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Yes, it makes sense, Kerri. Good, "Jeopardy" is a popular culture reference around the world since 1984.

This reminds me of a daring "Wheel Of Fortune" eference from the "Family Guy" cartoon. I think they used to air after each other but don't know if the same company filmed them. The puzzle was "Go tuck yourself in". Go figure with Seth McFarlane, you can imagine what the blank "T" looked like. I am not a fan but I enjoy the show from time to time if it isn't too spiritually unhealthy or gross.

It is a baffling irony that my middle brother introduced me to it before he was too politically right-minded. One of my favourite bands is A-ha from Norway. "Take On Me" is noted in history as the most famous video in the world, even today. In one scene where Chris Griffin takes a disembodied hand and disappears in a grocery store, you recognize the video and laugh, when he can't explain where he went. Who could!?

It feels good to have everyone's understanding: thank you! When I said my situation does not match classic misophonia descriptions, I did not imply it is not as bad. Being affected by written words or memories is bad! I wish I only hated chewing sounds or the word "moist", less frequent to encounter and only auditory or visual. Personalized things from daily home are rough. Just want to correct that.

I am loving the conversation about "Anne Of Avonlea" and if Leeanne adds impressions of "Anne Of Green Gables". I have to thank you, Leeanne for building your own insights! I mentioned before, not wanting to propose topics and conversation ceasing after everyone answers. I worried about having to coax everyone to jump in with more ideas or thoughts of their own and Leeanne surprised us with this gift. Kerri's additions are fantastic too: this is great. I hope I have fast internet soon to see New Zealand tours.

I will join in when I have time. We are figuring out what is ailing Spirit and picked-up medicines, which he started yesterday. I am very hopeful and these sound reasonable. In town, Ron bought my birthday gifts and I did family birthday and Christmas shopping. I seldom go to city or town and it was nice to be able to have a shopping expedition. I bought a few groceries and items for the house that are different from what Ron chooses, who normally shops on this way home from the city. I am 47 for 3 more days!

You didn't remind me of her character name but provided her name to look it up at least. ;) I hope you know she is a guest star unlikely to reappear until planet Trill is visited again. But you will enjoy this early episode of the highly anticipated and paying off season 3. You can't appreciate later Star Trek until you have seen the original series films and the "Next Generation" films, if not the TV series but it is wonderful.

If you are keen on proper order or find yourself hooked, we learn about Trills and many other races in the third series, "Deep Space 9". Obviously don't think of watching the other new show, "Picard", unless you invest in the whole "Next Generation" TV series, about his generation piloting the Enterprise. Two crew members come from Jean-Luc Picard's Enterprise to work at Deep Space 9.

Have you heard of Alex Trebek and "Jeopardy" all the way over there? I am glad and you are welcome. Justin's mistakes and unpopular decisions have come and gone but he always has grace and respect towards individuals.

Fare well to Sudbury, Ontario born Alex Trebek, who was also dear to Americans and everyone else who knew the super intelligent game trivia, "Jeopardy". I am sad he didn't get over cancer. I did not know he was 80 and am heartened that he reached this fine, advanced decade. He was kind and led a wonderful life. Our Prime Minister gave official website condolences here. https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2...

An unexpected "Schitt's Creek" actress was on "Star Trek Discovery" last night! These are becoming more and more emotional and spirit-lifting and Ron & I just love them. This time we were on the planet Trill (which you will acquaint in "Deep Space 9"): freckled people who compete for the honour of joining with a Simbiant inside them. This is a parasitic but loving connection with the memories of all the bodies that carried this ancient creature over the centuries.

I was sure I recognized the spiritual leader of the Trill and took a few minutes to get it. Lo and behold, it was the black mechanic and council member from "Schitt's Creek"! Previously, it was the mayor we had seen in numerous other roles. I used to be poor at recognizing actors from other roles when I was young because I only used to be invested in what they were playing in the moment. Now I am good at matching faces and voices.

Thank you both for forgiving the deletions I feel bad about. The point of a group and notes from friends is to see their words, rather than yours. I think I am a compulsive editor and fix typos right after posting. Sometimes a duplicate posts pops up and I pressed the top "delete button" twice, wondering why the earlier post wouldn't go away. I did not know it resulted in deleting your two posts. If I were removing the newest edit, I would have used the bottom "delete button".

