Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s Comments (group member since Sep 20, 2013)

Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s comments from the Net Work Book Club group.

And how did this company get alll that personal data in the first place? Many people say they never opted into the service, so...is it a case of the hackers hacked?

He tasted funny!

Call me paranoid...but...they offer "everyone in the country" one year's FREE cover with their special whatever-it-is to protect the data that was stolen before the offer...One Year. Then of course you'll have to pay. I smell scam. I smell scare the people so they'll buy.

I'd much rather sleep more than read as much as I do, I can tell you that.

Y'all obviously have more shelf space than I do. And access to a physical library with a good selection. And live in a climate that is kinder to paper than this one. When it's over 35ºC for weeks on end, no matter what you do the pages turn brown and bindings go for broke.

I love being able to have a thousand books in one place to choose from...even if that makes it hard to choose, some nights! Slip a thousand books in your handbag and go. Yes. Also, with an ebook and clip light, I don't need a lamp on to read; I can lie comfortable and warm (or cool) in the bed and read for hours. Otherwise I'd be banished to another room so I didn't wake DH with the light; away from the AC in summer or the soft, warm blankets in winter.

Or you could go all out and sing that song from the movie "Annie":

"So senator, so janitor, so long for awhile,
Remember you're never fully dressed without a smile!"

Laughing at myself...I've been listening to A Wrinkle in Time, thinking it was one of those few books my dislexic brother liked back in the day. And wondering how that was possible. I know it was huge in the sixties and seventies, but I can't see how he would like it.

Then this morning while doing the ironing I realised I got the title wrong. The book he loved was Tunnel Through Time.
Totally different!

My first ebook reader is about 7 years old. It's Spanish brand (Papyre) and I guess they don't make them anymore. Not tactile, no backlight, no search functions except "recently read." DH sat on it the other night. Fortunately it was on the matress, but unfortunately the last page it was open to is still partly visible. The software still works. It's pretty sturdy so I hope maybe my local Asian mobile-fixit shop can do something with it...but it's so old (in electronic terms) that they may just laugh in my face. I don't know.

Yes, I'd like a more efficient second ebook, but crumbs! Maybe he'll learn to look about him before he flops (I was already in bed and he just flopped, not noticing it was there). However, he's 72 so I kind of doubt he's gonna change his habits now.

I certainly hope he hasn't killed "Antonio", but I rather think he has.
(And don't say "Kindle" to me. Not gonna happen. Ever.)

I'm always here. I have no life...sniff sniff...

Yup. Took me months to realise that when she said, "All right, Ori?" she didn't mean I looked ill! LOL

HA! She runs off and cheats on us with all those athletes, and then we're supposed to just hang around the empty clubhouse till she shows up! LOL

I knew a lady who called everybody Petal, or Ducks!

Another one of my country-girl phrases just surfaced, when talking about a person who is pretty toxic: "I am gonna give her a good leaving alone!"

Hijinks. Also shenanigans.

These two words make my teeth itch. They make me want to smack people who think they're cute. Probably because they have been so abused in TV/movie blurbs for unfunny productions in my past.

Almost as bad as people who write "cute n' cuddly" or "nice n' neat."

Groovy wrote: "Make your own list, people!!! Pfffffffff."

Yes, if you have to be "challenged" online to read, or to sew, or to follow a hobby like photography, you're a) spending far too much time glued to your computer/tablet/smartphone, and b) not all that into said hobby anyway. People find time for what they really want to do. "I don't have time" usually means "I'm not bothered." Look at all those hard-working pioneer women, slaves etc who had to do it all by hand, and yet found time to create wonderful quilts, or woven articles, or carvings. Of course they didn't have smartphones...

You stay away from the Belles in them Bars, Mr Books...they ain't near as Belle by the light of day, you know!

Can a match box?
No, but a tin can.

Am I the only person who's allergic to all these new lists--"100 (X) You Must (Y) Before You Die"?
I guess I'm just a rebel at heart, I hate being told what to read/eat/watch/listen to. It's my free time, thank you very much, and I'll do as I like with it.
I always think these lists are made for people who don't have opinions of their own. Or want to be seen reading/eating/watching/visiting whatever music, book, place so people will know how hip and cool they are.

Lists. Pffffffffffft.
Challenges. Double Pffffffffffft.
Live.

Emma wrote: "I miss mine. I used to jump off the top of my friend's staircase and always woke before I got to the bottom. Then the last time I got my hand on the doorknob and the next minute I'm flying over the..."

I once dreamed that I was going down the stairs of our building by holding onto the bannisters and swinging myself down three steps at a time. The neighbour was standing in the hall and said, "Aren't you afraid you'll fall?" I said, "No I often do this." And I woke up convinced I did indeed often do that.

Went out that day, and realised it was impossible to do as I'd dreamed, because there's only one bannister and it's a wide, flat piece of metal that would be impossible to grasp as I did in the dream! I was foolishly disappointed, as if someone had come along and changed it while I wasn't watching.

Diatribe sounds better than rant, which it is. I remember in Bridget Jones's Diary someone was always in "full, glorious, auto-rant."