Cheat Gone
103. The Past Recaptured
104. The Guermantes Way
105. The book of Unusual Knowledge by Publications International, LTD.
106. The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
107. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
108. More Letters from Pemberley by Jane Dawkins
109. Five Victorian Ghost Novels edited by E.F. Bleiler
110. The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg
111. What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies
112. Counterparts by Gonzalo Lira
113. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
114. These Three Remain by Pamela Aidan
115. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
116. Parting the Curtains Interviews by Dannye Romine Powell
117. Into Africa by Martin Dugard
118. Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
119. Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe
120. The Source by James Michener - copy bought, then decided to give to Irene. I have 2 or three others on my shelves
121. The Moor by Laurie R. King
122. Victorians at Home by Susan Lasdun
123. Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
124. Thomas Jefferson: A Biography in His Own Words
125. Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause by Roger G. Kennedy
126. The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
127. Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen - audio book
128. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
129. Norwegian Night by Derek B. Miller
130. Fields for President by W.C. Fields
131. The Longevity Plan by Dr. John D. Day and Jane Ann Day
132. The Love-Girl and the Innocent: Victory Celebrations: Prisoners by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
133. Midnight Rising by Tony Horwitz - yellowed trade paperback - would read better condition copy
134. The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh - will never read
135. The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin - will never read
136. Julie & Julia by Julie Powell - will never read although I loved the movie
137. Are You Somebody by Nuala O'Faolain - will never read, don't know why i bought it
138. Blood, Tears, and Folly by Len Deighton - WWII history that I will never read
139. The Darkest Hour by Tony Scumacher - WWII fiction, not my cuppa
140. The Domino Men by Jonathan Barnes
141. Personal History by Katharine Graham
142. Everyman by Philip Roth
143. The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
144. No More Words : A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh by Reeve Lindbergh
145. A Room With A View and Howards End by E.M. Forster - mass market paperback, yellowed
146. S01 10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse by JJ Smith
147. S02 The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
148. S02 The Time of Terror by Seth Hunter
149. S02 The American Spectator's Enemies List by P.J. O'Rourke
150. S02 The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
151. S02 Confessions of an Actor: An Autobiography by Laurence Olivier
152. S03 Musical Stages: An Autobiography by Richard Rodgers
153. S03 The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies
154. S03 Colony Girl by Thomas Rayfiel
155. S04 It's Always the Husband by Michele Campbell
156. S04 Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA by Ellen Meister
157. S04 The God of the Hive by Laurie R. King
158. S04 The Darcy Connection by Elizabeth Aston
159. S04 Mr. Darcy's Daughters by Elizabeth Aston
160. S04 The Second Mrs. Darcy by Elizabeth Aston
161. S04 The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy by Elizabeth Aston
162. S04 The True Darcy Spirit by Elizabeth Aston
163. S04 The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen by Syrie James
164. The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman
2024 Inventory
165. S17 Nice Guys Finish Last by Leo Durocher
166. S17 The Lyre of Orpheus
167. S24 The Marx Sisters by Barry Maitland - duplicate
168. S26 No Angel by Penny Vincenzi
169. L80 The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
170. L86 Killer View by Ridley Pearson
171. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
172. The Racketeer by John Grisham
173. Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham
174. Angel Rogue by Mary Jo Putney
175. L24 Third Degree by Greg Iles
176. L33 Writing And Fighting the Civil War: Soldier Correspondence to the New York Sunday Mercury by William B. Styple - giving to friend Karen
177. The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
178. The Water's Edge by Karin Fossum
179. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
180. The Hellfire Club by Jake Tapper
181. Moo by Jane Smiley
182. Longitudes and Attitudes by Thomas L. Friedman
183. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
183. Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
184-186. Three books about Chapel Hill
187. Magic Hour by Susan Isaacs
188. the Help by Kathryn Stockett
189. Blood Memory by Greg Iles
190. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
191. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
192. A Jockey's Life by Dick Francis
193. Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
194. The Doctors Book of Home Remedies II
195. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
196. Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
197. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
198. A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
199. Apollo at Go by Jeff Sutton
200. October Sky by Homer Hickham
201. The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton
202. London by Edward Rutherford
203. Utopia by Lincoln Child
204. When the Devil Holds the Candle by Karin Fossum
205. The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell
206. One Man's Wilderness by Sam Keith
207. The Journal of Best Practice by David Finch
208. Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
209. Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
210. The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell
211. The Day of Atonement by David Liss
212. Belgravia by Julian Fellowes
213. The Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd & John Mitchinson
214. Night Film by Marisha Pessl
215. Kill and Tell by Linda Howard
216. The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara
217. Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
218. The Bush Dyslexicon by Mark Crispin Miller - why bother since we now have a fascist elected?
1. Thrift Shop - How to Give Up Plastic by Will McCallum
2. Thrift Shop - Worth Dying For by Lee Child - hardcover upgrade for mass market paperback
3. Thrift Shop - Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorcle
4. Thrift Shop - The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
5. Thrift Shop - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
6. FoCCL - Foreigner by CJ Cherryh
7. Kindle - Where Forever Started by Barbara Elsborg
8. Amazon - Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat because I had to have a book by someone with that name
9. Kindle - Assassins Are People Too by S.C. Wynne
10. Kindle - Assassins Love People Too by S.C. Wynne
11. Kindle - Assassins Save People Too by S.C. Wynne
12. Amazon - The Complete Tutankhamun by Nicholas Reeves
13. Kindle - Trapped for the Holidays by Courtney W. Dixon
14. McIntyre's - Sacred Altars by Anne Strand
15. McIntyre's - On Digital Advocacy by Katie Boue
16. McIntyre's - A Line in the Sand by Kevin Powers
17. McIntyre's - Son of the Old West by Nathan Ward
18. McIntyre's - Boundaries and Protection by Pixie Lighthorse
19. McIntyre's - The Plague by Albert Camus
20. McIntyre's - Transient and Strange by Nell Greenfieldboyce
21. McIntyre's - Building a Better Boomer by Neil Offen
22. McIntyre's - Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! by Julio Vincent Bambuto
23. McIntyre's - The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector
24. McIntyre's - Nuts & Bolts by Roma Agrawal
25. McIntyre's - Longstreet by Elizabeth Varon
26. Kindle - Crashing Upwards by S.C. Wynne
27. Kindle - If I Met You First by A.B. Julian
28. Amazon - The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole World by Matt Kracht
29. Amazon - The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023 edited by Amor Towles
30. Amazon - Random in Death by J.D. Robb
31. Amazon - The Secret by Lee Child and Andrew Child
32. Kindle - A Case of Conscience by James Blish
33. Kindle - A Lesson in Thorns by Sierra Simone - rec by elorin/Robyn
34. Louise - Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs by Lang Elliott with Donald and Louise Stokes - audio book
35. FoCCL - The New York Times Complete Civil War edited by Harold Holzer & Craig L. Symonds
36. FoCCL - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
37. U of Chicago Press - Giza and the Pyramids: The Definitive History by Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass
38. Amazon - Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
39. Kindle - Losing Control by Riley Hart
40. Kindle - Monopolize Me by Evie Noir The New York Series Book 2
41. FoCCL - S24 The Essential Kabbalah by Daniel C. Matt
42. FoCCL - S24 Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography by John Dominic Crossan
43. FoCCL - S24 Just Because They've Left Doesn't Mean They're Gone by Stephen A. Bly
44. Kindle - Monopolize Us by Evie Noir The New York Series book 3
45. Kindle - Monopolize You by Evie Noir The New York Series 2
46. FoCCL - Tenth of December by George Saunders
47. FoCCL - The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament in The Confraternity - Douay Texts and the Entire New Testament in the Confraternity Translation 1959
48. Amazon - The House of Being by Natasha Trethewey
49. FoCCL - Roman Britain by H.H. Scullard
50. FoCCL - What's a Christian to do with Harry Potter? by Connie Neal
51. FoCCL - Androgynous Judaism by Jacob Neusner
52. FoCCL - Citizens of London by Lynne Olson
53. FoCCL - The United States, a Modern History, 2 volumes. U.S. History To 1865 and U.S. History Since 1865 by Michael Kraus and Foster Rhea Dulles
54. FoCCL - Unlucky for Some by Jill McGown
55. FoCCL - Acid Row by Minette Walters
56. FoCCL - Sanctuary by William Faulkner
57. FoCCL - Light in August by William Faulkner
58 - 100. FoCCL - Great Books of the Western World 43 of 54 books, 1952 edition
101. Kindle - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
102. Amazon - The Huguenots or The Early French in New Jersey by Albert F. Koehler
103. Kindle - Finding Him by Chad Lane
104. Kindle - Message Received by D.K. Sutton
105. Kindle - Payback by Avery Mist
106. Kindle - Waiting, Hoping, Wishing by Nic Sparks
107. Kindle - 10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall
108. Amazon - Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
109. Kindle - Thirst by Jaylen Florian
110. Kindle - Long Winter by Rachel Ember
111. Kindle - A Betting Man by Sandrine Gasq-Dion
112. Amazon - The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better . or Worse by Benjamin van Rooij
113. Kindle - Submission by Chris Owen and Jodi Payne
114. Kindle - Domination by Chris Owen and Jodi Payne
115. Kindle First Reads - A Clean Kill by Steve Konkoly
116. Amazon - The Great Gelatin Revival: Savory Aspics, Jiggly Shots, and Outrageous Desserts by Ken Albala
117. Amazon - Jellies & Their Moulds by Peter Brears
118. Kindle - The Truth In My Lies by L.A. Witt
119. FoCCL - Wanderings by Chaim Potok
120. FoCCL - Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
121. FoCCL - Blowout by Rachel Maddow
122. Amazon - Devil is Fine by John Vercher
123. Sister Laura - Kindle - Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
124. Sister Laura - Kindle - North Woods by Daniel Mason
125. Friend Karen - Cauliflower: Over 70 Exciting Ways to Roast, Rice and Fry One of the World's Healthiest Vegetables by Oz Telem
126. Friend Karen - Historical Dictionary of Librarianship by Mary Ellen Quinn
127. Amazon - Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine - in honor of Anita, @fameulstee
128. Amazon - The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
129. Hwan - Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
130. Kindle - Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles
131. Amazon - Selected Works by Franz Kafka
132. Kindle - P.S. I Loathe You by Isla Olsen
133. Kindle - Table for Two by Amor Towles
134. FoCCL - The First American by HW Brands
135. FoCCL - Prayers for Peace compiled by B. Martin Pedersen
136. FoCCL - Salvation by Sholem Asch
137. FoCCL - The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Aschwitz-Birkenau by Ann Weiss
138. Amazon - Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
139. FoCCL - The Pocket Pema Chödrön
140. FoCCL - Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
141. FoCCL - The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
142. FoCCL - The Wall by John Hershey
143. eBay - Safari: A Chronicle of Adventure by Bartle Bull
144. ebay - *April* Great Books of the Western World volume 5
145. Amazon - James by Percival Everett
146. Amazon - The Overstory by Richard Powers
147. Amazon - The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
148. Amazon - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
149. Amazon - Knife by Salman Rushdie
150. re-add from stacks of childrens' books - Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
151. FoCCL - The Forgetting Room by Nick Bantock
152. Kindle - What Binds Us Here by M.H. Auheim
153. Amazon - What the Bees See - Photographs by Craig P. Burrows
154. Kindle - The Rest of Forever by Kate Aaron
155. Kindle - I Hear They Burn for Murder by JL Aarne
156. Audible - Misbelief by Dan Ariely
157. Audible - Ace in the Hole by Ava Drake
158. FoCCL - Running the Amazon by Joe Kane
159. FoCCL - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
160. FoCCL - JFK from Parkland to Bethesda by Vincent Palamara
161. FoCCL - Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
162. FoCCL - The Inheritance: Poisoned Fruit of JFK's Assassination by Christopher Fulton and Michelle Fulton
163. FoCCL - French Quarter Fiction: The Newest Stories of America's Oldest Bohemia edited by Joshua Clark
164. FoCCL - Tar Heels: Five Points in the Record of North Carolina by North Carolina Literary and Historical Society
165. FoCCL - Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut **did not add to catalog**
166. FoCCL - What Really Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton, narrated by same
167. McIntyre's - Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
168. FoCCL - The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
169. FoCCL - Eight Detectives by Alex Pavesi
170. FoCCL - Hercule Poirot's Silent Night by Sophie Hannah
171. Audible - Seven Card Stud by Ava Drake
172. Kindle - The Night Will Have Its Say by Ibrahim Al-Koni
173. Amazon - The Mystery of Three Quarters by Sophie Hannah
174. Amazon - The Killings at Kingfisher Hill by Sophie Hannah
175. Kindle - My Fake Billionaire by Ana Ashley
176. FoCCL - The Origins of Intellect: Piaget's Theory by John L Phillips
177. co-opted from Jenna - The Mabinogion by Sioned Davies
178. co-opted from Jenna - Disease and History by Frederick Cartwright
179. co-opted from Jenna - The Remington Historical Treasury of American Guns by Harold L Peterson
180. FoCCL - Once Upon a War: Women in War by Dixie Swanson
181. Kindle - Counsel Culture by Hye-jin Kim translated by Jamie Chang
182. Amazon - Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole
183. Audible - Before You Break by KC Wells and Parker Williams
184. Kindle - The Paper Boys by DP Clarence
185. Amazon - The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
186. Audible - All In by Ava Drake
187. Audible - Assembling California by John McPhee
188. FoCCL - Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes
189. FoCCL - The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
190. FoCCL - Hercule Poirot's Casebook
191. FoCCL - The Book of General Ignorance by John Mitchinson
192. Kindle - Our Culture, wht's Left Of It by Theodore Dalrymple
193. FoCCL - A Time to Dance, A Time to Die by John Walle
194. FoCCL - The Last Word by Elly Griffiths
195-211. FoCCL - Life Nature Library and Life Science Library books that were going to be taken to the thrift shop
212. FoCCL - The Jesus I Never Knew by Phillip Yancy
213. FoCCL - Sorry by Gail Jones
214. Amazon - Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses by David Scheel
215. FoCCL - Remembering Bill Neal by Moreton Neal
216. FoCCL - Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper
217. re-added - First Family by Joseph J. Ellis
218. re-added - Poplar Forest & Thomas Jefferson by S. Allen Chambers Jr.
219. Kindle - The Sugared Game by KJ Charles
220. Kindle - Subtle Blood by KJ Charles
221. Kindle - Wobble by Becca Seymour
222. Kindle - When London Snow Falls by Hayden Stone
223. re-added - Max's Ride by Rosemary Wells
224. re-added - What Happen's Next? by Cheryl Christian
225. readded - The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
226. Karen - The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
227. Karen - A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do by Pete Fromm
228. Amazon - Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
229. Audible - The Devil At His Elbow by Valerie Bauerlein
230. Audible - Hollywood Hustle by Jon Lindstrom
231. FoCCL - 100 of the World's Most Beautiful Paintings edited by R.T.V. Sales
232. Paperbacks Plus - Crooked River by Preston & Child
233. Paperbacks Plus - Fever Dream by Preston & Child
234. Paperbacks Plus - Blasphemy by Douglas Preston
235. Amazon - Deep Into the Dark by PJ Tracy
236. Amazon - MP3 audio - Calico by Lee Goldberg
237. Kindle - Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
238. Kindle - Bent by Jesse H Reign
239. Amazon - Deep Into the Dark by PJ Tracy
240. Audible - Jewish Literacy Revised Ed: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History by Joseph Telushkin
241. Kindle - Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
242. Kindle - Bent Backwards by Jesse H Reign
243. Kindle - Wicked Lies Boys Tell by K Webster
244. Amazon - Straight Acting by Will Tosh
245. FoCCL - A Treatise on the Scurvey by James Lind
246. FoCCL - Religio Medici by Thomas Browne
247. FoCCL - Digitalis and its Allies by Arthur R. Cushny
248. FoCCL - An Account of the Foxglove by Sir William Withering
249. Audible - The Southern Boys Trilogy by K. C. Wells, narrated by John Solo
250. Princeton U. Press - The Fourth Pig by Naomi Mitchison
251. Princeton U. Press - L.A. Math: Romance, Crime, and Mathematics in the City of Angels by James D. Stein
252. Princeton U. Press - Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved - Revised Color Edition by Robin Wilson
253. Princeton U. Press - The Founders on Religion: A Book of Quotations edited by James H. Hutson
254. Princeton U. Press - Pentagons and Pentagrams: An Illustrated History by Eli Maor
255. Princeton U. Press - The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs by Jed Z. Buchwa.d
256. Princeton U. Press - Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human by Rob Dunn
257. Princeton U. Press - Cooking for Crowds: 40th Anniversary Edition by Merry E. White
258. Princeton U. Press - 99 Variations on a Proof by Philip Ording
259. Princeton U. Press - Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller
260. Princeton U. Press - Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium by Levi Roach
261. Princeton U. Press - How Fast Did T. rex Run?: Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science by David Hone
262. FoCCL - Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz
263. FoCCL - A History of God by Karen Armstrong
264. FoCCL - The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage by Kingsley Amis
265. Amazon - Body Phobia by Dianna E. Anderson
266. Kindle - A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill
267. Audible - The Body in the Library by Sulari Gentill, narrated by Katherine Littrell
268. Kindle - Carte Blanche by Nash Summers
269. Thrift Shop - Macbeth: The Graphic Novel by William Shakespeare adaptation by John McDonald
270. Thrift Shop - Spare by Prince Harry
271. FoCCL - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
272. FoCCL - Let Us Die Like Brave Men: Behind The Dying Words Of Confederate Warriors by Daniel W. Barefoot
273. Audible - Unscripted by JR Gray narrated by Joel Leslie and John Solo
274. McIntyre's - Tantra: Liberation in the World by Prabhuji David, Ben Yosef Har-Zion
275. McIntyre's - What is as it is: Satsangs with Prabhuji by Prabhuji David, Ben Yosef Har-Zion
276. McIntyre's - Kundalini Yoga: The power is in you by Prabhuji David, Ben Yosef Har-Zion
277. McIntyre's - Experimenting with the Truth by Prabhuji David, Ben Yosef Har-Zion
278. McIntyre's - Advaita Vedanta: Being the Self by Prabhuji David, Ben Yosef Har-Zion
279. McIntyre's - Ishavasya Upanishad - commented by Prabhuji by Prabhuji David, Ben Yosef Har-Zion
280. McIntyre's - Bhakti Yoga: The path of love by Prabhuji David, Ben Yosef Har-Zion
281. McIntyre's - The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi by Boyce Upholt
282. McIntyre's - Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's by Tiffany Midge
283. McIntyre's - One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware
284. McIntyre's - The Obscene Bird of Night: unabridged, centennial edition by José Donoso
285. McIntyre's - Tar Heel Lightnin': How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World by Daniel S. Pierce
286. McIntyre's - Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up With the Universe by Ken Krimstein
287. McIntyre's - The Little Sparrow Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
culls - 64 last year
1. Grant by Ron Chernow - CDs
2. How to Read and Understand Shakespeare by Professor Marc C. Conner - DVDs
3. The History of the Supreme Court by Professor Peter Irons - DVDs
4. Shakespeare's Tragedies by Professor Clare R. Kinney - DVDs
5. Terror of History by Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz - audio CDs
6. Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance by Professor William Kloss - DVDs
7. The History of Ancient Egypt by Professor Bob Brier DVDs
8. Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama - CDs
9. Fairy Tales for Angry Little Girls by Lela Lee
10. The God Dog Connection by Marti Healy dogs - ugh
11. Nothin' But Good Times Ahead by Molly Ivins - duplicate
12. The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
13. The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith
14. False Impression by Archer, Jeffrey
15. Deep Storm by Child, Lincoln
16. Cat O'Nine Tales: And Other Stories by Archer, Jeffrey
17. Atonement by Mcewan, Ian
18. Faithless by Slaughter, Karin
19. Fatal Burn by Jackson, Lisa
20. At The Stroke Of Madness by Kava, Alex
21. Eden Burning by Lowell, Elizabeth
22. Don't Scream by Staub, Wendy Corsi
23. The Rebel Angels by Davies, Robertson
24. Sphere by Crichton, Michael
25. The Making of the President 1960 by White, Theodore H.
26. Beauty and the Beast by Howell, Hannah
27. The Program by White, Stephen
28. Travels by Crichton, Michael
29. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S. Wood - audio book
30. World of Wonders by Davies, Robertson
31. I Know This Much Is True by Lamb, Wally
32. The Four Feathers by Mason, A.E.W.
33. The Next Accident by Gardner, Lisa
34. The Third Victim by Gardner, Lisa
35. The Survivors Club by Gardner, Lisa
36. The Key to Rebecca by Follett, Ken
37. Perdido Street Station by Mieville, China
38. The Broom of the System by Wallace, David Foster
39. Death's Door by Sawyer, Meryl
40. Why Aren't They Screaming? by Smith, Joan
41. Malice Domestic by Hardwick, Mollie
42. The Sculptress by Walters, Minette
43. Cold Allies by Anthony, Patricia
44. The Divide by Evans, Nicholas
45. A Knife to Remember by Churchill, Jill
46. Sullivan's Evidence by Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor
47. The Times We Had : Life with William Randolph Hearst by Davies, Marion
48. Beneath the Skin by French, Nicci
49. The Winter of Our Discontent by Steinbeck, John
50. Travels with Charley by Steinbeck, John
51. Blind Justice by Alexander, Bruce
52. The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes by Austen, Jane
53. A Regency Christmas 6 by Balogh, Mary
54. Someone Perfect by Balogh, Mary
55. The End of the Road by Barth, John
56. A Seer Out of Season: The Life Of Edgar Cayce by Bro, Harmon H.
57. After the Storm by Castillo, Linda
58. Among the Wicked by Castillo, Linda
59. Down a Dark Road by Castillo, Linda
60. Her Last Breath by Castillo, Linda
61. Shamed by Castillo, Linda
62. Victory by Conrad, Joseph
63. The Last Plantagenets by Costain, Thomas Bertram
64. The Manticore by Davies, Robertson
65. May We Borrow Your Husband?: And Other Comedies of the Sexual Life by Greene, Graham
66. Fever Season by Hambly, Barbara
67. Traveling with the Dead by Hambly, Barbara
68. To Die For by Howard, Linda
69. Mortal Fear by Iles, Greg
70. A Dangerous Man:: A Novel of William Wild Bill Longley by Johnstone, William W.
71. The Ritual Bath by Kellerman, Faye
72. A Grave Talent by King, Laurie R.
73. Night Work by King, Laurie R.
74. O Jerusalem by King, Laurie R.
75. The Miernik Dossier by McCarry, Charles
76. Tularosa by McGarrity, Michael
77. The President's Shadow by Meltzer, Brad
78. Ice Hunt by Rollins, James
79. Bury the Lead by Rosenfelt, David
80. First Degree by Rosenfelt, David
81. Open and Shut by Rosenfelt, David
82. Angle of Repose by Stegner, Wallace
83. Last Breath by Stewart, Mariah
84. The Hellfire Club by Straub, Peter
85. An Autobiography by Trollope, Anthony
86. He Knew He Was Right by Trollope, Anthony
87. Rachel Ray by Trollope, Anthony
88. Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories by Trollope, Anthony
89. Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Bridal Wreath by Undset, Sigrid
90. Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Mistress of Husaby by Undset, Sigrid
91. Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Undset, Sigrid
92. The Ringer by Wallace, Edgar
93. Back Home by Mauldin, Bill
Trollope
94. Barchester Towers & the Last Warden
95. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
96. The Vicar of Bullhampton
97. The American Senator
98. The Claverings
Proust
99. The Captive
100. Cities of the Plain
101. Within a Budding Grove
102. The Sweet Cheat Gone
103. The Past Recaptured
104. The Guermantes Way
105. The book of Unusual Knowledge by Publications International, LTD.
106. The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
107. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
108. More Letters from Pemberley by Jane Dawkins
109. Five Victorian Ghost Novels edited by E.F. Bleiler
110. The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg
111. What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies
112. Counterparts by Gonzalo Lira
113. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
114. These Three Remain by Pamela Aidan
115. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
116. Parting the Curtains Interviews by Dannye Romine Powell
117. Into Africa by Martin Dugard
118. Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
119. Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe
120. The Source by James Michener - copy bought, then decided to give to Irene. I have 2 or three others on my shelves
121. The Moor by Laurie R. King
122. Victorians at Home by Susan Lasdun
123. Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
124. Thomas Jefferson: A Biography in His Own Words
125. Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause by Roger G. Kennedy
126. The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
127. Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen - audio book
128. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
129. Norwegian Night by Derek B. Miller
130. Fields for President by W.C. Fields
131. The Longevity Plan by Dr. John D. Day and Jane Ann Day
132. The Love-Girl and the Innocent: Victory Celebrations: Prisoners by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
133. Midnight Rising by Tony Horwitz - yellowed trade paperback - would read better condition copy
134. The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh - will never read
135. The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin - will never read
136. Julie & Julia by Julie Powell - will never read although I loved the movie
137. Are You Somebody by Nuala O'Faolain - will never read, don't know why i bought it
138. Blood, Tears, and Folly by Len Deighton - WWII history that I will never read
139. The Darkest Hour by Tony Scumacher - WWII fiction, not my cuppa
140. The Domino Men by Jonathan Barnes
141. Personal History by Katharine Graham
142. Everyman by Philip Roth
143. The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
144. No More Words : A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh by Reeve Lindbergh
145. A Room With A View and Howards End by E.M. Forster - mass market paperback, yellowed
146. S01 10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse by JJ Smith
147. S02 The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
148. S02 The Time of Terror by Seth Hunter
149. S02 The American Spectator's Enemies List by P.J. O'Rourke
150. S02 The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
151. S02 Confessions of an Actor: An Autobiography by Laurence Olivier
152. S03 Musical Stages: An Autobiography by Richard Rodgers
153. S03 The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies
154. S03 Colony Girl by Thomas Rayfiel
155. S04 It's Always the Husband by Michele Campbell
156. S04 Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA by Ellen Meister
157. S04 The God of the Hive by Laurie R. King
158. S04 The Darcy Connection by Elizabeth Aston
159. S04 Mr. Darcy's Daughters by Elizabeth Aston
160. S04 The Second Mrs. Darcy by Elizabeth Aston
161. S04 The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy by Elizabeth Aston
162. S04 The True Darcy Spirit by Elizabeth Aston
163. S04 The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen by Syrie James
164. The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman
2024 Inventory
165. S17 Nice Guys Finish Last by Leo Durocher
166. S17 The Lyre of Orpheus
167. S24 The Marx Sisters by Barry Maitland - duplicate
168. S26 No Angel by Penny Vincenzi
169. L80 The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
170. L86 Killer View by Ridley Pearson
171. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
172. The Racketeer by John Grisham
173. Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham
174. Angel Rogue by Mary Jo Putney
175. L24 Third Degree by Greg Iles
176. L33 Writing And Fighting the Civil War: Soldier Correspondence to the New York Sunday Mercury by William B. Styple - giving to friend Karen
177. The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
178. The Water's Edge by Karin Fossum
179. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
180. The Hellfire Club by Jake Tapper
181. Moo by Jane Smiley
182. Longitudes and Attitudes by Thomas L. Friedman
183. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
183. Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
184-186. Three books about Chapel Hill
187. Magic Hour by Susan Isaacs
188. the Help by Kathryn Stockett
189. Blood Memory by Greg Iles
190. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
191. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
192. A Jockey's Life by Dick Francis
193. Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
194. The Doctors Book of Home Remedies II
195. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
196. Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
197. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
198. A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
199. Apollo at Go by Jeff Sutton
200. October Sky by Homer Hickham
201. The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton
202. London by Edward Rutherford
203. Utopia by Lincoln Child
204. When the Devil Holds the Candle by Karin Fossum
205. The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell
206. One Man's Wilderness by Sam Keith
207. The Journal of Best Practice by David Finch
208. Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
209. Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
210. The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell
211. The Day of Atonement by David Liss
212. Belgravia by Julian Fellowes
213. The Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd & John Mitchinson
214. Night Film by Marisha Pessl
215. Kill and Tell by Linda Howard
216. The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara
217. Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
218. The Bush Dyslexicon by Mark Crispin Miller - why bother since we now have a fascist elected?
5karenmarie
YTD Statistics through September
302 books read
2 of them on my shelves before 1/1/24 and not rereads
96 books abandoned, 11085 pages abandoned, 1 audiobook, .45 hours abandoned
87.25 audiobook hours
Avg pages read per day, YTD = 308
Avg pages read per book, YTD = 279
Book of the Month: The Muse's Undoing by August Jones
Books by Month
January - 46 e-books, 1 audio book, 1 Graphic Novel, and 9 books abandoned for 1711 pages
February - 37 e-books and 8 books abandoned for 1058 pages
March - 38 e-books, 1 audio book, and 7 books abandoned for 899 pages
April - 31 e-books, 1 hard cover, and 11 books abandoned for 1338 pages
May - 21 e-books, and 13 books abandoned for 1153 pages
June - 33 e-books, and 9 books abandoned for 1188 pages
July - 29 e-books, 2 audiobooks, and 15 books abandoned for 1703 pages
August - 38 e-books, and 14 books abandoned for 1564 pages
September - 23 e-books, and 10 books abandoned for 991 pages
Author
Male 9%
Female 79%
Undeclared * 9%
Non-Binary 3%
* - can't find any info anywhere
Living 100%
Dead 0%
US Born 43%
Foreign Born 21%
Undeclared * 36%
* - can't find any info anywhere
Platform
Hardcover 1%
Trade Pback 0%
Mass Market 0%
Audiobook 2%
e-Book 96%
Audible audio book 1%
Source
My Library 8%
Library 1%
Kindle Unlimited 91%
Borrowed 0%
Culled 1%
Misc
ARC/ER 0%
Re-read 0%
Series 74%
Fiction 99%
NonFiction 1%
Author Birth Country
Australia 8%
Canada 5%
Cuba 1%
England 2%
Grenada 1%
Ireland 1%
New Zealand 1%
Norway 1%
Portugal 1%
Sweden 1%
UK 3%
Undeclared * 34%
US 41%
* - can't find any info anywhere
Original Decade Published
1980-1989 1%
2000-2009 2%
2010-2019 30%
2020-2029 67%
Genre
Biography 1%
Childrens 1%
Contemporary Fiction 93%
Crime Fiction 1%
Fantasy 1%
Graphic Novel 1%
Informational Nonfiction 1%
Memoir 1%
Acquisition/Source
Audible 4
Kindle Unlimited 279
Library 1
My shelves - acquired 2014 1
My shelves - acquired 2019 1
My shelves - acquired 2024 12
culled after reading 4
Average Rating
1.5 - Very Bad 0
2.0 - Bad 2
2.5 - Average 11
3.0 - Good 36
3.5 - Very Good 50
4.0 - Excellent 143
4.5 - Outstanding 59
5 - Masterpiece 1
Average Rating 3.83
Books acquired YTD 241
Books culled YTD 178
302 books read
2 of them on my shelves before 1/1/24 and not rereads
96 books abandoned, 11085 pages abandoned, 1 audiobook, .45 hours abandoned
87.25 audiobook hours
Avg pages read per day, YTD = 308
Avg pages read per book, YTD = 279
Book of the Month: The Muse's Undoing by August Jones
Books by Month
January - 46 e-books, 1 audio book, 1 Graphic Novel, and 9 books abandoned for 1711 pages
February - 37 e-books and 8 books abandoned for 1058 pages
March - 38 e-books, 1 audio book, and 7 books abandoned for 899 pages
April - 31 e-books, 1 hard cover, and 11 books abandoned for 1338 pages
May - 21 e-books, and 13 books abandoned for 1153 pages
June - 33 e-books, and 9 books abandoned for 1188 pages
July - 29 e-books, 2 audiobooks, and 15 books abandoned for 1703 pages
August - 38 e-books, and 14 books abandoned for 1564 pages
September - 23 e-books, and 10 books abandoned for 991 pages
Author
Male 9%
Female 79%
Undeclared * 9%
Non-Binary 3%
* - can't find any info anywhere
Living 100%
Dead 0%
US Born 43%
Foreign Born 21%
Undeclared * 36%
* - can't find any info anywhere
Platform
Hardcover 1%
Trade Pback 0%
Mass Market 0%
Audiobook 2%
e-Book 96%
Audible audio book 1%
Source
My Library 8%
Library 1%
Kindle Unlimited 91%
Borrowed 0%
Culled 1%
Misc
ARC/ER 0%
Re-read 0%
Series 74%
Fiction 99%
NonFiction 1%
Author Birth Country
Australia 8%
Canada 5%
Cuba 1%
England 2%
Grenada 1%
Ireland 1%
New Zealand 1%
Norway 1%
Portugal 1%
Sweden 1%
UK 3%
Undeclared * 34%
US 41%
* - can't find any info anywhere
Original Decade Published
1980-1989 1%
2000-2009 2%
2010-2019 30%
2020-2029 67%
Genre
Biography 1%
Childrens 1%
Contemporary Fiction 93%
Crime Fiction 1%
Fantasy 1%
Graphic Novel 1%
Informational Nonfiction 1%
Memoir 1%
Acquisition/Source
Audible 4
Kindle Unlimited 279
Library 1
My shelves - acquired 2014 1
My shelves - acquired 2019 1
My shelves - acquired 2024 12
culled after reading 4
Average Rating
1.5 - Very Bad 0
2.0 - Bad 2
2.5 - Average 11
3.0 - Good 36
3.5 - Very Good 50
4.0 - Excellent 143
4.5 - Outstanding 59
5 - Masterpiece 1
Average Rating 3.83
Books acquired YTD 241
Books culled YTD 178
6karenmarie
September Lightning Round
Any in bold are NOT MM romances, few and far between as they are.
It also occurs to me that quite a few of the smut books have warnings about triggers that I don’t mention here. Caveat emptor re triggers if you want to dip your toes in.
Rhino Ash by Lindsey Black 9/1/24 9/2/24 Kindle
Hard Stop by Kay Simone 9/2/24 9/2/24 Kindle
Untouchable by Ruthie Luhnow and Kay Simone 9/2/24 9/5/24 Kindle
Maybe You by Briar Prescott 9/6/24 9/6/24 Kindle
Hard Bargain by Scarlet Blackwell 9/6/24 9/6/24 Kindle
**abandoned Finding Myself by Ruby Neal**
**abandoned He's Mine by Scarlet Blackwell**
Before You Break by KC Wells and Parker Williams 8/21/24 9/8/24 13.5 hours Audible Audio book narrated by Joel Leslie
**abandoned Aiden's Luck by Con Riley**
**abandoned One Step Sideways by Victoria Sue**
Chained by Fate: Spark by Zara Lee 9/8/24 9/9/24 Kindle
Chained by Fate: Passion by Zara Lee 9/9/24 9/9/24 Kindle
Rent: Paid in Full by Jesse H Reign 9/11/24 9/12/24 Kindle
**abandoned Who Said Mobsters Were Scary? by JF Miev**
Work: Strictly Professional by Jesse H Reign 9/12/24 9/14/24 Kindle
The Muse's Undoing by August Jones 9/14/24 9/16/24 Kindle
Best Wrong Thing by Kindle
Lots of medical issues this month allowed me to record everything read and abandoned, but not being able to write about each book here soon after reading/abandoning it, I honestly can’t remember some of the books, even those I gave high ratings to.
**abandoned Dirty Martini by Addison Beck**
**abandoned Power of the Mind by Nicky James**
**abandoned Meant To Be Gay by Lara Hale**
**abandoned Starboard by Ava Olsen**
**abandoned The Truth of Our Past by Heather Leighson**
Bent by Jesse H Reign 9/17/24 9/17/24 Kindle
Unbreak Me by Jesse H Reign 9/17/24 9/19/24 Kindle
All the Wrong Pages by Katherine McIntyre 9/21/24 9/21/24 179 Kindle
The Fall by Kate Sherwood 9/22/24 9/24/24
Man of His Dreams by Kim Fielding 9/24/24 9/25/24 Kindle
Love is Heartless by Kim Fielding 9/24/24 9/25/24 Kindle
Whiskey and Moonshine by Elizabeth Noble 9/25/24 9/25/24 Kindle
Suddenly You by Cora Rose 9/25/24 9/27/24 Kindle
Cherry Picked by Cora Rose 9/27/24 9/29/24 Kindle
The Cattle Baron's Bogus Boyfriend by Nicki Bennett 9/29/24 9/30/24 Kindle
Any in bold are NOT MM romances, few and far between as they are.
It also occurs to me that quite a few of the smut books have warnings about triggers that I don’t mention here. Caveat emptor re triggers if you want to dip your toes in.
Rhino Ash by Lindsey Black 9/1/24 9/2/24 Kindle
I adore books that take place in Australia. Ashley is a firefighter. One brother’s a doctor, two brothers, twins, are on the Riot Squad – what we’d call SWAT here in the US. Nobody in Ashley’s family understands or accepts that he’s a firefighter, but the family is close and they all love one another an inordinate amount. Ashley’s had a crush on Finn, who works with the twins on the Riot Squad, for 6 years. Ashley is straight except for being demisexual for Finn. Finn’s been waiting for Ashley to grow up, since they met when Ashley was 17. There are a series of arsons, drugs and illegals, which all end up tying together. In the meantime, Ashley realizes that Finn has a huge and upsetting backstory. They are a combination of serious and funny together. The conversations and plot are satisfying, as well as practical Ashley and practical Finn just all of a sudden being together and getting their HEA. Cavet emptor re sex and descriptions of arson fires that are rather unpleasant but skippable.
Hard Stop by Kay Simone 9/2/24 9/2/24 Kindle
A trilogy of short stories all together in one book. Mitchell is a police sargeant assigned as a bodyguard by the Sheriff’s Office to protect James, a billionaire who’s going into politics like the 3 generations before him. He also loves drinking and sex, and Mitchell has his hands full. James comes on to Mitchell in the privacy of his office, and they start an affair. There are potential threats all the time, but it comes to a head when there’s an assassination attempt on James at a fundraising event. Mitchell, whose spidey senses are on high alert, already has his gun out when a gunman shoots, off target, at James and a county commissioner, Marek. He shoots to kill, saving James and Marek. Emotions run high after the fact, and things get more serious with James and Mitchell afterwards. Eventually James broaches the subject of them bringing Marek into their relationship. Once or many times, don’t know, but it’s left open after a three-way, instigated and controlled by James. After, Marek seeks that James and Mitchell have strong feelings for each other. And that’s the end. I’d like to think that James and Mitchell end up having a real relationship. Caveat emptor very kinky MMM sex.
Untouchable by Ruthie Luhnow and Kay Simone 9/2/24 9/5/24 Kindle
At over 700 pages, this is one of the longest MM romances I’ve read. Parker is a massage therapist and goes to the client’s house on his mountain. Harp(er) was in a life-altering car crash some years before, is in constant pain, and is agoraphobic, among other things. Parker is dyslectic among other things. Each has serious family issues and past romantic issues. After Harp’s initial visit is disastrous, he reschedules and Parker starts treating him. Each is attracted to the other, and they slowly start opening themselves up to either a hookup or a romantic relationship. I found this one to be a combination of slow burn, serious sparkage, and a deep dive into each of their personal issues. It never dragged for me, because I immediately liked Parker’s optimism and doing the best he can with his life and Harp’s resignation to never being in love although he is a caregiver. Parker’s family is a disaster, Harper’s brother immediately hates Parker. Parker deals with insecurities, as does Harp. However, over the course of the year this novel takes place, they deal with their issues, set boundaries and grow as a couple, and have a wonderful HEA. Caveat emptor re sex. Oh, and there are 3 dogs, but that’s okay. Bo the dachshund is cute for a dog.
Maybe You by Briar Prescott 9/6/24 9/6/24 Kindle
Having ‘followed’ the author on Amazon, I got a notification about this new book on the day it was published. It was Kindle Unlimited, and I immediately borrowed it. I had major insomnia last night, so after finishing Untouchable, started and finished this book. The prequel has a young man turning up bloodied on a man named Remy’s doorstep. Remy ‘saves his life.’ Fast forward. Wren is a junior in college, working nights at a pool cleaning the facility. He is Remy’s son’s son’s paternal uncle, a complicated family structure, but one that works. One night Wren discovers a young man swimming in the pool after closing hours. They banter. Sutton calls the owner, a friend of his, who is exasperated at his behavior and tells Wren to kick him out. He does, but Sutton turns up the following week and says that his ‘punishment’ is to help Wren for the week. They work together, are attracted to each other. But Wren is hiding a major secret. We learn both their back stories, their current romance, and how they overcome Sutton’s reluctance to be in a relationship. This one brought tears to my eyes, frankly. My only quibble is that the epilogue is fifteen years later, and shorter than it could have been. However, the first paragraph is so very sweet. Caveat emptor re sex and the major trigger point of Wren’s secret –he was burned over 75% of his body and is a patchwork of scars and is ashamed of his body. . Caveat emptor re sex.
Hard Bargain by Scarlet Blackwell 9/6/24 9/6/24 Kindle
A novella, but sadly flat and emotionally vague. Austin barely makes it financially working at a dead-end job. His only indulgence is his dog Rupert. Rupert runs out into traffic and gets injured. Austin takes him to the vet clinic. Lyndon, the vet who stabilizes Rupert, tells him it will cost $2700 in vet bills plus rehab. Austin does not have this kind of money and offers to sleep with Lynton. Lynton takes him up on it. Sparkage turns into Perfect Sex, of course, *eye roll*, Lyndon has been lonely but falls hard for Austin. Austin’s a tougher nut to crack, but in the end, they get their HEA, with Rupert the dog and the cat, whose name I forget. Caveat emptor re sex.
**abandoned Finding Myself by Ruby Neal**
New sheriff in town, immediately tells 'weird' guy he gets him, starts calling him beautiful... ugh. It’s not realistic in any way, shape or form.
**abandoned He's Mine by Scarlet Blackwell**
I usually don’t like short stories, and the first two were okay, but the third was cringe worthy, and I quit in the middle of the fourth.
Before You Break by KC Wells and Parker Williams 8/21/24 9/8/24 13.5 hours Audible Audio book narrated by Joel Leslie
Wayne’s the head of what in the US would be called a SWAT team, Ellis a member. They have been best friends ever since they met six years earlier. Ellis is nominally straight, doesn’t know Wayne’s in love with him and is a Dom looking for his sub. Ellis starts falling apart at work as a result of his parents and his sister’s constant demands. Wayne takes him in hand, and things progress romantically and after Ellis gets over his shock at Wayne loving him, realizes that the feelings he’s had for Wayne haven’t really been platonic and that dating women wasn’t really working for him. Wayne steps in to help Ellis manage his relationship with his sister. This is a long book, very satisfactory from both the romantic and BDSM and personal growth plot points. Ellis is taken to Wayne’s BDSM Club and likes it, they have everything going for them until there’s a shooting situation and Ellis disobeys orders to save a little girl. Things fall apart for a while, Wayne won’t let Ellis leave him and they start putting back the elements of their lives in a new way. I was rooting for them all the way, and found the writing intelligent, emotionally satisfactory and although, as I’ve mentioned, I’m not a Dom or a sub, feel like how they were portrayed was realistic. They get a HEA they weren’t expecting. Caveat emptor re sex and whatever level of BDSM this is – probably mild to moderate, but don’t truly know.
**abandoned Aiden's Luck by Con Riley**
Aiden is always angry, always upset, never thinking of anybody but himself. It completely put me off, and even if he earns the love of a good man, I don’t care enough to continue reading.
**abandoned One Step Sideways by Victoria Sue**
I like the concept of ‘enhanced’ human beings, but Kane is just out of prison, swooped up by the head of a private security firm. Never formally educated, never anything, is way too smart, emotionally and etc. in addition to his admittedly-cool superpowers, only one of which I learned about before abandoning this one. Tech guy Danny and his service dog are predictable foils. Didn’t get as far as sex…
Chained by Fate: Spark by Zara Lee 9/8/24 9/9/24 Kindle
Dare I admit that I really only like this series for the alpha male/twink, billionaire penthouse and power, and very steamy sex? Sigh. Andy is a hapless 20-year old who’s caught up in his business partner’s stealing $2 million instead of using it to invest in the app that Andy’s developing. The billionaires want their money back, so Matt sort of detains Andy until things can get resolved. And the steamy sex and vague plot line continue. *shrug* Fun and not horribly written? Caveat emptor re lots and lots of sex.