Thank goodness you remembered what you said and you make better points than ever! I remembered what you each wrote but of course it needs to come from you. Your retyped opinion here makes your topics even more compelling to converse about! I am glad we agree about animal death being out of place by someone depicted as an animal lover and in kids' books. I hoped to avoid a "what do you expect on a farm" circle.

Just FYI, I hope everyone read that I do not match "misophonia" exactly but must have something like it. It was great to have a cause for something that has been hard since my 20s. I wish sounds I disliked only freaked me out when I heard them but as I said, the memory of past times and seeing printed words I dislike are awful triggers. The typical stuff like breating or eating noises don't bother me. I think I honed in on the definition I saw that aspects of misophonia can be highly personalized. And it sucks that new ones can develop with excessive repetition that seems pointless to me and not have a reasonable need. That is how it started for me.

For example, if my spouse only sneezed quietly or once, it would not have become a recent trigger. But he always does it loudly and a million times non-stop. Now I have to run away if he starts.

I am going to have to give your Mom's idea thought. Does it make sense that if I wrote about Manitoba, I am not the best person to convey it vividly? I don't think so. I think I would point out the joys of living here, how our animals and landscape look, weather, what we do and how we dress in different seasons. I think Maud doesn't sound like an island because she is discussing an inland village, or at least she is focusing on the trees and fields. These characters don't do sailing, have the lifestyle, or language of sailors. Maybe that is it and not mentioning water enough. Only those picturesque lakes near her home. But if you think about it, who lives on an island and only writes of interior lakes?

What disappointed me about the overdone chapter about the guest who couldn't make it and pet hens assissinated; was to make Davy fall into the pies. The narration stated that he had been good. Couldn't they have left him good for this chapter? But even if the pies were wrecked for some other reason (don't get me started on Aunt Josephine's plate), it would have been too contrived.

I have never looked-up Prince Edward Island's red soil and will. They mentioned it a few times in the book. I love how different our provinces can be. You might not know, Leeanne, that it was freaky to see in Ontario and other places, our first black squirrels! Back then, who knew they came in black? Ours are brown and occasionally grey. Sublte changes are fun to compare when we travel, aren't they? Gosh, the things we would see all over New Zealand!

When I was in my early 20s, I visited friends in St. Lucia and noticed a whole new world as soon as I stepped off the plane. It was night but the insect sounds were more numerous and what I suprise, when I beheld my first tropical morning! I don't know about the two of you but I notice simple things: like how Canada is more associated with England than the US, so our fast food restaurants carry packaged vinegar for French fries but they do not.

I discussed bugaboos amply. I will give you breathing room and will add a future post about more things I loved. There was after all, a lot to love! Please don't hesitate to add more that you want to share as well. My review shares my favourite quote.

Yikes, I was editing my comment and your two disappeared! I am sorry about that! I remember what you said but it is better coming from you. I mistook the delete button above my duplicate comment that showed up, instead of clicking "delete" below my comment where I should have. I feel bad that there is no option I know of to get them back, unless you don't mind summarizing them.

Friends know I love to dispense with unpleasant subjects and work up to the most enjoyable ones thereafter. I'll jump in by saying, as I did in the review I have finished, that scooting past a word one dislikes is one thing; having Maud rehash it about forty times in that awful chapter was too much, with no break alternating with "lunch", "repast", "meal", "food", "company", or "visitors".... For the average person who dislikes a word or who tires of repetition, that was annoying as it was.

There is a "neurological glitch", not categorized as an ailment or mental issue, called "misophonia". It approaches but does not match something I have experienced for years. You know how certain sounds are so unpleasant, they hurt the ears, or aggravate you after some duration? A misophonia type trigger is worse and for whatever I have, a written word on a page representing it, or a memory of someone using it, are enough to produce the same pain.

You can ask a class or school to ban nuts. I don't feel able to ask people not to use or write "have got" contractions around me, as much as they pain me! It is on TV all the time: "got" erroneously mimicking what should only be the verb "have". I stopped watching "Dr. Oz" and others with that habit. The D-word in place of "lunch" is my other one. You imagine why I couldn't bear it 40 times in a chapter.

