Lisa - (Aussie Girl)’s Comments (group member since Jun 15, 2017)

Lisa - (Aussie Girl)’s comments from the Read, Reading, Planning to Read and More group.

Good job, Monadh.

We just redid our floors with Engineered Timber in Blackbutt. You can sand it back twice apparently and is has a guaranteed life of 25 years in household use. We're hard on floors... so will see how it holds up.

On the book front I'm reading this - . It's a buddy read and I have no idea what it is about but it seems to being read in quite a lot of Goodreads Groups at the moment.

Congratulations Doug aka The Godfather of Read, Reading, Planning to Read!

DemetraP wrote: "After Sundown by Linda Howard was a great read. (in Box)

There is a solar storm that knocks out all electricity all over the world. They get 2 days warning.

So it's a survival book, with a romanc..."

That sounds good and somehow appropriate for the times... I'm going to see if my library has it. Thanks for the review.

OOh Vanessa, so jealous you have finished The Jackal.

I haven't got my copy yet, had to cancel my bookdepository.UK order as they are having problems with supply and delivering to Australia. I'm down at our farm at the moment so will pick a copy up when I get back to town next week. Yes, I think she is introducing The Wolfen isn't she?

Ahhhhh, TINNGG, I'm eagerly awaiting my copy of in the mail. It's going off in a bit of a tangent from the series proper with the race's prison camp.. but I'm diving straight down that rabbit hole, LOL.

Lulu wrote: "Thanks for that info, Doug, on the latest KGI. I've got to go back and re-read some of that series, I've forgotten so much but I guess it's not a rush. Feels like its been years since the last one."

That's because it has been Lulu, LOL.

I have a love/hate relationship with this series. I'm holding out that the last book if we ever get it and I haven't dropped off the perch will be love.

Douglas wrote: "I hardly even bother to read these notices about this book anymore, I am going to be surprised if it ever gets published

Release Date Change

Your new pre-order release date:
Tuesday, May 11, 2021..."

Yeah, me too. But I bet the moment I cancel it will be published so I'll hang on.

Douglas wrote: "Finished A Touch of Stone and Snow and at 400 pages and throw out the 100 pages of useless sex and it was a great book."

Douglas, you know we're getting old when you mention "throw out 100 pages of useless sex". I sooo know what you mean, LOL.

Vanessa wrote: "For those who read the Veronica Speedwell series... I was thumbing through the White Flower Farm fall bulb catalog and one of the flowers available is a "Veronica" flower and the flower type is a S..."

That is cool Vanessa. I remember them mentioning that fact throughout the books.

Lucky you, LAB. Enjoy.

DemetraP wrote: "I admit it. I'm going to read Midnight Sun when it releases tomorrow. It's Twilight, written from the vampire Edward's point of view."

Ooh, can't wait to see what you think. I probably won't be reading, I think that ship has sailed but if it gets a few good reports.. maybe I'll cave.

Thanks for your kind words. It means a lot.

Happy birthday Vanessa, hope you had a great day.

My lovely MIL has passed away at the great age of 90 years 11 months and 4 days. It was expected but still feels like a big hole in our family. And arranging a fitting send off in the time of covid is a nightmare. Regulations in our state are 30 people in the church and 20 at any indoor event. Impossible so looks like we will have to have only immediate family and hold a celebration of her life later when hopefully this awful pandemic is a memory.

Sadly, I'm behind in the Psy Changlings as well. To heavy going on the metaphors, hyperbole and adjectives for me and not enough ongoing storyline. I may pick it up again, I haven't completely given up but wait till each book comes out in MMPB.

I'm still reading the Archangels though. I seem to be able to handle her writing style better in this series and they are first released in MMPB as well. Amazing how reading tastes change, I loved the series up to Hawke's book.

Hi Vinity, great that you've checked in.

I love that you guys are so proactive with your solar chargers. But what happens if you can't access your library, if the unthinkable happens and Amazon drops off the planet...Would you only be able to access what was actually on your kindle at the time? Although if Amazon stopped the World probably would be about to end, LOL.

LAB☺ wrote: "Just got back from the Used Bookstore Warehouse I've been dying to go to. Its almost an hour away but I made it worth it. Got 16 books! 15 for me and my husband bought one 1 (about DC comic charact..."

That's great, LAB. I love having my "real" book library.... except like now, we are getting new flooring and long overdue painting through our house. We have full bookcases in every room so over the next few weeks I'll be putting books in boxes... sigh. Good chance for a bit of audit I'm thinking, sending some of them to a new home at the Goodwill.

I hear ya about the covid stupidity and although we are doing well in comparison Australia is not immune. There is a significant outbreak in Melbourne where testing is intense and 10,000 refused to be tested. For goodness sake, why not? Apparently there was a group that believed that there is no such thing and it is a conspiracy and another that said it just didn't affect them. And then another spread was security guards getting busy with some of those in quarantine. Just wow.

Vanessa wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Vanessa wrote: "Kristi... I think that you are right, I think that most everyone loved Oracle's Moon.

With another D..."

Ohhhhh. I also miss the days of sitting on a cruise ship balcony reading with a drink in hand and watching the world go by. Sigh. Probably won't be till 2022 for me now. Qantas have shelved all their long haul planes till July 2021 at the earliest..so that tells us something. So seeing we can't travel.. we're doing home maintenance. I've been putting off getting a new roof for five years and putting up with leaks and ceiling damage so now is the time! Not quite as exciting as an overseas trip however, LOL.

The BDB is probably the only series I read as soon as I get the book now. Oh... and also the Will Trent series by Karin Slaughter. And maybe if Diana Gabaldon ever finishes the next Outlander.. but I usually read that over a month as they're soooo long now. That's about it. Bit sad isn't it.