Chained by Fate: Passion by Zara Lee 9/9/24 9/9/24 Kindle
Chained by Fate: Spark above. Add in stuff with Andy’s sister and a drug cartel, Matt tracking Andy through a necklace which lets them find him when he’s kidnapped… Matt starts having feelings for Andy and ditto Andy for Matt. Caveat emptor re more sex.
Rent: Paid in Full by Jesse H Reign 9/11/24 9/12/24 Kindle
College roommates rich Miller and poor Ryan don’t really get along, but Ryan desperately needs money and Miller offers money in exchange for various and sundry … services. Sex turns to romance with a few hiccoughs along the way, and they get their HEA. Caveat emptor re sex.
**abandoned Who Said Mobsters Were Scary? by JF Miev**
Leo becomes bodyguard to Chai, a mobster, and it is rather ridiculous, IMO. I read way too much before deciding to, as Richard puts it, save my eyeblinks.
Work: Strictly Professional by Jesse H Reign 9/12/24 9/14/24 Kindle
Wyn gets a job in the administrative pool at a new job but is immediately moved to PA to the CEO when his most recent PA quits. Wyn’s been a high-level PA before and actually steps into it beautifully. In the meantime Derek, the CEO, is going through a personal crisis and needs to bring a plus one to his son Miller’s wedding. See the book before this one. He tells his ex-wife that Wyn’s his plus one. They have to share a suite, there’s sparkage and romance and fun, with a sweet HEA. Caveat emptor re sex.
The Muse's Undoing by August Jones 9/14/24 9/16/24 Kindle
Fisher is adopted and when he’s 13. His adoptive parents have fraternal twins, Maggie and Matthew. Fisher is standoffish and they never are together as a family. Fast forward to years later when Fischer is on foreign assignment and his vehicle is blown up and his leg ends up needing pins and rods and has gouges and requires massive amounts of PT. He has PTSD, too. Matthew, doorman in the building Fischer lives in, ends up living with Fischer, sleeping platonically with him, helping him with his physical and emotional trauma. Eventually they kiss, and realize their feelings are way more than platonic. They fight it, although both realize that they never did live as ‘brothers’. Th emotions were beautifully written, the sexy scenes were incendiary, and the plot convoluted without being confusing. Caveat emptor re sex.
Best Wrong Thing by Kindle
Jacob finds out his father has married Molly, the woman he cheated on Jacob’s mother with. Jacob goes out to get drunk and chats up the bartender. They hook up. Jacob’s horrified to find out that Archer is Molly’s son. So, technically step-brothers. They try to keep away from each other, but Molly organizes a 2-week vacation for the four of them to get to know one another. Jacob tries to keep from disappointing his father by staying away from Archer, but it doesn’t work, and the hook up feelings become emotional. Dad gets his comeuppance and everybody else ends up well, happy, and in Jacob and Archers’ cases, madly in love and getting their HEA. Caveat emptor re sex.
Lots of medical issues this month allowed me to record everything read and abandoned, but not being able to write about each book here soon after reading/abandoning it, I honestly can’t remember some of the books, even those I gave high ratings to.
**abandoned Dirty Martini by Addison Beck**
Can’t remember anything about it.
**abandoned Power of the Mind by Nicky James**
Second in a love-hate-pine for relationship between a damaged PI and a police department records clerk. First was good, but this was just too whiny to continue.
**abandoned Meant To Be Gay by Lara Hale**
Very much in love and going to get married, but a car accident takes away the last 10 years of Mason’s memories. His fiancé is going crazy trying to help Mason but is also traumatized. Too many things too fast, know where it’s going and don’t care.
**abandoned Starboard by Ava Olsen**
Good premise, but after 79 pages I simply didn’t care enough to get beyond the predictability of the writer and the college professor.
**abandoned The Truth of Our Past by Heather Leighson**
The initial two chapters didn’t grab me, so abandoned with glee.
Bent by Jesse H Reign 9/17/24 9/17/24 Kindle
Two straight men are inexplicably attracted to each other, with insta lust results. Told from Ollie’s point of view, I found it emotionally satisfying, steamy, and with a fine HEA. Caveat emptor re sex. Just bought the second book, told from Ethan’s POV.
Unbreak Me by Jesse H Reign 9/17/24 9/19/24 Kindle
Can’t remember much about it. Sad for a book I gave 4.5 stars to. Caveat emptor re sex, I presume. *smile*
All the Wrong Pages by Katherine McIntyre 9/21/24 9/21/24 179 Kindle
Enemies to lovers, but other than that I can’t remember much. Caveat emptor re sex, I presume.
The Fall by Kate Sherwood 9/22/24 9/24/24
Proximity, caveat emptor re sex, I presume.
Man of His Dreams by Kim Fielding 9/24/24 9/25/24 Kindle
Even during one of my worst 24-hour periods at the hospital, this one struck me and still pleases me to remember. Flip is in the midst of a serious writing block and decides on a whim to rent an apartment for 3 months in New Orleans. He meets a ghost named Tony, dead a hundred years, who hasn’t ‘moved on’ yet. Surprisingly, Tony has a physical body when with Flip, and they are attracted to each other. Flip feels disquiet at going beyond a kiss or two, however. In the meantime, he meets a woman who has a stand on the street, who talks about her inner eye. Flip starts wandering around and goes into a historical house now giving tours and meets another Tony, the spittin’ image of ghostly Tony. They are attracted to each other and start spending time together. Flip is able to start writing again, and ultimately there’s the HEA with modern-day Tony, the ghostly Tony preparing to move on after sharing his stories and memories with both Tony and Flip, and an implied writing future for Flip that is absolutely marvelous. Yes, there’s sex between men, but it's actually a very small part of the story. The atmosphere, feelings, and suspension of disbelief, all marvelously handled by the author, made this a wonderful novella. Caveat emptor re sex.
Love is Heartless by Kim Fielding 9/24/24 9/25/24 Kindle
Another by the author of Man of His Dreams, this one has Detective Nevin Ng meeting Colin when a murder is reported. Colin is not a suspect, but was probably the last person to see the elderly woman alive. Nevin is a master of the hook up, Colin has recently come off a breakup and is only interested in a long-term relationship. More murders of LGBQT or LGBQT-adjacent people happen, and although Colin is still not a suspect, he’s always the last person to see them alive. Nevin’s backstory of poverty, foster homes, and pulling himself up by the bootstraps contracts with Colin’s background of wealth, family love and support. Somehow they are attracted to one another, and Colin suspends his need for a relationship for a hookup with Nevin. Well, it works towards the middle, with Nevin like a feral cat getting close to a human oh so carefully, and Colin seizing the day and being willing to have just a sexual relationship with Nevin. Murders solved, relationship works out. The character development was not rushed, the murders satisfyingly solved, and there’s a wonderful HEA. Caveat emptor sex.
Whiskey and Moonshine by Elizabeth Noble 9/25/24 9/25/24 Kindle
Colt has been living off the streets for 8 years ever since being kicked out by his parents for being gay. He’s beaten badly, and buys a bus ticket to the next bus out of town. Halfway to the destionation, he wakes up in the Appalachian Mountains, falls in love, and gets off the bus. He hires on at a Whiskey Distillery as a maintenance worker, wnting to move up. The company decides to hire a spokesman, and Colt leverages an interview. He’s chosen, mostly because the company’s owner, Malone, watched Colt talk all the actors out of applying. He admires the grit and determination, and Colt is hired. He’s cleaned up and is stunning, of course. Malone is immediately attracted, but doesn’t get involved with employees. Colt’s attracted, too. The PR works, the dynamic between them works, and we get a very sweet yet sexy HEA. Caveat emptor re sex.
Suddenly You by Cora Rose 9/25/24 9/27/24 Kindle
Homophobic Matt is supporting his gay brother in his marriage in Las Vegas. His car is broken down, so he accepts a ride from out and proud Coop, his brother’s friend. They share a hotel room so Matt, a poverty-stricken teacher, can save money. They wake up in a compromising position and married to boot. Coop is attracted to Matt and refuses to get an immediate annulment/divorce. Matt is touch starved and Coop persuades him to move into his luxury condo. Back and forth, but always with Matt realizing that he just may be bisexual, or at least demisexual for Coop. There’s a very sweet HEA, and caveat emptor re sex.
Cherry Picked by Cora Rose 9/27/24 9/29/24 Kindle
Youngest Sunday brother Hawk has been in love with his brother’s best friend Jack for 7 years. Jack has always treated him like a younger brother, and they’ve become friends, too, spending a lot of time together. Jack does not realize Hawk has feelings for him. Hawk is chaffing under the fact that he’s still a virgin and asks Jack to relieve him of the burden. Jack refuses, is completely unprepared for the feelings this brings up, especially when Hawk announces that he’s going to get someone to ‘help’ him if Jack won’t. There are town politics related to a development, family dynamics with Hawk’s family, and all in all, it was a sweet and compelling read. Caveat emptor re sex.
The Cattle Baron's Bogus Boyfriend by Nicki Bennett 9/29/24 9/30/24 Kindle
Jonah is Linc’s PA. Linc runs a cattle ranch and has a natural gas/oil business, too. Linc is dating a woman who is demanding and expecting marriage when that was never on the table. She sees dollar signs, though. Linc breaks off with her, and takes Jonah as his boyfriend to two very public events. Attraction, feelings, HEA. Caveat emptor re sex.
7karenmarie
393 books read
1 Masterpiece
51 Stunning
181 Excellent
48 Very Good
30 Good
9 Average
4 Bad
Best Fiction
Show Me Wonders by Riley Hart Review
The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith Review
Honeytrap by Aster Glenn Ray Review
The Boy in the Field by Margot Livesey Review
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Review
*runner up The Last Remains by Elly Griffiths Review
Best (only) Nonfiction
1066: The Year That Changed Everything by Professsor Jennifer Paxton Review
Lost Christianities by Bart D. Ehrman Review
Introduction to Judaism by Professor (Rabbi) Shai Cherry Review
Top five overall for the LT Top Five Books of 2023 List
Show Me Wonders by Riley Hart Review
The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith Review
Honeytrap by Aster Glenn Ray Review
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Review
Introduction to Judaism by Professor (Rabbi) Shai Cherry Review
8karenmarie
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And, new in 2024, courtesy of @Jackie_K, my husband, and Richard:
**added November 2024**
And one I had posted in March of 2021 and just saw again:
9karenmarie
Welcome!
10richardderus
>9 karenmarie: *smooch*
11figsfromthistle
Happy new thread!
13PaulCranswick
Happy new thread, dear Karen.
I am confident that you'll reach 5x75 this year - wowzer!
I am confident that you'll reach 5x75 this year - wowzer!
14Whisper1
Hi Karen. Congratulations on reading so many wonderful books! I always enjoy the images of your beautiful cats. As I type, my cat Meow, is sleeping on the sofa. She has asthma, and the prednisone needed to control the nasty episodes of difficulty breathing are making her quite round in the belly. While I've always loved the dogs in my house, now, I've become a cat lady. It is calming to see her pitter patter around the house. She doesn't have a loud meow, but a soft sound comes through when she opens her mouth. I'm learning how comforting cats are, and I am very attached to this one!
15weird_O
Good evening, ma'm. I think I was productive today, though not efficient. I'll get better at remembering where books are, and also where I left that book, the one I just had in my hand!!! And my clipboard with checklist and the pencil. Regardless, I did shelve the first batch of NF books. Eighty-six in MDS 0: Information. I've scanned the next two classes: MDS 1: Philosophy and Psychology, with 69 books, and MDS 2: Religions, with 37 books. The scan tells me that booking up the shelves with these won't take long.
So I so now I will chug off to bed and do a little reading. I am not watching the NFL.
So I so now I will chug off to bed and do a little reading. I am not watching the NFL.
17streamsong
Happy New Thread, Karen! May this one be uneventful in all the best ways!
18karenmarie
>10 richardderus: Thank’ee kindly, RDear. Early morning *smooch*.
>11 figsfromthistle: Thank you, Anita.
>12 quondame: Thanks, Susan. Thanks re the pic of Jenna/KW. I was trolling my Pictures folder and there it was when I searched for Jenna. Many pictures showed up, but I love that one with Jenna’s quizzical eyebrows and the blissed out cat.
>13 PaulCranswick: Hello Paul, and thank you. I know – it’s insane how many books I’m reading, all in my obsession genre.
>14 Whisper1: Hello Linda. Thank you. Poor Meow with her asthma. I think you inherited her from your granddaughter, right? I’m happy that converting to being a cat lady is working out for you. Although they do require love and attention, they do not require being let out to take care of business and generally being more rambunctious than kitties. Kitties are definitely comforting. Purring is one of the wonders of the world.
>15 weird_O: Good morning, sir. Productivity is definitely a win, and being retired means we don’t always have to be efficient, right? I know you’re newly enamored with the classification system that LT provides, and it can definitely lead to a massive reorganization of shelves. Have fun! Remember books you haven’t thought of in a while! Having to look for a clipboard/pencil and a book is better than my task – find a two month-old dental insurance reimbursement check in a box of stuff. I hope you got a good night’s sleep. Nope to the NFL for me, too, but of course I’ve now become a Premier Arsenal/Premier League fan.
>16 atozgrl: Thank you, Irene!
>17 streamsong: Thank you, Janet. Yes, uneventful and NOT interesting in the Chinese-curse sort of way.
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Well yesterday was busy. The appointment with the baby cardiologist (my cardiologist will be back soon after having her second baby) yielded the homework of monitoring my BP and heart rate. According to baby cardiologist, carvedilol, which they took me off of after my first hospitalization, is used more for slowing heart rate than for direct reduction of BP. I have asymptomatic a fib - usually just a high heart rate. But I've always had a high heart rate, going back at least to my 30s when I was in a gym and we'd take our heart rate after working out and then after resting. We're going to discuss carvedilol or metoprolol after I give her several weeks of BP and heart rate data, which means a BP cuff which Bill or I will get today at Walgreens using our very generous OTC benefit. Sigh. She took me off the 1x a day 81 mg aspirin. So now I have two unopened bottles of 81 mg aspirin - 120 each. Another sigh. Then I dashed to the PO to mail something to my sister, picked up an online grocery order of non-perishables and rushed home. Got the groceries out of my SUV, had 10 minutes to sit and breathe, then rushed back out to drive the 26 miles to a doctor's appointment for something we hope is minor that showed up as 'incidental' on the CT scan I had after my second surgery. Sheesh. Then I got to see Jenna for 15 minutes - she brought Bundtlets for me to bring to book sort/book sale followup meeting today on the way to her Pharm Tech course.
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So, I forgot that consuming caffeine in the evening means that 7-8 hours later it perks me up. Bill and I each finally tried Bundtlets. Jenna has a part time job with Nothing Bundt Cakes, and oh my goodness. The chocolate chocolate chip bundtlet was to die for. So moist. Anyway, here I am, awake way earlier than I want to be. Nine a.m. book sorting for the Friends of the Library will only be one hour before the meeting. After the meeting some of us may to go Virlie's. And after that, I really need to find that insurance reimbursement check. It's $107 that's going to help pay for the U of Princeton Press books I bought yesterday.
Subtotal (Excl.Tax) $381.35
Subtotal (Incl.Tax) $408.05
Discount (FALL70) -$231.98
Tax $12.05
Shipping & Handling $22.66
Grand Total $184.08
>11 figsfromthistle: Thank you, Anita.
>12 quondame: Thanks, Susan. Thanks re the pic of Jenna/KW. I was trolling my Pictures folder and there it was when I searched for Jenna. Many pictures showed up, but I love that one with Jenna’s quizzical eyebrows and the blissed out cat.
>13 PaulCranswick: Hello Paul, and thank you. I know – it’s insane how many books I’m reading, all in my obsession genre.
>14 Whisper1: Hello Linda. Thank you. Poor Meow with her asthma. I think you inherited her from your granddaughter, right? I’m happy that converting to being a cat lady is working out for you. Although they do require love and attention, they do not require being let out to take care of business and generally being more rambunctious than kitties. Kitties are definitely comforting. Purring is one of the wonders of the world.
>15 weird_O: Good morning, sir. Productivity is definitely a win, and being retired means we don’t always have to be efficient, right? I know you’re newly enamored with the classification system that LT provides, and it can definitely lead to a massive reorganization of shelves. Have fun! Remember books you haven’t thought of in a while! Having to look for a clipboard/pencil and a book is better than my task – find a two month-old dental insurance reimbursement check in a box of stuff. I hope you got a good night’s sleep. Nope to the NFL for me, too, but of course I’ve now become a Premier Arsenal/Premier League fan.
>16 atozgrl: Thank you, Irene!
>17 streamsong: Thank you, Janet. Yes, uneventful and NOT interesting in the Chinese-curse sort of way.
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Well yesterday was busy. The appointment with the baby cardiologist (my cardiologist will be back soon after having her second baby) yielded the homework of monitoring my BP and heart rate. According to baby cardiologist, carvedilol, which they took me off of after my first hospitalization, is used more for slowing heart rate than for direct reduction of BP. I have asymptomatic a fib - usually just a high heart rate. But I've always had a high heart rate, going back at least to my 30s when I was in a gym and we'd take our heart rate after working out and then after resting. We're going to discuss carvedilol or metoprolol after I give her several weeks of BP and heart rate data, which means a BP cuff which Bill or I will get today at Walgreens using our very generous OTC benefit. Sigh. She took me off the 1x a day 81 mg aspirin. So now I have two unopened bottles of 81 mg aspirin - 120 each. Another sigh. Then I dashed to the PO to mail something to my sister, picked up an online grocery order of non-perishables and rushed home. Got the groceries out of my SUV, had 10 minutes to sit and breathe, then rushed back out to drive the 26 miles to a doctor's appointment for something we hope is minor that showed up as 'incidental' on the CT scan I had after my second surgery. Sheesh. Then I got to see Jenna for 15 minutes - she brought Bundtlets for me to bring to book sort/book sale followup meeting today on the way to her Pharm Tech course.
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So, I forgot that consuming caffeine in the evening means that 7-8 hours later it perks me up. Bill and I each finally tried Bundtlets. Jenna has a part time job with Nothing Bundt Cakes, and oh my goodness. The chocolate chocolate chip bundtlet was to die for. So moist. Anyway, here I am, awake way earlier than I want to be. Nine a.m. book sorting for the Friends of the Library will only be one hour before the meeting. After the meeting some of us may to go Virlie's. And after that, I really need to find that insurance reimbursement check. It's $107 that's going to help pay for the U of Princeton Press books I bought yesterday.
Subtotal (Excl.Tax) $381.35
Subtotal (Incl.Tax) $408.05
Discount (FALL70) -$231.98
Tax $12.05
Shipping & Handling $22.66
Grand Total $184.08
19msf59
Morning, Karen. Happy New Thread. Thanks for the medical update. Wow! How do you keep up with everything? I hope you were able to go back to sleep for a couple of hours. Enjoy the book fondling.
20alcottacre
Happy new thread, Karen!
21richardderus
>18 karenmarie: ...so really, your Princeton order was $77! That's positively cheap for tree-books. Of course, the religion books included in the sale that you left aside are still there....
It sounds like your sleeplessness came from a delicious source. Bundt cakes make for some excellent snacking. Nap well today, dear biblioflâneuse. *smooch*
It sounds like your sleeplessness came from a delicious source. Bundt cakes make for some excellent snacking. Nap well today, dear biblioflâneuse. *smooch*
22katiekrug
Happy new thread, Karen!
Good to hear you feel well enough to get back to book sorting duties.
Good to hear you feel well enough to get back to book sorting duties.
24LizzieD
You're well into your day then, Karen, and I see that I was too cautious in wanting you to stay home and recupe. from yesterday.
LOVE the picture of Jenna with Kitty William. It pulls my heartstrings almost as much as the current Jenna with Hwan.
As usual, I bow to your upthread organization.
Wow! If you've listed your PUP purchases, I missed it. I'm with Richard. You made a deal!!!
LOVE the picture of Jenna with Kitty William. It pulls my heartstrings almost as much as the current Jenna with Hwan.
As usual, I bow to your upthread organization.
Wow! If you've listed your PUP purchases, I missed it. I'm with Richard. You made a deal!!!
25karenmarie
>19 msf59: ‘Afternoon, Mark, and thank you. NP re the medical update. I don’t keep up with everything, but I keep up with a lot. I forgot to pay our propane company for September, for example. They’re pretty loosey-goosey, though. I did go back to sleep ‘til about 8. Book fondling/sale report below.
>20 alcottacre: Thank you, Stasia.
>21 richardderus: Yes, RD. It took me a hot minute to figure it out, but I’ll take the books and run. Book sale books acquired below. After I pick up the blood pressure monitor that Bill ordered for me at Walgreens – I can go through the drive-through – I’ll change back into jammies and nap. *smooch*
>22 katiekrug: Hi Katie, and thank you. I barely felt well enough – low energy level and back pain that I refused to take oxycodone for, but I had a wonderful time.
>23 drneutron: Hi Jim, and thank you.
>24 LizzieD: Just got home about 45 minutes ago, Peggy. Added the books from the book sale to my catalog, manually except for one. I honestly wish it hadn’t been book sale followup meeting, but it was actually nice to get out and about. Thanks re the pic of J and KW. I have finally gotten my new thread set up down to a science. It helps that I always create the next thread well before needed. Haven’t listed PUP purchases, may do so later today or tomorrow. I have the emailed receipt, am just lazy right now.
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Book sort at 9 a.m., done by 10 a.m. for the meeting. Boy am I weak. Barely got through the hour. Had John bring the Bundtlets in for me, had him take the following book sale books out to the car for me at the same time. Everybody appreciated the Bundtlets, and all were taken. After the hour meeting, ALL of us headed over to Virlie's - even Lindy, who only comes once or twice a year. So, 11 of us. I got a grilled chicken salad, brought half home.
The leather-bound, Easton Press-like volumes that Reese insisted I only pay $5 TOTAL for are
Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne
An Account of the Foxglove by Sir William Withering
Digitalis and its Allies by Arthur Cushny
A Treatise on the Scurvey by James Lind
>20 alcottacre: Thank you, Stasia.
>21 richardderus: Yes, RD. It took me a hot minute to figure it out, but I’ll take the books and run. Book sale books acquired below. After I pick up the blood pressure monitor that Bill ordered for me at Walgreens – I can go through the drive-through – I’ll change back into jammies and nap. *smooch*
>22 katiekrug: Hi Katie, and thank you. I barely felt well enough – low energy level and back pain that I refused to take oxycodone for, but I had a wonderful time.
>23 drneutron: Hi Jim, and thank you.
>24 LizzieD: Just got home about 45 minutes ago, Peggy. Added the books from the book sale to my catalog, manually except for one. I honestly wish it hadn’t been book sale followup meeting, but it was actually nice to get out and about. Thanks re the pic of J and KW. I have finally gotten my new thread set up down to a science. It helps that I always create the next thread well before needed. Haven’t listed PUP purchases, may do so later today or tomorrow. I have the emailed receipt, am just lazy right now.
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Book sort at 9 a.m., done by 10 a.m. for the meeting. Boy am I weak. Barely got through the hour. Had John bring the Bundtlets in for me, had him take the following book sale books out to the car for me at the same time. Everybody appreciated the Bundtlets, and all were taken. After the hour meeting, ALL of us headed over to Virlie's - even Lindy, who only comes once or twice a year. So, 11 of us. I got a grilled chicken salad, brought half home.
The leather-bound, Easton Press-like volumes that Reese insisted I only pay $5 TOTAL for are
Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne
An Account of the Foxglove by Sir William Withering
Digitalis and its Allies by Arthur Cushny
A Treatise on the Scurvey by James Lind
29witchyrichy
Happy new thread on the actual day it was created. I resonate with the desire to be more loving and kind. That being said, I have taken to calling myself a grumpy old lady on a few blog posts! I earned it and I own it.
30karenmarie
>26 ArlieS: Hi Arlie, and thank you.
>27 Ameise1: Thanks, Barbara.
>28 EllaTim: Thank you, Ella.
>29 witchyrichy: Thank you, Karen, the day after I created the thread. *smile* I don’t deliberately call myself a grumpy old lady, but I do admit that my filters have weakened over time.
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I was wiped out the rest of yesterday. My cardiologist wanted me to monitor my BP and heart rate, so Bill found a good BP monitor at Walgreens, ordered it online, and I went back out to get it. Fortunately, I just used the drive thru. Now I have to remember where the AA batteries are - I think they're in Bill's Home Office.
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Today's the chiropractor, PT, and all the usual things.
I texted Louise's daughter Cathy yesterday afternoon. They live in North Port, FL, not a good place to be starting today. They've evacuated further north, but I'm not convinced Gainesville, FL is far enough away. Won't tell them that, though. Cathy can't even ensure that they have lodging tomorrow night. Sigh.
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Here are the books I ordered from the Princeton University Press:
Pentagons and Pentagrams
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium
How Fast did T. rex Run?
The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
99 Variations on a Proof - for Hwan
Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record
The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth - for Jenna
The Fourth Pig (Oddly Modern Fairy Tales Book 1
L.A. Math: Romance, Crime, and Mathematics in the City of Angels
Cooking for Crowds: 40th Anniversary Edition
Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved
The Founders on Religion: A Book of Quotations
>27 Ameise1: Thanks, Barbara.
>28 EllaTim: Thank you, Ella.
>29 witchyrichy: Thank you, Karen, the day after I created the thread. *smile* I don’t deliberately call myself a grumpy old lady, but I do admit that my filters have weakened over time.
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I was wiped out the rest of yesterday. My cardiologist wanted me to monitor my BP and heart rate, so Bill found a good BP monitor at Walgreens, ordered it online, and I went back out to get it. Fortunately, I just used the drive thru. Now I have to remember where the AA batteries are - I think they're in Bill's Home Office.
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Today's the chiropractor, PT, and all the usual things.
I texted Louise's daughter Cathy yesterday afternoon. They live in North Port, FL, not a good place to be starting today. They've evacuated further north, but I'm not convinced Gainesville, FL is far enough away. Won't tell them that, though. Cathy can't even ensure that they have lodging tomorrow night. Sigh.
edited to add:
Here are the books I ordered from the Princeton University Press:
Pentagons and Pentagrams
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium
How Fast did T. rex Run?
The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
99 Variations on a Proof - for Hwan
Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record
The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth - for Jenna
The Fourth Pig (Oddly Modern Fairy Tales Book 1
L.A. Math: Romance, Crime, and Mathematics in the City of Angels
Cooking for Crowds: 40th Anniversary Edition
Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved
The Founders on Religion: A Book of Quotations
31msf59
Morning, Karen. Happy Wednesday. Glad you got through book fondling without too much trouble. Wow! Nice haul from PUP. I played PB with my birding buddies yesterday and had a good time. Fun to have crossover interests. They are readers too. Many prayers for FLA today.
33SilverWolf28
Happy New Thread!
34karenmarie
>31 msf59: Hi Mark! Sweet Thursday to you. Book fondling was a joy, so glad it was only an hour because of the book sale follow up meeting. Thanks re my PUP haul. PB/BB/reading buddies. A trifecta.
>32 kaylin_b: Hello Kaylin! Nice to see you here, and thanks.
>33 SilverWolf28: Thank you, Silver!
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Had good sessions with both the chiropractor and Physical Therapist. They know each other. The chiropractor suggested lat pull downs but said to yield to Max's PT plan for me. He said in several weeks, perhaps. I also stopped at the grocery store, so got a bit of walking in. We watched New Tricks last night and are liking it after 4 episodes. Reading, puttering. I did find the $107 check, so had a deposit of 3 checks. I also deposited $230 from my Book Club members in order to get a memorial paver in front of the Library that will say
Kira Dirlik
Artist Reader
Beloved Friend
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Nothing planned outside the house today. I want to fill the sunflower seed feeder, read, update my spreadsheets, and continue working on the paperwork here in the Sunroom. It's accumulated long enough! Napping, of course, too.
>32 kaylin_b: Hello Kaylin! Nice to see you here, and thanks.
>33 SilverWolf28: Thank you, Silver!
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Had good sessions with both the chiropractor and Physical Therapist. They know each other. The chiropractor suggested lat pull downs but said to yield to Max's PT plan for me. He said in several weeks, perhaps. I also stopped at the grocery store, so got a bit of walking in. We watched New Tricks last night and are liking it after 4 episodes. Reading, puttering. I did find the $107 check, so had a deposit of 3 checks. I also deposited $230 from my Book Club members in order to get a memorial paver in front of the Library that will say
Kira Dirlik
Artist Reader
Beloved Friend
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Nothing planned outside the house today. I want to fill the sunflower seed feeder, read, update my spreadsheets, and continue working on the paperwork here in the Sunroom. It's accumulated long enough! Napping, of course, too.
35richardderus
>34 karenmarie: A really good Wednesday followed by a quiet puttery Thursday sounds just right, Horrible! Staying within the bounds of one's actual capabilities is a hard lesson of aging. I'm hatin' it. *sigh*
Well. Onward and outward, right? *smooch*
Well. Onward and outward, right? *smooch*
36karenmarie
Yes, RD, I'm happy to NOT leave the house today except to perhaps walk a bit on the concrete to make my PT Max happy and fill the sunflower seed feeder.
I've been told by both my PT and my chiropractor to R&R. Max also told me to keep mindful of BLT - no bending, lifting, twisting. I love reading/doing nothing, but other doing nothing is very hard for me.
I'm trying to age gracefully, darn it. Recent events are making that difficult.
In other, exciting news, Jenna and I have haircut appointments next Thursday in Winston-Salem. She'll drive, and Hwan is coming along, so it will be a mother-daughter-new daughter event!! We'll go to Village Tavern in Reynolda Village after. I definitely need the haircut, and time with JenWan will be perfect.
Time for brekkie!
*smooch*
I've been told by both my PT and my chiropractor to R&R. Max also told me to keep mindful of BLT - no bending, lifting, twisting. I love reading/doing nothing, but other doing nothing is very hard for me.
I'm trying to age gracefully, darn it. Recent events are making that difficult.
In other, exciting news, Jenna and I have haircut appointments next Thursday in Winston-Salem. She'll drive, and Hwan is coming along, so it will be a mother-daughter-new daughter event!! We'll go to Village Tavern in Reynolda Village after. I definitely need the haircut, and time with JenWan will be perfect.
Time for brekkie!
*smooch*
37ffortsa
>34 karenmarie: We have loved New Tricks. But we stopped watching it when one of the main characters was replaced by a character we took a dislike to. We probably should go back and see how he integrates into the team.
38karenmarie
>37 ffortsa: Hi Judy. Ah. intriguing. I will not go to imdb.com to see how many episodes each character is in the series. I.Will.Not. *smile*
I learned with MI5 that characters come and go. Bill takes it more personally than I do, although I do admit that when a major character dies violently, as was the frequent case in MI5, I was always shocked. Downton Abbey got me used to favorite characters dying, though,with Sybil dying after childbirth and Matthew crashing his car and dying the day his son was born
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39SilverWolf28
Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/364866
40msf59
Morning, Karen. Happy Friday. I got to hang with Jackson for awhile yesterday afternoon. Sue brought him back here and he spent the night. Last night I had dinner with a few grade school/high school friends. It was a great get-together.
Lots of feeder activity too. The grackles are still hanging around and a starling showed up too. I think I spotted a junco too. Enjoy your quiet, uneventful day.
Lots of feeder activity too. The grackles are still hanging around and a starling showed up too. I think I spotted a junco too. Enjoy your quiet, uneventful day.
41richardderus
Morning, Horrible! I'm off to therapy in a few minutes but came to wish you a satisfying day of nothing-much going on.
44karenmarie
>39 SilverWolf28: Thank you, Silver!
>40 msf59: ‘Afternoon, Mark. Happy Friday to you, too. Yay for Jackson time. Wow. The only high school friend I’m near is Jan, and we both had to move from SoCal to central NC to get to be truly adult friends.
Yay for the feeder activity. I’ve got a Downy, a Chickadee, and an unidentified smallish gray/white bird on the nyjer seed feeder.
So there have been noises on other threads about you possibly moving. Do tell.
>41 richardderus: ‘Afternoon, RDear. Yay therapy. I’ve been reading, messing with old paperwork – keep, shred, recycle. It’s gorgeous out.
>42 Ameise1: Hi Barbara, and thank you.
>43 LizzieD: Yes indeed, Peggy. Ugh to the eye shots, but I hope the appointment is uneventful.
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I sent a mychart message to my doctor yesterday, asking him his opinion on my using Tramadol again - the discharge doctor at the hospital didn't like it at all and told me to stop taking it. Well, that means oxycodone for breakthrough pain, which I've been loathe to do and haven't done since last week. I have snuck 3 Tramadol in. My doctor sent a message today saying it's okay to use Tramadol, plus he looked at my x-ray history and I didn't have the T12 fracture in 2021, recommending what the PT's been doing - gentle PT. It's just going to take time, as both of them have assured me. But I am doing better in the last two days. I've only taken Tylenol today so far, too.
>40 msf59: ‘Afternoon, Mark. Happy Friday to you, too. Yay for Jackson time. Wow. The only high school friend I’m near is Jan, and we both had to move from SoCal to central NC to get to be truly adult friends.
Yay for the feeder activity. I’ve got a Downy, a Chickadee, and an unidentified smallish gray/white bird on the nyjer seed feeder.
So there have been noises on other threads about you possibly moving. Do tell.
>41 richardderus: ‘Afternoon, RDear. Yay therapy. I’ve been reading, messing with old paperwork – keep, shred, recycle. It’s gorgeous out.
>42 Ameise1: Hi Barbara, and thank you.
>43 LizzieD: Yes indeed, Peggy. Ugh to the eye shots, but I hope the appointment is uneventful.
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I sent a mychart message to my doctor yesterday, asking him his opinion on my using Tramadol again - the discharge doctor at the hospital didn't like it at all and told me to stop taking it. Well, that means oxycodone for breakthrough pain, which I've been loathe to do and haven't done since last week. I have snuck 3 Tramadol in. My doctor sent a message today saying it's okay to use Tramadol, plus he looked at my x-ray history and I didn't have the T12 fracture in 2021, recommending what the PT's been doing - gentle PT. It's just going to take time, as both of them have assured me. But I am doing better in the last two days. I've only taken Tylenol today so far, too.
45quondame
>44 karenmarie: I'm so glad you're doing better and dearly hope that trend accelerates!
46msf59
Morning, Karen. Happy Saturday. I hung out with Jack for awhile yesterday. He rode his little bike up and down the driveway. Pretty cute. I am volunteering today for the forest preserve, helping at their Fall Festival. I do not do these events very often, so I thought it was time.
47karenmarie
>45 quondame: Thank you, Susan. Both my doctor and PT say it will take time, have gentle PT, and avoid BLT - bending, lifting, twisting.
>46 msf59: 'Morning, Mark. Happy Saturday to you, too. Wow, riding a bike. Glad you're volunteering. It's a good thing to do, right? Besides its being **books**, I love volunteering to a worthwhile group.
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Read. Napped. Talked with Peggy. Talked with Jenna. Ate food and drank coffee. Had a small glass of wine with dinner, which gave me a slight headache, darn it. But it went away pretty quickly. We continue to watch New Tricks.
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Another day of no obligations outside the house. I have a bit of adulting to do, and I actually got going on Huckleberry Finn yesterday and have read 60%. I actually adore it, and am confident that I can read the last 153 pages between now and 2 p.m. tomorrow. I mentioned to Peggy that I was really enjoying it, and it turns out that she taught it. Nice anecdotes.
I really need to fill the sunflower seed feeder.
>46 msf59: 'Morning, Mark. Happy Saturday to you, too. Wow, riding a bike. Glad you're volunteering. It's a good thing to do, right? Besides its being **books**, I love volunteering to a worthwhile group.
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Another day of no obligations outside the house. I have a bit of adulting to do, and I actually got going on Huckleberry Finn yesterday and have read 60%. I actually adore it, and am confident that I can read the last 153 pages between now and 2 p.m. tomorrow. I mentioned to Peggy that I was really enjoying it, and it turns out that she taught it. Nice anecdotes.
I really need to fill the sunflower seed feeder.
48LizzieD
Good morning to you, (((((Karen)))))! (I had part of a minute left when I wrote that, so I'll let it stand.) LOVED talking to you yesterday. If we spoke 3 or 4 times a week, we might get to a point where we could say what we had to say in only a half hour or so. As it is, I'll look forward to the next conversation!
Hooray for *Huck Finn*. One thing I didn't tell you was the memorable time that I spoonerized the abbreviated title in front of my 11th graders. They loved it. I wasn't so pleased.
Good day to you with the adulting and all. Careful with that feedr - I know you will be! I have a funeral this afternoon, but then maybe we can walk. My eyes are good, and I look forward to catching up on yesterday's reading.
Hooray for *Huck Finn*. One thing I didn't tell you was the memorable time that I spoonerized the abbreviated title in front of my 11th graders. They loved it. I wasn't so pleased.
Good day to you with the adulting and all. Careful with that feedr - I know you will be! I have a funeral this afternoon, but then maybe we can walk. My eyes are good, and I look forward to catching up on yesterday's reading.
49Jackie_K
>47 karenmarie: Hi Karen, happy Saturday! I just wanted to let you know that I have nearly finished the Margaret Atwood book, Burning Questions, which you sent me a year or so ago, and have been thoroughly enjoying it - thank you again for sending it, it found an appreciative home! Hopefully finishing it today or tomorrow.
I must admit to struggling with Huck Finn though. I do remember enjoying a TV serialisation when I was a kid, but I think it was pretty sanitised (I have absolutely no memory of Jim being in that show). At some point I'd like to try James by Percival Everett though. I might get on better with that one.
I'm sorry to hear about the recent pain shenanigans, and hope that normal(ish) function is all sorted out soon.
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I must admit to struggling with Huck Finn though. I do remember enjoying a TV serialisation when I was a kid, but I think it was pretty sanitised (I have absolutely no memory of Jim being in that show). At some point I'd like to try James by Percival Everett though. I might get on better with that one.
I'm sorry to hear about the recent pain shenanigans, and hope that normal(ish) function is all sorted out soon.
(touchstones are misbehaving)
51LovingLit
Hey there biblioflâneuse (thanks to Richard)! Nice to drop by, sadly though, unable to totally catch up so I will address the highlights...
>46 msf59: WORDLE- I am on a 183 streak and gunning for a the double century that I lost at 190 (183 days ago).
>18 karenmarie: I was *this close* to ordering all the Booker shortlisted books from the Guardian website yesterday. They cleverly packaged them all offered a discount...but the shipping made it prohibitive even so. *cry*
>46 msf59: WORDLE- I am on a 183 streak and gunning for a the double century that I lost at 190 (183 days ago).
>18 karenmarie: I was *this close* to ordering all the Booker shortlisted books from the Guardian website yesterday. They cleverly packaged them all offered a discount...but the shipping made it prohibitive even so. *cry*
52vancouverdeb
I recently re -read Huckleberry Finn, and I didn't love it , but it was okay. I actually listened to most of Huck Finn on audio, which made it easier for me. I am hoping to read James fairly soon. Sorry to read about the pain you are having and the fracture at T12. I got a compression fracture due to osteoporosis, and that was very painful for about 3 months, I think. I didn't realize what it was, so I mainly used to heat on my back. I hope to never get another fracture at all, but certanly not in my spine. Mine was at T5.
53msf59
Morning, Karen. Happy Sunday. Jack's bike is not a pedal bike. He just propels along with his feet. I am certain he will master a pedal bike with no problem. I plan on playing PB, if anyone shows up and then I will catch up with the Bears game. They are playing in London today.
54karenmarie
>48 LizzieD: Good morning The Next Day, Peggy! Talking with you is always a joy. Plus, we discussed Huckleberry Finn, which I’ll be able to finish today before Book Club at 2 p.m.
… Spoonerized HF… oh my. I can bet that they loved it, the little monsters.
I was careful with the feeder, but even with just the feeder and a bit of minor puttering, I definitely felt my back. Held out and didn’t take Tramadol and Tylenol until 10 p.m., which helped give me a really good night’s sleep. Timing for today’s book club, however, means that I won’t take pain meds ‘til noon because I didn’t get up early enough to take Tramadol at 6 a.m. On the upside, I did sleep ‘til 8:30.
I’m glad your eyes are good. I hope you caught up on Friday’s reading. I hope you have a good walk with your DH, a spiritual time with church, and a very Happy 80th Birthday. (((((Peggy)))))
>49 Jackie_K: Hi Jackie, and wow. I completely forgot that I sent that to you. I just refreshed my memory by looking at the description of it on Amazon, and I have a burning question for you once you’ve finished it: What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?
Thank you re my recent pain shenanigans. What a lovely way to put it, which keeps it within the scope of Trouble, not tragedy. That applies to my sister’s dear friend Margie, who just underwent 15 hours of surgery over 3 days to put rods and pins in her spine to allow her to walk upright and be able to look forward, not down all the time because of osteoporosis. She’s only my sister’s age, 67, but was severely malnourished as a child. She’s just now being allowed to breathe on her own, they’ve made a special back brace they’re going to start using, and she’s going to go to a care facility for some number of months. Thank goodness her husband has excellent medical insurance. She’s quite the ‘star’ at the hospital, because this type of surgery is infrequent and always unique by patient. She’s started getting snarky, apparently, which is a good sign with her.
I've gotta take it relatively slow for probably at least 2-3 weeks. My PT did mention 3 months for this to ease up. No (or, let’s be realistic, minor and small amounts of) bending, lifting, twisting. The L and T I’m doing well with, but the B. There are always things to bend to the floor for. And frankly, it feels really good on my spine, but I’m not bending for that relief, just to pick up dirty- and put down freshly filled- cat food dishes, clean the cat box, and etc.
>50 elorin: Hi Robyn! Thank you kindly.
>51 LovingLit: Hello, Megan. Visitors always welcome, even if just to say hi. Ain’t biblioflâneuse grand? Wordle streak of 183 is fantastic. Congratulations.
Sorry about the shipping being so outrageous, even if the books were discounted. Do you have a local book store that can get you the ones they don’t have on their shelves?
>52 vancouverdeb: Hi Deborah. I debated trying to listen to Huckleberry Finn, but haven’t spent enough time driving, because I spend 95% of my listening time in my SUV, not at home. I’ve recently gotten an Audible subscription and that’s really helpful with some of the books I’ve listened to this year. I also have downloaded the following apps to my mobile, although I haven’t really used them yet. And, I just remembered that my Library has audiobooks I can download directly from their website.
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Libby
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Thank you re the T12. Yikes, sorry about the T5 fracture. Did you suffer for 3 months before you got it diagnosed or did you go to the doctor sooner? And osteoporosis. Ugh. I’ve been dodging that one, although I was diagnosed with osteopenia … 15? … years ago. Perhaps the T12 fracture is a result of that becoming osteoporosis, although God knows that they did so many tests on me at the hospital that I think they’d have mentioned it if I had osteoporosis.
My PT says that I can use heat on my back, but it might cause inflammation, whereas ice is much, much better. And, actually, ice does feel much better on my back these days. That surprises me, because as a rule I don’t like ice.
>53 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark, and happy Sunday to you. Ah, a push bike. They may have had those when I was little, but I vividly recall my parents getting me a bike with training wheels. I don’t specifically remember, but I’m told that I didn’t need them long. Go Bears! I hope PBers show up.
The Premier League doesn’t have games this weekend, so I am Arsenal-deprived.
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Filling the sunflower seed feeder, doing a bit of cat-related bending, reading, napping. I read quite a bit of Huckleberry Finn yesterday, always enjoying it. When I left off, I only had 12%, less than 50 pages to go, and finally! Huck and Jim are rid of the King and the Duke, although they have new interesting problems.