There is no cure. If I yell, it releases the angry distress but I can't do that in public. You should have seem me the time I was in a mall and a guy walked right by me, whistling not with lips but teeth; the worst audible trigger even among textbook sufferers! I freaked out and scared him so much, he yelled too. Haha, at least it stopped. I cannot bear it in writing either which is why I separated the sentence with "lips" first.

What's worse as Leeane said, was not just killing but volunteering pets. I never like any killing and there was more later, including the dear Ginger. But like Leeanne, I know that I thought it was stupid that she passed away from a poorly staged accident, for a couple to reconcile. Real reconciliation would be accepting the husband's family bird, from his brother. I know people from farms and no one would do such a thing. You exempt certain animals or defer the possibility as much as possible. My Mom, a non country girl forever because of this, had a pet cow one year. She was stuck on a farm while her Dad worked out-of-town. You would think they would avoid that cow during her temporary stay. If there is one thing that cheers me up about her being in Heaven, it is that she got to reunite with that dear cow.

The same chapter had Davy wrecking pies, annoying because this was a day the boy was pretty good. Maud wanted a chapter in which nothing went right but it was overdone. I knew something was going to ruin that borrowed plate but the stupidity of how it was arranged didn't gel. She was showing it to her pastor and wife friends on the stairs. She went to check Davy's pie destruction. Do you really think that no matter how busy she was, she would forget that plate or not bring it with her? Even if you let Maud pass on that, there is no way her friends would leave it on the staircase. Maud wanted pies and plate wrecked and didn't do much to make the method believable. My review says that without this chapter, I would have given the book five stars.

Later, the bit about Anne grabbing something instead of freckle cream was a repeat of last year's book and her conclusion was odd. Instead of making sure people in that house check bottles and creams thoroughly; she throws it out, claiming vanity.

Those are the beefs. I'll let those be in case there are any replies or questions. I loved the rest of the book tremendously and will turn to that afterwards. Leeanne, I am happy you saw your birthday greetings at your profile. Without a reply, I didn't know because apparently some people use an app, which doesn't show personal profile comments. It is always a PC and webpage for me.

I had heard that Prince Edward Island had red soil but hadn't thought about it. The book reminded me of it a couple of times. They spoke of the ocean a few times, such as the story of Paul's rock people but not in a way that evoked that the setting was an island. I wonder why the atmosphere didn't translate. Maybe because no one has boating jobs and they are always talking about trees and fields.

I am on page 247, in chapter 21 and love this one: meeting Miss Lavendar. I loved "Anne Of Avonlea" for a long while but a couple of chapters remove a star.

There are sounds or words that have us wincing. You know it is not about preference but something mentally hurting eyes or ears? I won't say the word but loathe the word "LUNCH" not being employed for the middle meal. It doesn't matter what size, it is about the hour or middle meal. A few northeasterners and Europeans make me uncomfortable saying it.

In the chapter about Priscilla's author Aunt coming over, it was said something like 40 times. Maud wouldn't shut up. I couldn't be over with that chapter fast enough. I didn't impress me better than a life-loving personal like Anne, despite living on a farm, would volunteer to kill two pet hens!!!! Marilla mentioned killing a bird a couple of chapters later too and it lost my respect.

I know about farms but it isn't for pleasant books, any more than talking of someone going to the washroom. This is a girl who loves all nature, so leave that out. Choosing to kill favourite roosters disturbed me. She would accept the way of life but not volunteer. She would put off their demise as much as possible. I don't believe that or selling the cow without sentiment suited her character. Matthew gave her to Anne.

On a much smaller note, I dislike the addition of Davy. Another kid in the household? I agree with Leeanne about Dory. She isn't like the emotionless Hans in "A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth". Picking peas with Marilla and being proud to shell them shows her delight and sweet personality. Fearing the ghost of an Uncle a 10 year-old school girl mentioned also shows that Dora lacks no normal thoughts and behaviour. She is simply mannered and loves doing different things than Davy. I do agree that Anne and Marilla ought not like her less and that she needs them as much as Davy. But I regard her as a normal child who is serene.

I don't see enough about the twins' Mom. I am missing and grieving my Mom at 47 and 6 year-olds should surely be pining for theirs. Mine prepared me well too. Comments about being unsure they are interested in Heaven strike a false note. Any time a cat or anyone else I love ascended to Heaven, I felt like I couldn't wait to meet them there someday. It is the only way I get over it.

