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Post by whollygoats on Dec 1, 2019 17:37:03 GMT
Note: I have never seen, on this board, nor any other, Moose declaim that she was taking up a book as yet unread by her.
I have seen several assurances that she would be more than willing to do so. And, half-hearted claims to request possible new titles.
I have even participated in suggesting new titles (and even tried her recommendations)....but naught but announcements that she will once more read some tome she has already read, uncounted times.
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Post by Moose on Dec 1, 2019 20:34:53 GMT
Of course
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Post by Moose on Dec 1, 2019 20:55:57 GMT
I do, for the record, read a lot of new stuff too you know . I just don't announce it when I do.
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Post by JoeP on Dec 1, 2019 23:27:28 GMT
Sounds like an opportunity for MORE THREADS!
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Post by spaceflower on Dec 3, 2019 0:01:44 GMT
I am currently member of three book circles. So I am reading many books at the same time. Can be confusing. I've just started with The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Post by Kye on Dec 3, 2019 0:15:28 GMT
I read that! I liked it very much!
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 3, 2019 0:23:00 GMT
I do, for the record, read a lot of new stuff too you know . I just don't announce it when I do. Do tell... So, what was the last new title you read, and when did you finish it? :noid:
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 3, 2019 0:27:09 GMT
I am currently member of three book circles. So I am reading many books at the same time. Can be confusing. I've just started with The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. Heh...That's pretty standard for me. One at bedside, one at the breakfast table, and a third with which to travel. Since I don't spend much time on buses since I retired, the travel reading has pretty much disappeared. Also, I frequently start titles which I do not finish. I may lose interest and replace it with something more interesting, that I may also lose interest in.
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Post by Moose on Dec 18, 2019 22:32:04 GMT
Last new title was one of the newer Ladies Detective Agency books. Last week.
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Post by Kye on Dec 18, 2019 23:45:18 GMT
I zoomed through another Liane Moriarty book from the library (a guilty pleasure). This one I read in a day, up until 2 am to finish it.
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Post by Moose on Dec 18, 2019 23:54:59 GMT
Never heard of them, what sort of book was it?
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Post by Kye on Dec 19, 2019 0:02:50 GMT
She's an Australian author, very relationship oriented --secrets and passion and friendship. They're quite predictable. Not high art, but quite entertaining.
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Post by Moose on Jan 12, 2020 22:54:21 GMT
The Time Travellers Guide to the fourteenth century - great stuff
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Post by JoeP on Jan 13, 2020 8:17:25 GMT
I've recently finished "The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend" and I am not sure what I think of it.
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Post by Moose on Jan 17, 2020 1:39:02 GMT
Tell us more about it?
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Post by JoeP on Jan 17, 2020 22:37:58 GMT
It's chick lit (and there's nothing wrong with that) and book lit (talks a lot about books, which is fun). The main character Sara is a Swedish bookshop worker who's been having a penpal correspondence with an older woman, Amy, in Broken Wheel, Iowa. When the bookshop closes abruptly she accepts the offer of a "book reading holiday" in Broken Wheel. But when she arrives Amy has died. Letters from Amy leading up to the trip are interspersed with the action, and that works quite well.
Obviously she is welcomed into the town, and obviously she sets up a bookshop in an available store rather than just go home, and obviously she slowly converts the non-reading simple farming folk into readers, and obviously she spends the rest of the book falling in love with the guy the town busybodies try to set her up with right at the beginning but is obviously convinced he thinks nothing of her, while at the same time he is obviously feeling exactly the same.
A lot of it is fun and entertainingly written, but I couldn't help feeling that a lot of things only happen by convention - because the author wanted them to happen that way.
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Post by Moose on Apr 19, 2020 23:54:25 GMT
I like rereading. People criticise me for it - as they do for watching the same shows over and over - and I know they mean well but I do sometimes wonder what business it is of theirs
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Post by JoeP on Apr 20, 2020 21:34:01 GMT
I don't think people criticise you for rereading as such (OK some people probably do because they are dumb) ... but some people (and I'm not naming any names) may have commented on your apparent need to have people read along with you and post when you have got to Bree etc.
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Post by juju on Apr 21, 2020 10:32:35 GMT
I’m rereading Emma at the moment. Just got to the best bit - Harriet Smith tells her she fancies Mr Knightley which prompts Emma’s epiphany - no one must marry Mr Knightley but her!
I could reread Jane Austen any number of times. And do. 😊
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 23, 2020 5:09:55 GMT
I lost my book....
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Post by JoeP on Apr 23, 2020 8:28:52 GMT
Oh no! Is a cat sitting on it perhaps?
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Post by JoeP on Apr 23, 2020 8:29:40 GMT
Speaking of re-reading I definitely do that too. And at the moment I am re-reading The Worm Ouroboros which is epic fantasy predating Tolkien.
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Post by Mari on Apr 23, 2020 16:55:43 GMT
I read so so much, but haven't read a book in years. The libraries don't have enough new books so I've resorted to online reading. Most stories are crappy some are brilliant, few are finished.
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