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Finishing HF, possibly updating spreadsheets and lightning round. I'm probably going to write an actual review of HF, but am not committing to it. Book club 2 - 4 p.m., and that's enough for today, I think.
… Spoonerized HF… oh my. I can bet that they loved it, the little monsters.
I was careful with the feeder, but even with just the feeder and a bit of minor puttering, I definitely felt my back. Held out and didn’t take Tramadol and Tylenol until 10 p.m., which helped give me a really good night’s sleep. Timing for today’s book club, however, means that I won’t take pain meds ‘til noon because I didn’t get up early enough to take Tramadol at 6 a.m. On the upside, I did sleep ‘til 8:30.
I’m glad your eyes are good. I hope you caught up on Friday’s reading. I hope you have a good walk with your DH, a spiritual time with church, and a very Happy 80th Birthday. (((((Peggy)))))
>49 Jackie_K: Hi Jackie, and wow. I completely forgot that I sent that to you. I just refreshed my memory by looking at the description of it on Amazon, and I have a burning question for you once you’ve finished it: What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?
Thank you re my recent pain shenanigans. What a lovely way to put it, which keeps it within the scope of Trouble, not tragedy. That applies to my sister’s dear friend Margie, who just underwent 15 hours of surgery over 3 days to put rods and pins in her spine to allow her to walk upright and be able to look forward, not down all the time because of osteoporosis. She’s only my sister’s age, 67, but was severely malnourished as a child. She’s just now being allowed to breathe on her own, they’ve made a special back brace they’re going to start using, and she’s going to go to a care facility for some number of months. Thank goodness her husband has excellent medical insurance. She’s quite the ‘star’ at the hospital, because this type of surgery is infrequent and always unique by patient. She’s started getting snarky, apparently, which is a good sign with her.
I've gotta take it relatively slow for probably at least 2-3 weeks. My PT did mention 3 months for this to ease up. No (or, let’s be realistic, minor and small amounts of) bending, lifting, twisting. The L and T I’m doing well with, but the B. There are always things to bend to the floor for. And frankly, it feels really good on my spine, but I’m not bending for that relief, just to pick up dirty- and put down freshly filled- cat food dishes, clean the cat box, and etc.
>50 elorin: Hi Robyn! Thank you kindly.
>51 LovingLit: Hello, Megan. Visitors always welcome, even if just to say hi. Ain’t biblioflâneuse grand? Wordle streak of 183 is fantastic. Congratulations.
Sorry about the shipping being so outrageous, even if the books were discounted. Do you have a local book store that can get you the ones they don’t have on their shelves?
>52 vancouverdeb: Hi Deborah. I debated trying to listen to Huckleberry Finn, but haven’t spent enough time driving, because I spend 95% of my listening time in my SUV, not at home. I’ve recently gotten an Audible subscription and that’s really helpful with some of the books I’ve listened to this year. I also have downloaded the following apps to my mobile, although I haven’t really used them yet. And, I just remembered that my Library has audiobooks I can download directly from their website.
Libro.fm
Libby
Hoopla
Thank you re the T12. Yikes, sorry about the T5 fracture. Did you suffer for 3 months before you got it diagnosed or did you go to the doctor sooner? And osteoporosis. Ugh. I’ve been dodging that one, although I was diagnosed with osteopenia … 15? … years ago. Perhaps the T12 fracture is a result of that becoming osteoporosis, although God knows that they did so many tests on me at the hospital that I think they’d have mentioned it if I had osteoporosis.
My PT says that I can use heat on my back, but it might cause inflammation, whereas ice is much, much better. And, actually, ice does feel much better on my back these days. That surprises me, because as a rule I don’t like ice.
>53 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark, and happy Sunday to you. Ah, a push bike. They may have had those when I was little, but I vividly recall my parents getting me a bike with training wheels. I don’t specifically remember, but I’m told that I didn’t need them long. Go Bears! I hope PBers show up.
The Premier League doesn’t have games this weekend, so I am Arsenal-deprived.
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Filling the sunflower seed feeder, doing a bit of cat-related bending, reading, napping. I read quite a bit of Huckleberry Finn yesterday, always enjoying it. When I left off, I only had 12%, less than 50 pages to go, and finally! Huck and Jim are rid of the King and the Duke, although they have new interesting problems.
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Finishing HF, possibly updating spreadsheets and lightning round. I'm probably going to write an actual review of HF, but am not committing to it. Book club 2 - 4 p.m., and that's enough for today, I think.
55richardderus
>54 karenmarie: Morning, Horrible. I'm down for the count today. Nothing serious just an allergy attack, but it feels like the End Of The World because it's been so long since I've had any schnerkling little illness. Masks are grand, aren't they? Sunday *smooch*
56karenmarie
Ugh for allergies, RDear. They are absolutely no fun, and I hope your schnerkling little illness is gone soonest.
Masks are grand, and I really need to be using them more again even with my Covid booster early September and my Senior Flu vacccine on September 30th.
Sunday *smooch* back at'cha.
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Just finished Huckleberry Finn. I am well pleased to have finally read it through, and am still considering a review instead of a lightning round entry.
But there are things I need to do before book club, so it will have to wait, either way.
Masks are grand, and I really need to be using them more again even with my Covid booster early September and my Senior Flu vacccine on September 30th.
Sunday *smooch* back at'cha.
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Just finished Huckleberry Finn. I am well pleased to have finally read it through, and am still considering a review instead of a lightning round entry.
But there are things I need to do before book club, so it will have to wait, either way.
57LizzieD
Happy Book Club, Karen. I'm glad you finished *HF* in time for the discussion. It can be a very good one, I think. The wonder to me is that anybody ever considered it a children's book. My mama read it in the 6th grade, but she didn't remember how death follows Huck the way his father chased him with DTs. Sheesh.
Good Wordling! I'm at 4 again, and I forgot to put it on my thread, so back I go.
Take care of the back!
Good Wordling! I'm at 4 again, and I forgot to put it on my thread, so back I go.
Take care of the back!
58ArlieS
>36 karenmarie: Yeah. Aging is better than the alternative, but, darn it, I still want my 20 year old body back. Or just about any other decade earlier than the present one.
59Jackie_K
>54 karenmarie: Amongst many other things, she talks about the cultural constructions of zombies as political metaphors akin to Nazism or Communism - these ideologies "are spreading like germs, taking over people's minds, and only a few holdouts remain either to combat them or to survive the bad patch" (p176). It's also about fear of the future, where (like eg climate change) the zombie apocalypse will end up affecting everyone. This is from an essay published in 2013, called "The Futures Market: Stories we tell about times to come".
60quondame
>54 karenmarie: You made me realize the need for motorized pet bowl elevators. To raise and lower a small dish from counter height to floor. Possible other uses come to me....
61karenmarie
>57 LizzieD: Thank you, Peggy. I’m proud of myself, because I tend to get irritated with the concept of a book, start it, and abandon it. I had two motivations this time – finish a classic by an author I like and admire, and be in good standing in Book Club by actually finishing a book. Oh, a third – we’re reading James for January’s discussion, and I know that reading Huckleberry Finn is pretty much a prerequisite. Yay for Wordling.
>58 ArlieS: Hi Arlie. I’d like my pre-
rearended at a stop light and hitting the Cadillac in front of me with my Datsun sports car (1600 Roadster) by a hit and run drunk driver
body back. That would be when I was 20, too.
>59 Jackie_K: Jackie! Thank you. Wow. I appreciate her insights and your answering my question in such detail.
>60 quondame: I love the idea, Susan. Built in, of course, with a kitchen large enough to support taking valuable counter and cabinet space. Quick, patent the idea.
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Showering and book club took it out of me, but I recovered pretty quickly by about 7 p.m. or so. We had a reasonably good discussion, which is almost always the case with our book club. We had 9 of 10, and 2 hadn’t finished it. One abandoned it, and the other says she’ll finish it. Bonus: Tamsie's cat Tony rubbed against me and purred at me and let me pet him for quite a while.
I slept VERY well, 7 hours straight.
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Chiropractor and errands in town today. The chiropractor is now splitting her hours between two offices, and Mondays and Fridays she's now in the Pittsboro office, half the distance as the other office. I still will be going to the other office for massages - like tomorrow - but appreciate saving gas wherever I can.
Spreadsheets, lightning round, and writing a full-tilt-boogie review for Huckleberry Finn. Reading, too, of course, and folding clean laundry. Getting it put up is another matter.
>58 ArlieS: Hi Arlie. I’d like my pre-
rearended at a stop light and hitting the Cadillac in front of me with my Datsun sports car (1600 Roadster) by a hit and run drunk driver
body back. That would be when I was 20, too.
>59 Jackie_K: Jackie! Thank you. Wow. I appreciate her insights and your answering my question in such detail.
>60 quondame: I love the idea, Susan. Built in, of course, with a kitchen large enough to support taking valuable counter and cabinet space. Quick, patent the idea.
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Showering and book club took it out of me, but I recovered pretty quickly by about 7 p.m. or so. We had a reasonably good discussion, which is almost always the case with our book club. We had 9 of 10, and 2 hadn’t finished it. One abandoned it, and the other says she’ll finish it. Bonus: Tamsie's cat Tony rubbed against me and purred at me and let me pet him for quite a while.
I slept VERY well, 7 hours straight.
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Chiropractor and errands in town today. The chiropractor is now splitting her hours between two offices, and Mondays and Fridays she's now in the Pittsboro office, half the distance as the other office. I still will be going to the other office for massages - like tomorrow - but appreciate saving gas wherever I can.
Spreadsheets, lightning round, and writing a full-tilt-boogie review for Huckleberry Finn. Reading, too, of course, and folding clean laundry. Getting it put up is another matter.
62msf59
Morning, Karen. Hooray for a good night's sleep. May there be more in your future. Looking forward to your Huck Finn review. No school today with the holiday but I will work the rest of the week. I can only work one day next week, due to our final camping trip of the year. Trail Watch today. Only in the 50s here today.
Oh yeah- another fine Bears win. Yah!
Oh yeah- another fine Bears win. Yah!
63alcottacre
>61 karenmarie: I am so glad to hear that you slept VERY well last night!
I hope all goes well at the chiropractor today.
Have a marvelous Monday, Karen!
I hope all goes well at the chiropractor today.
Have a marvelous Monday, Karen!
64richardderus
>61 karenmarie: Seven hours! That is extraordinary for you nowadays. Happy to hear it, sweetiedarling.
Monday looms with its burden of doom. *sigh*
Monday looms with its burden of doom. *sigh*
65karenmarie
Hiya, RDear. Seven hours of straight sleep surprised me, that's for sure. The only problem with sleeping so long is that I woke up stiff and in pain. Both eased up as I moved around, and I'll take pain meds in an hour or so when I take my other meds/supplements.
Why is your Monday burdensome? Mine's actually going to have some good parts, what with going to the chiropractor and getting out and about on my own.
*smooch*
Why is your Monday burdensome? Mine's actually going to have some good parts, what with going to the chiropractor and getting out and about on my own.
*smooch*
66karenmarie
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Companion) by Mark Twain
10/10/24 10/13/24
From Britannica.com:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, novel by Mark Twain, published in the United Kingdom in 1884 and in the United States in 1885. The book’s narrator is Huckleberry Finn, a youngster whose artless vernacular speech is admirably adapted to detailed and poetic descriptions of scenes, vivid representations of characters, and narrative renditions that are both broadly comic and subtly ironic.
Huck runs away from his abusive father and, with his companion, the runaway slave Jim, makes a long and frequently interrupted voyage down the Mississippi River on a raft. During the journey Huck encounters a variety of characters and types in whom the book memorably portrays almost every class living on or along the river. As a result of these experiences, Huck overcomes conventional racial prejudices and learns to respect and love Jim. The book’s pages are dotted with idyllic descriptions of the great river and the surrounding forests, and Huck’s good nature and unconscious humour permeate the whole. But a thread that runs through adventure after adventure is that of human cruelty, which shows itself both in the acts of individuals and in their unthinking acceptance of such institutions as slavery. The natural goodness of Huck is continually contrasted with the effects of a corrupt society.
Why I wanted to read it: For my real-life book club’s October discussion and necessary before out January discussion of James. It was also the opportunity to re-start and actually finish a book I abandoned as a teenager. I had 3 false starts, but decided to try one more time on the Thursday before Sunday's book club, and devoured it.
Huck was 13-14 in this book.
Two favorite parts:
My least favorite times, alas, more of the book than I would have liked, are the times with the con men the Duke and the King and when Tom Sawyer comes a’visiting, having to pretend to be Sid since Huck’s pretending to be Tom. That got a bit confusing when Huck was being addressed as Tom. Tom’s plan to free Jim when he’s been captured has its amusing parts but is tediously long.
The most important part of the book for me was the multiple dialects the characters spoke. Here’s the Explanatory by Twain:
I appreciated Huck's moral growth and fundamental goodness.
The elephant in the room, of course, is the use of the N-word. Peggy pointed out in our discussion the other day that it was used 209 times – over 200 times as reported on a website by one of our book club members. I flinched pretty much every time I read it, but wouldn’t want it any different, since it reflects Huck’s reality. There are many slaves in this book, some treated well, some not. Jim’s wife and children were sold away from his (flinch) owner, and that anguish brought tears to my eyes.
The novel just ends abruptly afterJim is freed and reports that the body in the house that floated down the river was Huck’s Pap. Tom suggests that he, Huck, and Jim light out for the Territory and have howling adventures. The abruptness was a bit surprising but not unwelcome after almost 400 pages.
Here’s the final paragraph:
Six word review: Satire and political commentary, with slaves.
10/10/24 10/13/24
From Britannica.com:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, novel by Mark Twain, published in the United Kingdom in 1884 and in the United States in 1885. The book’s narrator is Huckleberry Finn, a youngster whose artless vernacular speech is admirably adapted to detailed and poetic descriptions of scenes, vivid representations of characters, and narrative renditions that are both broadly comic and subtly ironic.
Huck runs away from his abusive father and, with his companion, the runaway slave Jim, makes a long and frequently interrupted voyage down the Mississippi River on a raft. During the journey Huck encounters a variety of characters and types in whom the book memorably portrays almost every class living on or along the river. As a result of these experiences, Huck overcomes conventional racial prejudices and learns to respect and love Jim. The book’s pages are dotted with idyllic descriptions of the great river and the surrounding forests, and Huck’s good nature and unconscious humour permeate the whole. But a thread that runs through adventure after adventure is that of human cruelty, which shows itself both in the acts of individuals and in their unthinking acceptance of such institutions as slavery. The natural goodness of Huck is continually contrasted with the effects of a corrupt society.
Why I wanted to read it: For my real-life book club’s October discussion and necessary before out January discussion of James. It was also the opportunity to re-start and actually finish a book I abandoned as a teenager. I had 3 false starts, but decided to try one more time on the Thursday before Sunday's book club, and devoured it.
Huck was 13-14 in this book.
Two favorite parts:
- When Huck stages his death. He has had to grow up fast and rough with his abusive father. After Huck gets a $6000 reward in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, safeguarded for Huck by Judge Thatcher, Pap comes back to get the money he thinks he’s owed just because he’s Huck’s father. Huck is successful in running away and having people believe he’s dead.
- Huck and Jim’s time on the Mississippi on the raft. I read and loved Life on the Mississippi, Twain's non-fiction account of the river and his times on it, so this fictionalized version expanded on my respect for the sheer size and power of it.
My least favorite times, alas, more of the book than I would have liked, are the times with the con men the Duke and the King and when Tom Sawyer comes a’visiting, having to pretend to be Sid since Huck’s pretending to be Tom. That got a bit confusing when Huck was being addressed as Tom. Tom’s plan to free Jim when he’s been captured has its amusing parts but is tediously long.
The most important part of the book for me was the multiple dialects the characters spoke. Here’s the Explanatory by Twain:
In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary “Pike County” dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech.These dialects gave me joy. They were a challenge – to figure out the standard English word being used by the dialect word. Mostly I was successful – at least successful in thinking I’d gotten it right.
I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding.
The Author.
I appreciated Huck's moral growth and fundamental goodness.
The elephant in the room, of course, is the use of the N-word. Peggy pointed out in our discussion the other day that it was used 209 times – over 200 times as reported on a website by one of our book club members. I flinched pretty much every time I read it, but wouldn’t want it any different, since it reflects Huck’s reality. There are many slaves in this book, some treated well, some not. Jim’s wife and children were sold away from his (flinch) owner, and that anguish brought tears to my eyes.
The novel just ends abruptly after
Here’s the final paragraph:
But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before.
Six word review: Satire and political commentary, with slaves.
67richardderus
>65 karenmarie: Monday feels annoying today because I started it confronted by a looming change in my world...Goodreads just further enshittified the way users can interact and, after fourteen years of using it a specific way I don't want to change. *grrr*
68karenmarie
Ah, I understand. I do not use GR except to see if authors who don't identify their country of birth on Amazon do so on GR. Some of them have their websites on GR, so that's the third way to find out their country of birth. Lots of them now don't declare it anywhere relatively easy to find, though. Lots of Undeclared for country of origin on my spreadsheet.
Sorry that GR has changed, and not for the better.
Sorry that GR has changed, and not for the better.
69richardderus
>68 karenmarie: It's inevitable in capitalism's slimy clutches. *smooch*
70streamsong
Hi Karen - Your review of HF was so interesting - and especially Twain's remarks about dialect. You'll see when you read James just how important that aspect becomes.
I'm glad the pain is getting less and that ice is helping, as well as sleeping and cat purrs.
I'm still wordling away. Usually solving them with a miss every few weeks so my streak is nothing to brag about. I'm rather disgusted with the wordle bot's analysis of my games. Even when I beat the bot it gives me low scores on either skill or luck. It often comments that no other wordler used the path I did to solve it. To me, that's confirmation that my brain is a bit different, but works just fine, thank you. My path today was alien gourd guava gamut. The bot said that after gourd there were only two choices available and of course I picked the wrong one
I'm glad the pain is getting less and that ice is helping, as well as sleeping and cat purrs.
I'm still wordling away. Usually solving them with a miss every few weeks so my streak is nothing to brag about. I'm rather disgusted with the wordle bot's analysis of my games. Even when I beat the bot it gives me low scores on either skill or luck. It often comments that no other wordler used the path I did to solve it. To me, that's confirmation that my brain is a bit different, but works just fine, thank you. My path today was
71msf59
Morning, Karen. I did stop by yesterday. Just sayin'...Hooray for Huck Finn. Great review. Rain here, so I will be playing indoors, after I drop off the kids. I might get to see Jack today, if Sue brings him back here.
72karenmarie
>62 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark! Happy Tuesday to you. I’m sorry I missed you here yesterday. I had fun writing the Huck Finn review. Busy work week for you, but your final camping trip of the year is something to look forward to. Go Bears!
>69 richardderus: I’m not quite sure what economic system is better, or perhaps it’s just the behind-the-scenes-super-rich-conservatives controlling it that makes it so awful these days. *smooch*
>70 streamsong: Hi Janet, and thank you. The pain isn’t excruciating, but it’s definitely still here, especially if I do anything out of the ordinary.
Zoe Rose is literally at my left elbow, hoping for lap time. Wash is on the printer grooming his paw.
Yay for Wordling. I have a short streak right now, too. I avoid the Bot telling me I’ve screwed up. I still use my spreadsheets. Today they really helped.
>71 msf59: And… good morning again! Thanks re my review. You’ve got rain, we’ve got 38F and clear skies. Yay for PB, and I hope you get to see Jack.
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Chiropractor, mailed two birthday cards and a survey about my second hospital stay at the PO drop off. Picked up prescriptions, realized the bank wasn't open, and filled my gas tank. That was enough. Reading, and etc. New Tricks in the evening with Bill. Jenna stopped by on her way to class so she and I could witness Bill's absentee ballot. I got hugs...
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Busy day.Book sorting, Virlies. I realized it's foolish to schlep to the Library and aggravate my back today. Makes me sad, but oh well. My cleaning ladies are coming today, and after they get here I'll head out to a 90-minute massage that I unintentionally scheduled on a Tuesday 2 months ago - a cleaning lady Tuesday to boot.
I texted with my massage therapist about my new back problems and will remind her to be very gentle around my T12 and also my lower back. My chiropractor told me yesterday that the muscles in my lower back are in guarding mode - seizing up to protect my spine. Lovely.
Reading, and etc. otherwise.
>69 richardderus: I’m not quite sure what economic system is better, or perhaps it’s just the behind-the-scenes-super-rich-conservatives controlling it that makes it so awful these days. *smooch*
>70 streamsong: Hi Janet, and thank you. The pain isn’t excruciating, but it’s definitely still here, especially if I do anything out of the ordinary.
Zoe Rose is literally at my left elbow, hoping for lap time. Wash is on the printer grooming his paw.
Yay for Wordling. I have a short streak right now, too. I avoid the Bot telling me I’ve screwed up. I still use my spreadsheets. Today they really helped.
>71 msf59: And… good morning again! Thanks re my review. You’ve got rain, we’ve got 38F and clear skies. Yay for PB, and I hope you get to see Jack.
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Busy day.
I texted with my massage therapist about my new back problems and will remind her to be very gentle around my T12 and also my lower back. My chiropractor told me yesterday that the muscles in my lower back are in guarding mode - seizing up to protect my spine. Lovely.
Reading, and etc. otherwise.
73richardderus
>72 karenmarie: Happy that you're being self-protective, sad that it means no book-fondling or Virlie's.
I discovered that a doc I thought had notes on one book instead had notes on two that were utterly unrelated to the one I wanted to write about...like entering an alternate Earth and finding myself just a bit out of sync. I'll review the two in the doc but now I wonder where the heck the notes are for the first book, and *shudder* how many more surprises I have in store....
*smooch*
I discovered that a doc I thought had notes on one book instead had notes on two that were utterly unrelated to the one I wanted to write about...like entering an alternate Earth and finding myself just a bit out of sync. I'll review the two in the doc but now I wonder where the heck the notes are for the first book, and *shudder* how many more surprises I have in store....
*smooch*
74karenmarie
Hi RD.
I was halfway dressed when I decided that it was ridiculous to stress my back. Grrrr.
Is this doc problem related to the alternate universe I posited on your thread yesterday?
We could all be sharing an alternate-universe time/space wrinkle here on LT and not even know it.
I'm sorry that the book notes you were expecting and needed are currently MIA.
Yup. Self-protective. Sad.
*smooch*
I was halfway dressed when I decided that it was ridiculous to stress my back. Grrrr.
Is this doc problem related to the alternate universe I posited on your thread yesterday?
We could all be sharing an alternate-universe time/space wrinkle here on LT and not even know it.
I'm sorry that the book notes you were expecting and needed are currently MIA.
Yup. Self-protective. Sad.
*smooch*
75richardderus
>74 karenmarie: Honestly this is more like the Goodreads-enshittification universe...nothing's quite like I left it abd how it is is not to my liking.
Like the world since traitor Reagan stole the 1980 election and started us down (term used advisedly) the Hayek horrorshow.
Happier thought: Sally Field might be playing Tova in the film of Remarkably Bright Creatures! That would even lure me back into a theater!
Like the world since traitor Reagan stole the 1980 election and started us down (term used advisedly) the Hayek horrorshow.
Happier thought: Sally Field might be playing Tova in the film of Remarkably Bright Creatures! That would even lure me back into a theater!
76karenmarie
I have always disliked Ronnie Ray-gun, ever since he abandoned the Democratic Party, started shilling for GE, and became a Republican.
Stole the 1980 election? Do tell. I don't remember that juicy bit of history.
Interesting about SF being Tova. God, I loved that book.
*smooch*
Stole the 1980 election? Do tell. I don't remember that juicy bit of history.
Interesting about SF being Tova. God, I loved that book.
*smooch*
77richardderus
>76 karenmarie: The hostage crisis that he manipulated, to be succinct. I'd love to see Field in that role!
78msf59
Morning, Karen. Happy Wednesday. I hope your back issues get better. Taking a break from book fondling is a good idea. Yes, I got to hang with Jack for a bit yesterday afternoon. It sounds like you have some chilly overnight weather there too. Only 36F at the moment. It might only be in the low 40s when I play later this AM.
80karenmarie
>77 richardderus: ‘Morning, RDear! Ah yes. Yay for duckduckgo.
>78 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark, and happy Wednesday to you, too. My back is a work in progress, and thank you. I hated not book fondling. 😥 Brrr to 36F. It’s 47F here. We’ll get to a high of 59F today. I hope you had a good time playing PB.
I've seen Finches, a male Cardinal, a Carolina Chickadee, a Downy Woodpecker, and a Chipping Sparrow this morning so far.
>79 Ameise1: Hi Barbara, and thank you.
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Reading, cleaning ladies, 90-minute massage. After that massage, I didn't feel my back at all, and walked normally out to the SUV. Of course things tightened up some after - I expected it - but I feel marginally better this morning compared to yesterday morning. SOS otherwise.
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The HVAC maintenance guys are here. They were scheduled 11-2, but of course showed up early. I have a PT appointment at 2 p.m. today. My back is making itself known, but I haven't taken pain meds yet, will do so in a few minutes.
I'm going to be starting Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie for our November book club discussion. Other than that, reading smut and listening to smut. 😊
The 1980 October Surprise theory refers to an allegation that representatives of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign made a secret deal with Iranian leaders to delay the release of American hostages until after the election between Reagan and President Jimmy Carter, the incumbent. The detention of 66 Americans in Iran, held hostage since November 4, 1979, was one of the leading national issues during 1980, and the alleged goal of the deal was to thwart Carter from pulling off an "October surprise". Reagan won the election, and on the day of his inauguration—minutes after he concluded his 20-minute inaugural address—the Islamic Republic of Iran announced the release of the hostages.
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>78 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark, and happy Wednesday to you, too. My back is a work in progress, and thank you. I hated not book fondling. 😥 Brrr to 36F. It’s 47F here. We’ll get to a high of 59F today. I hope you had a good time playing PB.
I've seen Finches, a male Cardinal, a Carolina Chickadee, a Downy Woodpecker, and a Chipping Sparrow this morning so far.
>79 Ameise1: Hi Barbara, and thank you.
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Reading, cleaning ladies, 90-minute massage. After that massage, I didn't feel my back at all, and walked normally out to the SUV. Of course things tightened up some after - I expected it - but I feel marginally better this morning compared to yesterday morning. SOS otherwise.
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The HVAC maintenance guys are here. They were scheduled 11-2, but of course showed up early. I have a PT appointment at 2 p.m. today. My back is making itself known, but I haven't taken pain meds yet, will do so in a few minutes.
I'm going to be starting Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie for our November book club discussion. Other than that, reading smut and listening to smut. 😊
82karenmarie
Hi Anita, and thank you. I could go to the chiropractor and have a massage once a week. Unfortunately, I'm not rich.
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In exciting news, my PUP (Princeton University Press) book order arrived yesterday. I just opened it, and am so happy. All arrived, and all arrived in perfect condition. Two are fiction, the rest nonfiction. Fun times adding them into my catalog this week.
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In exciting news, my PUP (Princeton University Press) book order arrived yesterday. I just opened it, and am so happy. All arrived, and all arrived in perfect condition. Two are fiction, the rest nonfiction. Fun times adding them into my catalog this week.
83richardderus
Hi Horrible, hope today's appointment and other events go frictionlessly. *smooch*
84atozgrl
>80 karenmarie: Hi Karen! I am very glad to hear that the massage helped with your back. I hope any back pain today has been manageable and that your PT appointment went well.
>82 karenmarie: Funny, my PUP order arrived yesterday as well, and in good condition with the one caveat that one book cover had slid down and was slightly bent. Otherwise, everything looks very good!
Wishing you a great rest of the week!
>82 karenmarie: Funny, my PUP order arrived yesterday as well, and in good condition with the one caveat that one book cover had slid down and was slightly bent. Otherwise, everything looks very good!
Wishing you a great rest of the week!
85vancouverdeb
Karen, when I fractured my vertebrae at T5 , it was excruciatingly painful . I did not know what had happened at the time though. The previous day I had been at the gym, and done about 75 curls up ( like sit ups ) among other things. The next morning when I was I woke up, I was in such pain I had Dave take me to the Emerg at the hospital. There, they started an IV and offered me morphine, which I refused as I am cautious. Because the pain was in my stomach area, I thought maybe an ulcer or something, as I had a small ulcer. They checked for that, and pancreatitis, gall bladder etc and even did a CT scan. But no one could figure out what was wrong. So I used a lot of heat on my back for some months .Eventually it occurred to me that the boring pain that I felt might be coming from my spine rather than my abdomen. So I spoke with my GP ( PCP ) and he sent me for an x-ray of my spine. They found a healed fracture at T5. This was probably 6 or more months later. From there I went for a DEXA scan, which is some sort of specialized X ray for osteoporosis diagnosis. That is when I found that it was a compression fracture and yes, I had osteoporosis. I've elected not to take any medication because it scares me and am not sure how effective it is. A couple of years later , I slipped and fractured my left wrist and right foot. But, knock on wood, I have had no further fractures. Sometimes you won't feel pain from a vertebral compression fracture. I think I was about 48 when I got the compression fracture, so neither I nor the doctors were expecting the compression fracture. I'm glad you are feeling improved!
86msf59
Morning, Karen. Sweet Thursday. Another chilly start to the day- only 35F out there. It sure doesn't stop the die-hard PB players. There were at least a dozen out there yesterday. Not much to report at the feeders- the grackles are still hanging around. Also blue jays and chickadees.
87karenmarie
>83 richardderus: Hiya, RDear. The PT appointment went well. We did the things – walking inside the building, balance in the corner with eyes closed, various foot positions, back massage, ice. He says I should start feeling much better in another 3-4 weeks and should be back to ‘normal’, in another 8 or so. *smooch*
>84 atozgrl: Hello Irene. I hope the rest of your week is good, too.
If I could get a massage every week, I would, but it is not cheap. The pain has become more manageable, and I’m only taking tramadol 1-2 times a day, Tylenol the same. I try to sit up straight, don’t put one leg on the other knee, and no BLT – no bending, lifting, or twisting. I explained that I’m the only person at home that can do some of the things, especially the cat things. None of those things work well with using a grabber, which we have.
Yay for PUP. Sorry about the slightly bent cover. Separate but related, I ordered a RD BB – RichardDear Book Bullet – Body Phobia: The Western Roots of our Fear of Difference. First copy arrived with two tears on the dust jacket and part of it being jammed and wrinkled. Back to Ammie, received the replacement copy yesterday in perfect condition and will return the first via UPS. I’ve gotten stricter and stricter with books I receive from Amazon. New ones should be new, used ones (whether sold by Amazon or third party) should be in condition as listed.
>85 vancouverdeb: Thank you for sharing, Deborah. I can’t believe the Emergency did not give you an x-ray. I had both. 6 months for a healed T5 fracture. Mine’s healed but now aggravated (or, truly fractured but the hospital and my doctor did not think that – PT and chiropractor are being cautious). I’m going to mention a DEXA scan to my doctor when I go to my December annual exam. Thank you, I’m coming along.
>86 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark, and sweet Thursday to you, too. Brrrr. We’re at 39F, going to a high of 60F. Long sleeves and my down vest, I think. Your grackles have been there for quite a while. I saw four crows yesterday. Right now my feeders are empty. Yay for Blue Jays and Chickadees.
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Today is the hair cut/lunch out road trip with Jenna and Hwan. We're leaving ~9:30 ish. Hair cuts for Jenna and me, lunch at the Village Tavern in Reynolda Village, a must if we're out that way. Home, probably pretty tired. I am going to ask Jenna and Hwan to help set up the garage so that we can give the cats Capstar - for fleas. It kills any flea on them within 6 hours, and outside in the garage is much better than in the house. Water, food, box, possibly a blanket, which, of course would have to be washed in hot water later.
>84 atozgrl: Hello Irene. I hope the rest of your week is good, too.
If I could get a massage every week, I would, but it is not cheap. The pain has become more manageable, and I’m only taking tramadol 1-2 times a day, Tylenol the same. I try to sit up straight, don’t put one leg on the other knee, and no BLT – no bending, lifting, or twisting. I explained that I’m the only person at home that can do some of the things, especially the cat things. None of those things work well with using a grabber, which we have.
Yay for PUP. Sorry about the slightly bent cover. Separate but related, I ordered a RD BB – RichardDear Book Bullet – Body Phobia: The Western Roots of our Fear of Difference. First copy arrived with two tears on the dust jacket and part of it being jammed and wrinkled. Back to Ammie, received the replacement copy yesterday in perfect condition and will return the first via UPS. I’ve gotten stricter and stricter with books I receive from Amazon. New ones should be new, used ones (whether sold by Amazon or third party) should be in condition as listed.
>85 vancouverdeb: Thank you for sharing, Deborah. I can’t believe the Emergency did not give you an x-ray. I had both. 6 months for a healed T5 fracture. Mine’s healed but now aggravated (or, truly fractured but the hospital and my doctor did not think that – PT and chiropractor are being cautious). I’m going to mention a DEXA scan to my doctor when I go to my December annual exam. Thank you, I’m coming along.
>86 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark, and sweet Thursday to you, too. Brrrr. We’re at 39F, going to a high of 60F. Long sleeves and my down vest, I think. Your grackles have been there for quite a while. I saw four crows yesterday. Right now my feeders are empty. Yay for Blue Jays and Chickadees.
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Today is the hair cut/lunch out road trip with Jenna and Hwan. We're leaving ~9:30 ish. Hair cuts for Jenna and me, lunch at the Village Tavern in Reynolda Village, a must if we're out that way. Home, probably pretty tired. I am going to ask Jenna and Hwan to help set up the garage so that we can give the cats Capstar - for fleas. It kills any flea on them within 6 hours, and outside in the garage is much better than in the house. Water, food, box, possibly a blanket, which, of course would have to be washed in hot water later.
88Ameise1
Good morning Karen, I am so sorry to hear that you are having such back pain. When I once broke a few vertebrae, osteopathy helped as well as medication. I still have a repeat prescription for Irfen 800 retard. I always take it for a few days when I notice that my back muscles are tense. It relieves the pain, but more importantly the inflammation, so I can move normally and it doesn't get worse because of poor posture. After about 4 days I can reduce the dose.
I wish you continued good recovery.
I wish you continued good recovery.
89richardderus
>87 karenmarie: Plenty of doing chez vous, Horrible. I'm glad you're so strict about the Ammy purchases, the only way to teach them anything is to cost them money.
I hope you'll "enjoy" Body Phobia. It's very informative. *smooch*
I hope you'll "enjoy" Body Phobia. It's very informative. *smooch*
90atozgrl
>87 karenmarie: Hi Karen, I hope you are having fun on your outing to Winston-Salem today. It sounds like your back is recovering pretty well, even if it is slow. I'm sure you would like it to go faster.
So you're strict with Amazon, huh? Maybe I should take that approach. A few years ago I ordered a paperback from them, and it arrived with a cover that was slightly crushed at the top, with a tear. At that time, I decided it wasn't worth the bother to send it back, although it should have been in new condition. The damage might have occurred in shipping. But maybe I should take your approach if it happens again. Usually the items arrive in good shape, so I haven't had a lot of trouble with that.
Have a great weekend, and I hope you will have plenty of opportunities for rest!
So you're strict with Amazon, huh? Maybe I should take that approach. A few years ago I ordered a paperback from them, and it arrived with a cover that was slightly crushed at the top, with a tear. At that time, I decided it wasn't worth the bother to send it back, although it should have been in new condition. The damage might have occurred in shipping. But maybe I should take your approach if it happens again. Usually the items arrive in good shape, so I haven't had a lot of trouble with that.
Have a great weekend, and I hope you will have plenty of opportunities for rest!
91LizzieD
Karen, I have trouble believing how long it's been since I've been here. Then I think about how seldom I've come to LT in the past few days and understand a little better.
I love the night you slept for 7 hours. I'm almost on my way to get ready so that I can try for that too.
Hope you and Jenna are thrilled with your haircuts and had a very good lunch AND that your back didn't suffer from the trip. Sleep well tonight!
I love the night you slept for 7 hours. I'm almost on my way to get ready so that I can try for that too.
Hope you and Jenna are thrilled with your haircuts and had a very good lunch AND that your back didn't suffer from the trip. Sleep well tonight!
92vancouverdeb
I don't actually know how long my T5 fracture took to heal, since I didn't know that was the problem. I just remember being in pain for a long time. Not bending, twisting and lifting is what I was told when I finally saw an endocrinologist , a physiotherapist and dietician. They had all three rolled into one at the osteoporosis clinic. I'm impressed that you had an x- ray and a CT scan, as I thought they were very thorough at the hospital . I think no one, including me , expected a bone problem, as it seemed to me my pain was in my upper abdomen, and when they found that in fact I had fractured my vertebrae and osteoporosis , my GP said he had never seen osteoporosis in anyone younger than 50. But there it was. When I fractured my wrist, that was all I noticed, but after I was in the ER with that, the doctor said - I think you are limping a bit , so let's get a x - ray of your foot, and indeed it was fractured. But my wrist was very obvious and it definitely hurt more than my foot, so I didn't notice my foot.
93msf59
Morning, Karen. Happy Friday. After I drop off the kids, I am going to go and pick up the camper, so we can get it ready over the weekend. We head to Kentucky on Tuesday. It looks like we are going to Bree's later today, possibly for a sleepover. Of course Juno will come with us. I need to tend to the feeders today. They have been devouring the food.
94SilverWolf28
Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/365046
95karenmarie
>88 Ameise1: Hi Barbara! Thank you re my back. I know you’ve had your share of back troubles, too. I wish I could take Irfen – it’s a form of ibuprophen, an NSAID, and I can only take NSAIDs under extremely dire circumstances because of my heart. Thank you re my recovery.
>89 richardderus: Yes, busy day, RD. We had a wonderful time, see below. I am super strict with Amazon now. I will ‘enjoy’ Body Phobia. *smooch*
>90 atozgrl: Hi Irene. We had a lot of fun, see below.
I usually return books for one of two reasons: damage in shipping or incorrectly described used book of lower quality than I ordered from a third-party vendor. There should never be any damage in shipping because books should be packaged so they don’t bounce around. There are way too many third-party book sellers on Amazon who do not adhere to Amazon’s published guidelines for book condition. I rarely below Very Good, and any book that is ex-libris can only officially get a Good rating, so if I get an ex-libris book ordered Very Good, I immediately return it.
If I ordered a book from Amazon, I immediately start a return. Their reasons for refunds are good for books, and I’ll describe the damage in detail. If I order a book from a third-party seller, I try to find an email address or phone number to contact them directly so they can fix their problem behind the scenes. They are usually anxious to avoid an official return, and if they have the book that’s the correct quality and will ship it to me, they do. Otherwise, they issue a full credit, sometimes wanting me to return the book, sometimes not. If they won’t give me a return label or give credit for the postage I’ll have to pay to ship a book back to them, I’ll tell them that I’ll just go through the on-line return process instead. That usually has them taking care of me.
And Amazon Customer Service is excellent. Their phone number, hard to find on the website, is 866-216-1072.
Thanks re my weekend – I hope you have a good one, too.
>91 LizzieD: Hi Peggy – you’ve had a lot going on. I wish I’d slept 7 hours last night. I read ‘til way too late, then got up earlier than I could have. But… naps!
>92 vancouverdeb: Hello Deborah. My PT said it would take 3 months to completely heal. I’m at 5 weeks. Patience. I’m sorry you have had osteoporosis since before you were 50. Yup. There it is – we just have to learn to deal if we can. Gracefully, is my goal.
I don’t remember fracturing my T12, and I don’t have osteoporosis, but do have osteopenia.
>93 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark! Happy Friday to you, too. Exciting to get the camper out for the last trip of the season. Enjoy the set up, enjoy seeing Jack.
>94 SilverWolf28: Hi Silver, and thank you.
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We had an uneventful drive up. It always takes about 1 1/4 hours. Jenna drove my SUV, and I was comfortable in the back so Hwan could sit up front. I love my haircut, Jenna loves hers. We had a very good meal at Village Tavern, where Jenna got her usual grilled salmon sandwich/sweet potato fries, I got the Thai Chicken Salad, and Hwan got the crab cake appetizer and veggie burger. We were too happily full for desert, and then had an uneventful drive back. When we got back, Jenna and Hwan wanted to see the 1928 White Sewing Machine, so we had fun with that. Then, I showed them a halter dress my mother had made in her late teens or early 20s. I was able to wear it in my early 20s but just barely, Jenna tried it on when she was a teenager and it barely fit, and Hwan, so teensy, doesn't have a small waist and so couldn't zip it up. Lots of giggling. They helped me get the garage set up to give the cats Capstar. I wrestled the cats, got the Capstar down their throats, and into the garage about 6 p.m. I was still up at 2:30 a.m., so we let them back in. Wash was pitiful, crying and coming in and out of the Library for the next two hours. Zoe hissed at him whenever she was within 2 feet of him on the bed. She's here with me now, haven't seen Wash yet this morning.
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I might speak with my Aunt Joyce today. Haven't heard back from her yet. Might place an online grocery store order for Bill to pick up when he takes trash/recyclables to the dump.
A nap is definitely in my future. So are reading and puttering.
>89 richardderus: Yes, busy day, RD. We had a wonderful time, see below. I am super strict with Amazon now. I will ‘enjoy’ Body Phobia. *smooch*
>90 atozgrl: Hi Irene. We had a lot of fun, see below.
I usually return books for one of two reasons: damage in shipping or incorrectly described used book of lower quality than I ordered from a third-party vendor. There should never be any damage in shipping because books should be packaged so they don’t bounce around. There are way too many third-party book sellers on Amazon who do not adhere to Amazon’s published guidelines for book condition. I rarely below Very Good, and any book that is ex-libris can only officially get a Good rating, so if I get an ex-libris book ordered Very Good, I immediately return it.
If I ordered a book from Amazon, I immediately start a return. Their reasons for refunds are good for books, and I’ll describe the damage in detail. If I order a book from a third-party seller, I try to find an email address or phone number to contact them directly so they can fix their problem behind the scenes. They are usually anxious to avoid an official return, and if they have the book that’s the correct quality and will ship it to me, they do. Otherwise, they issue a full credit, sometimes wanting me to return the book, sometimes not. If they won’t give me a return label or give credit for the postage I’ll have to pay to ship a book back to them, I’ll tell them that I’ll just go through the on-line return process instead. That usually has them taking care of me.
And Amazon Customer Service is excellent. Their phone number, hard to find on the website, is 866-216-1072.
Thanks re my weekend – I hope you have a good one, too.
>91 LizzieD: Hi Peggy – you’ve had a lot going on. I wish I’d slept 7 hours last night. I read ‘til way too late, then got up earlier than I could have. But… naps!
>92 vancouverdeb: Hello Deborah. My PT said it would take 3 months to completely heal. I’m at 5 weeks. Patience. I’m sorry you have had osteoporosis since before you were 50. Yup. There it is – we just have to learn to deal if we can. Gracefully, is my goal.
I don’t remember fracturing my T12, and I don’t have osteoporosis, but do have osteopenia.
>93 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark! Happy Friday to you, too. Exciting to get the camper out for the last trip of the season. Enjoy the set up, enjoy seeing Jack.
>94 SilverWolf28: Hi Silver, and thank you.
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We had an uneventful drive up. It always takes about 1 1/4 hours. Jenna drove my SUV, and I was comfortable in the back so Hwan could sit up front. I love my haircut, Jenna loves hers. We had a very good meal at Village Tavern, where Jenna got her usual grilled salmon sandwich/sweet potato fries, I got the Thai Chicken Salad, and Hwan got the crab cake appetizer and veggie burger. We were too happily full for desert, and then had an uneventful drive back. When we got back, Jenna and Hwan wanted to see the 1928 White Sewing Machine, so we had fun with that. Then, I showed them a halter dress my mother had made in her late teens or early 20s. I was able to wear it in my early 20s but just barely, Jenna tried it on when she was a teenager and it barely fit, and Hwan, so teensy, doesn't have a small waist and so couldn't zip it up. Lots of giggling. They helped me get the garage set up to give the cats Capstar. I wrestled the cats, got the Capstar down their throats, and into the garage about 6 p.m. I was still up at 2:30 a.m., so we let them back in. Wash was pitiful, crying and coming in and out of the Library for the next two hours. Zoe hissed at him whenever she was within 2 feet of him on the bed. She's here with me now, haven't seen Wash yet this morning.