I love everything else about the novel; what Leeanne and Kerri shared and more. Paul is wonderful, the clean-up committee, and most of the kids. Paul's and Lavendar's storytelling is grand. I like Matthew getting mentioned and Anne's parents a little bit. I realized I am getting no sense that this is an island. The word "island" and "ocean" or "shore" have been mentioned a little bit but I don't get a marine feeling from these two novels. I hope we do, or it feels like any other beautifully treed province.

Leeanne, happy birthday to you for Wednesday! Happy Thanksgiving day too!

Please don't make work for yourself or rehash posts. It wouldn't produce your own impressions. It would mean answering questions we went over when you joined in. Just share anything that pops into your head now that you have recently read "Anne Of Green Gables", like you did with "Anne Of Avonlea" here.

Yes indeed, a combination of country pride, seeing Eugene and Dan on the Kelly Clarkson show, and your enthusiasm made me sure to watch and after disliking a few stories, I became a fan. Unsurprisingly, the one about a cat deceased on the road, turkey hunting, and getting no money back for excess milk were unpleasant.

I recently saw Annie on the Kelly Clarkson show, with an awesome duet of "A Little Bit Alexis / A Little Bit Texas"! I watch "Schitt's Creek" when it is on a few satellite dish channels, which air various years. I saw the finale recently and a new show or two.

Leeanne, since you finished "Anne Of Green Gables" for the second time in years, I imagine, how about giving your impressions of it? Use this new, shorter folder here. The subjects are never closed. We just needed organized places to put the wonderful varied conversations we are having about animals, film, television, music....

I hope you and Kerri both read my hope at the beginning of the new folders that you introduce aspects of books for discussion. I believe I have great ideas but nothing is more fun for me than ideas proposed for me as well. So far, making friendships with formerly cranky people, like Aunt Josephine in Charlottetown and the comedy are my favourite parts of this second book. I'll continue musing aloud with you after Leeanne has had the floor on the first Anne novel, if she would like it.

I must say a word of excitement and congratulations about the much-loved show, "Schitt's Creek"! It won all 9 Emmy awards last month, which no other comedy show has achieved! Justin Trudeau's congratulations to them were very funny. He threw shade on the last governments paltry budget for the arts on CBC Canada, joking that an extra .5c he is giving their mason jar, is a huge increase!

I had heard of it and seen its actors as guests on "The Kelly Clarkson Show". After Kerri spoke more about it to me, I kept watching shows that came up on the satellite dish and became a fan. I think it was as soon as I knew they weren't snobby; only fashionable and witty. They were naturally missing their prior life and stressed out about rebuilding it.

I am near the end of chapter 6, on page 60.

A lot of people love only the first film, book, or album of an artist's work. I find that a defeatist idea, as if artists couldn't do better and also biased, as if it some people mistake "the best one" for what is new. I love my introduction to "Anne Of Green Gables" but I am one who is relieved to get past the necessary premise- and character-building and any unpleasant occurrences that might go with it.

For example, do you feel like it is safer to read along with Anne now? She is not frightened about receiving the home she likes because she is not the boy who was the intended adoptee. She is not the child who is going to be scolded for anything; not age 16 in 1909 anyway. She is not the new family member changing Matthew's perspective and hoping to win Marilla's external affection. Right from page one, Anne Shirley is a valued, respected, confident, equal family member to Marilla. Gosh, that is a relief! I hated the episodes of blaming the child for lies she had not told and Diana's Mother disliking her.

Anne still has concerns, things she dreads, like her first day of school, and still has confrontations with neighbours and townspeople. However, instead of Marilla demanding that she speak to the new man as if teaching her a lesson, Anne declines Marilla's offer to go. Indeed, it is my favourite part when she makes another friend with a person who was supposedly impossible. I love the swearing parrot and the comedy of the man being thrown under the bus by him! Do you think it was because she told him off, or because it is a virtue to give people a chance to make friends?

I love Maud speaking-up against the wrongness and ineffectiveness of corporal punishment. I think it was impressive to do so way back in 1909. It was banned after I was in grade 3. I wonder if I need to be firm or sweet in confrontations, with neighbours about their intrusive dogs, for instance. Would they respond better to me if I calmly say "This has to stop", or if I use a smiling, heart to heart tone?