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I might speak with my Aunt Joyce today. Haven't heard back from her yet. Might place an online grocery store order for Bill to pick up when he takes trash/recyclables to the dump.
A nap is definitely in my future. So are reading and puttering.
96LizzieD
Glad to hear about the successful trip and giggling! I'll bet it was a fun day.
Poor Wash. I hope he gets himself under control and comes out for comfort.
Hope you speak to Aunt Joyce and otherwise have a fine time!
Poor Wash. I hope he gets himself under control and comes out for comfort.
Hope you speak to Aunt Joyce and otherwise have a fine time!
97richardderus
>95 karenmarie: Fun times! i'm glad you're so stern with the Ammy folk. I don't buy tree books now, so very seldom have any cause to return a book. I do on occasion return ones because I mistakenly purchase something I was looking at...little button-bashing boo-boos. I very very seldom need to interact with them about those things.
Stay well, get rested, and enjoy your weekend ahead. *smooch*
Stay well, get rested, and enjoy your weekend ahead. *smooch*
98johnsimpson
Hi Karen my dear, a belated Happy New Thread my dear.
99atozgrl
>95 karenmarie: Thank you for the Amazon phone number! My SiL had a problem with an order a few months back, and needed to get in touch with them but couldn't find a contact. I'm not sure if they managed to get their problem resolved. This is very useful to know!
I'm glad you had such a good day yesterday, and I hope Wash is back to himself by now. I also hope you had a nice, restful day today.
I'm glad you had such a good day yesterday, and I hope Wash is back to himself by now. I also hope you had a nice, restful day today.
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>96 LizzieD: Hi Peggy! It was a tiring and wonderful day. Jenna and Hwan are still in the infatuated phase of their relationship, although they both have very good communication skills and willingness to work through things. The only interesting thing is the cultural difference. Jenna frets about money because that’s what she and I do, but it’s only within the scope of managing our money. When Hwan hears that Jenna’s fretting about money, she immediately thinks she isn’t taking care of her and, since Hwan’s father pays a significant portion of her and now their living expenses (rent, insurance, big expenditures), Hwan asks Jenna if she should ask her father for more money. As Hwan puts it, he's a capitalist, and from what I hear, a very successful one. Hwan gets significant grants and other stipends from the University, but she’s not earning money directly from a ‘job’. As an outsider being given occasional glimpses inside their relationship, it’s amusing to see.
I had to track Wash down yesterday. I went upstairs, and when I called his name in the Retreat, he came out, groggy from napping all day. He is fine. Neither is scratching, so that means the once-a-month-flee-treatment and the Capstar have been successful.
Aunt Joyce and I switched it to today. But I did alert her I won’t be available 12:15 p.m. – 3 p.m. because Arsenal plays Bournmouth.
>97 richardderus: Hi RD! Yes, fun times. I’m a serious fan of Amazon because I live between two small towns, so being able to get the right thing without driving all over central NC, the convenience of things being delivered, and the frequently-but-not-always-best prices are winners for me. Heh. ‘little button-bashing boo-boos'. I’m trying to stay well, I’m getting rested, and I’m looking to a NOT too busy weekend. *smooch*
>98 johnsimpson: Hi John! Nice to see you here, and thank you. Sending love and hugs to you and Karen, kitty skritches to Felix.
>99 atozgrl: You’re welcome, Irene – I actually called it yesterday to make sure they hadn’t sneakily switched it. Wash hasn’t come out yet this morning. Zoe is at my left elbow. I’m looking forward to restful. Thank you, and I hope you have a nice day, too. Restful or productive, take your choice.
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Let's see... some texting, spoke with Jenna, read, napped. Bill took trash and recyclables and brought back lunch.
For dinner I had Hwan's Rice - she always makes a multi-grain rice consisting of a short-grain white rice of some sort, barley, and quinoa. I was intrigued, and when they came over Thursday, she brought me a small container. I love the texture that the barley brings, frankly couldn't taste the quinoa. It reminds me that I love barley, although I prefer unhulled. This was, as is most common, pearled. Still chewy, still nutty, just less so.
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Like I wrote above, Arsenal plays Bournmouth today. Aunt Joyce and I plan on talking, and otherwise there will be reading and updating spreadsheets and my Lightning Round.
I had to track Wash down yesterday. I went upstairs, and when I called his name in the Retreat, he came out, groggy from napping all day. He is fine. Neither is scratching, so that means the once-a-month-flee-treatment and the Capstar have been successful.
Aunt Joyce and I switched it to today. But I did alert her I won’t be available 12:15 p.m. – 3 p.m. because Arsenal plays Bournmouth.
>97 richardderus: Hi RD! Yes, fun times. I’m a serious fan of Amazon because I live between two small towns, so being able to get the right thing without driving all over central NC, the convenience of things being delivered, and the frequently-but-not-always-best prices are winners for me. Heh. ‘little button-bashing boo-boos'. I’m trying to stay well, I’m getting rested, and I’m looking to a NOT too busy weekend. *smooch*
>98 johnsimpson: Hi John! Nice to see you here, and thank you. Sending love and hugs to you and Karen, kitty skritches to Felix.
>99 atozgrl: You’re welcome, Irene – I actually called it yesterday to make sure they hadn’t sneakily switched it. Wash hasn’t come out yet this morning. Zoe is at my left elbow. I’m looking forward to restful. Thank you, and I hope you have a nice day, too. Restful or productive, take your choice.
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Let's see... some texting, spoke with Jenna, read, napped. Bill took trash and recyclables and brought back lunch.
For dinner I had Hwan's Rice - she always makes a multi-grain rice consisting of a short-grain white rice of some sort, barley, and quinoa. I was intrigued, and when they came over Thursday, she brought me a small container. I love the texture that the barley brings, frankly couldn't taste the quinoa. It reminds me that I love barley, although I prefer unhulled. This was, as is most common, pearled. Still chewy, still nutty, just less so.
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Like I wrote above, Arsenal plays Bournmouth today. Aunt Joyce and I plan on talking, and otherwise there will be reading and updating spreadsheets and my Lightning Round.
101richardderus
>100 karenmarie: You're being very quietly industrious, Horrible. May the peacefully occupied streak lengthen. *smooch*
102richardderus
Oh dear...and Bournemouth no less.
103LizzieD
Sounds like a lovely day, Karen, assuming that your Arsenal got the win. We are doing what we do - not much in my case. Good night!
104The_Hibernator
>100 karenmarie: This makes me realize I've never tasted barley.
105karenmarie
>101 richardderus: Hi RDear. Low-key and low-energy industrious. I'm chafing at the bit to do things, but every time my back twinges or seizes up just from walking around or sitting, I realize that much more than that is just plain ridiculous to contemplate. *smooch*
>102 richardderus: Gads. They didn't look like Arsenal. AND Saliba got a red card at 30', meaning they had to play with 10 men instead of 11. It was painful.
>103 LizzieD: Hi Peggy. Alas, Arsenal played poorly, Bournmouth played well. Doing not much is a good thing.
>104 The_Hibernator: Rachel, I love barley and mushroom casserole, but can't find the recipe I used to use. There are many online.
Hwan is thrilled that her new rice cooker has a multigrain option.
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I realized yesterday that it doesn't make sense for me to actually go grocery shopping, darn it. I'll finish the online order today and Bill can go pick it up.
Reading a new smut series that is very good - Torus Intercession by Mary Calmes.
I might fill the bird feeders today. There's just a teensy bit of lifting, and the birds must be fed.
>102 richardderus: Gads. They didn't look like Arsenal. AND Saliba got a red card at 30', meaning they had to play with 10 men instead of 11. It was painful.
>103 LizzieD: Hi Peggy. Alas, Arsenal played poorly, Bournmouth played well. Doing not much is a good thing.
>104 The_Hibernator: Rachel, I love barley and mushroom casserole, but can't find the recipe I used to use. There are many online.
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Deflating sort of day, what with Arsenal losing and all. But, it's only a game. I read a lot, napped, started an online grocery order, and had a 680-mg of sodium individual pizza for dinner. New Tricks is still entertaining, although the first one we watched was mostly disappointing.
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I realized yesterday that it doesn't make sense for me to actually go grocery shopping, darn it. I'll finish the online order today and Bill can go pick it up.
Reading a new smut series that is very good - Torus Intercession by Mary Calmes.
I might fill the bird feeders today. There's just a teensy bit of lifting, and the birds must be fed.
106msf59
Morning, Karen. Happy Sunday. I did not put in any LT time yesterday. We had a nice sleepover with Jack & Co. Boy, that kid has got a lot of energy. He was zooming around in his backyard, on one of his vehicles, at 10pm, while we sat around a fire. A perfect fall night. Playing PB with a friend this AM and then a Costco run, to stock up for the trip. We will also start packing the camper today. Enjoy your day.
107richardderus
>105 karenmarie: Torus Intercession looks very good indeed. I'll wishlist the first few. Mary Calmes does good work!
Enjoy feeding the freeloaders, feathery and fluffy. *smooch*
Enjoy feeding the freeloaders, feathery and fluffy. *smooch*
108streamsong
Good Sunday, Karen!
>72 karenmarie: Yes, I'm less than enamored with the WordleBot analyses. The Bot instantly knows all the possible words that are left after each guess and can then tailor its next response. I do use a website that lists all the Wordle words. Today it helped me find the final word to solve in threealien, rivet, dicey . It's the first three I've gotten in quite a while. Oh well.
I've never tried an online grocery order but lately I am really tempted. Albertsons is the only store offering that option here in small town Hamilton and they want **Lots** of info for their new app, so I haven't downloaded it. Are you happy with the fresh fruits and veggies you get by ordering online?
>72 karenmarie: Yes, I'm less than enamored with the WordleBot analyses. The Bot instantly knows all the possible words that are left after each guess and can then tailor its next response. I do use a website that lists all the Wordle words. Today it helped me find the final word to solve in three
I've never tried an online grocery order but lately I am really tempted. Albertsons is the only store offering that option here in small town Hamilton and they want **Lots** of info for their new app, so I haven't downloaded it. Are you happy with the fresh fruits and veggies you get by ordering online?
109Familyhistorian
Interesting to read your review of Huckleberry Finn and your initial attempts to read it, Karen. I've never read Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn, but I have the HF book on hold as I want to read it before James. Now I'm wondering if I'll get through the older book.
110LizzieD
A quick good night, Karen. I spent the afternoon napping and scrolling through fb - useless!
Your book club didn't meet today, did it? I'm eager to know what the women made of *HF*. I probably have another couple of comments I'd add about the ending. If you're interested, I'll drop you a PM.
Sleep well! I'm about to experiment with that thing.
Your book club didn't meet today, did it? I'm eager to know what the women made of *HF*. I probably have another couple of comments I'd add about the ending. If you're interested, I'll drop you a PM.
Sleep well! I'm about to experiment with that thing.
111msf59
Morning, Karen. You must be sleeping in. I am tending to the kids today and then PB. I will then resume packing for the trip. We got a lot done yesterday. Enjoy your day.
112karenmarie
>106 msf59: Hi Mark! Happy day after Sunday. Unusual for you to not visit, but I’m glad you had a sleepover with Jack & Co. PB then Costco, camper packing. All good stuff. Thanks re my day.
>107 richardderus: I’m really enjoying this series, RD. Feeders still need attention. 🙄
>108 streamsong: Hi Janet. I always use the possible Wordle words. I've put that list into a spreadsheet in one tab and the words used in another. I figure if I have taken the effort of keeping track of words used, I can use that list to keep from using them again. Yay for your three!
Hmm. The info my grocery store has asked for in relation to online shopping, in addition to the store card that gives me weekly savings and accumulates purchases by category and then gives me actual $$ credit to use, is standard stuff: name, address, phone #, credit card, store card #.
If you’d have asked me years ago if I am satisfied with the fresh fruits and vegetables by ordering online, I’d probably have said no because the store I use – Food Lion – used to have only adequate produce AND used to put 3 of an item (I'm remembering green peppers) in a Styrofoam tray and then use clear wrap, preventing you from seeing if they were hiding blemishes – which they frequently were. But they’ve really upped their game in recent years. Do I prefer to actually touch and smell what I can and sniff at the holes in containers for what I can’t? Yes. Is it still a crap shoot on peppers and other items that are sealed in plastic bags but that I can see all of? Yes. But Food Lion has a double your money back guarantee on produce, and I have used it on occasion over the years. They are more than happy to take the bad stuff back and issue me either a cash credit or a credit against the card I originally used on the order. The only thing is that you have to have your receipt, which is never a problem for me.
I just went to *finally* take a pic of the book club schedule so I’d have it on my cell phone, and see that I made a note next to Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder for November’s discussion – “Janet read along”. Did you or do you have Knife in your reading sights for November?
>109 Familyhistorian: Meg, for some reason, lying in bed the Thursday before Sunday book club, I decided to give it one last try, mostly out of respect for the woman whose book choice it was, but really because I’m trying hard this book club year to read all the books. I was unsuccessful with The End of the Affair by Graham Greene for August, but adored Remarkably Bright Creatures for September in addition to HF. Even the idea of December’s read depresses me – first, Ireland, second, “heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love”.
>110 LizzieD: I hope you slept well last night. Ah, FB doomscrolling. I doomscroll through YouTube. I’d love a PM so we can further discuss HF. But, here’s what book club thought at our meeting on your birthday.
>111 msf59: Hi Mark! I slept ‘til 7, when the alarm went off. Friends Board meeting at 10, and I like my morning routine too much to rush around. I punched the snooze ‘til 7:40, and have been here for a while, Wordling and writing this message. My only bird visitor is a Downy on the Suet Feeder, but I had a male Cardinal earlier. I hear the crows, a harbinger of fall out here. I usually don’t hear them any other time of the year. Yay for PB and kid tending, glad you’re continuing with the packing. Remind me if you can here, otherwise I’ll check your thread – where and for how long will you be gone?
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Friends Board meeting at 10. Chiropractor at 1:15. I placed the online grocery store order to time it for pickup after my chiropractic appointment. Reading and etc. otherwise.
>107 richardderus: I’m really enjoying this series, RD. Feeders still need attention. 🙄
>108 streamsong: Hi Janet. I always use the possible Wordle words. I've put that list into a spreadsheet in one tab and the words used in another. I figure if I have taken the effort of keeping track of words used, I can use that list to keep from using them again. Yay for your three!
Hmm. The info my grocery store has asked for in relation to online shopping, in addition to the store card that gives me weekly savings and accumulates purchases by category and then gives me actual $$ credit to use, is standard stuff: name, address, phone #, credit card, store card #.
If you’d have asked me years ago if I am satisfied with the fresh fruits and vegetables by ordering online, I’d probably have said no because the store I use – Food Lion – used to have only adequate produce AND used to put 3 of an item (I'm remembering green peppers) in a Styrofoam tray and then use clear wrap, preventing you from seeing if they were hiding blemishes – which they frequently were. But they’ve really upped their game in recent years. Do I prefer to actually touch and smell what I can and sniff at the holes in containers for what I can’t? Yes. Is it still a crap shoot on peppers and other items that are sealed in plastic bags but that I can see all of? Yes. But Food Lion has a double your money back guarantee on produce, and I have used it on occasion over the years. They are more than happy to take the bad stuff back and issue me either a cash credit or a credit against the card I originally used on the order. The only thing is that you have to have your receipt, which is never a problem for me.
I just went to *finally* take a pic of the book club schedule so I’d have it on my cell phone, and see that I made a note next to Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder for November’s discussion – “Janet read along”. Did you or do you have Knife in your reading sights for November?
>109 Familyhistorian: Meg, for some reason, lying in bed the Thursday before Sunday book club, I decided to give it one last try, mostly out of respect for the woman whose book choice it was, but really because I’m trying hard this book club year to read all the books. I was unsuccessful with The End of the Affair by Graham Greene for August, but adored Remarkably Bright Creatures for September in addition to HF. Even the idea of December’s read depresses me – first, Ireland, second, “heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love”.
An international bestseller and one of The Times’ “Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century,” Claire Keegan’s piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the USDon’t get me wrong – I have ancestors from Ireland AND Northern Ireland, but have always somewhat irrationally shied away from the emotional angst that seems to accompany novels about Ireland.
It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas’ house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household—where everything is so well tended to—and this summer must soon come to an end.
Winner of the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award and published in an abridged version in the New Yorker,this internationally bestselling contemporary classic is now available for the first time in the US in a full, standalone edition. A story of astonishing emotional depth, Foster showcases Claire Keegan’s great talent and secures her reputation as one of our most important storytellers.
>110 LizzieD: I hope you slept well last night. Ah, FB doomscrolling. I doomscroll through YouTube. I’d love a PM so we can further discuss HF. But, here’s what book club thought at our meeting on your birthday.
- Two of the ten, nine of them at the meeting, hadn’t finished it. One planned on finishing it, the other abandoned it halfway through. Not surprising, as Steph prefers contemporary fiction, usually novelized versions of artists’ lives.
- Everybody was unhappy with the use of the N word, myself included. Most of us, however, recognized it as being part of the times.
- Most didn’t like Tom Sawyer’s appearance near the end.
- Quite a few were bored with the bits about rafting and the Mississippi – those were parts I absolutely loved.
- Huck and Jim being naked on the raft was mentioned several times. It did not stand out to me other than as a reminder that we're a lot more buttoned down now than then. I inferred that the nakedness was to keep their one set of clothes dry.
- Everybody who finished it was glad to have done so in anticipation of reading James.
>111 msf59: Hi Mark! I slept ‘til 7, when the alarm went off. Friends Board meeting at 10, and I like my morning routine too much to rush around. I punched the snooze ‘til 7:40, and have been here for a while, Wordling and writing this message. My only bird visitor is a Downy on the Suet Feeder, but I had a male Cardinal earlier. I hear the crows, a harbinger of fall out here. I usually don’t hear them any other time of the year. Yay for PB and kid tending, glad you’re continuing with the packing. Remind me if you can here, otherwise I’ll check your thread – where and for how long will you be gone?
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>112 karenmarie: So will you be Virlie's-munching later, or is that only after book-fondling? Good session with the chiropractor today!
I focused on French noir novels, three of 'em, today, so no book-bullet danger from me there. Tomorrow's two more klaxon reads, so no risk to your TBR there, really. I've got to get diabolical for Wednesday, obviously. *evil book-bulleting smirk*
I focused on French noir novels, three of 'em, today, so no book-bullet danger from me there. Tomorrow's two more klaxon reads, so no risk to your TBR there, really. I've got to get diabolical for Wednesday, obviously. *evil book-bulleting smirk*
114lauralkeet
>112 karenmarie: Hi Karen! I just wanted to put in a plug for Claire Keegan's Foster. I found it moving more than depressing. Also: it's really short! Keegan has a unique talent for packing a lot into a story despite very economic prose. Although I recommend savoring it, you could read it in a day or maybe even a single sitting.
115quondame
>112 karenmarie: As to Foster, I am with you on avoiding Irish themed works, but it is a bit different, and if not lighter it just didn't hit the way so many have.
Totally agree with >114 lauralkeet:
Totally agree with >114 lauralkeet:
116msf59
Morning, Karen. We will be heading out in a couple of hours. We will be returning to Kentucky for our final camping trip. We will be back on Sunday. Our weather has been gorgeous and it looks like that will continue in KY. Have a good and healthy week.
117karenmarie
>113 richardderus: Hiya, RD. We only go to Virlie’s after book fondling. So tomorrow I have to gird my loins and see if I can resist the lure of a RDBB? *smooch*
>114 lauralkeet: Good to know, Laura. Short works for me. It might be like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for me – get thoroughly engrossed and completely love it. Thank you for the encouragement.
>115 quondame: If not lighter, Susan, still an endorsement, so thank you for chiming in.
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The Friends Board Meeting was informative and held to an hour. I got away without any homework, so there's that. I stopped by the book sort room and found a perfect trade paperback copy of Close to Death, fifth in the Hawthorne & Horowitz series by Anthony Horowitz. I have 1-3 and now 5, have read 1 and 2. The Chiropractor's was helpful, picked up our grocery order and between Bill and I we got everything where it needed to go. Reading, chatting with Jenna, watching New Tricks.
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Book sorting this morning, although I might go a bit later than 9 a.m. I will have to just sit and sort, letting others actually take the books to the cubbies for me. Sigh. Virlie's for sure after.
At two I'm going to go over to the antique store where I bought the cabinet earlier this year. Bob has another one he thinks I might like and is holding it for me. It doesn't have the stained glass, but it looks good. Here's the one I have.
Anybody want a piano? I'm going to start putting book cases down the long wall from the foyer to the living room, and right now there's a Kawai piano and a small desk. I'll keep the desk, but the piano really needs to go. People don't want pianos any more, and we don't have any sentimental need to keep this one. None of us can play, either.
Books, bird feeders, prep work for Vegetable Beef Soup. I'll make it tomorrow since Arsenal plays in the Champions League at 3 today.
Otherwise, a bit of adulting and reading and Lightning round and spreadsheet updating.
>114 lauralkeet: Good to know, Laura. Short works for me. It might be like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for me – get thoroughly engrossed and completely love it. Thank you for the encouragement.
>115 quondame: If not lighter, Susan, still an endorsement, so thank you for chiming in.
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The Friends Board Meeting was informative and held to an hour. I got away without any homework, so there's that. I stopped by the book sort room and found a perfect trade paperback copy of Close to Death, fifth in the Hawthorne & Horowitz series by Anthony Horowitz. I have 1-3 and now 5, have read 1 and 2. The Chiropractor's was helpful, picked up our grocery order and between Bill and I we got everything where it needed to go. Reading, chatting with Jenna, watching New Tricks.
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Book sorting this morning, although I might go a bit later than 9 a.m. I will have to just sit and sort, letting others actually take the books to the cubbies for me. Sigh. Virlie's for sure after.
At two I'm going to go over to the antique store where I bought the cabinet earlier this year. Bob has another one he thinks I might like and is holding it for me. It doesn't have the stained glass, but it looks good. Here's the one I have.
Anybody want a piano? I'm going to start putting book cases down the long wall from the foyer to the living room, and right now there's a Kawai piano and a small desk. I'll keep the desk, but the piano really needs to go. People don't want pianos any more, and we don't have any sentimental need to keep this one. None of us can play, either.
Books, bird feeders, prep work for Vegetable Beef Soup. I'll make it tomorrow since Arsenal plays in the Champions League at 3 today.
Otherwise, a bit of adulting and reading and Lightning round and spreadsheet updating.
118LizzieD
Sounds like a busy day for you, Karen. I hope that the adulting isn't too onerous. I am evading mine.
119karenmarie
>118 LizzieD: Hi Peggy! It was very busy. Good busy, but still.
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Book sort, which yesterday meant sitting at a table in the Library, not being in the book sort room, and having boxes of books brought over to me to go through. I foresee it being this way for at least 3-4 weeks, but that's okay. There were 8 of us at Virlie's, lots of good discussions.
Home, then back out to see if the cabinet Bob thought might work for me actually would work for me, and it does. I paid him and now need to figure out a place for it so he can bring it out here. Here's how Bob described it in his original email: "It is quarter-sawn oak with the original Larkin soap label on the back. Most likely from the 1890s. The soap company provided the cabinet to dealers to display the soap in their stores. Very unusual to find one in this good of shape."
Arsenal played Shakhtar in the Champions League and squeaked out a 1-0 win on an own goal by the Shakhtar goalkeeper.
New Tricks, reading, and etc.
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I have to take my SUV for an oil change at 1 p.m. I was going to stop by Walmart to buy Smuckers Simply Fruit Seeded Red Raspberry, but they don't carry it in the store in the town I'm getting my oil changed in, drat it. They do carry it at the next closest store, but I won't go there today. Glad I checked.
So, all the usual things, along with a bit of adulting that I started yesterday.
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Book sort, which yesterday meant sitting at a table in the Library, not being in the book sort room, and having boxes of books brought over to me to go through. I foresee it being this way for at least 3-4 weeks, but that's okay. There were 8 of us at Virlie's, lots of good discussions.
Home, then back out to see if the cabinet Bob thought might work for me actually would work for me, and it does. I paid him and now need to figure out a place for it so he can bring it out here. Here's how Bob described it in his original email: "It is quarter-sawn oak with the original Larkin soap label on the back. Most likely from the 1890s. The soap company provided the cabinet to dealers to display the soap in their stores. Very unusual to find one in this good of shape."
Arsenal played Shakhtar in the Champions League and squeaked out a 1-0 win on an own goal by the Shakhtar goalkeeper.
New Tricks, reading, and etc.
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I have to take my SUV for an oil change at 1 p.m. I was going to stop by Walmart to buy Smuckers Simply Fruit Seeded Red Raspberry, but they don't carry it in the store in the town I'm getting my oil changed in, drat it. They do carry it at the next closest store, but I won't go there today. Glad I checked.
So, all the usual things, along with a bit of adulting that I started yesterday.
120alcottacre
I am not even trying to catch up, Karen, but came by to check and see how you are doing. I hope all is well there!
121karenmarie
Hi Stasia!
All is okay here. Parts are well, parts are crappy. In other words, life.
I hope you're doing well, too.
All is okay here. Parts are well, parts are crappy. In other words, life.
I hope you're doing well, too.
122lauralkeet
That cabinet looks fabulous, Karen. This may be a stupid question, but will you use it to shelve books?
123karenmarie
Hi Laura, and thank you. Not stupid, but yes, books. *happy dance*
124figsfromthistle
>117 karenmarie: I love that bookcase. My parents have a similar antique one filled with books in the sunroom. Every time I open the doors it smells like a wonderful old library :)
How did you end up having a piano when none of you play it? Was it just used as decoration? I know that you could probably post it online on marketplace as there are a lot of beginning music students who would love to have a piano free.
>119 karenmarie: Did you end up buying it? Looks like it would fit nicely beside the one you already have. I must confess I love going to antique places and hunting for unique items. There is a antique mall 20min away from where I live and the space is divided into booths with various vendors. I always come back with something. I try to go once a month. Last month I found a nice piece of pottery ( a bowl with a lid).
Anyhow Happy Wednesday!
How did you end up having a piano when none of you play it? Was it just used as decoration? I know that you could probably post it online on marketplace as there are a lot of beginning music students who would love to have a piano free.
>119 karenmarie: Did you end up buying it? Looks like it would fit nicely beside the one you already have. I must confess I love going to antique places and hunting for unique items. There is a antique mall 20min away from where I live and the space is divided into booths with various vendors. I always come back with something. I try to go once a month. Last month I found a nice piece of pottery ( a bowl with a lid).
Anyhow Happy Wednesday!
125LizzieD
>119 karenmarie: Very handsome!!!! I'm glad that you have it and can't wait to see it in place and full of handsome books!!!!!
126streamsong
Love that cabinet! And what a neat history! I didn't know I need glass doored cabinets, but now having seen your two, I will definitely keep my eye out.
So I've give up on the comments of the self-rightous (ha!) wordle bot - but now I read a few of the human comments on the day's wordle and they are much more interesting. 4 for me today.
So I've give up on the comments of the self-rightous (ha!) wordle bot - but now I read a few of the human comments on the day's wordle and they are much more interesting. 4 for me today.
127richardderus
>119 karenmarie: Beautiful bookcase! I'm in Valerie's hotel room discussing dinner plans. *smooch*
128karenmarie
>124 figsfromthistle: Hi Anita! Thank you re the book case. The smell of books is an aphrodisiac. When I’m not sleeping in the Library, which I am still doing right now, the Library stays closed off except when I’m in there and after a while the books come out of hiding and share their scents.
The piano belonged to Bill’s mother. I remember her playing it at the last house she owned in Mooresville, NC, and somewhere I have a pic of Jenna in her lap with her, them picking out a few songs together. Never just a decoration – I have a friend who was appalled when I said we didn’t want to keep it any more because anybody coming in would see it and be impressed. Harrumph. It has had its place here, but now it needs to go to someone who’ll use it.
I posted it with a dealer in used Kawai pianos yesterday, simply saying the model/serial#s, provenance, and asked if they are interested.
I’m like you and love antique shops and used book stores. 20 minutes away is great, and going regularly is the key with antique and used-anything stores.
I hope your Wednesday was good.
>125 LizzieD: Hi Peggy. Thanks. It actually looks better than that pic – the finish is intact, all shiny and burnished, and the quarter-sawn oak has a beautiful pattern. I didn’t know that adjustable shelves had been around forever. The pins are original. And Bob showed me a huge case with sawtooth shelving that I lusted after. It’s too big for the space I have, but I had never seen sawtooth or adjustable cleat shelving before. Sigh.
>126 streamsong: Hi Janet, and thank you. Karen and I discussed lawyers book cases years ago, and I originally wanted those but like the double-door/glass shelves of the one I have and the one that I’ll get soon. Looks like you’ve got quite a few options right there in Hamilton. Pittsboro used to be a destination spot for people wanting antiques, with perhaps 10-15 stores right in town, but now there’s only one, I think. Once the bypass was built, things changed.
Yay for your 4 on Wordle yesterday. Took me 4 today, as you can see below.
>127 richardderus: Thanks, RD! And yay for being with Valerie discussing dinner plans. Where did you go and what did you have??? *smooch*
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Laundry folded and put up, ugh. I'm missing one sock from a favorite winter pair and a another complete pair of winter socks, darn it. Oil changed and various and sundry other things done, including tire rotation. I'm always happy when they don't come back and say I need new tires.
I took the photos off the top of the 1977 Kawai piano, polished the top, and opened it up to find the model # and serial #.
Other than that, just the usual - reading, napping. Chatted with Jenna and Karen, watched two episodes of New Tricks with Bill.
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Probably lunch with Rita today, but it depends on if she gets last minute demands placed on her as Branch Librarian for our Library. Depending on the wait time after our late lunch, I may early vote. The bird feeders need attention, too.
The piano belonged to Bill’s mother. I remember her playing it at the last house she owned in Mooresville, NC, and somewhere I have a pic of Jenna in her lap with her, them picking out a few songs together. Never just a decoration – I have a friend who was appalled when I said we didn’t want to keep it any more because anybody coming in would see it and be impressed. Harrumph. It has had its place here, but now it needs to go to someone who’ll use it.
I posted it with a dealer in used Kawai pianos yesterday, simply saying the model/serial#s, provenance, and asked if they are interested.
I’m like you and love antique shops and used book stores. 20 minutes away is great, and going regularly is the key with antique and used-anything stores.
I hope your Wednesday was good.
>125 LizzieD: Hi Peggy. Thanks. It actually looks better than that pic – the finish is intact, all shiny and burnished, and the quarter-sawn oak has a beautiful pattern. I didn’t know that adjustable shelves had been around forever. The pins are original. And Bob showed me a huge case with sawtooth shelving that I lusted after. It’s too big for the space I have, but I had never seen sawtooth or adjustable cleat shelving before. Sigh.
>126 streamsong: Hi Janet, and thank you. Karen and I discussed lawyers book cases years ago, and I originally wanted those but like the double-door/glass shelves of the one I have and the one that I’ll get soon. Looks like you’ve got quite a few options right there in Hamilton. Pittsboro used to be a destination spot for people wanting antiques, with perhaps 10-15 stores right in town, but now there’s only one, I think. Once the bypass was built, things changed.
Yay for your 4 on Wordle yesterday. Took me 4 today, as you can see below.
>127 richardderus: Thanks, RD! And yay for being with Valerie discussing dinner plans. Where did you go and what did you have??? *smooch*
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Laundry folded and put up, ugh. I'm missing one sock from a favorite winter pair and a another complete pair of winter socks, darn it. Oil changed and various and sundry other things done, including tire rotation. I'm always happy when they don't come back and say I need new tires.
I took the photos off the top of the 1977 Kawai piano, polished the top, and opened it up to find the model # and serial #.
Other than that, just the usual - reading, napping. Chatted with Jenna and Karen, watched two episodes of New Tricks with Bill.
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Probably lunch with Rita today, but it depends on if she gets last minute demands placed on her as Branch Librarian for our Library. Depending on the wait time after our late lunch, I may early vote. The bird feeders need attention, too.
129LizzieD
I just looked at pictures of sawtooth shelving - WOW! I had wondered whether your new shelves were adjustable and maybe whether there might be another shelf available.
Good luck on getting the piano to a good new home. I really, really, really need to get back to mine before nothing is left in my fingers but arthritis. Ditto for that cello.
I had a good reading day yesterday, but today I find myself caught up in the second of Sulari Gentill's Rowland Sinclair mysteries, A Decline in Prophets. Both Tui and my friend who sends me her books love the series, set in Australia (mostly Sydney) in the 1930s. I liked the first one well enough, but I'm engrossed with this one. Less progress in my other two October reads.......oh well.
Good luck on getting the piano to a good new home. I really, really, really need to get back to mine before nothing is left in my fingers but arthritis. Ditto for that cello.
I had a good reading day yesterday, but today I find myself caught up in the second of Sulari Gentill's Rowland Sinclair mysteries, A Decline in Prophets. Both Tui and my friend who sends me her books love the series, set in Australia (mostly Sydney) in the 1930s. I liked the first one well enough, but I'm engrossed with this one. Less progress in my other two October reads.......oh well.
130quondame
>128 karenmarie: >129 LizzieD: I had to look up sawtooth shelving as well. Interesting and it looks more sturdy than pegs though it requires some shaping on the shelves themselves.
131karenmarie
>129 LizzieD: Isn’t sawtooth shelving wonderful, Peggy? Especially seeing it in a piece literally next to the one I was looking at. Hickory Mountain Antiques, Bob’s store, is fantastic.
I may have a lead on actually selling the piano to a piano store in Raleigh. Looked up ‘used pianos Raleigh NC’ and there it was, Maus Piano & Organ Company. Michael wanted photos. Ball’s back in their court.
You have a piano and a spinet, right? And cello – my mother and her sister both played cello growing up and through college. My aunt ended up playing with a chamber group when she lived in Tucson with my Uncle in the 1980s-1990s, too.
I can’t find one of my mom on cello offhand, but here’s one of my Aunt Joyce, on the right at the U of Iowa ~1954.
Aargh! You gave me a book bullet. I got the first in the Rowland Sinclair series for my Kindle. I love mysteries set in the 1930s.
>130 quondame: Much more skilled carpentry required, of course, but it is gorgeous.
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Plans changed yesterday. Rita couldn't go to lunch. I mentioned this to Jenna since she had the day off and we ended up voting AND going to lunch at Mi Cancun, a good, if not cheap, Mexican Restaurant across from the high school up 15-501. Otherwise, still on the hunt for a missing winter sock from one pair and an entire pair of winter socks. Reading, napping, leftover lunch for dinner, two episodes of New Tricks. Laura -Jack's missing after the trial returned a verdict of not guilty for the man who killed his wife. Brian is sure he's coming back, nobody else is. Is this the main character you mentioned a while back?
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PT at 1 p.m., otherwise not much else. I do see on my calendar that today's Julia's birthday. Sigh. I miss her.
I may have a lead on actually selling the piano to a piano store in Raleigh. Looked up ‘used pianos Raleigh NC’ and there it was, Maus Piano & Organ Company. Michael wanted photos. Ball’s back in their court.
You have a piano and a spinet, right? And cello – my mother and her sister both played cello growing up and through college. My aunt ended up playing with a chamber group when she lived in Tucson with my Uncle in the 1980s-1990s, too.
I can’t find one of my mom on cello offhand, but here’s one of my Aunt Joyce, on the right at the U of Iowa ~1954.
Aargh! You gave me a book bullet. I got the first in the Rowland Sinclair series for my Kindle. I love mysteries set in the 1930s.
>130 quondame: Much more skilled carpentry required, of course, but it is gorgeous.
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PT at 1 p.m., otherwise not much else. I do see on my calendar that today's Julia's birthday. Sigh. I miss her.
132SilverWolf28
Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/365276
133richardderus
>128 karenmarie: Hiya smoochling. We ate our evening meals at the Laurel Diner near my house and also her hotel...she can't get solid, well-made murrikan diner grub in her posh suburb of Dallas. I'm thrilled because I've eaten a cheeseburger a day cooked rare (!!!) and absolutely gloriously fatty, salty, and onion-y. Fries, of course, though very few of the hillock of them served...and in three days I ate an entire two-layer cream-cheese-frosted carrot cake! Breakfast always the same...bagels, lox, capers for my dear Valerie, bacon, bacon, and bacon served with some carbohydrate or another for me, in the hotel's beautiful oceanview cafe.
I shudder to think what my blood work will say in November, but je ne regret rien.
I'm so tired from riding in that ghastly little Nissan Rogue I'm going to give myself a long afternoon nap now. *smooch*
I shudder to think what my blood work will say in November, but je ne regret rien.
I'm so tired from riding in that ghastly little Nissan Rogue I'm going to give myself a long afternoon nap now. *smooch*
134karenmarie
>133 richardderus: Hiya, RD! Oooh, the food sounds wonderful. The menu, awesome.
You so rarely get decent food, so yes, let November's bloodwork wait for November.
And, yay for naps. *smooch*
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PT. Emailing back and forth with the piano company, the upshot being that they will take it on consignment, 50/50 split. They think they can get $1500-$2000 for it. They're coming out Tuesday. I just sent an email to Bob telling him he can bring the book case out anytime after next Tuesday, so I'll have a new book case by the end of the week in its forever home.
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Home, brekkie and coffee. Reading, napping, too. I'll finish making the soup today. It's about time, because my original plan was to make it about 2 months ago.
You so rarely get decent food, so yes, let November's bloodwork wait for November.
And, yay for naps. *smooch*
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PT. Emailing back and forth with the piano company, the upshot being that they will take it on consignment, 50/50 split. They think they can get $1500-$2000 for it. They're coming out Tuesday. I just sent an email to Bob telling him he can bring the book case out anytime after next Tuesday, so I'll have a new book case by the end of the week in its forever home.
I started making the Vegetable Beef soup by cooking onions with ground beef, draining, and putting it up. I
New Tricks, reading.
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Well, this morning I had an MRI because they found a little something on the CT scan I had during my September Troubles. It's most likely nothing, but...
Home, brekkie and coffee. Reading, napping, too. I'll finish making the soup today. It's about time, because my original plan was to make it about 2 months ago.
135quondame
>134 karenmarie: May MRI show the little something to be entirely nothing.
136vancouverdeb
The Vegetable soup sounds good, Karen. I have yet to make a soup this autumn. I have a hamburger veggie soup that I make, as well as a minestrone soup. It's cooling off outside, so that might get me to making soup. I hope your little something is just that. Dave had a CT scan 5 years ago as he fell and fractured 2 ribs and 4 spinal processes . They coudn't see the fractures without the CT scan, but they found a small growth on his pancreas. So from there he had several more CT scans and MRI's and finally a endoscopy, during which the doctor was going to take a biopsy, but he thought it looked fine and didn't take a biopsy. So, that's an example of finding a little something that turned out to not be of concern. I hope yours is the same. It did worry me though.
137karenmarie
>135 quondame: Thank you, Susan. Entirely nothing sounds perfect to me.
>136 vancouverdeb: Hi Deborah. The soup I made is hamburger vegetable, although I call it Beef Vegetable. I just looked at Minestrone recipes and think I might try that in a couple of weeks.
I can't thank you enough for sharing the story of Dave's fall and CT scan. It's exactly what's happening to me - I fell and either fractured or aggravated an old T12 compression fracture. I had a CT scan, and they found a small lesion on my pancreas. The MRI was yesterday, no results yet.
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After coming home from the MRI, I read for a while. I filled the bird feeders, read some more, and finished making the soup. I got ambitious and made garlic toast, and it was so yummy. Instead of 5 minutes at 350F, it's 7 minutes at 350F then the broiler for 2 minutes. This oven takes longer for the broiler to heat up, so what would have been 1 minute on the old one is definitely 2 on this one.
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Jenna and Hwan are going to work on Jenna's storage unit today. It's about 3 miles from our house. They'll borrow my SUV and bring things that Jenna wants to keep over here. Jenna never wanted the furniture she had, but it was functional and free, so my guess is that if it's still in good shape after being in the storage unit for 2.5 years, she'll donate it to Habitat. Ditto other things, although I expect her IKEA bookcases to come home and her books. I also told her to look for her grandmother's cast iron skillets. Don't know what else she'll want to store here. I'm pretty sure very few things will make it to their apartment.
She's bringing a chocolate chocolate chip bundtlet and a carrot cake bundtlet for us by request since she worked yesterday. If they want to stay for soup they can, if not, and they want some, I'll send it home with them.
Arsenal play Liverpool at 12:30 today. It's a critical game. If Arsenal win, they move to 3rd in the table, if they tie they move to 3rd in the table by goal differential, if they lose, they stay in 4th.
>136 vancouverdeb: Hi Deborah. The soup I made is hamburger vegetable, although I call it Beef Vegetable. I just looked at Minestrone recipes and think I might try that in a couple of weeks.
I can't thank you enough for sharing the story of Dave's fall and CT scan. It's exactly what's happening to me - I fell and either fractured or aggravated an old T12 compression fracture. I had a CT scan, and they found a small lesion on my pancreas. The MRI was yesterday, no results yet.
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After coming home from the MRI, I read for a while. I filled the bird feeders, read some more, and finished making the soup. I got ambitious and made garlic toast, and it was so yummy. Instead of 5 minutes at 350F, it's 7 minutes at 350F then the broiler for 2 minutes. This oven takes longer for the broiler to heat up, so what would have been 1 minute on the old one is definitely 2 on this one.
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Jenna and Hwan are going to work on Jenna's storage unit today. It's about 3 miles from our house. They'll borrow my SUV and bring things that Jenna wants to keep over here. Jenna never wanted the furniture she had, but it was functional and free, so my guess is that if it's still in good shape after being in the storage unit for 2.5 years, she'll donate it to Habitat. Ditto other things, although I expect her IKEA bookcases to come home and her books. I also told her to look for her grandmother's cast iron skillets. Don't know what else she'll want to store here. I'm pretty sure very few things will make it to their apartment.
She's bringing a chocolate chocolate chip bundtlet and a carrot cake bundtlet for us by request since she worked yesterday. If they want to stay for soup they can, if not, and they want some, I'll send it home with them.
Arsenal play Liverpool at 12:30 today. It's a critical game. If Arsenal win, they move to 3rd in the table, if they tie they move to 3rd in the table by goal differential, if they lose, they stay in 4th.
138elorin
Drive by greetings. I caught up on your thread and I am sending well wishes for the back pain.
139richardderus
Forza Arsenal! (or whatever it is y'all holler)
Enjoy the Hwanna visit, and the nummy bundts. I hope to hear only the best things about the carrot one. Cast iron ought to be in great shape...I had my father's mother's Dutch oven for decades and it was new in 1911. It ended up with my daughter so it's probably still going strong. Are you repossessing them, or are they moving on to the Jenwan abode?
*smooch* for a smooth, tasty Sunday.
Enjoy the Hwanna visit, and the nummy bundts. I hope to hear only the best things about the carrot one. Cast iron ought to be in great shape...I had my father's mother's Dutch oven for decades and it was new in 1911. It ended up with my daughter so it's probably still going strong. Are you repossessing them, or are they moving on to the Jenwan abode?
*smooch* for a smooth, tasty Sunday.
140msf59
Morning, Karen. Back home. Back to my routine. Details about the trip are over on my thread. Short version- good time. I tend to the kids today. I will play PB for a short time and then come back and winterize the camper. Once I bring the truck back this afternoon, I will take it back to storage. Busy, busy...Oh yeah- I also need to tend to those feeders.
I hope all is well with you. Keep us updated on the MRI results.
I hope all is well with you. Keep us updated on the MRI results.
141Whisper1
>137 karenmarie: Karen, I'm sending all good wishes that the results from your recent MRI are positive.
142karenmarie
>138 elorin: Hi Robyn, and thank you.
>139 richardderus: Hiya, RDear. Arsenal ended up with a draw, putting them in 3rd place. They were up twice, and Liverpool equalized it twice. Haven't tried the Bundtlet yet, it's in the refrigerator. I might have some for brekkie.
>140 msf59: 'Morning, Mark! Glad you're back, sounds like a busy day. I'm hanging in there, thanks.
>141 Whisper1: Hi Linda, and thank you.
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I needed Italian bread and fresh garlic plus a few other things, and I had to put gas in my SUV for Jenna and Hwan to borrow to bring things over from her storage unit, so I went out about 10 a.m. They came over about 11, took the SUV. Jenna was happily surprised that there was no damage to her books even though she didn't get a climate-controlled unit 2.5 years ago. They brought over many boxes of books, a very nice oval hardwood coffee table from her paternal grandfather/step-grandmother Kay that Jenna put in the Retreat for me, and boxes of kitchen stuff, one of which I hope holds the cast iron skillets. If they're there, I'll repossess them since Jenna didn't ever use them in the 10 years she had them. All boxes got put upstairs in the Media Room, so I might go up there this week and see what's what. I also need to repossess the Harry Potter books since I loaned them to Jenna aeons ago. There were also 2 small hardwood tables that I'd forgotten about, frankly, and various and sundry small stuff. I offered her grandmother's secretary desk with drop-down lid. She's considering it. I need the wall space for book cases...
Leftover soup and garlic toast made with fresh garlic, EVOO, salt, and dried basil, with the special ingredient of a pinch of garlic powder on each slice. I also sent home a Tupperware of soup for Hwanna/Jenwan.
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Chiropractor today, and that's it except for the usual things.
>139 richardderus: Hiya, RDear. Arsenal ended up with a draw, putting them in 3rd place. They were up twice, and Liverpool equalized it twice. Haven't tried the Bundtlet yet, it's in the refrigerator. I might have some for brekkie.
>140 msf59: 'Morning, Mark! Glad you're back, sounds like a busy day. I'm hanging in there, thanks.
>141 Whisper1: Hi Linda, and thank you.
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I needed Italian bread and fresh garlic plus a few other things, and I had to put gas in my SUV for Jenna and Hwan to borrow to bring things over from her storage unit, so I went out about 10 a.m. They came over about 11, took the SUV. Jenna was happily surprised that there was no damage to her books even though she didn't get a climate-controlled unit 2.5 years ago. They brought over many boxes of books, a very nice oval hardwood coffee table from her paternal grandfather/step-grandmother Kay that Jenna put in the Retreat for me, and boxes of kitchen stuff, one of which I hope holds the cast iron skillets. If they're there, I'll repossess them since Jenna didn't ever use them in the 10 years she had them. All boxes got put upstairs in the Media Room, so I might go up there this week and see what's what. I also need to repossess the Harry Potter books since I loaned them to Jenna aeons ago. There were also 2 small hardwood tables that I'd forgotten about, frankly, and various and sundry small stuff. I offered her grandmother's secretary desk with drop-down lid. She's considering it. I need the wall space for book cases...
Leftover soup and garlic toast made with fresh garlic, EVOO, salt, and dried basil, with the special ingredient of a pinch of garlic powder on each slice. I also sent home a Tupperware of soup for Hwanna/Jenwan.
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Chiropractor today, and that's it except for the usual things.
143richardderus
>142 karenmarie: Sounds like a lovely day was had by all, Horrible. I'm glad you're fully done after the chiropractor nonetheless so you can continue the healing you need to prioritize.
*smooch*
*smooch*
144karenmarie
Hiya, RD. Yes, it was a lovely day. I'm home after the chiropractor, in jammies, going to lie down for a while.
And you're right, I need to prioritize the healing. No more bending, lifting, or twisting today, no more leaning forward, which puts pressure on the T12 disc, and no more putting one ankle on the opposite knee, which isn't good for my hips. More don'ts than do's, alas.
But I did a load of laundry, which is currently in the dryer.
And you're right, I need to prioritize the healing. No more bending, lifting, or twisting today, no more leaning forward, which puts pressure on the T12 disc, and no more putting one ankle on the opposite knee, which isn't good for my hips. More don'ts than do's, alas.
But I did a load of laundry, which is currently in the dryer.
145atozgrl
>142 karenmarie: It sounds like you had a busy day today, Karen! Lots of interesting things to go through now. I hope you find what you are looking for. Oh, a secretary desk! I love those old things. The garlic bread and the soup sound wonderful.
And I too am hoping for all good results from your MRI! Do rest your back.
Wordle in 3 for me today as well. I had a lucky guess tryingBA as the first two letters.
And I too am hoping for all good results from your MRI! Do rest your back.
Wordle in 3 for me today as well. I had a lucky guess trying
146karenmarie
>145 atozgrl: Hi Irene! Busy day yesterday, busier day today. Thanks re my back and resting it.
Lucky guesses are wonderful, congrats on your 3.
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I did go upstairs to the Media Room yesterday, but I looked in 2 "Kitchen" boxes and didn't see the skillets. I didn't move boxes to get to stacked ones. Didn't open any of the book boxes, alas.
We love leftovers, so once again had soup and garlic toast. Watched 2 episodes of New Tricks.
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I can't believe how busy today's going to be. Things always get scheduled on top of one another. Tomorrow's another one - HVAC guys in the 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. window and the book case being delivered at 11 a.m.
No book sorting today, too much going on, and even though I'd be sitting down and would have books brought out and taken into the sort room, just don't have the wherewithal to do that and all the rest going on. Plus, back. Sigh.
11 - 12 piano removed, taken for consignment
12:30 meeting a friend at Jenna's storage unit so he can bring the IKEA bookcases here. Tall, narrow. I have a place for them IF I can get a very weird secretary desk out of the corner near the Library. Otherwise, they'll go on the wall with the other two bookcases. I'm hoping Jenna does want the other secretary desk, to free up the long wall.
Weird secretary desk, one I'm hoping Jenna takes.
quick jaunt into town to get cash for the cleaning ladies, forgot to do that yesterday 🙄
1-3:30 or so cleaning ladies. I'm going to ask them to take the bed linens upstairs so I can start sleeping up there again.
Comfort re-read - Damaged Like Us, 2nd re-read. I've started Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder for November's book club read on the 10th of November.
I culled 7 books yesterday.
Lucky guesses are wonderful, congrats on your 3.
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I did go upstairs to the Media Room yesterday, but I looked in 2 "Kitchen" boxes and didn't see the skillets. I didn't move boxes to get to stacked ones. Didn't open any of the book boxes, alas.
We love leftovers, so once again had soup and garlic toast. Watched 2 episodes of New Tricks.
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I can't believe how busy today's going to be. Things always get scheduled on top of one another. Tomorrow's another one - HVAC guys in the 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. window and the book case being delivered at 11 a.m.
No book sorting today, too much going on, and even though I'd be sitting down and would have books brought out and taken into the sort room, just don't have the wherewithal to do that and all the rest going on. Plus, back. Sigh.
11 - 12 piano removed, taken for consignment
12:30 meeting a friend at Jenna's storage unit so he can bring the IKEA bookcases here. Tall, narrow. I have a place for them IF I can get a very weird secretary desk out of the corner near the Library. Otherwise, they'll go on the wall with the other two bookcases. I'm hoping Jenna does want the other secretary desk, to free up the long wall.
Weird secretary desk, one I'm hoping Jenna takes.
quick jaunt into town to get cash for the cleaning ladies, forgot to do that yesterday 🙄
1-3:30 or so cleaning ladies. I'm going to ask them to take the bed linens upstairs so I can start sleeping up there again.
Comfort re-read - Damaged Like Us, 2nd re-read. I've started Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder for November's book club read on the 10th of November.
I culled 7 books yesterday.
147msf59
Morning, Karen. I am interested in your thoughts about "Knife". Hooray for book cull. I have my usual AM routine. Bree will be dropping Jack off later. I believe he will be spending the night, so I should get plenty of Jack time in. We miss him.
148alcottacre
Checking in on you, Karen! I hope you have a terrific Tuesday!
149karenmarie
>147 msf59: So far, Mark, I'm pleased with Knife. It's engaging. However, the attack is described in horrifying detail, which I don't like reading particularly, but need to read to understand what really happened.
I've looked at the Wikipedia entry for Rushdie just to get some background. Glad to hear that Jack's coming by and might be spending the night.
>148 alcottacre: Hi Stasia, and thank you. My Tuesday will be busy and, I hope, terrific. Piano out, clean house, and etc.
I've looked at the Wikipedia entry for Rushdie just to get some background. Glad to hear that Jack's coming by and might be spending the night.
>148 alcottacre: Hi Stasia, and thank you. My Tuesday will be busy and, I hope, terrific. Piano out, clean house, and etc.
150karenmarie
In pursuit of actually finishing Knife, I'm continuing this morning. It's a dense book, in that if you try to skim you're going to miss a lot. So, I'm only on page 30. This got my attention just now. I'm going to extensively quote:
I have always been interested in writing about happiness, in large part because it's extremely difficult to do. The French writer Henry de Montherlant famously said "Le bonheur écrit à l'encre blanche sur des pages blanches." Happiness writes in white ink on white pages. In other words, you can't make it appear on the page. It's invisible. It doesn't show up. Well, there's a challenge, I thought. I like challenges. I began to write a story titled "White Ink on a White Page." Its protagonist was called Henry, a genuflection toward Montherlant, and also toward the Henry of John Berryman's Dream Songs. I wanted my Henry to suffer from happiness the way people suffer from incurable diseases, or stupidity. I thought about Voltaire's Candide and I wanted Henry to believe, Candide-fashion, that he lived in the best of all possible worlds. I thought, he can't possibly be a person of color if he's happy in that way. He had to be white.
I wrote this opening paragraph: "Henry White was white and happy. For a long time there was nothing more to say about him. All around him were people with unhappinesses worth talking about, but Henry was contented, and therefore a kind of blank. Nobody knew what to make of him. He had been white and happy since the day he was born. However, he did not think of himself as white, because white was the color of people who didn't think it was important to think about their color, because they were just people; color was for other people to think about, people who weren't just people. Happy was Henry's nature, the nature of a human being whose happiness has never been sabotaged, and who thought himself entitled to its pursuit, as the Declaration had assured him long before he was born. Next to the family mailbox on his New England country lane, a little way down from the dentist's house that boasted a white sign in the front yard reading 'Tooth Acres,' he had put up a wooden post bearing a sign of his own. The sign read, 'Happy Home.'" (Footnote: My aunt Baji lived in a house called Happy Home too, on Deepchand Ojha Road in Karachi, Pakistan, a million years ago.)
pp 29-30
151streamsong
Knife sounds fascinating. I hope to read it eventually, even though the timing didn't work out for me to read along with you this month.
I'm glad that you are feeling well enough to do more fun things.
Wordle in three for me today. alien, touch, tunic the first two guesses gave me all the letters, so not hard.
I'm glad that you are feeling well enough to do more fun things.
Wordle in three for me today.
152LizzieD
I wish you may take your busy day bit by bit and never get too worn out, Karen!
Hmmm. I may decide to read Knife now too. I have been an enthusiastic Rushdie reader since Midnight's Children blew me away.
Hmmm. We are really 3 Sisters again: you Irene, and me!
Hmmm. I may decide to read Knife now too. I have been an enthusiastic Rushdie reader since Midnight's Children blew me away.
Hmmm. We are really 3 Sisters again: you Irene, and me!
153richardderus
I spent my morning, after posting my review for today, on rearranging and cleaning and shoring up some of my crates. It's done now, and of course it wore me out, but nothing compared to your next few days! You even gave up book-fondling to accomplish all the stuff, which both impressed and worries me.
The Rushdie passage is just...well...he is a master. *smooch*
The Rushdie passage is just...well...he is a master. *smooch*
154karenmarie
>151 streamsong: Hi Janet! Timing is everything, isn’t it? I hope you can get to it eventually. I’m feeling well enough to do a few more things, but the rules still apply: do not cross ankle on knee, do not bend forward (can put too much pressure on the T12 disc), do not bend, lift, or twist (BLT). Yay for Wordle in 3.
>152 LizzieD: Hi Peggy. I paced myself. Everything got done, see below. I have 5 by Rushdie I haven’t read yet, and one about Rushdie, The Rushdie Files.
The man definitely has an ego, and it does shine through even in just the first 30 or so pages. However, I like him because of his concentrated and rambling style.
Yay for 3 sisters!
>153 richardderus: Hi, RDear. Getting things organized is always an accomplishment, so good for you. You can relax and recoup after a job well done.
Book sorting simply had to be sacrificed. I must go next week, because we’ll be celebrating Rhoda’s 85th birthday. She always buys lots of cake for the table and we each can fill a small plate with samples of each.
*smooch*
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It all got done - piano on consignment at Maus Piano & Organ Company, cleaning ladies came and did their usual good thing, and I met Kirk, a fellow book sorter, at Jenna's storage unit to bring 2 IKEA bookcases to the house before everything else goes to Habitat today. I'm also sleeping upstairs again since Esmerelda the cleaning lady moved all my bed linens back upstairs and made the bed for me.
I slept 6.5 hours straight. My back's real tight, because this bed is harder than the sleeper sofa downstairs. We'll see if I can tolerate it long term or change it out for something better for my back.
I finished Damaged Like Us for the third time, and am reading Lovers Like Us, second in the series.
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I'm meeting Habitat at Jenna's storage unit today to let them in to take as much or as little as they want. Jenna will have to arrange to get the rest taken out with the storage company. If they take it all, I'll turn in the lock/keys, If not, I'll work with Jenna who will work with the storage company.
In financial news, the HVAC guys are coming out here to finalize getting the HVAC duct work replace and put in filters on 2 of the 3 units, eliminating the need to replace the in-wall or in-ceiling removable filters. Bill wants to do this, and what the heck, it's only money. There apparently are mice in the duct work, and the new duct work will be able to handle new, bigger units, when we have to replace them in x years.
So once we finalize our budget and get the final estimate for the duct work/filters, we'll take money from Morgan Stanley to pay off Bill's Escape and pay off Amazon, which I've let get largish by not paying off the whole thing every month. That way we can add the financing for the duct work/filters. Sheesh.
Other than that, reading, and etc.
>152 LizzieD: Hi Peggy. I paced myself. Everything got done, see below. I have 5 by Rushdie I haven’t read yet, and one about Rushdie, The Rushdie Files.
The man definitely has an ego, and it does shine through even in just the first 30 or so pages. However, I like him because of his concentrated and rambling style.
Yay for 3 sisters!
>153 richardderus: Hi, RDear. Getting things organized is always an accomplishment, so good for you. You can relax and recoup after a job well done.
Book sorting simply had to be sacrificed. I must go next week, because we’ll be celebrating Rhoda’s 85th birthday. She always buys lots of cake for the table and we each can fill a small plate with samples of each.
*smooch*
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It all got done - piano on consignment at Maus Piano & Organ Company, cleaning ladies came and did their usual good thing, and I met Kirk, a fellow book sorter, at Jenna's storage unit to bring 2 IKEA bookcases to the house before everything else goes to Habitat today. I'm also sleeping upstairs again since Esmerelda the cleaning lady moved all my bed linens back upstairs and made the bed for me.
I slept 6.5 hours straight. My back's real tight, because this bed is harder than the sleeper sofa downstairs. We'll see if I can tolerate it long term or change it out for something better for my back.
I finished Damaged Like Us for the third time, and am reading Lovers Like Us, second in the series.
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I'm meeting Habitat at Jenna's storage unit today to let them in to take as much or as little as they want. Jenna will have to arrange to get the rest taken out with the storage company. If they take it all, I'll turn in the lock/keys, If not, I'll work with Jenna who will work with the storage company.
In financial news, the HVAC guys are coming out here to finalize getting the HVAC duct work replace and put in filters on 2 of the 3 units, eliminating the need to replace the in-wall or in-ceiling removable filters. Bill wants to do this, and what the heck, it's only money. There apparently are mice in the duct work, and the new duct work will be able to handle new, bigger units, when we have to replace them in x years.
So once we finalize our budget and get the final estimate for the duct work/filters, we'll take money from Morgan Stanley to pay off Bill's Escape and pay off Amazon, which I've let get largish by not paying off the whole thing every month. That way we can add the financing for the duct work/filters. Sheesh.
Other than that, reading, and etc.
155msf59
Morning, Karen. Happy Wednesday. Good luck today with Jenna and the storage unit, along with the HVAC stuff. Glad to hear that "Knife" is keeping your attention. Got to spend some time with Jack yesterday and he spent the night. Such a good boy. They will pick him up later this AM.
156alcottacre
>154 karenmarie: I wish I had your Maus Piano & Organ Company nearby - maybe they would take the 100+ year old organ that my father owned and I am still trying to get rid of.
I hope you have wonderful Wednesday!
I hope you have wonderful Wednesday!
157richardderus
>154 karenmarie: Oh, the tedium of adulthood. Good call on the filters, though, since you're planning to age in place. If ductwork then mice, sweetiedarling. It's like a giant Habitrail that leads to food at every junction. Can't be stopped only slowed. *ew*
Rodents. yeccchhh
Live your best life today. *smooch*
Rodents. yeccchhh
Live your best life today. *smooch*
158LizzieD
Good morning, Karen - for another few minutes; then good afternoon! What Richard said, all of it.....
Maus is definitely one of THE music enterprises in NC. Nobody will take my spinet because it was a 1950s deal with plastic thingummies that hold the hammers. They have disintegrated, and when replacements were still available, I didn't buy nearly enough to replace them all. I still can't quite stand to junk it. It did have a lovely tone for a spinet back when. Anyway, I'm glad that yours is out of the way!
Good luck with your adulting and get back to the books!
Maus is definitely one of THE music enterprises in NC. Nobody will take my spinet because it was a 1950s deal with plastic thingummies that hold the hammers. They have disintegrated, and when replacements were still available, I didn't buy nearly enough to replace them all. I still can't quite stand to junk it. It did have a lovely tone for a spinet back when. Anyway, I'm glad that yours is out of the way!
Good luck with your adulting and get back to the books!
159karenmarie
Gads. I forgot to mention again that Bob was going to bring the antique book case over this morning. He did, it’s here. Bill bought some pads so it won’t scratch the hardwoods, which are apparently coming today, so Bob left it out from the wall. He said he’d come back if I needed help getting the pads under it and positioned on the wall.
Funny story – the first book case did not have a key. (the new one does) Bob brought over his key ring of extra keys, but none of them worked. I brought out one of the Secretary keys, and it fits. Bob says to find a hardware store that sells skeleton keys and I should be able to buy one so I can have one in the Secretary and one in the book case. And I found out that the little desk I offered to Jenna's called a lady's writing desk.
>155 msf59: ‘Good afternoon, Mark! Thanks re Jenna and the storage unit, and the HVAC. Yay for Jack time.
>156 alcottacre: I told Bob, who just delivered the book case, about Maus taking the piano for consignment, and he said that he can’t sell pianos or organs at all. He said I was lucky.
I hope you have a wonderful Wednesday, too.
>157 richardderus: Adulting is the shits sometimes. Age in place for sure. We live in the country, so we expect mice, but I admit to be surprised that the little buggers were in the duct work.
Today my best life is waiting for the HVAC guys to come and go. Habitat called 10 minutes after Bob left so I dashed out to the storage unit. They took most stuff but not all, so Jenna's got to deal with that. I still need to stay in clothes instead of jammies until the HVAC guys come and go, but THEN... I'm done for the day.
>158 LizzieD: Good afternoon, Peggy. I just lucked out with my duckduckgo search and finding Maus, because I'd never heard of them. They responded so quickly and have picked it up so quickly that they either already have a buyer in mind or know they can sell it during the holiday season. I’m sorry about your spinet. No plastic thingummies available on eBay?
I did additional adulting – writing a thank you and writing a birthday card, both addressed and stamped and put in our mail box on the way out.
Funny story – the first book case did not have a key. (the new one does) Bob brought over his key ring of extra keys, but none of them worked. I brought out one of the Secretary keys, and it fits. Bob says to find a hardware store that sells skeleton keys and I should be able to buy one so I can have one in the Secretary and one in the book case. And I found out that the little desk I offered to Jenna's called a lady's writing desk.
>155 msf59: ‘Good afternoon, Mark! Thanks re Jenna and the storage unit, and the HVAC. Yay for Jack time.
>156 alcottacre: I told Bob, who just delivered the book case, about Maus taking the piano for consignment, and he said that he can’t sell pianos or organs at all. He said I was lucky.
I hope you have a wonderful Wednesday, too.
>157 richardderus: Adulting is the shits sometimes. Age in place for sure. We live in the country, so we expect mice, but I admit to be surprised that the little buggers were in the duct work.
Today my best life is waiting for the HVAC guys to come and go. Habitat called 10 minutes after Bob left so I dashed out to the storage unit. They took most stuff but not all, so Jenna's got to deal with that. I still need to stay in clothes instead of jammies until the HVAC guys come and go, but THEN... I'm done for the day.
>158 LizzieD: Good afternoon, Peggy. I just lucked out with my duckduckgo search and finding Maus, because I'd never heard of them. They responded so quickly and have picked it up so quickly that they either already have a buyer in mind or know they can sell it during the holiday season. I’m sorry about your spinet. No plastic thingummies available on eBay?
I did additional adulting – writing a thank you and writing a birthday card, both addressed and stamped and put in our mail box on the way out.
160karenmarie
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The HVAC guy came out and after much back-and-forthing we decided to replace the duct work and put in a fancy filter on the intake side. He was so anxious to get the sale that he helped me put pads under the new book case and get it aligned on the wall and will come back out today to personally inventory the crawl space vents and make sure we have screens in them all to keep mousies out. He suggested rat poison and traps, too...
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161msf59
Morning, Karen. Sweet Thursday. Good luck with PT and the skeleton key, (sounds like a YA novel). No kids duty til Monday. Indoor PB today, with much needed rain in the forecast. I finally picked up 3 blocks of suet. Waiting for the bulk boxes to go on sale.
162richardderus
>160 karenmarie: I'm too tired after reading that to do more than type "*smooch*".
163alcottacre
>160 karenmarie: I hope all goes well today with PT and the HVAC guy today!
164karenmarie
>161 msf59: 'Morning, Mark! Sweet Thursday to you, too. Thanks. Heh. PT and the Skeleton Key. I like it. Glad you don't have kid duty 'til next Monday, enjoy PB, glad you've got suet for the birdies.
>162 richardderus: I know - lots of stuff. But I added two things, too:
>163 alcottacre: Hi Stasia, and thank you. Morning's errands done, home and going to get in jammies, regardless of whether HVAC guy shows up or not.
>162 richardderus: I know - lots of stuff. But I added two things, too:
- stopped at the Thrift Shop and got Spare in hardcover and Macbeth: The Graphic Novel, a like-new trade paperback. I also got a brand new pastry brush and paid $2.50 for all three.
- Went to the bank and cashed two checks.
>163 alcottacre: Hi Stasia, and thank you. Morning's errands done, home and going to get in jammies, regardless of whether HVAC guy shows up or not.
165LizzieD
Good grief you got a lot done in 3 hours, woman! I am all for jammies. The HVAC guy won't even notice.
*PT and the Skeleton Key* - I wouldn't read it, but I'd be hot for somebody else to comment on it! Heh! (And if PT turned out to stand for "Priscilla Tripp" or "Phillip Troutt*, I'd be mightily disappointed.)
Enjoy the rest of your day!
*PT and the Skeleton Key* - I wouldn't read it, but I'd be hot for somebody else to comment on it! Heh! (And if PT turned out to stand for "Priscilla Tripp" or "Phillip Troutt*, I'd be mightily disappointed.)
Enjoy the rest of your day!
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>160 karenmarie: Nice! You got the HVAC guy to help with the book case, a completely unrelated task. I like that.
I hope you can find the skeleton key. And also hope that you were able to rest and read this afternoon.
I hope you can find the skeleton key. And also hope that you were able to rest and read this afternoon.
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>165 LizzieD: Hey Peggy! I did get a lot done this morning, then hung out in the Library reading all afternoon. Productive AND fun times.
>166 atozgrl: He is a nice guy, Irene. I was just peopled out this afternoon and let Bill deal with him. The True Value doesn't deal in skeleton keys, so the quest is still on.
>166 atozgrl: He is a nice guy, Irene. I was just peopled out this afternoon and let Bill deal with him. The True Value doesn't deal in skeleton keys, so the quest is still on.
168msf59
Morning, Karen. Happy Friday. Gusty winds all day yesterday brought in a cold front. In the high 30s at the moment and will only get in the low 50s. Indoor PB again. Books in the PM. Do you get any trick or treaters?
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>168 msf59: 'Morning, Mark! Happy Friday to you. Brrr. Indoor PB definitely better than low 50s outdoors. No trick or treaters, never any trick or treaters, not in the 27 Octobers we've been in this house. We're halfway between two towns 2 miles off a state road, at the end of a cul-de-sac, down a 300-foot gravel road. I didn't even buy candy, because we'd just eat it. I did, however, take 3 pieces of Halloween candy when I was at PT. I've decided I don't like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups any more, but loved the Kit Kat. I would imagine you get lots of trick-or-treaters, right? And did Raphael (Jack) come to visit or stay in his neighborhood?
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I am having lunch with friend Jan today, but want to get a card and a bottle of wine for Rita the Librarian for her birthday and drop them off at the Library before meeting with Jan.
I'll be working on my October stats and Lightning Round, too. Reading, of course.
I also adulted and sent messages to my GP and my cardiologist. Nothing alarming...
170SilverWolf28
Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/365438
171LizzieD
What a surprise! I'm not the only person who doesn't love Reese's PB Cups! I've never liked them; I do, unfortunately like Kit-Kat Bars. Thank goodness for Aldi where I can get decent chocolate at a pretty good price and conducive to smaller servings.
Enjoy your lunch with Jan and Happy Birthday to Rita!
Enjoy your lunch with Jan and Happy Birthday to Rita!
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>169 karenmarie: Happy monthending, sweetiedarling. I'm quaking in fear about what you'll eviscerate my budget with. I hope lunch with Jan was fun, and I'm sure Rita enjoyed your gifts, because who wouldn't like a birthday bottle?! *smooch*
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>169 karenmarie: I think Mike may have had the heat on this morning. Two days ago it was air-conditioning.
>169 karenmarie: >171 LizzieD: I'm with you on Reese's PB cups, and Kit-Kats are good! Baby Ruth is my favorite standard candy bar, and Big Cherry my favorite of the harder to find bars.
>169 karenmarie: >171 LizzieD: I'm with you on Reese's PB cups, and Kit-Kats are good! Baby Ruth is my favorite standard candy bar, and Big Cherry my favorite of the harder to find bars.
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>170 SilverWolf28: Hi Silver, and thank you.
>171 LizzieD: 'Morning, Peggy. Yes, Kit-Kats are great. I've never been to an Aldi, but there's one near where I had lunch yesterday. Maybe in December when I have lunch with Jan again. Thanks re Rita and Jan.
>172 richardderus: Thanks, RD - I did some more work on the stats last night, will give them a final review before publishing today. Budget evisceration just may happen - I read a lot of good books. *smooch*
>173 quondame: I understand the switch from heating to AC. I've had the bedroom set on 67F because of the cool nights, but yesterday it was 72F when I went upstairs to bed and the heating never had to kick in. Oh, I love Baby Ruths, Big Cherry.... ah, cordials. Not my fave, but if presented with one, I definitely wouldn't refuse. My favorite harder to find bar is Look. Almond nougat covered in dark chocolate.
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I was busy yesterday, all of it good. I adjusted one shelf in the new book case, dusted the bottom and shelves, and started thinking about my plan of attack to get books into it. I think I'm going to bring books from the Sunroom so I don't have boxes with books that may or may not work. After I get it filled with books *happy dance* I'll have Jenna bring boxes down from the Media room to fill in the Sunroom shelves.
Met Jan for Lunch at 1 p.m., and we chatted 'til 2:45. WalMart was just across the street from the restaurant, so I went in for a bottle of wine, a card, and a bottle bag. I also came out with a new hairbrush, dry shampoo, Twizzlers, 3 jars of Smuckers Natural Peanut Butter (Chunky), and, since finding Smuckers Simply Fruit Red Raspberry (seeded) on Amazon or WalMart is either a hopeless task or a $10/each jar task, broke down and bought a jar of Smuckers Red Raspberry Jam (yes, sugared and seeded). I also bought myself a bottle of wine, so $90 later, made it safely back to my SUV. The wine was $48 of that total. I drove to the Library, but on the way there thought that Rita might be taking the day off, so checked the Library staff parking, and sure enough, her car wasn't there. She either left early or had taken the day off. So I came home instead, and will visit her on Monday or Tuesday.
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>171 LizzieD: 'Morning, Peggy. Yes, Kit-Kats are great. I've never been to an Aldi, but there's one near where I had lunch yesterday. Maybe in December when I have lunch with Jan again. Thanks re Rita and Jan.
>172 richardderus: Thanks, RD - I did some more work on the stats last night, will give them a final review before publishing today. Budget evisceration just may happen - I read a lot of good books. *smooch*
>173 quondame: I understand the switch from heating to AC. I've had the bedroom set on 67F because of the cool nights, but yesterday it was 72F when I went upstairs to bed and the heating never had to kick in. Oh, I love Baby Ruths, Big Cherry.... ah, cordials. Not my fave, but if presented with one, I definitely wouldn't refuse. My favorite harder to find bar is Look. Almond nougat covered in dark chocolate.
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Met Jan for Lunch at 1 p.m., and we chatted 'til 2:45. WalMart was just across the street from the restaurant, so I went in for a bottle of wine, a card, and a bottle bag. I also came out with a new hairbrush, dry shampoo, Twizzlers, 3 jars of Smuckers Natural Peanut Butter (Chunky), and, since finding Smuckers Simply Fruit Red Raspberry (seeded) on Amazon or WalMart is either a hopeless task or a $10/each jar task, broke down and bought a jar of Smuckers Red Raspberry Jam (yes, sugared and seeded). I also bought myself a bottle of wine, so $90 later, made it safely back to my SUV. The wine was $48 of that total. I drove to the Library, but on the way there thought that Rita might be taking the day off, so checked the Library staff parking, and sure enough, her car wasn't there. She either left early or had taken the day off. So I came home instead, and will visit her on Monday or Tuesday.
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Arsenal play Newcastle at 8:30, other than that, I'll finish stats and Lightning Round, publish both, and start working on books to the new book case. Reading, too, of course.
175msf59
Morning, Karen. Happy Saturday. We have not gave out candy the last 2 years. Yep, I am a grouch. Sue has been going with Bree and Sean's family trick or treating and since they live farther away now, Jack doesn't make it here. He had a good time. We are having dinner with friends tonight, otherwise it will be a chill weekend.
My feeders were really hopping yesterday. Nice to see the juncos back and the red-bellied woodpecker visiting the suet feeder.
My feeders were really hopping yesterday. Nice to see the juncos back and the red-bellied woodpecker visiting the suet feeder.
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'Morning, Mark! Happy Saturday to you, too. Grouch is fine, especially with Sue at Bree and Sean's. Yay for a friends dinner and chill weekend. Glad your feeders were hopping. My sunflower seed feeder needs attention.
177karenmarie
YTD Statistics through October
350 books read
2 of them on my shelves before 1/1/24 and not rereads
101 books abandoned, 11664 pages abandoned, 1 audiobook, .45 hours abandoned
99.5 audiobook hours
Avg pages read per day, YTD = 314
Avg pages read per book, YTD = 274
Book of the Month: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A Matter of Time Books 1 and 2 by Mary Calmes
Books by Month
January - 46 e-books, 1 audio book, 1 Graphic Novel, and 9 books abandoned for 1711 pages
February - 37 e-books and 8 books abandoned for 1058 pages
March - 38 e-books, 1 audio book, and 7 books abandoned for 899 pages
April - 31 e-books, 1 hard cover, and 11 books abandoned for 1338 pages
May - 21 e-books, and 13 books abandoned for 1153 pages
June - 33 e-books, and 9 books abandoned for 1188 pages
July - 29 e-books, 2 audiobooks, and 15 books abandoned for 1703 pages
August - 38 e-books, and 14 books abandoned for 1564 pages
September - 23 e-books, and 10 books abandoned for 991 pages
October - 46 e-books, 2 audio books, and 5 books abandoned for 479 pages
Author
Male 10%
Female 79%
Undeclared * 8%
Non-Binary 3%
* - can't find any info anywhere
Living 99%
Dead 1%
US Born 43%
Foreign Born 21%
Undeclared * 36%
* - can't find any info anywhere
Platform
Hardcover 1%
Trade Pback 0%
Mass Market 0%
Audiobook 1%
e-Book 96%
Audible audio book 2%
Source
My Library 9%
Library 1%
Kindle Unlimited 89%
Borrowed 0%
Culled 1%
Misc
ARC/ER 0%
Re-read 2%
Series 71%
Fiction 99%
NonFiction 1%
Author Birth Country
Australia 7%
Canada 5%
Cuba 1%
England 1%
Grenada 2%
Ireland 1%
New Zealand 2%
Norway 1%
Portugal 1%
Sweden 1%
UK 3%
Undeclared * 34%
US 40%
Venezuela 1%
* - can't find any info anywhere
Original Decade Published
1880-1889 1%
1980-1989 1%
2000-2009 2%
2010-2019 31%
2020-2029 65%
Genre
Biography 1%
Childrens 1%
Contemporary Fiction 92%
Crime Fiction 1%
Fantasy 1%
Graphic Novel 1%
Historical Fiction 1%
Informational Nonfiction 1%
Memoir 1%
Acquisition/Source
Audible 6
Kindle Unlimited 321
Library 1
My Shelves 18
culled after reading 4
Average Rating
1.5 - Very Bad 0
2.0 - Bad 4
2.5 - Average 11
3.0 - Good 43
3.5 - Very Good 61
4.0 - Excellent 164
4.5 - Outstanding 66
5 - Masterpiece 1
Average Rating 3.82
Books acquired YTD 270
Books culled YTD 186
350 books read
2 of them on my shelves before 1/1/24 and not rereads
101 books abandoned, 11664 pages abandoned, 1 audiobook, .45 hours abandoned
99.5 audiobook hours
Avg pages read per day, YTD = 314
Avg pages read per book, YTD = 274
Book of the Month: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A Matter of Time Books 1 and 2 by Mary Calmes
Books by Month
January - 46 e-books, 1 audio book, 1 Graphic Novel, and 9 books abandoned for 1711 pages
February - 37 e-books and 8 books abandoned for 1058 pages
March - 38 e-books, 1 audio book, and 7 books abandoned for 899 pages
April - 31 e-books, 1 hard cover, and 11 books abandoned for 1338 pages
May - 21 e-books, and 13 books abandoned for 1153 pages
June - 33 e-books, and 9 books abandoned for 1188 pages
July - 29 e-books, 2 audiobooks, and 15 books abandoned for 1703 pages
August - 38 e-books, and 14 books abandoned for 1564 pages
September - 23 e-books, and 10 books abandoned for 991 pages
October - 46 e-books, 2 audio books, and 5 books abandoned for 479 pages
Author
Male 10%
Female 79%
Undeclared * 8%
Non-Binary 3%
* - can't find any info anywhere
Living 99%
Dead 1%
US Born 43%
Foreign Born 21%
Undeclared * 36%
* - can't find any info anywhere
Platform
Hardcover 1%
Trade Pback 0%
Mass Market 0%
Audiobook 1%
e-Book 96%
Audible audio book 2%
Source
My Library 9%
Library 1%
Kindle Unlimited 89%
Borrowed 0%
Culled 1%
Misc
ARC/ER 0%
Re-read 2%
Series 71%
Fiction 99%
NonFiction 1%
Author Birth Country
Australia 7%
Canada 5%
Cuba 1%
England 1%
Grenada 2%
Ireland 1%
New Zealand 2%
Norway 1%
Portugal 1%
Sweden 1%
UK 3%
Undeclared * 34%
US 40%
Venezuela 1%
* - can't find any info anywhere
Original Decade Published
1880-1889 1%
1980-1989 1%
2000-2009 2%
2010-2019 31%
2020-2029 65%
Genre
Biography 1%
Childrens 1%
Contemporary Fiction 92%
Crime Fiction 1%
Fantasy 1%
Graphic Novel 1%
Historical Fiction 1%
Informational Nonfiction 1%
Memoir 1%
Acquisition/Source
Audible 6
Kindle Unlimited 321
Library 1
My Shelves 18
culled after reading 4
Average Rating
1.5 - Very Bad 0
2.0 - Bad 4
2.5 - Average 11
3.0 - Good 43
3.5 - Very Good 61
4.0 - Excellent 164
4.5 - Outstanding 66
5 - Masterpiece 1
Average Rating 3.82
Books acquired YTD 270
Books culled YTD 186
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October Lightning Round
Any in bold are NOT MM romances, few and far between as they are.
It also occurs to me that quite a few of the smut books have warnings about triggers that I don’t mention here. Caveat emptor re triggers if you want to dip your toes in.
Mangled Argentina Ryder 9/30/24 10/1/24 Kindle
**abandoned The Cowboy and the Barista by SC Wynne**
Debt by Louise Collins 10/2/24 10/2/24 Kindle
Saving the Senator's Son by Jacki James 10/2/24 10/3/24 Kindle
Bent Backwards by Jesse H Reign 10/3/24 10/3/24 Kindle
The Unlikely Pair by Jax Calder 10/3/24 10/4/24 Kindle
Hired by the Enemy by Jax Calder 10/4/24 10/4/24 Kindle
Knowing You by EM Lindsey 10/4/24 10/5/24 Kindle
Wicked Lies Boys Tell by K Webster 10/1/24 10/5/24 Kindle
Sheriff's Secret by K Webster 10/5/24 10/6/24 Kindle
Callan’s Atlas by K Webster 10/5/24 10/6/24 Kindle
Why Love Matters by Jay Northcote 10/6/24 10/6/24 Kindle
The Heart of Smoke by K Webster 10/6/24 10/7/24 Kindle
Hollywood Hustle by Jon Lindstrom 9/6/24 10/9/24 Audio book narrated by Jon Lindstrom 7.75 hours
How to Flirt with a Hellhound by Shannon Mae 10/7/24 10/8/24 Kindle
A Hellhound Called Derek by Michelle Frost 10/8/24 10/8/24 Kindle
Catching a Con Man by Matt Peters 10/8/24 10/9/24 Kindle
Double Dealing: A Marriage of Inconvenience by Nicole Colville 10/9/24 10/10/24 Kindle
Dominque by Nicole Colville 10/10/24 10/11/24 Kindle
The Marriage Betrothal by Aja Foxx 10/11/24 10/12/24 Kindle
Whiskey Neat by Mia Monroe 10/12/24 10/24/24 Kindle
Handy Man by Matt Peters 10/12/24 10/12/24 Kindle
Hollywood Crush by Matt Peters 10/12/24 10/13/24 Kindle
**abandoned Billionaire's Sexy Scientist by Dillon Hart**
**abandoned Curious by Leslie McAdam**
Reluctantly You by Cora Rose 10/15/24 10/16/24 Kindle
The Billionaire's Consort by Peter Styles 10/15/24 10/17/24 partial read, Kindle
Diablo by Cora Rose 10/17/24 10/17/24 Kindle
Inheriting Miss Fortune by Lucy Lennox 10/17/24 10/18/24 Kindle Kindle
**abandoned The Marriage Runaway by Aja Foxx**
Ilya by Barbara Elsborg 10/18/24 10/19/24 Kindle
Welcome to Knockwood by Lucy Lennox 10/19/24 10/19/24 Kindle
In a Fix by Mary Calmes 10/19/24 10/19/24 Kindle
No Quick Fix by Mary Calmes 10/19/24 10/20/24 Kindle
Fix It Up by Mary Calmes 10/20/24 10/20/24 Kindle
The Fix is In by Mary Calmes 10/21/24 10/22/24 Kindle
The Big Fix by Mary Calmes 10/22/24 10/23/24 Kindle
Get a Fix by Mary Calmes 10/23/24 10/23/24 Kindle
Without Warning by Reese Knightley 10/24/24 10/24/24 Kindle
Again by Mary Calmes 10/24/24 10/24/24 Kindle
Lay It Down by Mary Calmes 10/24/24 10/24/24 Kindle
A Matter of Time Book 1 by Mary Calmes 10/25/24 10/25/24 Kindle
Acrobat by Mary Calmes 10/26/24 10/27/24 Kindle
Carte Blanche by Mary Calmes 10/27/24 10/27/24 Kindle
His Hearth by Mary Calmes 10/27/24 10/27/24 Kindle
Truth and Betrayal by KC Wells 10/10/24 10/28/24 Audible Audio book narrated by John Solo 4 hrs 30 minutes
Damaged Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 10/28/24 10/29/24 Kindle
Lovers Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 10/29/24 10/31/24 467 pages Kindle
**abandoned The Nanny Proposal by Lucy Lennox**
Any in bold are NOT MM romances, few and far between as they are.
It also occurs to me that quite a few of the smut books have warnings about triggers that I don’t mention here. Caveat emptor re triggers if you want to dip your toes in.
Mangled Argentina Ryder 9/30/24 10/1/24 Kindle
Great premise. Ben and Leo are best friends. Ben’s gay, Leo’s straight. However, Leo’s marketing firm is handling marketing for a new gay dating app and on a whim, Ben and Leo each set up a profile. They are stunned when they are a 99.9% match, and they decide to pursue the app’s recommendation. All’s going well until the app is outed for it’s questionable algorithm and Leo questions whether what they have is real. Fortunately it is, and this is a very sweet story about friends becoming lovers, honesty in communications, and a great HEA. Caveat emptor re sex.
**abandoned The Cowboy and the Barista by SC Wynne**
Gay barista/coffee house owner meets in the closet cowboy when the cowboy’s normal coffee source is temporarily shut down. Mutual attraction, the cowboy fears for his job, and there’s a lot of angst that I just wasn’t interested in following up on.
Debt by Louise Collins 10/2/24 10/2/24 Kindle
Short story has Levi, forever in love with the mobster who saved his life, helped him clean up, and brought him into his organization. Greyson is oblivious until Levi is set up and nearly dies, when honesty compels him to admit his feelings after being forced into it by other members of the organization. Greyson has never trusted anybody enough for a romantic relationship in the job he’s in, but he trusts Levi implicitly with his business, and now trusts Levi personally. Caveat emptor re sex.
Saving the Senator's Son by Jacki James 10/2/24 10/3/24 Kindle
Hart Security is hired to protect the Senator’s son, who has begun receiving threatening letters. Roman, one of the three brother/owners, takes the case because he’s next up in the rotation. He and Trey are moved to the bath house on the property so that Roman won’t be around Trey’s sister, the religious family thinking that Roman’s straight. Both Trey and Roman are gay, of course, but Trey represents the family in the current election cycle in addition to knowing that his family will disown him if his sexual orientation ever comes out. Roman and Trey spend a lot of time together. Roman falls in love, Trey falls in love. Trey finally tells his family he's gay and won’t stump for his dad any more. He’s kidnapped and the stalker finds him. Alpha male Roman, strong Trey, good story. Caveat emptor re sex.
Bent Backwards by Jesse H Reign 10/3/24 10/3/24 Kindle
Two straight men are inexplicably attracted to each other, with insta lust results. Told from Ethan’s point of view this time, I found it emotionally satisfying, steamy, and with a fine HEA. Caveat emptor re sex.
The Unlikely Pair by Jax Calder 10/3/24 10/4/24 Kindle
Harry is the head of the Conservative Party in England, Toby is a Liberal MP who tangles with Harry and seems to truly hate him. They are on a private airplane to a climate conference in Oslo when it goes down. They and the pilot are unharmed. The pilot has a cockamamy story about having to get phone reception and takes both their phones. Soon enough there are terrorists trying to kill them. By luck and stupidity, they evade them. The security forces of England have been searching for them in Norway, but they crashed in Finland. They eventually find a cabin on a lake, where they are safe for a month, until the terrorists find them again. They are rescued, return to England, and have to reevaluate their goals and what they want from life. Well written, angsty, sexy times. Unfortunately, we won’t find out who planned the kidnappings until the third book in the series, mid-next year. Caveat emptor re sex.