I love the improvement committee the teenagers made together. I love that Anne, Diana, and everyone who are starting jobs, can hang out in a positive way. It will allow them to freely be 16 year-olds on the youngster side, don't you think? I smile about the fundraising and parties to go with it. Canvassing and selling are not for me. However, it is a wonderful way for the authoress to introduce townspeople and future friends.

I started "Anne Of Avonlea" and love it already, of course. The writing and reunion of loveable and funny people is all positive. I will move the "Anne Of Green Gables" conversation here as well so they are in the same place, in the same year.

Instead of hesitating to propose conversations or journal our thoughts, wondering which chapter our buddies are on, I have an idea. How about we start by identifying our chapter as a heading, then writing afterwards? If we aren't at that chapter, we won't read it yet. This way we feel comfortable journaling along, at any pace, and we don't end up trying to make mini conversations out of a whole book.

If you peruse my old discussions of "My Cousin Rachel" and "Light A Penny Candle", the anticipation of major book parts and guessing where the story would go were fun. It is like watching a movie together and going "Oh no you didn't!" at exciting parts, haha.

Conversations so far have built on what I wrote. Share your ideas and what you ponder. I need and value my friends' insight and invite you to lead and shape discussions.

I am glad to know the timeframe and am glad you got started on "Anne Of Avonlea". I am too and am making a conversation folder for our book now. "The Night Circus" was wonderful and I am excited about "The Starless Sea", which I shall treat myself to in my birth month!

In honour of my birthday and to pamper me, I read things I love entirely, starting on November 1! :) It is usually the fun, magical, enthralling, atmospheric paranormal mystery that folks read this month. Some Sylvia Browne and other non-religious spiritual encouragement is due to soothe my heart and mind too, in a hard year.

Here is my new list of books to read, in 2020.

Series: Sue Grafton 1, Nevada Barr 1, J.K. Rowling 1 (yes, I am last to indulge), Frances Fyfied 1, 1st solo novel in her name Frances Hegarty, "Half Light", David Handler 4, P.D. James 1, "The Wizard Of Oz".

Various: "Pride And Prejudice", "The House Next Door" Anne River Siddons, "The Land Of Stories" Chris Colfer, "Midnight In The Garden Of Good & Evil", "All Creatures Great And Small", "Anne Frank, Diary Of A Young Girl", "Wuthering Heights", "Behind The Scenes At The Museum", "A Dry Spell" Susie Moloney (from Winnipeg!), "The Winter People" Jennifer McMahon would be fun. I'll save that Phyllis A. Whitney hardcover for later. Haha. "The Starless Sea", "The Witch Elm", "The Dreaming" Barbara Wood.

Biographies: Margaret Laurence, wildlife activist Biruté M.F. Galdikas "Reflections Of Eden", Anne Murray, Kirk Douglas "My Stroke Of Luck", John Candy, Melissa Gilbert, Goldie Hawn, Jeanne Cooper, Amy Poehler, Elton John.

I made the folder "A Place For Buddy Reading" and the topic "Future Joint Adventures" in 2014. This is an updated place, fresh at the top of discussion posts and easier to reference. I think new folders from time to time trims the number of book titles with conversations. I want a current one this time at least.

I am carrying over my happily dwindling proposal list. Please feel welcome adding to it. It is true that I read from my own books at home. There is a good chance I might have what other members propose but it is okay if I am not in some buddy reads. This is your own forum too. Sincerely, Carolyn.

I hope my suggestion made sense, to finish the six Kirk and Spot films. The different, readjusted story with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto can lend a comparison or change, instead of confusion. Their second film is a partial reimagining of "The Wrath Of Khan". It switches what happens to whom. This original Star Trek film is my least favourite but not because it lacks action. I don't like the mean and gross aspects of it, which most people expect in movies. ;> I do believe you will be a fan by the third film and can't wait to see.

Then, after your foray with Chris Pine's two films, "The Next Generation" awaits! This is a must before you think of peeking at the newest series, "Picard". It will be fun for me to find out if you pick & choose which series you are in the mood to see next, or if you will follow in order: "The Next Generation", "Deep Space 9", "Voyager", "Enterprise".