Hired by the Enemy by Jax Calder 10/4/24 10/4/24 Kindle
Enemies since Liam moved in next door to Matthew when they were 8, they hated and pranked each other through high school. Seven years later, Matthew needs a fake boyfriend to take to his company’s team-building exercise in Hawaii. Last minute mix-ups have Liam being sent. Instant hate, but Liam’s a professional and Matthew does not want to admit that this is a fake boyfriend. Over the course of the week they talk and team build and hook up in the privacy of their cabin. After they return, each realizes what the other means to him. Both go home for Christmas, to the houses next door to one another where they met and had their battles growing up. There’s a very sweet HEA. Caveat emptor re sex.
Knowing You by EM Lindsey 10/4/24 10/5/24 Kindle
Lane’s been verbally and emotionally abused for the 20 years of his marriage. His wife basically abandoned them just after their now-4-year-old daughter was born, and Lane’s working from home and going crazy. Bowen has come to stay with his brother next door, and as a nanny currently in need of work, offers to work for Lane. Lane takes him up on it, the demon child loves Bowen, and eventually Lane acknowledges that he’s bicurious. It goes from there. It got rather sickeningly sweet, frankly, but I persevered. Lane finally divorces the batsh*t crazy wife, and he and Bowen get their HEA. Caveat emptor re sex.
Wicked Lies Boys Tell by K Webster 10/1/24 10/5/24 Kindle
Cope and Penn are next door neighbors, and best friends. One day, when they are sophomores in high school, Penn kisses Cope, and Cope immediately ends their friendship. Both are grieving. Penn plays HS football and his father is demanding, abusive, and controlling. Back in the present, Penn breaks his hand in a fight and Cope takes him to the hospital and gets him home and cares for him. They reluctantly resume a sort-of-friendship, with sexual tension off the charts. Many nasty parental manipulations by both fathers, but at least Cope’s father actually loves him. Eventually Cope and Penn realize that they are soul mates, initiate a sexual relationship, and overcome parental withdrawal of funds, physical abuse, and etc. Fortunately, Cope’s father realizes his mistakes, apologizes, and there’s a very surprisingly happy and logical HEA for them. Caveat emptor re sex.
Sheriff's Secret by K Webster 10/5/24 10/6/24 Kindle
Another by K Webster has Jax, Sheriff of a small town in Maine, deeply in the closet. There are newcomers from NY restoring an old house into a B&B, homophobia, the Rainbow Vigilante, and a secret relationship between Jax and NY-moved-to-Brigs Ferry Bay developer Dante. Jax simply won’t come out, and they agree to a weekend secret fling, which turns into a month fling. In the meantime, there are escalating attacks on Dante’s business and his HS age brother Callan. I was fascinated by all the characters and the dynamic descriptions of this small town. We get our HEA, justice against some of the homophobic attacks, and many adopted kitties because Jax cannot say no to his groomer-friend Cato who rescues wharf-side kitties. Caveat emptor re sex.
Callan’s Atlas by K Webster 10/5/24 10/6/24 Kindle
Third in the Brigs Ferry Bay series. Dante’s younger brother Callan has been struggling after the events of the previous book. He wears black to signify the loss of color in his life and is distant from those who love him. Atlas Larson returns to town after being in the military and is hired on as third shift cop. As soon as he sees Callan he wants him, and Callan wants Atlas in return. Age gap, which horrifies everybody in town once it gets out, but it works for them. Callan starts wearing colors again. There are escalating attacks against him verbally and even physically, and finally Atlas is set up thinking Callan is being raped and tortured. All’s well that ends well, though, once Callan calls in Dante’s former boyfriend, a high-power lawyer, who gets a high-power lawyer who can practice in Maine involved. Wonderful HEA for a seriously kinky and seriously age-gapped couple. Caveat emptor re sex and mild kink.
Why Love Matters by Jay Northcote 10/6/24 10/6/24 Kindle
Alastair is going to have to go to Italy on an important business trip and his father insists that he overcome his dislike of touch. Martin, his PA, just conveniently has a mother who lives in a commune and is having a touch seminar. They travel down together, stay in the same room, Alastair attends and succeeds in the goals of the seminar. Long-term sparkage ignites, and they get a HEA. Caveat emptor re sex.
The Heart of Smoke by K Webster 10/6/24 10/7/24 Kindle
Twenty years previously, Judge was unsuccessful at saving his mother’s life when a house fire drew him home. He was injured, his mother died, he has never forgiven himself and wears a mask. Tate, a psychologist, is hired by Jude’s father to live in the family compound-of-houses to help the family heal, especially Jude. Way too many coincidences, way too much insta-love/lust, and etc. I did finish it, but it was much less tension-filled and rich than the 3 books above. Caveat emptor re sex.
Hollywood Hustle by Jon Lindstrom 9/6/24 10/9/24 Audio book narrated by Jon Lindstrom 7.75 hours
Winston Green is a Hollywood actor/stunt man. His daughter and her husband are drug addicts. His daughter is kidnapped, held for ransom. Win gets his granddaughter, takes her to the house of friends. The story is told from the POV of Win, several of the kidnappers, and third party. I found it fascinating, more for the Los Angeles/Hollywood lore than the actual story, but it kept me interested. Turns out that I love the narrator’s voice. Satisfactory ending. Lots of dead bad guys, several scary attacks on the good guys, Win and his friends.
How to Flirt with a Hellhound by Shannon Mae 10/7/24 10/8/24 Kindle
Okay, so every once in a while I like fantasy MM romance. Toby is a human writer, Dexter is his next-door neighbor, a hellhound, tasked with rooting out evil and escorting the perpetrators to hell the hard way through torture. I liked Dexter the TV series, and this Dexter has taken his human name from the title character. Toby is enthralled with Dexter, thinks he might be a serial killer, a sexy one. Dexter protects Toby and there is sparkage. Toby’s being stalked online through his social media, it escalates, and Dexter rallies the hellhound troops to help find the guy and … escort him to hell. The only one in the series I’ll read, it was good but not stunning. Caveat emptor re sex.
A Hellhound Called Derek by Michelle Frost 10/8/24 10/8/24 Kindle
A better hellhound/human fantasy, a novella this time, has Derek, a hellhound enforcer, agreeing to an arranged marriage with Hollis, the human nephew of the town’s Police Chief. The Police Chief has controlled Hollis his entire life and forces him to agree to the arrangement. Derek has specifically chosen Hollis because as soon as he smells a piece of material with Hollis’s scent on it, he realizes that they’re true mates. The marriage is wildly successful. The Police Chief tries to force Hollis to do his bidding to get lists of non-humans. Derek puts an end to that, but when Hollis is kidnapped, Derek transforms into his hellhound self and it’s vivid, scary, and wonderful. Caveat emptor re sex.
Catching a Con Man by Matt Peters 10/8/24 10/9/24 Kindle
Back to human/human, Ade is a billionaire son in a billionaire family. Tyler is the product of foster homes, works menial jobs, but has a fierce desire to give everything he can to other people brought up the way he was. He cons his way into a fund-raising gala, making the assumption that the Addison Crane on the guest list is Addison Crane Sr. It’s Addison Crane Jr, Ade, and he’s immediately attracted to Tyler, realizes that there’s some kind of con going on when Tyler pretends to be the grandson of a recluse billionaire. Said recluse billionaire happens to be Ade’s godfather. Ade doesn’t care, there’s attraction, but Addison Sr. does not want a petty criminal/low class guy with Ade. Good stuff with Ade and Tyler, bad stuff from Addison Sr. Caveat emptor re sex.
Double Dealing: A Marriage of Inconvenience by Nicole Colville 10/9/24 10/10/24 Kindle
Ryder sees Trace at a hotel, both of them there on business, and is immediately attracted to him. They hook up but Trace is deep in the closet, fears his father, and leaves the next morning without any plans to ever see Ryder again. Two years pass, and Ryder has not forgotten Trace and vice-versa. Ryder proposes an acquisition of Trace’s family business in order to have a chance with Trace, but things fall apart. Ryder offers marriage for Trace and a lucrative business deal to Trace’s father. Trace’s father accepts and forces Trace into it, telling him that he can use the ‘escape clause’ of one year. Ups and downs, more sparkage, and etc., and they get their HEA. Trace’s father eventually comes around, but I still thought him despicable. Caveat emptor re sex.
Dominque by Nicole Colville 10/10/24 10/11/24 Kindle
Dominque had to step up when he was 18 and his mother died so he could take care of his little sister and keep the house they grew up in. He did this by becoming an escort. Jacob is a doctor, too busy for a relationship, but wanting a very specific type of relationship. He sees Dominque’s profile on the escort page but rejects him because he knows Dominque pushes every single button, and hires Harry, another escort, for a pretend boyfriend fundraiser. Harry can’t go, asks Dominque to stand in for him. Sparkage, realization that they’re both in the BDSM world although Dominque left because his safe word wasn’t respected. Miscommunications and spats along the way, but they get their HEA. Caveat emptor re sex and mild BDSM.
The Marriage Betrothal by Aja Foxx 10/11/24 10/12/24 Kindle
Long-term marriage arrangement between Lucas and Kyue’s family has Kyue coming unglued when he learns he’s expected to marry a man he doesn’t know. He is his own man, successful at developing motorcycles for motocross, is an artist, and etc. He makes it as difficult for Lucas as he can, and Lucas is flummoxed by his behavior. Serious sparkage on both sides. Lots of fun, and oh, attempts on Kyue’s life, finding out who’s trying to kill him, and a very satisfactory HEA. I particularly liked Foyt, Lucas’s PA, and Oliver, Lucas’s Butler. Caveat emptor re sex.
Whiskey Neat by Mia Monroe 10/12/24 10/24/24 Kindle
Ho hum. Mid-life crisis Indy bands his ready-to-make-a-change college buddies into renovating an old bar in their hometown and one of his college buddies inherits his uncle’s house, which they also renovate to live in together. First day of renovations Salem, who has returned home with his tail between his legs after getting laid off in Chicago, walks in that first day. Instant sparkage, and they hire Salem on the spot to manage their inventory. Sigh. Boss-employee with benefits, never supposed to be serious… HEA and caveat emptor re sex.
Handy Man by Matt Peters 10/12/24 10/12/24 Kindle
First in the West Wales Romance series. James is attacked and left for dead in London and flees to his grandmother in a small town in Wales to recover. He meets Llewelyn, a local man, not closeted exactly but never had a serious relationship. They are immediately attracted to each other, but with James returning to London and Llewelyn firmly ensconced in his hometown, all it can be is friends with benefits. However, they do get their HEA, which was quite sweet. Caveat emptor re sex.
Hollywood Crush by Matt Peters 10/12/24 10/13/24 Kindle
Second in the West Wales Romance series has Tudor, who owns the run-down hotel in town with his mother, successfully getting money and guaranteed business for a local fantasy series shoot. He renovates the upstairs suites and other necessary things. Daniel, the star of this series, is an American who is disgruntled at having to be in cold rainy Wales. There’s sparkage, but Tudor resents Daniel’s attitude. They finally correct this misunderstanding and the sparkage becomes sexy times. They think it will end when the shoot ends, but when Daniel is injured in a stunt he shouldn’t even have been in, both he and Tudor realize that they love each other and will work their relationship and living arrangements out. Caveat emptor re sex.
**abandoned Billionaire's Sexy Scientist by Dillon Hart**
Ugh. Adrian is a billionaire, Lukas a scientist who needs funding. Jarring behaviors, shortcutted storyline, too cute for words. Caveat emptor re sex.
**abandoned Curious by Leslie McAdam**
Shelby’s straight, is injured, doesn’t have insurance, his best friend Camden, gay, offers to marry him to give him coverage. Bi-awakening, hadn’t happened after 151 pages of rather poor writing.
Reluctantly You by Cora Rose 10/15/24 10/16/24 Kindle
Mitch feels abandoned by his brothers. His father has sold the company Mitch was supposed to inherit out from beneath is feet. Mitch “isn’t gay”, but cruises gay bars for rough hookups. He’s a mess, and not the good kind. As we see the world from Mitch’s POV, we see how unworthy he feels. He’s repressed his artistic nature. He yearns for contact with his brothers. Gideon has bought the company Mitch’s dad sold out from under him, humiliates Mitch by moving him to a small office, demeans him. And yet… there’s a spark between the two. Mitch denies it, Gideon forces it (but not in a non-con way), and eventually they realize that they have feelings for each other. We learn why Gideon bought the company, see Mitch gain self-awareness and acceptance, and there’s a satisfying HEA for both of them. Oh, and let’s not forget the D/s aspects and steamy sex.
The Billionaire's Consort by Peter Styles 10/15/24 10/17/24 partial read, Kindle
Six stories. I’ve read one and reviewed it separately, read the next three, gave up on the fifth, and have abandoned the rest. However, I did read 375 pages before abandoning it. The stories are rather shallow and the plot devices mostly ridiculous. Caveat emptor re sex.
Diablo by Cora Rose 10/17/24 10/17/24 Kindle
Sigh. Diablo is the chaotic son of a mobster. He punished a cousin for hurting his twin Angel, and now the cousin has vowed to kill him. Diablo’s father hired Skylar to protect his son, sending them off to one of his remote hideaways. Diablo is a brat, a mean-spirited brat. Skylar puts up with a lot until he doesn’t. The sexual tension makes the punishments sexual, treading the line of non-con, but staying just this side of it. Rather ridiculous, actually, and although I’m not sorry I read it exactly, wish I had some of the eyeblinks back. Caveat emptor re sex.
Inheriting Miss Fortune by Lucy Lennox 10/17/24 10/18/24 Kindle Kindle
Dev donates sperm to dear friend Katie with the understanding that he won’t be in any child’s life that results from his donation. Tully has hooked up with Dev 2 years earlier, and they both can’t forget how they feel. Surprise… Tully is also a friend of Katie’s. The coincidence is irritating, but actually works. Katie has named Dev guardian of her daughter, now 18 months old. Tully works for the law firm Katie did and is sent to Dev with his daughter and with the express instruction to find out all he can to discredit Dev’s financial and other qualities that would support his parental rights. Oh, and daughter Lellie inherits $10 million. Nobody knows that Dev’s a billionaire from a college project with friends that became wildly successful because he lives modestly. The bad guys – Katie’s religious parents who try to use everything they can legally and illegally to get Lellie and the people at the law firm who carry out some of the illegal things – get their comeuppance, Dev and Tully get their HEA. A little too cute at times, but pretty good. Caveat emptor re sex.
**abandoned The Marriage Runaway by Aja Foxx**
Miles, best friends with Sam’s brother, attends Sam’s wedding. But Sam is terrorized by the woman he’s marrying. Once Miles gets him to admit this and that he doesn’t want to marry her, enlists Sam’s brother and father to help Sam escape. The way to keep her at bay? Miles marries Sam. Both actually want this. Sparkage, and caveat emptor re D/s and sex.
Ilya by Barbara Elsborg 10/18/24 10/19/24 Kindle
Ilya is the gay son of a Russian mobster, who has been forcibly returned to England prior to his sister’s marriage. He’s forced to undergo conversion therapy and attends the wedding, weakened and cowed but not broken. He sees a man steal his stepmother’s necklace and uses the opportunity to blackmail the thief into meeting him nearby after lifting the necklace from the man’s pocket. Julien has to accede to the request, because he's being blackmailed into this job. All very convoluted and complex. I really liked it a lot. Ilya has cut a tracker out of his arm, Julien has taken him to his apartment and sews the wound up. Julien leaves, hoping Ilya is gone but Ilya has come back to the apartment is burning up with fever. Julien … well. He realizes he cannot abandon Ilya but has major problems of his own. They’re on the run from Ilya’s father AND Julien’s Chechen criminal boss. We learn more of their backstories, but what I really liked was their interactions and Ilya’s sass. Julien has always been attracted to women, but it turns out that he's wildly attracted to Ilya. Sparkage, exploration, bad guy stuff, and finally a HEA. Caveat emptor re sex.
Welcome to Knockwood by Lucy Lennox 10/19/24 10/19/24 Kindle
Short story has Jonah going to Alaska to write about something he’s never done before for the gay website he works for. Pete is the floatplane pilot who flies him in. Sparkage, insta lust and insta love. Sweet. Implied sex.
In a Fix by Mary Calmes 10/19/24 10/19/24 Kindle
Second in the Torus Intercession series, read first. However, it almost doesn’t matter, with just a few references to the first book that frankly I didn’t even remember once I started it, see below. Alpha males are, as many MM romances describe the POV character’s description of what attracts them, my kryptonite. Croy works for Torus Intercession, a private ‘fixer’ company that can be hired to do everything from managing a renovation, babysitting, or hostage negotiation. He’s been hired to protect Brig, the CEO of a company going through a bit of turmoil. The plot is a bit convoluted, a bit too black ops in a way, but once Croy meets FBI Special Agent Dallas Bauer, the sparkage is instant and mutual. After all the bad guys get caught, Croy and Dallas get their HEA. Caveat emptor re sex.
No Quick Fix by Mary Calmes 10/19/24 10/20/24 Kindle
First in the Torus Intercession series has former SEAL Brann sent by his boss on a 3-month job to a very small town in Montana to help Emery, a man in over his head caring for his two daughters, teaching, and being on the board of his dead wife’s family’s company until he marries the daughter of the big employer in town. Brann is appalled, realizes that he’s been hired out as a nanny. He’s immediately attracted to Emery but with Emery set to marry a woman, realizes that his feelings have to be repressed. He immediately steps in to help the girls with their schedules, their grief, and their issues with the fiancée and growing distance from their father. Brann is a doer, and by the end of the first week has entranced pretty much everybody in town. He’s helped a woman escape her abusive ex-husband, helped April, the older daughter, understand that her grief for her mother needs answers about how she died, and etc. He’s empathetic, caring, and comes to realize that everything he wants is in this town, with Emery and his daughters. In the meantime, Emery is fighting his feelings for Brann, but ultimately breaks his engagement before telling Brann how he feels. Bad guys over a land deal get their comeuppance, Brann, Emery, April, and Olivia get their HEA. Sexy and sweet. Caveat emptor re sex.
Fix It Up by Mary Calmes 10/20/24 10/20/24 Kindle
Almost 4.5 stars. Nick is a rock star just out of rehab. His agent hires Torus Intercession to help Nick stay sober and drug free. Locryn arrives at his house to find drugs, sex, and rock and roll and Nick passed out in a bedroom. Locryn pulls the plug on the music, tells everybody the police are coming to raid the house, and everybody leaves. Locryn gets a new security system, fires most of the people surrounding Nick, gets Nick conscious and forces a healthy eating, no drinking/drugs regimen, and starts getting him physically active. It’s a love-hate relationship for sure. I liked the sheer competence of Locryn and Nick’s realization that is probably his last chance at surviving and eventual buy-in to what Locryn’s doing. Sparkage on both sides. Baggage on both sides, but I really loved meeting Locryn’s author mother who is Earth Mother personified. Quite a few folks are unhappy with not having access to Nick’s money or perks of being wealthy anymore and Locryn saves him every single time ‘til the whole thing’s resolved. Caveat emptor re sex.
The Fix is In by Mary Calmes 10/21/24 10/22/24 Kindle
Rather disappointing, frankly, as Shaw has been hired to protect Benji, a former psychiatrist living in a small town who’s been stalked, shot at, and etc. He performs cleansings and other paranormal services. Turns out that most of them are faulty wiring, blocked steam heaters, and etc. Shaw and Benji have insta lust and I really like the character of Benji, who rejected his successful and meaningless life in favor of a life he feels is of value. Shaw protects Benji, starts to figure out why Benji’s being targeted, and finally moves him to Chicago to protect him after Benji’s house is blown up. Caveat emptor re sex.
The Big Fix by Mary Calmes 10/22/24 10/23/24 Kindle
310 pages could have easily been pared down to 200 or so, since Jared anguishes over his attraction to Owen, who he rescued at age 10 and then again at age 18. He brought Owen to his house when Owen was 24, 8 years earlier. Jared owns Torus Intercession and is 56 years old, an insurmountable age gap in his eyes. However, everybody around both of them see how much Owen’s in love with Jared. And then Owen is kidnapped in a bid to get Jared to rescue him. Lots of friends helping Jared, all of them current or former alphabet government agency members or military. Jared is led to Thailand. He cannot figure out who has it in for him, but we are told over and over that Jared will not let Owen be killed like his parents were. Quite a bit of angst over losing your physical edge when you’re in your 50s. Honestly, some of the surprises and some of the resolution was just a bit tedious, but I wanted to finish this one in order to read the last one in the series. Caveat emptor violence, torture, and sex.
Get a Fix by Mary Calmes 10/23/24 10/23/24 Kindle
Sixth in the Torus Intercession series has Cooper assigned to be the bodyguard for Ashford, a movie star attending a niece’s wedding. They pretend to be boyfriends, but the first time they shake hands, there’s serious sparkage. Ashford is looking for a forever love, Cooper just might be. Cooper endears himself to readers even before he meets Ash by helping out an overwhelmed mother with 2 kids at the airport. The mother, husband and total of four kids are also going to the same wedding. Even after one day Coop and Ash realize this could be it… there are sweet episodes, avaricious family members, and a wonderful HEA. Caveat emptor re sex.
Without Warning by Reese Knightley 10/24/24 10/24/24 Kindle
Shortcuts on building characters and occasionally ridiculous situations, but the mystery of who’s stalking Harrison kept me reading. However, it was only when Ryder took Harrison to his family’s home to keep him safe that I remember that I’d read it, December 2023, actually. Sigh. I gave it 2.5 stars then, it’s 2.0 stars now. Caveat emptor re sex and violence.
Again by Mary Calmes 10/24/24 10/24/24 Kindle
Noah and Dante are married, Noah meets him at the airport to share sonograms of their surrogate-carried daughter, and sees Dante passionately kissing his female FBI partner. He leaves. He tries to get in touch, nothing. Not Dante, not his family, not even through the FBI. Five years later it’s Noah and daughter Grace, and they are at a wedding in Las Vegas. Dante is there with his family and is gobsmacked to see what is clearly his daughter with Noah. He claims Noah and Grace, Noah’s never stopped loving Dante, and after a great comeuppance to a man Noah’s dating, we get a very sweet HEA in this novella. Cavet emptor re sex.
Lay It Down by Mary Calmes 10/24/24 10/24/24 Kindle
As wonderful as Again was, this book by Calmes was disappointing. Hudson was tricked by his fraternal twin Dalvon (Dalvon, really?) to come to the island mansion owned by Dalvon’s billionaire boyfriend Miguel. Dalvon has left, taking Hudson’s passport. Hudson doesn’t want Dalvon to get in trouble with the US government, so stays. He makes changes to the mansion, gets two money-losing island businesses owned by Miguel profitable, and is happy there but wants to go home. Miguel returns, instant lust, instant love. Oh, and there’s arms dealing, kidnapping, and etc. A waste of eyeblinks, but fortunately only 150 pages. Caveat emptor re sex.
A Matter of Time Book 1 by Mary Calmes 10/25/24 10/25/24 Kindle
Jory is PA to a very powerful man. He’s also a sweet, generous friend, and one night goes to rescue his friend’s dog since she’s leaving her husband. Unfortunately, Jory witnesses a murder and meets Detective Sam Kage who wants to put him in witness protection. Jory refuses, and Sam all of a sudden is everywhere, protecting Jory. Sam is bi-curious and Jory gives him his first sexual experience with a man. And, over the course of the this and the next three books, Jory goes above and beyond for his boss and Sam and all of his friends and all the new friends he makes along the way. He and Sam fall in love, but Sam is closeted because he’s a cop and things wouldn’t go well. Jory keeps leaving, they keep crashing back together. In the meantime, all sorts of people are trying to kill Jory for various and sundry reasons. I really loved this series. It’s dynamic and vivid and although Jory frequently does really stupid things that put him in danger, he also rescues people and tracks down things the police can’t or won’t. There are two more books in the series that I’m not sure I want to read – they’re not Kindle Unlimited and I may want to leave it with the first four. Caveat emptor re sex and violence. Jory and Sam A Matter of Time Series Book 1 2011
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Acrobat by Mary Calmes 10/26/24 10/27/24 Kindle
Nathan is a college professor. His neighbor has taken his dead sister’s boy in, and 16-year old Michael spends a lot of time with Nathan when his uncle, Dreo, isn’t around. Unbenownst to Nathan, Dreo is enamored of him and has spent the last 4 years trying to figure out how to get out from being a mob bodyguard alive. Various and sundry bits of violence, strong attraction when Dreo comes on to Nathan, sweet HEA if a bit unrealistic, and caveat emptor re sex.
Carte Blanche by Mary Calmes 10/27/24 10/27/24 Kindle
Jude has severe OCD and social anxiety disorder, and rarely comes out of his apartment. He works from home as a travel agent/trip planner. Devin moves in across the hall, and over time, gets Jude to be more open to change and acceptance that he is more than his illnesses. Sweet short story. Caveat emptor re one sex scene.
His Hearth by Mary Calmes 10/27/24 10/27/24 Kindle
Even though this is only a 99-page novella, there is believable world building. Julian is up for an award, Ryan is in the hotel for another function. Instant sparkage, and although Julian keeps insisting he doesn’t do hookups, his attraction to Ryan is so strong that they spend the night together. The next night they spend it at Julian’s, but they are not protected there and Julian sees Ryan’s supernatural powers as he kills 6 demons, ala Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Julian is introduced to Ryan’s sentinel and 5 other warders, and such is the connection between him and Ryan that he buys into what it means to become Ryan’s Hearth – his home, his grounding, his protection from the emotional toll his life takes on him. Very sweet and sexy and supernatural. Caveat emptor re sex.
Truth and Betrayal by KC Wells 10/10/24 10/28/24 Audible Audio book narrated by John Solo 4 hrs 30 minutes
KC Wells knows small Southern town prejudices and customs, that’s for sure. Jake’s brother Caleb, who hasn’t been home in 7 years, has been killed in an accident. His roommate, Liam, was driving. Jake is beside himself with grief, and at the funeral, when Liam, a black man, shows up in a small awful town in Tennessee, Jake goes off on him, blaming him for Caleb’s death. The folks at the funeral basically run him off. Fast forward to Jake going to get Caleb’s belongings several months later and realizing that Caleb was gay, Liam his lover, and that both he and Liam are beside themselves with grief. Jake’s gay, too, completely in the closet. From there the story takes predictable but beautifully well-written turns. Jake and Liam start texting, meet up at some friends of Liam’s in Atlanta, and Jake gets to explore his gayness in a safe and accepting environment. At home, his mother is trying to set him up with the preacher’s daughter. Liam’s family is accepting of Jake, Jake thinks he’ll never be able to tell his family about being gay. Jake and Liam take their relationship further. I liked the ending, because some icky folks got their comeuppance, Jake’s family surprises him, and they get their HEA. Caveat emptor re sex.
Damaged Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 10/28/24 10/29/24 Kindle
This is my second reread. I can’t seem to stay away from this series. This time, in addition to my alpha male kryptonite – both Maximoff AND Farrow – I want to say that the other family members and bodyguards are vividly and realistically portrayed within the scope of a billionaire family group’s quirks and the staggeringly demanding requirements placed on the bodyguards. I love every family member in the Hale, Cobalt, and Meadows families and most of the bodyguards. The pressures on Maximoff and the way that Farrow helps him relax within the scope of those pressures before they become romantically involved are over the top, of course, but endearing. I don’t know whether I’ll re-read the entire 13-book series again, but I’ve already read the 2nd and have started the 3rd. Caveat emptor re sex.
Lovers Like Us by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie 10/29/24 10/31/24 467 pages Kindle
After a potential scandal involving Maximoff and his cousin Jane, who love each other platonically but not romantically, described in the first book, the families decide to go on a tour with 5 of the family members and six guards. At the same time there’s a serious security threat to Maximoff. There are always security threats, but this one seems more plausible given where the website postings are sourced – Philadelphia, the home base of the families. Farrow is more vigilant than usual and he also has to stress over reading the last 4-years-worth of the NDAs for Maximoff’s one-night stands. Being a couple in front of the families and guards but not the public makes it hard on both of them, and the discovery of who the threat to Maximoff is surprising yet not. Caveat emptor re sex.
**abandoned The Nanny Proposal by Lucy Lennox**
44 pages I can’t unread. Not awful, but shallowly predictable.
179LizzieD
Holy Moly, Karen! That's a LOT of smut!!! *grin* I see that you got hoked into *Like Us* again. Have fun.
I need to start a new thread, but we have to walk. Oh well. I'll check you later!
I need to start a new thread, but we have to walk. Oh well. I'll check you later!
180quondame
>174 karenmarie: Oh! Look! In my early 30's I'd have a candy splurge a few times a year which always included Big Cherry, Look, and Payday bars. I was also fond of Big Hunks, the Look cousin.
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>179 LizzieD: Hi Peggy. Yup, total escape reading. Like Us is really appealing to me again for some reason. I hope you enjoyed your walk.
>180 quondame: Yum, I love Payday bars, too. And yes, Big Hunk is a Look Bar without the chocolate.
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Arsenal lost, darn it. But so did Man City, so there's that.
>180 quondame: Yum, I love Payday bars, too. And yes, Big Hunk is a Look Bar without the chocolate.
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Arsenal lost, darn it. But so did Man City, so there's that.
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>181 karenmarie: So Man City is The Enemy, eh what? I've got no dog in the fight but I do like knowing when to boo.
Your smut post is appalling, and has been referred to the Geneva Convention for further action.
Your smut post is appalling, and has been referred to the Geneva Convention for further action.
183msf59
Morning, Karen. Happy Sunday. Nice smutty lightning round. Quick food shopping this AM and then Matt is coming over later to watch some football. Do you get fox sparrows in your area? I saw a couple of them yesterday while walking Juno. I believe some of them migrate down here for the winter. Great looking birds.
184karenmarie
>182 richardderus: Hiya, RDear. Man City and Liverpool losing benefit Arsenal. If Arsenal don't start winning, they won't be in the hunt for the league title. I'll still watch them because they're my team, but injuries have plagued them, especially Martin Martin Ødegaard. However I just read that he might be back for the Champions League game against Inter Milan mid-week.
I cheer when they lose, so feel free to boo when they lose. Even drawing is better than winning.
I know - much smut was read. 47 books, as a matter of fact. the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the only non-smut book I read. There are quite a few good'uns in the list. *smooch*
>183 msf59: 'Morning, Mark, happy Sunday to you, too. Thanks re my SLR. Good luck to the Bears vs. Cardinals.
Fox Sparrows are here for the non-breeding season, so yes, they should be back by now. However, I don't get out much into 'nature', even in my own yard, so would have a hard time spotting them unless they came up to the feeders.
I've got a White-Breasted Nuthatch on the wild bird seed feeder, a female cardinal who challenged him/her and lost. A Carolina Chickadee is perched on the nyjer seed feeder hanger, and a male Cardinal just came to the wild bird seed feeder, too.
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Whole lotta reading/LT interspersed with puttering, including cat box and cat box mat washing, blanket/sheet folding, taking cardboard to the garage for recycling, and thinking about how to fill the new book case. We watched two episodes of New Tricks, I slept for 7 hours with only one brief time awake at 4:30. Kitties have decided that visiting me at night is what they like doing since I'm back upstairs. And yes, I use a Winnie-the-Pooh soft animal bought by me at Disneyland in the early 1980s as a Kindle prop.
I finished two books last night, The Tragedy of Jake and Felix, and Alphas Like Us by Krista Ritchie and her twin Becca Ritchie.
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More puttering, more LT, more reading, and I'm going to measure shelf heights in the new book case to start gathering appropriately-sized books, since that's how I shelve my books using Location Tags to tell me where they are.
I cheer when they lose, so feel free to boo when they lose. Even drawing is better than winning.
I know - much smut was read. 47 books, as a matter of fact. the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the only non-smut book I read. There are quite a few good'uns in the list. *smooch*
>183 msf59: 'Morning, Mark, happy Sunday to you, too. Thanks re my SLR. Good luck to the Bears vs. Cardinals.
Fox Sparrows are here for the non-breeding season, so yes, they should be back by now. However, I don't get out much into 'nature', even in my own yard, so would have a hard time spotting them unless they came up to the feeders.
I've got a White-Breasted Nuthatch on the wild bird seed feeder, a female cardinal who challenged him/her and lost. A Carolina Chickadee is perched on the nyjer seed feeder hanger, and a male Cardinal just came to the wild bird seed feeder, too.
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Whole lotta reading/LT interspersed with puttering, including cat box and cat box mat washing, blanket/sheet folding, taking cardboard to the garage for recycling, and thinking about how to fill the new book case. We watched two episodes of New Tricks, I slept for 7 hours with only one brief time awake at 4:30. Kitties have decided that visiting me at night is what they like doing since I'm back upstairs. And yes, I use a Winnie-the-Pooh soft animal bought by me at Disneyland in the early 1980s as a Kindle prop.
I finished two books last night, The Tragedy of Jake and Felix, and Alphas Like Us by Krista Ritchie and her twin Becca Ritchie.
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185richardderus
>184 karenmarie: Pleasantly busy kind of day, Horrible, so I hope it'll be fun for you.
I'm doing exactly nothing today. It got cold overnight, so I'm motivated to slug my way through the day. *smooch*
I'm doing exactly nothing today. It got cold overnight, so I'm motivated to slug my way through the day. *smooch*
186Storeetllr
Hey, there! Congrats on so much reading getting done! (I thought I had a good month with eight books read. Haha.) Might be smut, but reading is reading! These days, especially, whatever gets us through the day and keeps us sane.
187karenmarie
>185 richardderus: Hi RDear. As my back pain becomes more manageable, I am enjoying my days more. Exactly nothing is a good thing, to do. I hope your slugging through the day was good. *smooch*
>186 Storeetllr: Hi Mary! Thanks, Mary. If I were reading different than comfort reading, I'd probably have 8, too, since my pre-smut totals were always around 100 books. But yes, reading is reading.
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I've discovered that with the sleeper sofa in the Library returned to it's normal state, I seem to love being on my back there reading. My back simply does not hurt in that position.
Reading, nothing done re book case, New Tricks, and etc.
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Before I came down this morning, I wanted to deaccession The Help, and ended up also deciding to get rid of Blood Memory by Greg Iles and Magic Hour by Susan Isaacs.
I have a chiropractor's appointment at 2:30 today. Other than that, the usual stuff. Might start getting an online grocery store order ready to pick up today or tomorrow, might work on the new book case.
>186 Storeetllr: Hi Mary! Thanks, Mary. If I were reading different than comfort reading, I'd probably have 8, too, since my pre-smut totals were always around 100 books. But yes, reading is reading.
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Reading, nothing done re book case, New Tricks, and etc.
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Before I came down this morning, I wanted to deaccession The Help, and ended up also deciding to get rid of Blood Memory by Greg Iles and Magic Hour by Susan Isaacs.
I have a chiropractor's appointment at 2:30 today. Other than that, the usual stuff. Might start getting an online grocery store order ready to pick up today or tomorrow, might work on the new book case.
188msf59
Morning, Karen. Fox sparrows feed on the ground, kicking up the leaf litter, much like juncos. They are also bigger than other sparrows, with rusty tints. Just in case you see something like that around the feeders.
The Bears lost big yesterday. The Cardinals dominated throughout. To make up for it, Jack came by for a visit. I got to wrestle around with him a bit. He is still in superhero power mode. As adorable as ever.
The Bears lost big yesterday. The Cardinals dominated throughout. To make up for it, Jack came by for a visit. I got to wrestle around with him a bit. He is still in superhero power mode. As adorable as ever.
189richardderus
>187 karenmarie: Deaccessioning feels so good, doesn't it? Something I don't love is going somewhere someone *will* love it! I'll hope for a good visit to the crackbacker, one that will further lessen the T12 discomfort. *smooch*
190alcottacre
>187 karenmarie: I hope the chiropractor's appointment goes well, Karen.
Congratulations on the deaccessions today. I am working slowly but surely on getting rid of books myself.
Have a marvelous Monday!
Congratulations on the deaccessions today. I am working slowly but surely on getting rid of books myself.
Have a marvelous Monday!
191LizzieD
I also wish you a good session with the chiropractor and a return that lets you read on the comfy sofa! Have a happy day, m'dear!
192quondame
>187 karenmarie: I'm glad to hear that your back pain is headed in the more manageable direction!
193atozgrl
Hello, Karen! I just saw on the news that Chatham County led the state in early voting with over 72% of registered voters having voted. Great turnout!
I hope the chiropractor visit went well and that your back is feeling good now.
I need to do more work on deaccessioning myself. And try to get another bookcase, if I can figure out a spot to put it.
I hope the chiropractor visit went well and that your back is feeling good now.
I need to do more work on deaccessioning myself. And try to get another bookcase, if I can figure out a spot to put it.
194karenmarie
>188 msf59: Hi Mark, and thank you! I’ll keep my eyes peeled. Right now there’s a Carolina Chickadee on the wild bird seed feeder. I’m sorry about your Bears losing, glad Jack’s visit could offet it.
>189 richardderus: Yes, RD, it is. It’s also amusing to see what Past Karen wanted to have on her shelves compared with Now Karen. I brought two more down a while ago, won’t have time to process them before I leave for book sort/Virlie’s. *smooch*
>190 alcottacre: Thank you twice, Stasia! I love my chiropractor and am looking at books with stern eyes. I hope your Monday was good – mine was.
>191 LizzieD: The comfy sofa was waiting for me, Peggy. I also discovered that the sofa in the Retreat is also firm in the good way my back needs right now. Thank you re my day.
>192Me, too, Susan. It’s still hard to not do too much.
>193 atozgrl: Hi Irene, and Bill mentioned that yesterday to me. I’m proud of my county. Good luck on deaccessioning. For me, all it took was getting the piano off that wall… *smile*
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I visited the aforementioned chiropractor, although the original time of 2:30 was changed to 12:30 so I'd get MY chiropractor, not the other woman in the practice. I left early and stopped off at the Library to give Rita a late birthday card and bottle of wine. We chatted for a bit, and will arrange for lunch sometime soon.
I started putting books from the Sunroom into the book case. Trade paperbacks on the first two shelves so far. The adjustable-shelf pin holes are such that I have to have one really tall shelf. I don't want to move my tall books there, so have figured out that I'm going to move MM paperbacks (deaccessioning as I go) from the LIbrary, leaving room for trade paperbacks and hardcovers in the soon-to-be empty shelves in the Library. I might do some more this afternoon, although the HVAC guys will be here, starting nine-ish.
Chatted with Jenna, chatted with Karen. Her birthday was Sunday, and I'd sent two books from Ammie for her collection, both by Edward Brooke-Hitching - The Madman's Library and The Devil's Atlas. They only arrived one day late, yesterday, so she opened the box while we were on the phone and was pleased. Still watching New Tricks and season 7 is much better than season 6.
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Book sort and Virlie's. Possibly the grocery store, but not necessarily. It would have to be an in-person trip, not an on-line pickup. All the other good things after - reading, light puttering, and etc.
>189 richardderus: Yes, RD, it is. It’s also amusing to see what Past Karen wanted to have on her shelves compared with Now Karen. I brought two more down a while ago, won’t have time to process them before I leave for book sort/Virlie’s. *smooch*
>190 alcottacre: Thank you twice, Stasia! I love my chiropractor and am looking at books with stern eyes. I hope your Monday was good – mine was.
>191 LizzieD: The comfy sofa was waiting for me, Peggy. I also discovered that the sofa in the Retreat is also firm in the good way my back needs right now. Thank you re my day.
>192Me, too, Susan. It’s still hard to not do too much.
>193 atozgrl: Hi Irene, and Bill mentioned that yesterday to me. I’m proud of my county. Good luck on deaccessioning. For me, all it took was getting the piano off that wall… *smile*
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I visited the aforementioned chiropractor, although the original time of 2:30 was changed to 12:30 so I'd get MY chiropractor, not the other woman in the practice. I left early and stopped off at the Library to give Rita a late birthday card and bottle of wine. We chatted for a bit, and will arrange for lunch sometime soon.
I started putting books from the Sunroom into the book case. Trade paperbacks on the first two shelves so far. The adjustable-shelf pin holes are such that I have to have one really tall shelf. I don't want to move my tall books there, so have figured out that I'm going to move MM paperbacks (deaccessioning as I go) from the LIbrary, leaving room for trade paperbacks and hardcovers in the soon-to-be empty shelves in the Library. I might do some more this afternoon, although the HVAC guys will be here, starting nine-ish.
Chatted with Jenna, chatted with Karen. Her birthday was Sunday, and I'd sent two books from Ammie for her collection, both by Edward Brooke-Hitching - The Madman's Library and The Devil's Atlas. They only arrived one day late, yesterday, so she opened the box while we were on the phone and was pleased. Still watching New Tricks and season 7 is much better than season 6.
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Book sort and Virlie's. Possibly the grocery store, but not necessarily. It would have to be an in-person trip, not an on-line pickup. All the other good things after - reading, light puttering, and etc.
195msf59
Morning, Karen. No school day. Plenty of rain in the forecast (WE NEED IT). PB indoors today. Books in the PM. Good luck with the book sorting.
196richardderus
>194 karenmarie: Happy that you're post-chiropractic, and off to fondle more books before a Virlie's treat. Would making groceries be a pain or a pleasure? Whichever it is, enjoy the organizing and deaccessioning more than either. *smooch*
197LizzieD
I am sure that you're enjoying the book sort and looking forward to Virlie's. I have stuff to do today, and here I sit. I'm not procrastinating; I'm doing my necessities!!!
Enjoy the rest of the day.
Enjoy the rest of the day.
198LovingLit
>194 karenmarie: I haven't been to a chiropractor in *years* but recall feeling very ...different...sort of like an out-of-body experience afterwards! Maybe I could do with a crick and a crack again :)
199msf59
Morning, Karen. I sure was hoping to wake up with brighter news but sadly it was just the opposite. Not sure how this happened but I thought Harris fought the good fight. Feeling despondent in Downers Grove, Illinois.
200karenmarie
Words fail me. The only consolation at all is that my state went Blue except for the amendment. My county also went blue for Harris.
>195 msf59: Hope you got the rain you needed, Mark. PB and books are good.
>196 richardderus: Hi RD, and thank you.
>197 LizzieD: Yes to both, Peggy. I hope you got your stuff done. I did enjoy my day, the last for a while in oh so many ways, alas.
>198 LovingLit: Hi Megan. Hmm. Out of body. I’ve been going to chiropractors off and on since 1974, so don’t ever remember feeling different, only better as they were helping me get over neck problems resulting from an accident.
>199 msf59: Morning. Good? Not so much. Happy Wednesday doesn’t seem appropriate. I’m feeling despondent, too, and have already spoken with a friend who is beside herself with upset and anxiety.
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Ignorance was bliss. Knowledge is distressing. Yesterday was good, although I felt in the way by staying in the book sort room so sat outside to read for the last 45 minutes. Ten of the eleven of us headed over to Virlie's, where friend Rhoda bought cake for the table to celebrate her birthday. Fun times and yum. I put more books in my new book case. I will possibly put more in today, although I'll carry fewer of them at a time than I did yesterday. Only MM paperbacks, but still.
The HVAC guys were at the house for 8 hours. They'll be here today, too, but I hope they finish. They plan on finishing, so we'll see.
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No plans on leaving the house unless I need an escape, but realistically I won't go out. So, books, possibly book case, dealing with people in my house and under the house making noise. It's all in aid of a good thing, but still.
Old duct work out, some of the new duct work still in rolls near the well house.
>195 msf59: Hope you got the rain you needed, Mark. PB and books are good.
>196 richardderus: Hi RD, and thank you.
>197 LizzieD: Yes to both, Peggy. I hope you got your stuff done. I did enjoy my day, the last for a while in oh so many ways, alas.
>198 LovingLit: Hi Megan. Hmm. Out of body. I’ve been going to chiropractors off and on since 1974, so don’t ever remember feeling different, only better as they were helping me get over neck problems resulting from an accident.
>199 msf59: Morning. Good? Not so much. Happy Wednesday doesn’t seem appropriate. I’m feeling despondent, too, and have already spoken with a friend who is beside herself with upset and anxiety.
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Ignorance was bliss. Knowledge is distressing. Yesterday was good, although I felt in the way by staying in the book sort room so sat outside to read for the last 45 minutes. Ten of the eleven of us headed over to Virlie's, where friend Rhoda bought cake for the table to celebrate her birthday. Fun times and yum. I put more books in my new book case. I will possibly put more in today, although I'll carry fewer of them at a time than I did yesterday. Only MM paperbacks, but still.
The HVAC guys were at the house for 8 hours. They'll be here today, too, but I hope they finish. They plan on finishing, so we'll see.
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No plans on leaving the house unless I need an escape, but realistically I won't go out. So, books, possibly book case, dealing with people in my house and under the house making noise. It's all in aid of a good thing, but still.
Old duct work out, some of the new duct work still in rolls near the well house.
201figsfromthistle
>174 karenmarie: Always exciting to have new space for books!
>177 karenmarie: As always, impressive stats!
>184 karenmarie: Glad you were able to get a good nights sleep!
>200 karenmarie: Wow! That's a lot of duct work. Interesting that it is covered with what looks like an insulating property. Ours does not have that. Hope the isntallation goes quickly and smoothly!
Happy rest of the week.
>177 karenmarie: As always, impressive stats!
>184 karenmarie: Glad you were able to get a good nights sleep!
>200 karenmarie: Wow! That's a lot of duct work. Interesting that it is covered with what looks like an insulating property. Ours does not have that. Hope the isntallation goes quickly and smoothly!
Happy rest of the week.
202LizzieD
Honestly, Karen, that old ductwork looks like the entrails or maybe the excrement of some huge, scary animal. It's pretty much what I feel like this morning.
I remember the happy morning when we said to our Republican friends, "We made it through Dub. You'll make it through Obama." I'm not sure we can hear that today.
I remember the happy morning when we said to our Republican friends, "We made it through Dub. You'll make it through Obama." I'm not sure we can hear that today.
203karenmarie
>201 figsfromthistle: Hi Anita. Thanks re the the comments and rest of my week. The election results are beyond depressing, but I'm trying to immerse myself in putting books in my new antique book case, so there's that.
Happy rest of the week to you, too.
>202 LizzieD: Hello, my dear.
When I sent that photo to Bill, I wrote "Looks like a steaming pile of poo..."
It's definitely how I feel this afternoon.
Rita and I made plans for lunch on Friday, and we knew that the folks at Virlie's were rabid Trump supporters. Where we would normally have gone there, she wrote that she just cannot be in Virlie's this week and I agree. So we're going to go to Elizabeth's, where I can get a grilled chicken salad or a hamburger and fries.
Happy rest of the week to you, too.
>202 LizzieD: Hello, my dear.
When I sent that photo to Bill, I wrote "Looks like a steaming pile of poo..."
It's definitely how I feel this afternoon.
Rita and I made plans for lunch on Friday, and we knew that the folks at Virlie's were rabid Trump supporters. Where we would normally have gone there, she wrote that she just cannot be in Virlie's this week and I agree. So we're going to go to Elizabeth's, where I can get a grilled chicken salad or a hamburger and fries.
204richardderus
No words. Just bitterness.
205karenmarie
>204 richardderus: Hi RD. Many words - bitternesss, anger, incredulity. Uncertainty, fear. Devil spawn and chaos demon unleashed again on my people and my country. I can't bear to even think about being around anybody who voted for him.
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I read, I pondered, I chatted with friend Karen, friend Diane, daughter. All distraught, of course. We watched Arsenal play Inter Milan in the Champions League and lose 0-1 on a penalty kick. Kai Havertz got headbutted on a corner, and he and the IM player both went down, but Havertz was escorted off the field with blood running down his forehead. It was not deliberate, just an unfortunate jostling after an Arsenal corner. Dinner, New Tricks.
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I may walk around the house to peer into the crawl space and take a photo or two. I also need to wash each floor register, spray with Lysol, let dry, and put back down. Slow and steady wins that race. Offhand I can count 18...
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So I may have overdone it a bit yesterday with moving books around. My back is really angry with me this morning. Duct work finished. Old duct work and etc. will be hauled away this afternoon.
I read, I pondered, I chatted with friend Karen, friend Diane, daughter. All distraught, of course. We watched Arsenal play Inter Milan in the Champions League and lose 0-1 on a penalty kick. Kai Havertz got headbutted on a corner, and he and the IM player both went down, but Havertz was escorted off the field with blood running down his forehead. It was not deliberate, just an unfortunate jostling after an Arsenal corner. Dinner, New Tricks.
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I will not go out of the house today and will spend more time resting my back than moving books. I still have shelf space to fill on the new book case and once it's filled I need to update location tags. I'll be reading more of Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder for Sunday's book club plus book 4 in the Like Us series. I go through phases of not being able to find good MM romances (i.e., smut) so fall back on this series.
I may walk around the house to peer into the crawl space and take a photo or two. I also need to wash each floor register, spray with Lysol, let dry, and put back down. Slow and steady wins that race. Offhand I can count 18...
206msf59
Morning, Karen. Sweet Thursday. They have added a few more kids to my route, including some high-schoolers, that I pick up and drop off, after my grade school kids. It is cutting into my PB time but I am trying to roll with it. It is only for the next week or two.
I am leading a bird walk this AM. I think there will be about 7 or 8 of us. I leave shortly. This will probably be my last one of the year.
I am leading a bird walk this AM. I think there will be about 7 or 8 of us. I leave shortly. This will probably be my last one of the year.
207karenmarie
Hi Mark! Sweet Thursday to you too.
I guess helping out with the high-schoolers is a good thing. Yay for a bird walk.
I've now got a Carolina Chickadee eating nyjer seed off the tray.
I guess helping out with the high-schoolers is a good thing. Yay for a bird walk.
I've now got a Carolina Chickadee eating nyjer seed off the tray.
208richardderus
>205 karenmarie: Washing the registers...wow, what a chore that is. Good on ya for tackling it before you *have* to. I got up and scrubbed the trash cans at 6.15 to have something to do that wasn't scream.
Barbara Walters' bio for tomorrow.
Barbara Walters' bio for tomorrow.
209karenmarie
I washed 3 registers yesterday, just flipped two of them over so they can fully dry.
Something that isn't scream... yup.
Ah, Baba Wawa.
Something that isn't scream... yup.
Ah, Baba Wawa.
210mahsdad
Hi Karen, pardon me while I jump in to post a PSA for the groups 2024 Christmas Swap. I'm trying to cast a larger net to make sure as many people know about it as possible. Not everyone follows me, or might not see the Group Announcement thread. So I'm visiting a bunch of the more active groups to post a link to the group thread.
The 2024 Christmas Swap thread is live. If you or anyone who follows you are interested head on over, all the details are there. If not, no big deal, thank you for your time. :)
https://www.librarything.com/topic/365525
The 2024 Christmas Swap thread is live. If you or anyone who follows you are interested head on over, all the details are there. If not, no big deal, thank you for your time. :)
https://www.librarything.com/topic/365525
212SilverWolf28
Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/365590
213msf59
Morning, Karen. Happy Friday. The bird walk went well yesterday. It was a beautiful day. There were 6 of us. We clocked in 19 species. Highlights were bluebirds and sandhill cranes. Nature is so therapeutic. Have a good day, my friend.
214karenmarie
>210 mahsdad: Hi Jeff, and thank you for the link. Unfortunately, I have way too much going on this year and simply cannot think of adding even one more thing. Maybe next year…
>211 alcottacre: Hi Stasia. I did a lot of resting, but did a few more books and did a bit of light-carrying puttering and dinner prep. My back complained last night but is only grumbling this morning.
>212 SilverWolf28: Hi Silver, and thank you.
>213 msf59: Hi Mark, you confused me – it’s definitely Friday, right? Glad the bird walk went well, with 6 and 19. I am so envious of Sandhill Cranes – we do not get them migrating over us here.
Lots of visitors right now - male Cardinal, Carolina Chickadees, 2 Downy Woodpeckers, and a male Red-Bellied Woodpecker.
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I did some more book case arranging. Made air fryer chicken thighs in the afternoon then made air fryer crinkle-cut fries to go with for dinner. Read, of course, finishing up Tangled Like Us and have started Sinful Like Us. I also read a significant amount in Knife Meditations After an Attempted Murder and will try to read the last 38 pages today. It's not long - 209 pages in hardcover - but very rich and dense and etc.
I texted and spoke with Jenna yesterday. She and Hwan are engaged and are coming over Sunday to take some engagement photos here at the house.
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I still have space for 8" vertical trade paperback space. After that, I will finalize the tag updates for C11 - C14.
>211 alcottacre: Hi Stasia. I did a lot of resting, but did a few more books and did a bit of light-carrying puttering and dinner prep. My back complained last night but is only grumbling this morning.
>212 SilverWolf28: Hi Silver, and thank you.
>213 msf59: Hi Mark, you confused me – it’s definitely Friday, right? Glad the bird walk went well, with 6 and 19. I am so envious of Sandhill Cranes – we do not get them migrating over us here.
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I texted and spoke with Jenna yesterday. She and Hwan are engaged and are coming over Sunday to take some engagement photos here at the house.
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Lunch with Rita unless things come up at the Library. PT at 5:30, a very late appointment. I'm probably going to place an online grocery store order to be picked up after lunch, but only if Rita confirms.
I still have space for 8" vertical trade paperback space. After that, I will finalize the tag updates for C11 - C14.
216LizzieD
Oh! CONGRATULATIONS all around on the engagement! You know how deeply I wish them a long, happy life together. I am happy to add an honorary niece!!!!!
I'm glad that your back is only grumbling today. I wish that it may shut up.
I was trying to read *Knife* sort of with you, but put it down for The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory since I had started it and had seen that Alberta had an article in The Atlantic last week. It is hard going for me, but I think you should read it, and I really, really think that Karen-in-Montana should read it. I think it may help gird me for the near future.
Enjoy your day!
I'm glad that your back is only grumbling today. I wish that it may shut up.
I was trying to read *Knife* sort of with you, but put it down for The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory since I had started it and had seen that Alberta had an article in The Atlantic last week. It is hard going for me, but I think you should read it, and I really, really think that Karen-in-Montana should read it. I think it may help gird me for the near future.
Enjoy your day!
218richardderus
>214 karenmarie: My best wishes for their long and happy life together. Gives us a reason to stay engaged in The Struggle, don't it though?
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219alcottacre
>214 karenmarie: Yay for book case arranging! I will be glad when my new kitchen countertop is out of my library and in the kitchen where it belongs so I can get back to organizing my library!
Congratulations on the engagement! Any wedding date set yet?
Have a wonderful weekend!
Congratulations on the engagement! Any wedding date set yet?
Have a wonderful weekend!
220lauralkeet
Congratulations to Jenna and Hwan! That’s wonderful news. Have they set a date or shared what sort of wedding they want to have?
221karenmarie
>215 Ameise1: Thank you, Barbara. I love seeing them together and know this will work out for them.
>216 LizzieD: Thank you, honorary Aunt Peggy! You've gained a second niece for sure. My back is doing okay right now with only Tylenol at 8 a.m.
We must always read what we want to read, of course. I'm happy that my reading of Knife coincides with preparing to discuss it on Sunday, happy that you're reading what is pleasing to you.
>217 Whisper1: Thank you, Linda!
>218 richardderus: Thanks, RD, and yes, hope and optimism and staying engaged are the best reasons for looking forward to each day. *smooch*
>219 alcottacre: Hi Stasia, and yes to book case arranging. I'm pleased to report that location C11, 39 books, is accurate. I even found a book that was 'mia' in the system! I hope your kitchen cabinets migrate to the kitchen soon so you can 'play' in your library.
Thank you. No exact date set yet. They're just basking in the glow of being engaged.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend, too.
>220 lauralkeet: Thank you, Laura. Early days for everything except for being engaged.
>216 LizzieD: Thank you, honorary Aunt Peggy! You've gained a second niece for sure. My back is doing okay right now with only Tylenol at 8 a.m.
We must always read what we want to read, of course. I'm happy that my reading of Knife coincides with preparing to discuss it on Sunday, happy that you're reading what is pleasing to you.
>217 Whisper1: Thank you, Linda!
>218 richardderus: Thanks, RD, and yes, hope and optimism and staying engaged are the best reasons for looking forward to each day. *smooch*
>219 alcottacre: Hi Stasia, and yes to book case arranging. I'm pleased to report that location C11, 39 books, is accurate. I even found a book that was 'mia' in the system! I hope your kitchen cabinets migrate to the kitchen soon so you can 'play' in your library.
Thank you. No exact date set yet. They're just basking in the glow of being engaged.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend, too.
>220 lauralkeet: Thank you, Laura. Early days for everything except for being engaged.
222karenmarie
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
10/29/24 11/08/24
From Amazon:
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him
On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black—black clothes, black mask—rushed down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So it’s you. Here you are.
What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond. Now, for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, Rushdie relives the traumatic events of that day and its aftermath, as well as his journey toward physical recovery and the healing that was made possible by the love and support of his wife, Eliza, his family, his army of doctors and physical therapists, and his community of readers worldwide.
Knife is Rushdie at the peak of his powers, writing with urgency, with gravity, with unflinching honesty. It is also a deeply moving reminder of literature’s capacity to make sense of the unthinkable, an intimate and life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art—and finding the strength to stand up again.
Why I wanted to read it: For November book club discussion.
First impressions? Dense, demanding, full of book, author, art, and music references. The bald telling of the attack, the almost clinical distance from the horror, blood, and pain make it somewhat bearable to be a paper/word witness to. The writing just flows and I was immediately pulled in.
Nothing is sacred – bodily functions, procedures, anger, fear, and the ultimate letting go of the need for personal confrontation and revenge.
There is the sharing of deeply personal family history and character traits of his sons, sister, and current wife. There is meditation on how his work will be viewed over time, before the fatwa, before the attack. There is his constant reiteration of his atheism, and there is a bit of puffery and patting himself on the back for being who he is and who he knows and who he’s become in his life. Honestly, he's completely likeable in his imperfections and brilliant writing.
All in all, I found it fascinating and definitely worth the read. Reading this too quickly will not allow time for thought, not allow time for going down rabbit holes of references, people, quotes, situations. Fortunately, the subject – the attack by the A., as Rushdie calls him – and subsequent recovery, meditation, and choosing life and love over revenge and hiding, are well captured in 209 pages in hardcover.
Six word review: Horrific attack, recovery, and choosing life.
10/29/24 11/08/24
From Amazon:
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him
On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black—black clothes, black mask—rushed down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So it’s you. Here you are.
What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond. Now, for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, Rushdie relives the traumatic events of that day and its aftermath, as well as his journey toward physical recovery and the healing that was made possible by the love and support of his wife, Eliza, his family, his army of doctors and physical therapists, and his community of readers worldwide.
Knife is Rushdie at the peak of his powers, writing with urgency, with gravity, with unflinching honesty. It is also a deeply moving reminder of literature’s capacity to make sense of the unthinkable, an intimate and life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art—and finding the strength to stand up again.
Why I wanted to read it: For November book club discussion.
First impressions? Dense, demanding, full of book, author, art, and music references. The bald telling of the attack, the almost clinical distance from the horror, blood, and pain make it somewhat bearable to be a paper/word witness to. The writing just flows and I was immediately pulled in.
Nothing is sacred – bodily functions, procedures, anger, fear, and the ultimate letting go of the need for personal confrontation and revenge.
There is the sharing of deeply personal family history and character traits of his sons, sister, and current wife. There is meditation on how his work will be viewed over time, before the fatwa, before the attack. There is his constant reiteration of his atheism, and there is a bit of puffery and patting himself on the back for being who he is and who he knows and who he’s become in his life. Honestly, he's completely likeable in his imperfections and brilliant writing.
All in all, I found it fascinating and definitely worth the read. Reading this too quickly will not allow time for thought, not allow time for going down rabbit holes of references, people, quotes, situations. Fortunately, the subject – the attack by the A., as Rushdie calls him – and subsequent recovery, meditation, and choosing life and love over revenge and hiding, are well captured in 209 pages in hardcover.
Six word review: Horrific attack, recovery, and choosing life.
223richardderus
>222 karenmarie: Not readin' it but glad you did, and gave the account of it that satisfies my squeamish curiosity. *resmooch*
224Jackie_K
Oh what wonderful news about Jenna and Hwan! Many congratulations to them from this side of the Pond!
227figsfromthistle
>214 karenmarie: Congrats on the engagement!
>222 karenmarie: Excellent review. so many mixed reviews about that one and I have been avoiding it but your review convinced me to give it a try.
Anyhow, happy weekend!
>222 karenmarie: Excellent review. so many mixed reviews about that one and I have been avoiding it but your review convinced me to give it a try.
Anyhow, happy weekend!
228lauralkeet
>222 karenmarie: Adding my praise for your review of Knife, Karen. My thoughts are the same as Richard's. I'm not likely to read it but have been curious about it. It sounds like an important book.
229alcottacre
>222 karenmarie: I really need to get that one read. Thanks for the reminder, Karen.
Have a wonderful, healing, resting weekend!
Have a wonderful, healing, resting weekend!
230karenmarie
>223 richardderus: Glad to let you dodge a BB, RD. Squeamish curiosity – reminds of the phrase “Residual Pinhead Slowing” that I heard on the radio in SoCal in the late 1980s as it related to having to gawk at car crashes/police/ambulances. *resmooch* again another time
>224 Jackie_K: Hi Jackie. It is, isn’t it? Thank you.
>225 quondame: Thanks, Susan.
>226 EllaTim: Hello Ella, and thank you.
>227 figsfromthistle: Hi Anita. Wonderful, isn’t it? I’m glad my review makes you want to give it a chance. Happy weekend to you, too.
>228 lauralkeet: Thank you, Laura. It’s nice to satisfy curiosity and realize a book just isn’t for you. Frankly I would never have even considered it except that it was chosen by book club member Blanche. I have 5 of his fiction works on my shelves, as yet unread. I'm thinking of reading Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights next year.
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>224 Jackie_K: Hi Jackie. It is, isn’t it? Thank you.
>225 quondame: Thanks, Susan.
>226 EllaTim: Hello Ella, and thank you.
>227 figsfromthistle: Hi Anita. Wonderful, isn’t it? I’m glad my review makes you want to give it a chance. Happy weekend to you, too.
>228 lauralkeet: Thank you, Laura. It’s nice to satisfy curiosity and realize a book just isn’t for you. Frankly I would never have even considered it except that it was chosen by book club member Blanche. I have 5 of his fiction works on my shelves, as yet unread. I'm thinking of reading Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights next year.
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231msf59
Morning, Karen. Happy Saturday. Sorry, I have no idea why I typed out "Sweet Thursday" yesterday. WTH? Thanks for PMing me on your thoughts about "you know what". I am rolling with it.
Great review of Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder. I had that one on the obese TBR and I just moved it up in the immense queue. Have a great day, my friend.
Great review of Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder. I had that one on the obese TBR and I just moved it up in the immense queue. Have a great day, my friend.
232karenmarie
'Morning, Mark! Happy Saturday to you, too. Not enough coffee? *smile*
You're welcome. I think I know what 'you know what' is.
Thanks re my review, and I'm glad you're moving it up in the immense queue.
You're welcome. I think I know what 'you know what' is.
Thanks re my review, and I'm glad you're moving it up in the immense queue.
233richardderus
I think today's review needs some grooming and decorating...the rhythm's off, but I'm still so energized by fury I need to do daily posts. Maybe swing by later when I've put it up? This afternoon? I'll try to make it less...clunky. Tell me if I succeeded, please?
234streamsong
Oh congrats to Jenna and Hwan! And all of you! Exciting times ahead!
I'm glad your back is down to a rumble today.
Wordle in one of my rare 3's today. The bot has been saying that the word 'sword' would be more effective as my second word - and today it hit the jackpot. alien, sword, swell
Great review of Knife. Eventually, I'll get to it, as like Mark said, it's on my bloated TBR list.
I'm glad your back is down to a rumble today.
Wordle in one of my rare 3's today.
Great review of Knife. Eventually, I'll get to it, as like Mark said, it's on my bloated TBR list.
235Storeetllr
Wow! Great news! Congrats to Jenna and Hwan. May they be blessed with a lifetime of love and happiness!
236weird_O
Hello, hello, Karen. You do remember me. I have the evidence on my thread: a post you placed there yesterday (#151). I'm having a second cuppa today. Still fondling books, trying to bring order to this here library of mine. I'm astonished at the number of great books I've had tucked into cartons and other hidy-holes in the basement. I have to brew up some discipline to hop to the bottom of thread and accept that I'll never catch up, that all the exchanges was history.
Still, my best to Jenna and Hwan.
Still, my best to Jenna and Hwan.
237atozgrl
>214 karenmarie: Congratulations to Jenna and Hwan! What great news!
>216 LizzieD: My DH read The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory a few months ago. I haven't found time to horn it in yet. This reminds me to pull it out and try to get to it sooner.
>222 karenmarie: Good review. But that's one I don't think I want to try to tackle right now.
I'm glad you're having so much fun organizing your books, and hope the back continues to get better.
>216 LizzieD: My DH read The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory a few months ago. I haven't found time to horn it in yet. This reminds me to pull it out and try to get to it sooner.
>222 karenmarie: Good review. But that's one I don't think I want to try to tackle right now.
I'm glad you're having so much fun organizing your books, and hope the back continues to get better.
238karenmarie
>233 richardderus: I didn’t get back by yesterday, RD, but visited just now and your review needs no more grooming or decorating. It’s a good’un. *smooch*
>234 streamsong: Thank you, Janet. It’s down to a rumble today, too – no heavy lifting or twisting yesterday. In fact, I will be able to wait on Tylenol until it does more than rumble and grumble at me.
Getting the first two or last two letters right on Wordle is always good, butSW_ _ _ is really good. And, thank you for my review.
>235 Storeetllr: Hi Mary, and yes! Excellent news. Thank you.
>236 weird_O: There was once a guy who lived up north… built book cases and bought many, MANY books. He occasionally visited… oh. Yes. Hi Bill! Nice to see you here. I did visit, and I am occasionally visiting threads I’ve been shamefully neglecting this year because of … stuff.
Yes for book fondling, and honestly, your new book case is absolutely stunning. I could get rid of my two antique book cases an a ladies secretary desk and you could put an 8' x 15' book case on the living room wall.
Bring out your books! Get them out and proud! And, I will definitely give Jenna and Hwan your best.
>237 atozgrl: Thanks, Irene. They’re giddy with happiness, and it’s fun to hear it in Jenna’s voice.
Knife is definitely one that requires the right mindset and timing. Fortunately I had both just in time for today’s book club discussion.
Thanks re my back and my books.
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I cataloged C12 yesterday - 41 trade paperbacks. Found one on the shelf not cataloged, but i deaccessioned it without even adding it, The Commoner. I finished all the floor registers except the book bath, master bedroom and master bathroom, which Bill did whatever with, and I'll redo as they need to be washed, not just wiped down. Read, and etc.
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Jenna and Hwan are coming over 9:30-ish with donuts. We'll have eggs or omelets and donuts and possibly toast. Jenna found an old list of mine - my favorite Dunkin' Donuts - and confirmed that they were still my faves. I changed glazed/chocolate frosting to chocolate cake/chocolate frosting, and we'll see what they bring.
They're coming over to take engagement photos here at the house - probably just outside, but possibly inside, too. They'll be gone before Arsenal plays at 11:30, which will finish up just in time for me to head out to book club at 2. I'm going to have to go grocery shopping after book club since the Food Lion/InstaCart online shopping function isn't working and hasn't been working since Friday. I can create the shopping cart, just can't get any further than that.
Busy day, all good things. I'll definitely earn my reading and New Tricks time.
>234 streamsong: Thank you, Janet. It’s down to a rumble today, too – no heavy lifting or twisting yesterday. In fact, I will be able to wait on Tylenol until it does more than rumble and grumble at me.
Getting the first two or last two letters right on Wordle is always good, but
>235 Storeetllr: Hi Mary, and yes! Excellent news. Thank you.
>236 weird_O: There was once a guy who lived up north… built book cases and bought many, MANY books. He occasionally visited… oh. Yes. Hi Bill! Nice to see you here. I did visit, and I am occasionally visiting threads I’ve been shamefully neglecting this year because of … stuff.
Yes for book fondling, and honestly, your new book case is absolutely stunning. I could get rid of my two antique book cases an a ladies secretary desk and you could put an 8' x 15' book case on the living room wall.
Bring out your books! Get them out and proud! And, I will definitely give Jenna and Hwan your best.
>237 atozgrl: Thanks, Irene. They’re giddy with happiness, and it’s fun to hear it in Jenna’s voice.
Knife is definitely one that requires the right mindset and timing. Fortunately I had both just in time for today’s book club discussion.
Thanks re my back and my books.
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I cataloged C12 yesterday - 41 trade paperbacks. Found one on the shelf not cataloged, but i deaccessioned it without even adding it, The Commoner. I finished all the floor registers except the book bath, master bedroom and master bathroom, which Bill did whatever with, and I'll redo as they need to be washed, not just wiped down. Read, and etc.
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Jenna and Hwan are coming over 9:30-ish with donuts. We'll have eggs or omelets and donuts and possibly toast. Jenna found an old list of mine - my favorite Dunkin' Donuts - and confirmed that they were still my faves. I changed glazed/chocolate frosting to chocolate cake/chocolate frosting, and we'll see what they bring.
They're coming over to take engagement photos here at the house - probably just outside, but possibly inside, too. They'll be gone before Arsenal plays at 11:30, which will finish up just in time for me to head out to book club at 2. I'm going to have to go grocery shopping after book club since the Food Lion/InstaCart online shopping function isn't working and hasn't been working since Friday. I can create the shopping cart, just can't get any further than that.
Busy day, all good things. I'll definitely earn my reading and New Tricks time.
239msf59
"There was once a guy who lived up north… built book cases and bought many, MANY books. He occasionally visited…" LOL!
Morning, Karen. Happy Sunday. Hey, I got the day right. Yah! I am playing PB with some of the camping group later this afternoon. It should be fun. I will also get some book time in, along with some football viewing.
Enjoy your breakfast with Jenna & Hwan.
Morning, Karen. Happy Sunday. Hey, I got the day right. Yah! I am playing PB with some of the camping group later this afternoon. It should be fun. I will also get some book time in, along with some football viewing.
Enjoy your breakfast with Jenna & Hwan.
240karenmarie
Hi Mark! Glad you liked "There once was a guy..."
Yay for the right day, PB, books, and football.
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It was fun having Jenna and Hwan out here - we had scrambled eggs and donuts and Jenna escorted a 15" Rat Snake outside. She also put a heavy table back in place, and moved a large framed photo to over the new book case. It's perfect. We just now need to find a painting or photo to put in place of where it was on the other Living Room wall.
They took engagement photos in the yard for about 2 hours.
Arsenal tied Chelsea. Not pretty.
Book club was a lot of fun. There were 7 of 10, and 6 had read Knife. Excellent comments, all well thought out. Plus, food..
Home, jammies, a bit of dinner soon since the snackies were nice but there wasn't any protein that I could eat - lots of cheeses.
Yay for the right day, PB, books, and football.
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It was fun having Jenna and Hwan out here - we had scrambled eggs and donuts and Jenna escorted a 15" Rat Snake outside. She also put a heavy table back in place, and moved a large framed photo to over the new book case. It's perfect. We just now need to find a painting or photo to put in place of where it was on the other Living Room wall.
They took engagement photos in the yard for about 2 hours.
Arsenal tied Chelsea. Not pretty.
Book club was a lot of fun. There were 7 of 10, and 6 had read Knife. Excellent comments, all well thought out. Plus, food..
Home, jammies, a bit of dinner soon since the snackies were nice but there wasn't any protein that I could eat - lots of cheeses.
241LizzieD
Sounds like a busy, happy day to me, Karen. I'm really, really glad that Jenna was there to show the snake how to get out and to move the photo for you.
I've tried to get here all day, at least since church. I'm not sure what's gone on, but I tell you straight that I'm reading *In Death 14: Reunion* and having trouble doing anything else beyond feeding the hungry. Hmmmmmm. I think I'm hungry.
Have a good night!
I've tried to get here all day, at least since church. I'm not sure what's gone on, but I tell you straight that I'm reading *In Death 14: Reunion* and having trouble doing anything else beyond feeding the hungry. Hmmmmmm. I think I'm hungry.
Have a good night!
242msf59
Morning, Karen. I am working Mon-Wed. Probably playing PB each day too. The temps will be in the 50s but still decent enough to play outdoors, as long as it is dry. I need to get back to Trail Watch. I am shooting for later in the week. I hope your week gets off to a good start.
243karenmarie
>241 LizzieD: Hi Peggy. It was busy and happy.
I thought the snake was dead after I saw it on the floor between the dining room and the foyer. I went to grab my cell phone to take a picture of it, then decided how to immobilize it so Jenna could escort it out. I put a dish towel over it, then a dinner plate on top of that. It hadn't moved at all. But, still, when Jenna went to get it into the bucket, she jerked back and said "It's alive." No danger of her getting bitten, and the picture I took helped us to see that it was not a copperhead. The head shape was wrong, and it was too long and skinny to be a copperhead.
Books and food are two of the finer physical things in life. Glad you're ensorcelled with #14.
Night was good. Decent sleep, got up at 8.
>242 msf59: 'Morning, Mark! Are you still helping out with the high schoolers? Enjoy PB. Thanks re my week, same to you.
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I also cataloged antique book case shelf C13 - 77 paperbacks. I just need to confirm that shelf C14, which I started, is either complete or in need of finishing.
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Chiropractor at 1:45 p.m., then a grocery store run. Books, some adulting, getting the desk under control again and etc.
I thought the snake was dead after I saw it on the floor between the dining room and the foyer. I went to grab my cell phone to take a picture of it, then decided how to immobilize it so Jenna could escort it out. I put a dish towel over it, then a dinner plate on top of that. It hadn't moved at all. But, still, when Jenna went to get it into the bucket, she jerked back and said "It's alive." No danger of her getting bitten, and the picture I took helped us to see that it was not a copperhead. The head shape was wrong, and it was too long and skinny to be a copperhead.
Books and food are two of the finer physical things in life. Glad you're ensorcelled with #14.
Night was good. Decent sleep, got up at 8.
>242 msf59: 'Morning, Mark! Are you still helping out with the high schoolers? Enjoy PB. Thanks re my week, same to you.
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I also cataloged antique book case shelf C13 - 77 paperbacks. I just need to confirm that shelf C14, which I started, is either complete or in need of finishing.
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Chiropractor at 1:45 p.m., then a grocery store run. Books, some adulting, getting the desk under control again and etc.
244richardderus
>243 karenmarie: A Copperhead indoors would only really happen during the Civil War. Thank goodness!
Crudbuckets all over the senior moment causing you to return groceryless. Maddening thing, so I came up with the only solution that works: my keys and my money are dangling off the same lanyard. I still forget them but only when leaving my room to fetch meals. There are benefits to being in a home!
Adulting for me too, since I need to get in the queue for the doc today. IF he comes, this being a holiday. Of course no one here knows. *sigh*
Crudbuckets all over the senior moment causing you to return groceryless. Maddening thing, so I came up with the only solution that works: my keys and my money are dangling off the same lanyard. I still forget them but only when leaving my room to fetch meals. There are benefits to being in a home!
Adulting for me too, since I need to get in the queue for the doc today. IF he comes, this being a holiday. Of course no one here knows. *sigh*
245LizzieD
Good morning, Karen. Sounds like another busy-enough day for you. I need to make the dal I've had in mind for yonks with the split red lentils that Aldi featured sometime last month. I haven't done it before, so I'll need to be very careful with the warm spices. I'll let you know!
I don't know that we've ever had a snake in this house. At the moment I think the cats would let us know. (Heh! for the Copperhead indoors, Richard.)
I don't know that we've ever had a snake in this house. At the moment I think the cats would let us know. (Heh! for the Copperhead indoors, Richard.)
246karenmarie
>244 richardderus: Heh to the Copperhead indoors... it could easily have happened in the old house they tore down in 2000 just down the road. I got two gorgeous old huge blued-glass mason jars from there...
"Jars dug up on the properties we've built houses on; the middle from the land our 1992 house was built on and the outside two from our 1998 house road that were found in the old farm house that has since been bulldozed for another subdivision."
I shall get groceries today - I need Bubly and food for my fav breakfast and, drat you, gelatin and heavy cream for a Lemon Chiffon Pie. You are a menace. Stop gloating.
I usually leave my wallet and my keys in the garage in my SUV. I had to take the wallet out the other day to get my BCBS member number, and didn't get it back to my SUV. Ah well, today. I know that being in a home works for you mostly - yucky food and OS notwithtanding.
>245 LizzieD: Yup, two busy things. I'll take the Amazon return for Jenna to the True Value Hardware Store UPS drop off tomorrow - no sense in pushing too hard.
Dal - just looked at one recipe. Yikes. Too many things I don't keep as pantry staples, plus at least for this recipe it says 5 minutes prep, 20 minutes cooking. Nope and nope. It sounds wonderful, though.
This is probably the 4th or 5th snake in the house, but the others have all been worm snakes, small things that the cats dragged in. I don't know how this one got in - possibly seeking heat with the colder evenings. Or, it may have gotten in when the duct work was being done. Snakes don't give me the willies like spiders do...
"Jars dug up on the properties we've built houses on; the middle from the land our 1992 house was built on and the outside two from our 1998 house road that were found in the old farm house that has since been bulldozed for another subdivision."
I shall get groceries today - I need Bubly and food for my fav breakfast and, drat you, gelatin and heavy cream for a Lemon Chiffon Pie. You are a menace. Stop gloating.
I usually leave my wallet and my keys in the garage in my SUV. I had to take the wallet out the other day to get my BCBS member number, and didn't get it back to my SUV. Ah well, today. I know that being in a home works for you mostly - yucky food and OS notwithtanding.
>245 LizzieD: Yup, two busy things. I'll take the Amazon return for Jenna to the True Value Hardware Store UPS drop off tomorrow - no sense in pushing too hard.
Dal - just looked at one recipe. Yikes. Too many things I don't keep as pantry staples, plus at least for this recipe it says 5 minutes prep, 20 minutes cooking. Nope and nope. It sounds wonderful, though.
This is probably the 4th or 5th snake in the house, but the others have all been worm snakes, small things that the cats dragged in. I don't know how this one got in - possibly seeking heat with the colder evenings. Or, it may have gotten in when the duct work was being done. Snakes don't give me the willies like spiders do...
247vancouverdeb
Congratulations on Jenna and Hwan's engagement. I'm not sure if you will be posting some pictures of that soon, but if so, I look forward to that.
248richardderus
>246 karenmarie: *smugface* A lurvely li'l lemon chiffs on the pie-rizon, eh? *smuugerface*
Snakes and spiders don't make me hit soprano registers like the Rodentia do...awful things.
Pleased y'all liked my Copperheads sally.
Snakes and spiders don't make me hit soprano registers like the Rodentia do...awful things.
Pleased y'all liked my Copperheads sally.
249alcottacre
I hope you are having a marvelous Monday, Karen!
250msf59
Morning, Karen. Yep, I am still picking up the high schoolers. I am hoping this is the last week. It definitely extends my AM times. May be playing PB indoors today. In the 40s all day. Hey, it is November, right?
I took advantage of Veteran's Day, getting a haircut and a free lunch and dinner. 😀
I took advantage of Veteran's Day, getting a haircut and a free lunch and dinner. 😀
251karenmarie
>247 vancouverdeb: Thank you, Deborah. No photos, alas – I recently learned that Hwan does not like her pic on social media. There might be one that doesn’t show her face – I’ll have to ask Jenna.
>248 richardderus: ‘Morning, RD! Smugface for sure. Gelatin and heavy cream acquired.
We live in old pastureland in rural central NC- of course we’ve got rodents. The you-know-whats bring ‘em in. *shrug*
Fond memory – friends were over for dinner. Four parents in dining room, chilcren in breakfast room. In the dining room, a mouse ran over Brenda’s foot. She shrugged, we shrugged, the mouse got behind the refrigerator, and we forgot about it.
The copperheads sally was good. I just remembered that Louise’s husband Harold brought Jenna a copperhead skin he had mounted. We’ve still got it here somewhere.
>250 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark. Happy Tuesday? Mourning Tuesday? Sorry the kid time has been extended for the Hsers. It is November. It’s 46F here now but will get to a high of 68F later on. Mock-T and down vest are the order of the day.
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Chiropractor and groceries. Lots and lots of groceries. After all that I hung out in the Library reading and chatting with Jenna. Dinner, New Tricks, chatting with Karen in Montana, more reading. I got 6.5 hours of sleep, not half bad.
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>248 richardderus: ‘Morning, RD! Smugface for sure. Gelatin and heavy cream acquired.
We live in old pastureland in rural central NC- of course we’ve got rodents. The you-know-whats bring ‘em in. *shrug*
Fond memory – friends were over for dinner. Four parents in dining room, chilcren in breakfast room. In the dining room, a mouse ran over Brenda’s foot. She shrugged, we shrugged, the mouse got behind the refrigerator, and we forgot about it.
The copperheads sally was good. I just remembered that Louise’s husband Harold brought Jenna a copperhead skin he had mounted. We’ve still got it here somewhere.
>250 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark. Happy Tuesday? Mourning Tuesday? Sorry the kid time has been extended for the Hsers. It is November. It’s 46F here now but will get to a high of 68F later on. Mock-T and down vest are the order of the day.
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Book sort and Virlie's, then my cleaning ladies. So far tomorrow and Thursday are errand free. 🤞 it stays that way.
252alcottacre
>251 karenmarie: I understand about the lots and lots of groceries. It is amazing how much more food we seem to go through now that Kerry has retired :)
I hope all goes well with the chiropractor! I envy your 6.5 hours of sleep - I got less than 3 for the second day in a row. Of course, that is still better than the 1 hour of sleep I got a couple of nights ago.
Have a terrific Tuesday, Karen!
I hope all goes well with the chiropractor! I envy your 6.5 hours of sleep - I got less than 3 for the second day in a row. Of course, that is still better than the 1 hour of sleep I got a couple of nights ago.
Have a terrific Tuesday, Karen!
253richardderus
>251 karenmarie: Have fun doing All The Things today, sweetiedarling. I'm glad it was Brenda's foot, not mine, or dinner would've been airborne and mouse guts ground into the floor.
I think you should know that Notre Dame Press is going half-price plus free shipping with code 14GIVEBKS because Ending Persecution and The New Nihilism are included.
*evil chortle*
I think you should know that Notre Dame Press is going half-price plus free shipping with code 14GIVEBKS because Ending Persecution and The New Nihilism are included.
*evil chortle*
254karenmarie
>252 alcottacre: Hi Stasia. We rarely eat out any more, get take out maybe 2 times a week, so it's lots and lots of food at home.
I'm sorry you don't get enough sleep - I've had rough times, too, but lately I seem to be getting 5-7 hours straight a night, plus naps and some interrupted sleep.
So far Tuesday's going well... same to you! Terrific Tuesday.
>253 richardderus: I've done all the things outside the house. My cleaning ladies are here. I'm going to go get horizontal in the Library for a while, then move upstairs for a while, I think. Sitting is less pleasant than lying flat fight now.
I removed the map I had that showed Dumbfuckistan vs America because it didn't show how the states actually gave their Electoral College votes. Apologies. This may not be final but I've spent 10 minutes trying to find a true result and this is close.
I'm sorry you don't get enough sleep - I've had rough times, too, but lately I seem to be getting 5-7 hours straight a night, plus naps and some interrupted sleep.
So far Tuesday's going well... same to you! Terrific Tuesday.
>253 richardderus: I've done all the things outside the house. My cleaning ladies are here. I'm going to go get horizontal in the Library for a while, then move upstairs for a while, I think. Sitting is less pleasant than lying flat fight now.
I removed the map I had that showed Dumbfuckistan vs America because it didn't show how the states actually gave their Electoral College votes. Apologies. This may not be final but I've spent 10 minutes trying to find a true result and this is close.
255richardderus
>254 karenmarie: Awomen.
256LizzieD
Hmmm. Can't disagree with the map. Can't watch or listen to anything right now. I do still read Heather Cox Richardson and hope I won't have to desert her too.
Hmmmmm. You've read *Huck Finn* and still have a snake skin in your house! You modern woman, you!
Enjoy the rest of your day!
Hmmmmm. You've read *Huck Finn* and still have a snake skin in your house! You modern woman, you!
Enjoy the rest of your day!
257msf59
Morning, Karen. Happy Wednesday. Last day of the week with the kids. Playing PB indoors again. I am so glad I get to play with such a good group of people. We even talked books yesterday, in between matches. 😀
Not much to report on the feeder front but I did see a robin and a grackle on the front lawn. Most of the grackles have moved out already.
>254 karenmarie: I like the map but the sheer dominance of "red" is unsettling.
Not much to report on the feeder front but I did see a robin and a grackle on the front lawn. Most of the grackles have moved out already.
>254 karenmarie: I like the map but the sheer dominance of "red" is unsettling.
258karenmarie
>255 richardderus: Hiya, RDear. *smooch*
>256 LizzieD: Hey Peggy. Way too much red, and I really, REALLY hate to say it, but as you’re already aware, the Dumbfuckistanis gave him a mandate.
Snakes skins and Huckleberry Finn – I reserve the right to be inconsistent. *smile*
Except for a spike of pain yesterday afternoon, which I alleviated by lying down in the Library, yesterday was very enjoyable.
>257 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark, and happy Wednesday to you, too. Nice to not have the kids tomorrow and Friday. Have fun with PB. And… books. Can hardly beat it, right?
Male Cardinal visiting, nobody else right now.
See what I wrote to Peggy re a f***ing mandate.
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Book sort went well. Marilyn kept me with a supply of books to sort and schlepped the books back to the sort room to go into the proper cubby or be set aside to take to the thrift shop for quality or 'expiration date' issues - health, self-help, other family-related stuff, and business. Oh, statistics, too - I got some stat books from the 1940s yesterday that will not sell.
Virlie's was fun as always. There were 8 of us. My cleaning ladies cleaned. All the usual things after.
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No plans on leaving the house today, just puttering, and a bit of adulting, and reading. I need to find either a non-fiction or non-smut book to read. It's too early to read the book for December's book club discussion, Foster by Claire Keegan. I got it with an Audible credit and will start it after Thanksgiving.
Which is coming up rather soon. Menu prepared, shopping list started but not finalized.
>256 LizzieD: Hey Peggy. Way too much red, and I really, REALLY hate to say it, but as you’re already aware, the Dumbfuckistanis gave him a mandate.
Snakes skins and Huckleberry Finn – I reserve the right to be inconsistent. *smile*
Except for a spike of pain yesterday afternoon, which I alleviated by lying down in the Library, yesterday was very enjoyable.
>257 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark, and happy Wednesday to you, too. Nice to not have the kids tomorrow and Friday. Have fun with PB. And… books. Can hardly beat it, right?
Male Cardinal visiting, nobody else right now.
See what I wrote to Peggy re a f***ing mandate.
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Book sort went well. Marilyn kept me with a supply of books to sort and schlepped the books back to the sort room to go into the proper cubby or be set aside to take to the thrift shop for quality or 'expiration date' issues - health, self-help, other family-related stuff, and business. Oh, statistics, too - I got some stat books from the 1940s yesterday that will not sell.
Virlie's was fun as always. There were 8 of us. My cleaning ladies cleaned. All the usual things after.
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No plans on leaving the house today, just puttering, and a bit of adulting, and reading. I need to find either a non-fiction or non-smut book to read. It's too early to read the book for December's book club discussion, Foster by Claire Keegan. I got it with an Audible credit and will start it after Thanksgiving.
Which is coming up rather soon. Menu prepared, shopping list started but not finalized.
259richardderus
>258 karenmarie: "non-smut"?
Oh dear...my most reliable source of smut is about to dry up! ANOTHER loss to blame on 45! Stay smutty, sweetiedarling!
Oh dear...my most reliable source of smut is about to dry up! ANOTHER loss to blame on 45! Stay smutty, sweetiedarling!
260karenmarie
No, no, no.
Smut is still front and center - I'm rereading the Like Us series, on book 7 now, though, so will not have as many new smut options at the end of November.
I enjoyed Huckleberry Finn and Knife while still consuming large amounts of smut, and think I have the mental bandwidth - heck, I need more diversion from the horribleness that is about to engulf us - for something else.
Smut is still front and center - I'm rereading the Like Us series, on book 7 now, though, so will not have as many new smut options at the end of November.
I enjoyed Huckleberry Finn and Knife while still consuming large amounts of smut, and think I have the mental bandwidth - heck, I need more diversion from the horribleness that is about to engulf us - for something else.
261LizzieD
Good morning, Karen. I'm listening to less and less news, but the horribleness tide is already coming in fast - soon to assume tsunami proportions. I expect that I can listen to Rachel Maddow another week or so (she, at least, seems to maintain some sense of reality as opposed to the blathering of other commentators) and read Heather Cox Richardson another week or so beyond that. Then I'm afraid I'm done. Or maybe not. How can you add your mite of opposition when you don't know what specifics you're opposing? Mental Health vs Social Responsibility is not an easy choice.
Read that smut, woman! I can't wait to finish The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, but I have to read every single word; can't help it. It's not easy. I doubt I even finish it this month.
Well. That's not cheery. Have a good day and ignore my blatherings.
(Four for my Wordle today too)
Read that smut, woman! I can't wait to finish The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, but I have to read every single word; can't help it. It's not easy. I doubt I even finish it this month.
Well. That's not cheery. Have a good day and ignore my blatherings.
(Four for my Wordle today too)
262quondame
>258 karenmarie: I'd recommend The Fiction Editor for non-fiction and - well I tried to find a short to medium length non-F&SF, non-mystery book among my highest rated reads, and other than Jane Austen there isn't much. For F&SF I'd say The Silvered for mystery For Kicks.
263msf59
Morning, Karen. Sweet Thursday. I really had a good time with Foster. Enjoy. We got plenty of rain last night, which we really needed. We had a house sparrow frenzy yesterday. Hard to count them but it was probably 25-30. I had added a peanut butter suet block the other day and they completely devoured it. Not sure the woodpeckers ever had a chance.
264alcottacre
I am avidly avoiding the news these days. It is just not good for my mental health.
I hope you have a great day, Karen!
I hope you have a great day, Karen!
265karenmarie
>261 LizzieD: Good morning the next day, Peggy. I am not officially following any US news, but between my aunt telling me his picks for Attorney General and Department of Defense, and friend Karen in Montana occasionally letting something slip, I’m even more upset than I was. I also made the mistake of looking to see what he promised if elected and am even more upset.
Yay for smut. I have also picked a fiction book called L.A. Math: Romance, Crime, and Mathematics in the City of Angels by James D. Stein. I’ve read the preface and the first chapter. Each chapter is a case in the hands of Freddy Carmichael and his landlord Pete Lennox. The first one uses logic to eliminate 4 of 5 possible people to tail someone. I’m officially charmed.
I cannot read anything political or religious right now and admire you for continuing what has to be a painful read.
Not cheery. I’m not feeling cheery. I’m trying to focus on small things that give me pleasure.
>262 quondame: Hi Susan. Thank you for your recommendations. I’ve added The Fiction Editor to my @kairfa wishlist. I have read the Dick Francis, and will probably pass on The Silvered.
>263 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark, and sweet Thursday to you. Good to know about Foster. I’ll really try to start with an open mind. Yay for house sparrows. I’ve got Cardinals and various sparrows and finches visiting.
>264 alcottacre: Hi Stasia, it’s not good for my mental health either. I hope you have a great day, too.
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I did a load of laundry, broke my new 2-cake suet feeder and had to use a flimsy one-cake feeder, filled all the bird feeders, rescued a lizard, and worked on my Thanksgiving grocery list. Jenna asked me if I'd have fresh broccoli at Thanksgiving in addition to all the heavy carbs we traditionally have. Read, and etc.
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No outside the house errands again today. It's overcast and has been raining but is currently not. 44F going to a high of 52F. I don't mind these kinds of days and am glad I filled the bird feeders yesterday.
Reading, working on shredding stuff and putting up other stuff in the Sunroom, and etc. Once again, I might make a Lemon Chiffon Pie, but am currently leaning towards making Thanksgiving easier by making two cream pies - coconut cream and chocolate cream. Same custard base, makes enough for two pies. Add coconut to one half and 1-2 oz of shaved chocolate to the other half. That and pumpkin pie and pecan pie will be 4 pies for 6 people.
Yay for smut. I have also picked a fiction book called L.A. Math: Romance, Crime, and Mathematics in the City of Angels by James D. Stein. I’ve read the preface and the first chapter. Each chapter is a case in the hands of Freddy Carmichael and his landlord Pete Lennox. The first one uses logic to eliminate 4 of 5 possible people to tail someone. I’m officially charmed.
I cannot read anything political or religious right now and admire you for continuing what has to be a painful read.
Not cheery. I’m not feeling cheery. I’m trying to focus on small things that give me pleasure.
>262 quondame: Hi Susan. Thank you for your recommendations. I’ve added The Fiction Editor to my @kairfa wishlist. I have read the Dick Francis, and will probably pass on The Silvered.
>263 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark, and sweet Thursday to you. Good to know about Foster. I’ll really try to start with an open mind. Yay for house sparrows. I’ve got Cardinals and various sparrows and finches visiting.
>264 alcottacre: Hi Stasia, it’s not good for my mental health either. I hope you have a great day, too.
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No outside the house errands again today. It's overcast and has been raining but is currently not. 44F going to a high of 52F. I don't mind these kinds of days and am glad I filled the bird feeders yesterday.
Reading, working on shredding stuff and putting up other stuff in the Sunroom, and etc. Once again, I might make a Lemon Chiffon Pie, but am currently leaning towards making Thanksgiving easier by making two cream pies - coconut cream and chocolate cream. Same custard base, makes enough for two pies. Add coconut to one half and 1-2 oz of shaved chocolate to the other half. That and pumpkin pie and pecan pie will be 4 pies for 6 people.
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Sorry you got skunked today Karen. I came close to it myself. What do you mean by a non-canon word?
I’m struggling with news consumption in too.
I’m struggling with news consumption in too.
267LizzieD
Yep.... Not much news coming in here. It's not going to improve. Horrors!
It is gloomy today, and I have to roust myself for study club. My latest fascination is with the new, detailed analysis of DNA from Ancestry. They now include a chart of parental input on each chromosome. Mama gave me only Scotland and Ireland that they've analyzed. From Daddy, they've taken away Sweden and Denmark and added 1% each from France and Spain and 2% ICELAND. Good grief!
Sorry for the Wordle skunk. I cheated at guess 4 or, as I said on my thread, I'd still be staring at it.
Glad you filled the bird feeders yesterday too ---- enjoy being warm and dry inside!
It is gloomy today, and I have to roust myself for study club. My latest fascination is with the new, detailed analysis of DNA from Ancestry. They now include a chart of parental input on each chromosome. Mama gave me only Scotland and Ireland that they've analyzed. From Daddy, they've taken away Sweden and Denmark and added 1% each from France and Spain and 2% ICELAND. Good grief!
Sorry for the Wordle skunk. I cheated at guess 4 or, as I said on my thread, I'd still be staring at it.
Glad you filled the bird feeders yesterday too ---- enjoy being warm and dry inside!
268richardderus
Skunked, or starting a new streak tomorrow? I vote the latter. Does JenWan mean *raw* broccoli, or prepared from fresh than decently steamed as all civilized persons do?
How does one cheat at Wordle?
How does one cheat at Wordle?
269streamsong
I did solve Wordle in five, but my streak is much lower than yours - I am only at 30. I seem to have to 'start new streaks' (what a great phrase!) much more regularly than you! alien, sword, black (bad guess oh well), laugh, uvula
270atozgrl
>265 karenmarie: Hi Karen! I am trying to watch less news myself these days, but unfortunately the daily drip of wacko appointments by the mango madman continues.
Sorry you broke your feeder and got skunked in Wordle. It was Wordle in 5 for me today, and I thought I was lucky to get it.
Yay for not having to go out today!
>263 msf59: Mark, by house sparrow I assume you mean those horrid birds we always called English sparrows. Invasive, bluebird-killing things. I once went to a presentation at a bird store about setting up bluebird nesting boxes, and the guy there basically told us to kill any of those sparrows if we encountered them. Fortunately, I almost never see them except around big public buildings. I'm sorry they ate up all the suet before your woodpeckers could get any.
Sorry you broke your feeder and got skunked in Wordle. It was Wordle in 5 for me today, and I thought I was lucky to get it.
Yay for not having to go out today!
>263 msf59: Mark, by house sparrow I assume you mean those horrid birds we always called English sparrows. Invasive, bluebird-killing things. I once went to a presentation at a bird store about setting up bluebird nesting boxes, and the guy there basically told us to kill any of those sparrows if we encountered them. Fortunately, I almost never see them except around big public buildings. I'm sorry they ate up all the suet before your woodpeckers could get any.
271SilverWolf28
Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/365719
272karenmarie
>266 lauralkeet: Hi Laura. I was looking up things on the internet, and several websites mentioned that words NOT in the original list of 2,309 were considered non-canon.
It’s just so hard to see what’s going to happen on January 20, 2025 with the things he’s promised and the people he’s going to appoint. I’m trying hard to not despair. Somehow or another we have to hang in there and hope that things won’t be as bad as they’re shaping up to be.
>267 LizzieD: You’re a smart woman, Peggy. Horrors! for sure.
Ancestry’s DNA info is fascinating. Although I don’t currently pay Ancestry, they let me look at most of my DNA analysis. Mine’s changed somewhat, too. Now I’ve got 1% from Sweden and only 47% from ‘Germanic Europe’, which is where my mother’s side is from, not the 50% I expected. No Ireland or Northern Ireland, either, although familysearch.org data shows ancestors from both. Curiouser and curiouser…
Here’s fun news:
The birds seem to be happy and the sunflower seed feeder is already down by 1/3. There’s a Carolina Chickadee there right now and many Cardinals are in the Crepe Myrtle.
Inside and dry was good. Today’s going to be coolish here, too, with a high of 60F.
>268 richardderus: Started a new streak today, half-full-glass guy. Prepared from fresh and decently steamed, as per civilized person norms.
I consider cheating doing more than thinking about a particular word based on the clues/confirming it against the 2309 list/confirming it hasn’t been used. When I start looking at all words that begin with thi, or slo, as examples and see which haven’t been used, then to me, that’s cheating. It’s also cheating to go to the internet, which is what I did yesterday. YMMV for those who still play Wordle.
>269 streamsong: Congrats on 5, Janet. My old streak went away, but honestly, the best part about playing Wordle is that it helps keep my mind sharp. Of course one could argue that my mind is not sharp...
>270 atozgrl: Hello Irene. I only know about two appointments. My aunt hasn’t blown up my phone any more, but will probably do so. Yay for your 5 in Wordle.
>271 SilverWolf28: Thanks, Silver! Hope you’re doing well.
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I think I'm going to go grocery shopping after PT today for some of the things I need for Thanksgiving. Not all, since we're still almost two weeks away.
Read, putter, etc.
It’s just so hard to see what’s going to happen on January 20, 2025 with the things he’s promised and the people he’s going to appoint. I’m trying hard to not despair. Somehow or another we have to hang in there and hope that things won’t be as bad as they’re shaping up to be.
>267 LizzieD: You’re a smart woman, Peggy. Horrors! for sure.
Ancestry’s DNA info is fascinating. Although I don’t currently pay Ancestry, they let me look at most of my DNA analysis. Mine’s changed somewhat, too. Now I’ve got 1% from Sweden and only 47% from ‘Germanic Europe’, which is where my mother’s side is from, not the 50% I expected. No Ireland or Northern Ireland, either, although familysearch.org data shows ancestors from both. Curiouser and curiouser…
Here’s fun news:
It's a nudibranch, recently discovered swimming freely in the water column lit by a bioluminescent glow, adorned with a billowing hood, by researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in the US.
This is Bathydevius caudactylus, the first known nudibranch of its kind: living not in shallow waters, or on the seafloor, but more than 2,200 meters (around 7,220 feet) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean in the bathypelagic zone, out in open water.
Yahoo News, Science Alert, Michelle Starr, discovered by Bruce H. Robison, and Steven H.D. Haddock
The birds seem to be happy and the sunflower seed feeder is already down by 1/3. There’s a Carolina Chickadee there right now and many Cardinals are in the Crepe Myrtle.
Inside and dry was good. Today’s going to be coolish here, too, with a high of 60F.
>268 richardderus: Started a new streak today, half-full-glass guy. Prepared from fresh and decently steamed, as per civilized person norms.
I consider cheating doing more than thinking about a particular word based on the clues/confirming it against the 2309 list/confirming it hasn’t been used. When I start looking at all words that begin with thi, or slo, as examples and see which haven’t been used, then to me, that’s cheating. It’s also cheating to go to the internet, which is what I did yesterday. YMMV for those who still play Wordle.
>269 streamsong: Congrats on 5, Janet. My old streak went away, but honestly, the best part about playing Wordle is that it helps keep my mind sharp. Of course one could argue that my mind is not sharp...
>270 atozgrl: Hello Irene. I only know about two appointments. My aunt hasn’t blown up my phone any more, but will probably do so. Yay for your 5 in Wordle.
>271 SilverWolf28: Thanks, Silver! Hope you’re doing well.
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Puttering, reading, and I made chili and garlic toast for dinner. My back is reminding me that perhaps that was a bit much, but I had a great time doing it and truly did try to pace myself. Leftovers for tonight along with a new batch of garlic toast.
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I think I'm going to go grocery shopping after PT today for some of the things I need for Thanksgiving. Not all, since we're still almost two weeks away.
Read, putter, etc.
273msf59
Morning, Karen. Happy Friday. Give that back a rest today. We have Jack over for a sleepover. He sure keeps Sue Hopping. She is such a great Grandma. I am doing Trail Watch today. I usually do it on Mondays but it is easier doing it when I am not working, especially with those added high school kids. It will be nice to walk the trails and see some birdies.
274richardderus
>272 karenmarie: Sweetiedarling, research isb't *really* cheating...but you have your reasons I know, so off my cheatin' mind and I go to cheat up a review for Monday...do I go poke around for info on a dual-timelines thriller I enjoyed reading, or a non-fiction book I liked but didn't love...?
Cheatingly, moi
Cheatingly, moi
275karenmarie
>273 msf59: 'Morning, Mark! Yes sir, will rest my back. However, there will be a small amount of grocery shopping, I think, since I'll already be out to go to PT. Yay for Jack visiting and TW. I hope you see lots of birdies.
>274 richardderus: I'm only referring to my personal rule for Wordle, RD. I look up lots of stuff on the internet and in books for my own benefit and don't consider it cheating. Background for book reviews is NOT cheating, and your reviews are always wonderful. *smooch*
>274 richardderus: I'm only referring to my personal rule for Wordle, RD. I look up lots of stuff on the internet and in books for my own benefit and don't consider it cheating. Background for book reviews is NOT cheating, and your reviews are always wonderful. *smooch*
276lauralkeet
>272 karenmarie: Thanks for explaining the Wordle canon, Karen. I suppose eventually they would have to move beyond that initial list.
Also, I am 100% in agreement with your comment, Somehow or another we have to hang in there and hope that things won’t be as bad as they’re shaping up to be.
Also, I am 100% in agreement with your comment, Somehow or another we have to hang in there and hope that things won’t be as bad as they’re shaping up to be.
277LizzieD
3 Sisters again, Karen! I don't know about you, but I was not expecting the word to be the word. (Your cheating rule is my cheating rule too.)
How to kill an organization: put somebody in charge who either actively opposes its work or is ignorant and lazy. That's one thing the unmentionable does well.
I should run an errand or so today, but I just don't want to. Not going. So there.
Hope your PT is helpful and that you get in and out of the grocery store quickly with everything you have thought of! Then enjoy being home.
How to kill an organization: put somebody in charge who either actively opposes its work or is ignorant and lazy. That's one thing the unmentionable does well.
I should run an errand or so today, but I just don't want to. Not going. So there.
Hope your PT is helpful and that you get in and out of the grocery store quickly with everything you have thought of! Then enjoy being home.
278atozgrl
>272 karenmarie: Nudibranch, huh? That's a new one on me. How in the world did you come across this one?
Wishing you a good PT and grocery trip, and hope for some good rest for your back after.
Wishing you a good PT and grocery trip, and hope for some good rest for your back after.
279Storeetllr
>254 karenmarie: Don’t forget Colorado and New Mexico, two states that make an island of Blue in the Red Sea of Dumbfuckistan. Also, all the Eastern Seaboard states through Virginia voted Blue. Let’s not dump them in with the Dumbfuckistani, mmmkay?
>256 LizzieD: I can’t even read Heather, and I love her. This whole mess has really thrown me. All I seem able to do is read. (I know, silver lining.)
Have a lovely weekend!
>256 LizzieD: I can’t even read Heather, and I love her. This whole mess has really thrown me. All I seem able to do is read. (I know, silver lining.)
Have a lovely weekend!
280PaulCranswick
>275 karenmarie: Research is never cheating, Karen!
It is a shame some of the voters didn't do a little bit more research so they wouldn't end up cheating themselves and all of you.
Have a good weekend. xx
It is a shame some of the voters didn't do a little bit more research so they wouldn't end up cheating themselves and all of you.
Have a good weekend. xx
281Whisper1
Congratulations on Jenna's exciting engagement news!!!
And, congratulations on working on getting your book case in order. Every time I try to do that, I buy more books and then everything is out of order again. I give up! I do have some order in that all books purchased from Thriftbooks.com are on one case, not in alpha order, but at least in one spot.
I thought I was making progress regarding reading books from my shelves and not purchasing as many as usual. Then, I discovered a cabinet/closet in my downstairs bedroom that was crammed full of illustrated books collected from years ago.
I am having fun going through them, but I realize that I'll never ever read all the books I've collected, and it is near impossible not to purchase more.
And, congratulations on working on getting your book case in order. Every time I try to do that, I buy more books and then everything is out of order again. I give up! I do have some order in that all books purchased from Thriftbooks.com are on one case, not in alpha order, but at least in one spot.
I thought I was making progress regarding reading books from my shelves and not purchasing as many as usual. Then, I discovered a cabinet/closet in my downstairs bedroom that was crammed full of illustrated books collected from years ago.
I am having fun going through them, but I realize that I'll never ever read all the books I've collected, and it is near impossible not to purchase more.
282elorin
Dropping in and catching up on your thread. Congratulations to Jenna and Hwan. Glad she escorted the snake out, they give me heebie-jeebies. Busy, busy lightning round, well done. I do hope you'll share photos of the newly filled bookshelf.
Take care of yourself and don't stress your back too much.
Take care of yourself and don't stress your back too much.
283LizzieD
>281 Whisper1: I realize that I'll never ever read all the books I've collected, and it is near impossible not to purchase more. When I slap my hands to keep from ordering a book - sometimes for days and days, I eventually yield. Now I mostly figure that I'm going to get it anyway, so I should just go ahead and slap the guilt instead.
>280 PaulCranswick: Oh they have done their research, Paul. The problem is that they research only social media and very right wing news sites. I don't remember what commentator I heard who had a discussion with a group of Trumpites after the election. He spoke to them about the dangers of electing an authoritarian, and most of them indicated that they didn't know what that word meant.
It is hard to read The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, but I manage a little every day. Alberta keeps mentioning things he's heard from evangelical warriors - like the fact that the Covid vaccine contains pieces of aborted fetuses.
Sorry, Karen. I seem to have taken over your thread, and not in a good way. Good night and Good morning to you!
>280 PaulCranswick: Oh they have done their research, Paul. The problem is that they research only social media and very right wing news sites. I don't remember what commentator I heard who had a discussion with a group of Trumpites after the election. He spoke to them about the dangers of electing an authoritarian, and most of them indicated that they didn't know what that word meant.
It is hard to read The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, but I manage a little every day. Alberta keeps mentioning things he's heard from evangelical warriors - like the fact that the Covid vaccine contains pieces of aborted fetuses.
Sorry, Karen. I seem to have taken over your thread, and not in a good way. Good night and Good morning to you!
284msf59
Morning, Karen. Happy Saturday. Trail Watch went well. Love walking the woods in late fall. Birds were scarce though. Only 11 species. I also got some playtime in with Jack. How does the back feel?
285karenmarie
>276 lauralkeet: You’re welcome, Laura.
>277 LizzieD: Yay for 3 sisters! (((((Peggy)))))
Still avoiding the news, and so far, I haven’t gotten any more updates from upset Democratic family/friends. Fortunately, the idiots in my family and friends who voted for the loss of our democracy haven’t said a single word to me via email, text, or phone call about the result.
I just looked up fascism and don’t exactly see that he’s a fascist, but here’s part of an op-ed piece from today’s NYTimes. Popular autocrat is closer to what he is. Not necessarily the final label, but closer.
I hope not going won over should. We need to be kinder to ourselves than usual, and I hope guilt didn’t win out over self-care and self-indulgence.
>278 atozgrl: Nudibranchs are wonderful, and I’ve posted about them periodically on my threads over the years, Irene. I don’t remember how I originally ‘discovered them’. I created and posted this collage in 2021.
Thanks re my day. I hope yours was wonderful.
>279 Storeetllr: Hi Mary, and I just did an extended deep dive with the end result of removing the Dumfuckistan image since it didn’t accurately represent how each state’s electoral college votes will be given early next year. The one I posted instead in >254 karenmarie: may not be final but is much more accurate. Sorry, and I shouldn’t have gone off half-cocked. I still love the moniker Dumbfuckistan to represent states that voted for a populist autocrat. Wishing you a wonderful weekend, too.
>280 PaulCranswick: Hi Paul! Cheating is a big issue for me, has always been. Sometimes I ‘cheat’ at Wordle simply because I’m flummoxed or don’t want to take the time to think about which word to use.
We’re all going to suffer for all sorts of reasons – economic, deportation and immigration status stress/danger, embarrassment as the US becomes more a laughingstock in the world, the real possibility of nuclear war, and even the potential of not having elections in 2 years. I don't trust him as far as I can throw him. He's evil, represents evil people, and has brainwashed people. Otherwise, I hope you’re having a good weekend, and I really need to come visit your thread again. I wonder how many threads I’m behind? *smile*
>281 Whisper1: Thank you, Linda. For those of us with children, I firmly believe that You’re only as happy as your unhappiest child. I’ve only got the one, and her ups and downs over the years have been painful and mostly a powerless exercise in hoping that what she learned from us, her friends, and herself would give her strength, self love, purpose and, ultimately, happiness. Falling in love and being engaged make me so happy for her.
Thanks re my new book case. Here are both of them. The pic is from an odd angle, and the framed pictures above them are actually centered.
I always buy more books and, **bonus** currently have 12 boxes of ARCs in my SUV from indie McIntyre’s for the Friends’ Spring book sale. I’ll be dipping into them and snagging a few for myself, with Sarah’s permission, before I take them to book sort on Tuesday. (I did not load them. Sarah knows about my back problems, so she and a strong young man loaded them up.)
Progress in reading from your own shelves vs. buying new is a dilemma many of us here in the 75ers and the ROOTs group face, so we’re in the same boat.
Although, actually, I don’t consider it a dilemma any more. I read a few from my shelves here and there, and am reading most on my Kindle AND listening to audio books I’ve purchased from Audible. I love looking at, holding, smelling, and otherwise fondling books. I, too, realize I’ll never read the books I’ve collected. The current number of books I’ve got tagged ‘tbr’ is 2723 of 5843, 46.6%. I only keep books in my catalog that are on my shelves or in my Audible listening library except for a few ER books I keep for the reviews but have gotten rid of.
>282 elorin: Hi Robyn, and thank you. Yes to the engagement, and the snake. From the way it looked (because of course I took two pictures of it!) it didn't look alive. However, it got Jenna's attention when she grabbed it under the dish towel and it moved. Thanks re my lightning round. I love keeping it and my stats up. I just got around to taking a photo of the book cases, cropping it appropriately, and ta da! Just posted it.
I’m trying so hard to NOT stress my back. Not supposed to lean forward so I don’t put pressure on the disc, no bending, lifting, or twisting. I need to make sure I walk, use two bands the PT has sent home with me – one for upper body strength, the other for hip strength. I also now have a new exercise, a plank, also for upper body strength.
>283 LizzieD: Hi Peggy! I’m glad you’re just getting the books you want. If they please you, then acquire them!
Your response to Paul’s post is perfect, and you can ‘take over’ my thread any time you want to.
>284 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark. Happy Saturday. Glad TW went well, even if you only got 11 species. Glad for playtime with Jack.
My back is there, but not much more than a 2 or so of 10 when I get up and move around. Sitting isn’t as good as lying down, but I don’t want to become a complete (temporary) vegetable, so stay in the Sunroom as long as I can manage before the siren call of the sofa in the Library gets to me. I just took two 650 mg Tylenol, so I can take two more today and will take them 10 p.m.-ish. If the pain becomes completely draining, I’ll break down and take a tramadol or even ibuprophen. Not supposed to take NSAIDs, but my GP said to take 600 mg to break a pain cycle. I also have a TENS machine that I'd forgotten about - approved by cardiologist, PT, and chiropractor.
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I picked up 12 boxes of ARCs from McIntyre's, filled my gas tank, picked up prescriptions, and went to PT.
On the way home, I saw the moon, stopped at the top of the cul-de-sac, rolled down my window, and snapped this photo.
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Nothing much planned, although I want to figure out how to look through at least some of the boxes of ARCs before I take them to the Library on Tuesday. Card table, chair... we'll see. Bill's going to the dump and will stop to get take out on the way home. I'll get a plain hamburger and crispy fries.
>277 LizzieD: Yay for 3 sisters! (((((Peggy)))))
Still avoiding the news, and so far, I haven’t gotten any more updates from upset Democratic family/friends. Fortunately, the idiots in my family and friends who voted for the loss of our democracy haven’t said a single word to me via email, text, or phone call about the result.
I just looked up fascism and don’t exactly see that he’s a fascist, but here’s part of an op-ed piece from today’s NYTimes. Popular autocrat is closer to what he is. Not necessarily the final label, but closer.
I hope not going won over should. We need to be kinder to ourselves than usual, and I hope guilt didn’t win out over self-care and self-indulgence.
>278 atozgrl: Nudibranchs are wonderful, and I’ve posted about them periodically on my threads over the years, Irene. I don’t remember how I originally ‘discovered them’. I created and posted this collage in 2021.
Thanks re my day. I hope yours was wonderful.
>279 Storeetllr: Hi Mary, and I just did an extended deep dive with the end result of removing the Dumfuckistan image since it didn’t accurately represent how each state’s electoral college votes will be given early next year. The one I posted instead in >254 karenmarie: may not be final but is much more accurate. Sorry, and I shouldn’t have gone off half-cocked. I still love the moniker Dumbfuckistan to represent states that voted for a populist autocrat. Wishing you a wonderful weekend, too.
>280 PaulCranswick: Hi Paul! Cheating is a big issue for me, has always been. Sometimes I ‘cheat’ at Wordle simply because I’m flummoxed or don’t want to take the time to think about which word to use.
We’re all going to suffer for all sorts of reasons – economic, deportation and immigration status stress/danger, embarrassment as the US becomes more a laughingstock in the world, the real possibility of nuclear war, and even the potential of not having elections in 2 years. I don't trust him as far as I can throw him. He's evil, represents evil people, and has brainwashed people. Otherwise, I hope you’re having a good weekend, and I really need to come visit your thread again. I wonder how many threads I’m behind? *smile*
>281 Whisper1: Thank you, Linda. For those of us with children, I firmly believe that You’re only as happy as your unhappiest child. I’ve only got the one, and her ups and downs over the years have been painful and mostly a powerless exercise in hoping that what she learned from us, her friends, and herself would give her strength, self love, purpose and, ultimately, happiness. Falling in love and being engaged make me so happy for her.
Thanks re my new book case. Here are both of them. The pic is from an odd angle, and the framed pictures above them are actually centered.
I always buy more books and, **bonus** currently have 12 boxes of ARCs in my SUV from indie McIntyre’s for the Friends’ Spring book sale. I’ll be dipping into them and snagging a few for myself, with Sarah’s permission, before I take them to book sort on Tuesday. (I did not load them. Sarah knows about my back problems, so she and a strong young man loaded them up.)
Progress in reading from your own shelves vs. buying new is a dilemma many of us here in the 75ers and the ROOTs group face, so we’re in the same boat.
Although, actually, I don’t consider it a dilemma any more. I read a few from my shelves here and there, and am reading most on my Kindle AND listening to audio books I’ve purchased from Audible. I love looking at, holding, smelling, and otherwise fondling books. I, too, realize I’ll never read the books I’ve collected. The current number of books I’ve got tagged ‘tbr’ is 2723 of 5843, 46.6%. I only keep books in my catalog that are on my shelves or in my Audible listening library except for a few ER books I keep for the reviews but have gotten rid of.
>282 elorin: Hi Robyn, and thank you. Yes to the engagement, and the snake. From the way it looked (because of course I took two pictures of it!) it didn't look alive. However, it got Jenna's attention when she grabbed it under the dish towel and it moved. Thanks re my lightning round. I love keeping it and my stats up. I just got around to taking a photo of the book cases, cropping it appropriately, and ta da! Just posted it.
I’m trying so hard to NOT stress my back. Not supposed to lean forward so I don’t put pressure on the disc, no bending, lifting, or twisting. I need to make sure I walk, use two bands the PT has sent home with me – one for upper body strength, the other for hip strength. I also now have a new exercise, a plank, also for upper body strength.
>283 LizzieD: Hi Peggy! I’m glad you’re just getting the books you want. If they please you, then acquire them!
Your response to Paul’s post is perfect, and you can ‘take over’ my thread any time you want to.
>284 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark. Happy Saturday. Glad TW went well, even if you only got 11 species. Glad for playtime with Jack.
My back is there, but not much more than a 2 or so of 10 when I get up and move around. Sitting isn’t as good as lying down, but I don’t want to become a complete (temporary) vegetable, so stay in the Sunroom as long as I can manage before the siren call of the sofa in the Library gets to me. I just took two 650 mg Tylenol, so I can take two more today and will take them 10 p.m.-ish. If the pain becomes completely draining, I’ll break down and take a tramadol or even ibuprophen. Not supposed to take NSAIDs, but my GP said to take 600 mg to break a pain cycle. I also have a TENS machine that I'd forgotten about - approved by cardiologist, PT, and chiropractor.
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On the way home, I saw the moon, stopped at the top of the cul-de-sac, rolled down my window, and snapped this photo.
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Nothing much planned, although I want to figure out how to look through at least some of the boxes of ARCs before I take them to the Library on Tuesday. Card table, chair... we'll see. Bill's going to the dump and will stop to get take out on the way home. I'll get a plain hamburger and crispy fries.
286Storeetllr
Oh, I wasn’t complaining about the image, Karen. It was true if not completely accurate, if you get my meaning. It’s just that all that red makes me twitchy. I can’t wrap my head around it still, that so many women voted for that crass felon when our rights were in the line. I’m not sure I’ll ever get over it. 🤷♀️
287LizzieD
>296 karenmarie: Yep. Yep. Yep. I'd be really looking forward to "I told you so" if only I were not going to suffer as much as the true believers, and it is a religious thing for them.
Good luck with the ARCs, Karen. Enjoy, and I hope you find some excellent ones to keep!!!!!
Wordle in 5 for me today: double stupidity.
Enjoy Autumn!!!!!
Good luck with the ARCs, Karen. Enjoy, and I hope you find some excellent ones to keep!!!!!
Wordle in 5 for me today: double stupidity.
Enjoy Autumn!!!!!
288richardderus
>285 karenmarie: The super moon was hidden here behind clouds, but that image makes up for it. Why do people think the world is boring?! Looking a the beauty around us, looking into why the moon's so big, when is it going to happen again, etc etc, occupies *hours* of my day! Were I busy being at work or raising a family, I'd feel deprived of all the weird little rabbit holes I get to nose my way down.
Bored? Who has the time?
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Bored? Who has the time?
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289karenmarie
>286 Storeetllr: It was better for me to revise what I was posting anyway, Mary, although Dumbfuckistan is in my lexicon forever. Crass felon, sociopath, rapist, misogynist, racist... all of the above and more. I agree with you - I might not ever get over it either.
>287 LizzieD: Thanks re the ARCs, Peggy - I found one that I think you might like. It doesn't appear to be in your catalog - The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean - remaindered, not an ARC. Mixed reviews on Amazon. Let me know if you want it. Found 2 for friend Karen, and ... ah... 16 for myself, including 7 hardcover books on Hinduism by Prabhuji, still sealed in shrink wrap.
These are from 4 boxes of books, 8 more boxes to go if I can get to them without hurting myself.
for moi
Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's
Starstruck in the Promised Land going to give it to Karen instead
One Perfect Couple
The Great River
The Obscene Bird of Night
An Honest Man already on my shelves
The Little Sparrow Murders
Tar Heel Lightnin'
Einstein in Kafkaland
7 by Prabhuji
the two for Karen
Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell
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>288 richardderus: That super moon taunted me for half a mile before I decided to stop and take a photo, RDear. Thank you. I'm glad you liked and appreciated it.
Done with books for the day, gonna go rest my back in the Library, read, possibly doze.
>287 LizzieD: Thanks re the ARCs, Peggy - I found one that I think you might like. It doesn't appear to be in your catalog - The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean - remaindered, not an ARC. Mixed reviews on Amazon. Let me know if you want it. Found 2 for friend Karen, and ... ah... 16 for myself, including 7 hardcover books on Hinduism by Prabhuji, still sealed in shrink wrap.
These are from 4 boxes of books, 8 more boxes to go if I can get to them without hurting myself.
for moi
Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's
One Perfect Couple
The Great River
The Obscene Bird of Night
The Little Sparrow Murders
Tar Heel Lightnin'
Einstein in Kafkaland
7 by Prabhuji
the two for Karen
Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell
Bad Jew
>288 richardderus: That super moon taunted me for half a mile before I decided to stop and take a photo, RDear. Thank you. I'm glad you liked and appreciated it.
Done with books for the day, gonna go rest my back in the Library, read, possibly doze.
290atozgrl
>285 karenmarie: The nudibranchs are amazing-looking! I'll have to investigate more.
I love your new book cases! Wish I could find something similar.
Nice picture of the moonrise.
>289 karenmarie: You keep hitting the jackpot with these donations to the Friends group. I hope you will be able to look through the rest of the books, but do be careful with your back.
I love your new book cases! Wish I could find something similar.
Nice picture of the moonrise.
>289 karenmarie: You keep hitting the jackpot with these donations to the Friends group. I hope you will be able to look through the rest of the books, but do be careful with your back.
291Whisper1
The moon was full, bright and stunning this evening. The stars were smattered throughout the sky. It was a beautiful night to talk a walk!!
292msf59
Morning, Karen. Happy Sunday. Love the new bookcases and all the new books, especially all those ARCs. I wish I could drive over and go through them with you. Playing PB indoors this AM with friends. Books, football in the PM. I'm afraid to watch the Bears game. Shudders...
On our volunteer bird walk yesterday, we saw a merlin. One of my favorites. I think it was my first of the year.
On our volunteer bird walk yesterday, we saw a merlin. One of my favorites. I think it was my first of the year.
293karenmarie
>290 atozgrl: Hi Irene. I love looking at pics of nudibranchs. I swear I posted another collage that year, but so far I can’t find it. Thanks re my new book cases. You should come out sometime and we can go to Hickory Mountain Antiques. I’m 9 miles the other side of downtown Pittsboro, and HMA is about 2.5 miles from my house. Thanks re the moon-rise pic.
Also thanks re the books – I honestly have a lot of fun looking through the boxes then handing them off to the Friends for the next sale.
>291 Whisper1: Hi Linda. Stunning, simple, and powerful pleasures, right?
>292 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark, and happy Sunday to you. Thanks re the book cases. I’d love to have you live close enough to go through the books with me. Maybe next time you come to NC, we can arrange to meet. Yay for PB, hope the Bears can win. However, Packers… Ooh, a Merlin. Looks like we’re in their migration range, but I don’t recall ever seeing one.
Right now it must be second breakfast at the feeders - a male Red-Bellied, a Downy, Cardinals, a Carolina Chickadee, and etc.
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Perhaps looking through boxes of books, probably filling the sunflower seed feeder. Reading, updating spreadsheets, and etc.
Also thanks re the books – I honestly have a lot of fun looking through the boxes then handing them off to the Friends for the next sale.
>291 Whisper1: Hi Linda. Stunning, simple, and powerful pleasures, right?
>292 msf59: ‘Morning, Mark, and happy Sunday to you. Thanks re the book cases. I’d love to have you live close enough to go through the books with me. Maybe next time you come to NC, we can arrange to meet. Yay for PB, hope the Bears can win. However, Packers… Ooh, a Merlin. Looks like we’re in their migration range, but I don’t recall ever seeing one.
Right now it must be second breakfast at the feeders - a male Red-Bellied, a Downy, Cardinals, a Carolina Chickadee, and etc.
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I had fun going through 4 of the boxes of books, hanging out horizontally in the Library to rest my back, chatting with Jenna and Karen. Bill and I watched the first half of last week's Premier League match between Nottingham Forest and Newcastle with lunch - he brought takeout home and I had half of a hamburger/half the french fries. I had the other half while we watched 2 episodes of New Tricks in the evening.
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Perhaps looking through boxes of books, probably filling the sunflower seed feeder. Reading, updating spreadsheets, and etc.
294richardderus
>293 karenmarie: Sunday orisons, Horrible. I'm just sluggin' around leavin' a trail of ill-will slime wherever I go. Probably starting a new thread here pretty quick. Carefully not killing my disgusting stinky roommate. It's too late to clean the genepool, he reproduced already, but the urge is deffo there in spite of the fact he hates 45 as much as I do.
I found another oddly-labeled folder of reading notes! A quick glance, these are from 2017 and 2018 so far. Some oldies upcoming....
*smooch*
I found another oddly-labeled folder of reading notes! A quick glance, these are from 2017 and 2018 so far. Some oldies upcoming....
*smooch*
295msf59
Morning, Karen. A new week begins...It will be a quiet, routine one for me. Work, PB, books. I can live with that. I hope you have a nice and relaxing one too.
296karenmarie
>294 richardderus: 'Morning on Monday, RD! ...a trail of ill-will slime... Hmmm. Perhaps I'll get a better understanding of who you're pissing off when I visit here in a bit. I'll check your old thread first, since I checked yesterday but wasn't first to post so pouted a bit and didn't post. As always, I'm sorry about OS, always excepting that he hates 45 as much as you do. 2017 and 2018. My, my. I always look forward to your reviews. *smooch*
>295 msf59: 'Morning, Mark. Yup. Another week. A quiet routine one for you is an exception to the rule, I think. My week's pretty busy again, alas - the only day I don't have something going on is Thursday.
A Mourning Dove was scavenging on the concrete and a female Cardinal was at the bird bath when I first came down. A downy just ate some suet, and a female Red-Bellied is on the wild bird seed feeder. There's a sparrow of some sort on the nyjer seed feeder, but the binoculars I have aren't good for that distance.
Wordle 1,248 3/6*trope, brain, frail
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I looked through the only other 4 boxes of books I can easily get to and found the following, all remaindered:
The Sequel
I'll Have What He's Having - MM romance!
Tell Me Everything
Swann's Way - got rid of all my hard-to-read yellowed copies, but this is a very nice trade paperback, translated by Lydia Davis
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
I also decided to call any book that I've tagged Advanced or Uncorrected or anything else like that as a galley proof, since the tags I had were all various forms and stages of that designation. I have 106 of them.
Read, updated spreadsheets, dinner, New Tricks.
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Friends Board meeting is at 10. Chiropractor is at 12:15. I'll stay in town between, perhaps go to Virlie's for some hot or iced tea and whatever. After that I'll go to the grocery store, then come home and hang out in the Library reading.
>295 msf59: 'Morning, Mark. Yup. Another week. A quiet routine one for you is an exception to the rule, I think. My week's pretty busy again, alas - the only day I don't have something going on is Thursday.
A Mourning Dove was scavenging on the concrete and a female Cardinal was at the bird bath when I first came down. A downy just ate some suet, and a female Red-Bellied is on the wild bird seed feeder. There's a sparrow of some sort on the nyjer seed feeder, but the binoculars I have aren't good for that distance.
Wordle 1,248 3/6*
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I looked through the only other 4 boxes of books I can easily get to and found the following, all remaindered:
The Sequel
I'll Have What He's Having - MM romance!
Tell Me Everything
Swann's Way - got rid of all my hard-to-read yellowed copies, but this is a very nice trade paperback, translated by Lydia Davis
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
I also decided to call any book that I've tagged Advanced or Uncorrected or anything else like that as a galley proof, since the tags I had were all various forms and stages of that designation. I have 106 of them.
Read, updated spreadsheets, dinner, New Tricks.
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Friends Board meeting is at 10. Chiropractor is at 12:15. I'll stay in town between, perhaps go to Virlie's for some hot or iced tea and whatever. After that I'll go to the grocery store, then come home and hang out in the Library reading.
297LizzieD
Good morning, 3 Sister! Sounds like a pretty good day for you. I probably need to go out today too.......maybe to get that Chinese take-out that I didn't get yesterday. I lost an earring yesterday morning and will check with the church office just in case it fell out there. Another errand or two should consume my extra hour, which I got because I failed to reset my alarm last night. Enjoy your books!!!!!
298karenmarie
I just posted on your thread, dearest! Yay for 3. I hope you can retrieve your earring, and good luck on the Chinese take-out.
Happily surprised that you're here early, although I bet you were a tad disgruntled at getting up to an alarm when you didn't have to.
Happily surprised that you're here early, although I bet you were a tad disgruntled at getting up to an alarm when you didn't have to.
299LizzieD
Here I am back to add what everybody else has probably already seen on fb. In somebody's survey (Snopes says it's true), 56% of Americans said that US schools should stop teaching Arabic numerals. Talk about Dumbfuckistan!
300richardderus
>299 LizzieD: ...!...
I would need to see how the question was phrased and who was asking it before I thought more deeply that "horseshit!"
Morning, Horrible. I'm pretty sure I'll die while the Nerd Reich is in power, since this is the last decade I csan reasonably expect to see both ends of. That makes me furious. Now I need to channel that fury.
I would need to see how the question was phrased and who was asking it before I thought more deeply that "horseshit!"
Morning, Horrible. I'm pretty sure I'll die while the Nerd Reich is in power, since this is the last decade I csan reasonably expect to see both ends of. That makes me furious. Now I need to channel that fury.
301karenmarie
>299 LizzieD: It boggles the mind, Peggy. Let's just keep dumbing down the US. Dumbfuckistan for sure.
>300 richardderus: Hiya, RDear. 'Afternoon. A lot of us are wondering if we can survive four years of the Nerd Reich. I sincerely hope we'll be chattering and bantering in 2029 when we have the chance to fix this terrible mistake.
New thread time!
Give me a few and come visit there.
>300 richardderus: Hiya, RDear. 'Afternoon. A lot of us are wondering if we can survive four years of the Nerd Reich. I sincerely hope we'll be chattering and bantering in 2029 when we have the chance to fix this terrible mistake.
New thread time!
Give me a few and come visit there.
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