ClaireB’s Comments (group member since Jul 06, 2014)

ClaireB’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Laurie wrote: "Ooh, interesting! I adore Jane Austen and would gladly accept more recommendations. I also love Jane Eyre and enjoyed Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. I need to read more Bronte and Gaskell at some point.."

I am the same! I really want to read more of those classics author. But reading classics just takes me so much energy sometimes, it just takes me ages to just decide to start one. Even though every year I tell myself I'm going to read more classics. It just never works out.

Sonia wrote: "I have three kitties.

Here they are on my bed. Not their favorite spot, since none of their humans is available at the moment.

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That's so cute !
My cats never sleep so close together. They like to have their space :p

A new puppy !!! So lucky ! :)
Please post some pictures !

Eldarwen wrote: "Knowing how well our plans generally go, I'm pretty sure you're going to end up starting off with something completely different, Claire ;-))"

hmmm, you're probably right. You know me so well by now. *deep sigh* why can't I follow my own reading plans?

I have a few ideas :D
I don't know yet for what kind of challenge they can fit, but I might start with either of those:



Or I might just read something completely random. I'm a mood reader and it's hard for me to follow a schedule sometimes. :p

And here is my shelf:

TeamTower8-Rincewind

As we are sharing recommendations, here are mine :)



It's a real mixed bag, but I wanted to put something for everyone :)

Hey team !
Glad to be back for another Tower Team!
I'm excited to see some of you again, and to meet a few new faces as well. hello !

For those who don't know me yet; I'm Claire from Brussels, Belgium. I used to be a bookseller and now I work in HR. I kinda miss my old job, gotta be honest :p But now I buy books at a healthier pace. My wallet feels happier, haha.
I love books (suprise!) and my two cats, who (yes I say who, sue me) are the best. Except when they start screaming at 6:30 am.... sigh.
My favourite genres are paranormal/UF, fantasy, MM Romance and a bit of science fiction here and there. But really I read a bit of everything.

Sammy wrote: "Bribing mods? On it!!





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I Love your form of bribery !

Sonia wrote: "holy crap!!! SAMMY I LOVE YOU!!!!

I'd say the Winchester brothers...

I love Damon dearly, but Stephan never did it for me."

I feel exactly the same way

Sonia wrote: "So, of course the day I need to cross the bridge, Dora Storm decides to hit us.

It's the 25 April Bridge, kinda like the S. Francisco one, but longer,



And we're crossing the bridge around 7 PM,..."

Sounds scary! Good luck Sonia!
Gosh sometimes I wish we could just teleport!

And I am just annoyed as you are with the stupid people. This week they had to dismantle a huge party again, and then another. When will people learn??? We're all punished because of them.

Jenny wrote: "Claire, I call days like that my "walking through pudding" days. Everything is just a little bit harder, and as much as I like to eat pudding (the American custard-like thing), having to try to wad..."

I'd say that's an apt description, lol

Well, only about two hours left in the day. Can't go worse than that right??
I just hope tomorrow will be a good day.

Steven wrote: "Claire, that sounds so frustrating! *hugs*"

*hugs*
I've been frustrated with a lot of things lately, but this afternoon/evening was just too much

Sonia wrote: "That sounds... Interesting"

"interesting" is a word for it. I would use another one, or two, but let's go for interesting.

Sammy to the rescue !!! Thank you. I really really needed this!
I can finally sid down a bit. Because of course, my cat had to pee all over the kitchen floor. Of course...
But now I can just relax and drool over these yummy men, nay yummy gods. When are they officially joining the pantheon? Because damn they'd deserve it!

The brightness didn't last long. I had a shitty day pretty much right after posting this...

I had to go to a hardware store to get some new furniture for our bathroom. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. Had extremely bad trafic on the way there due to a car accident on the highway. I missed my exit on the highway, so I had to go through the narrowest, really badly maintained streets of an overpopulated area of Brussels. And I've only been driving for a little over a year now, so that was a real test there for me. Turns out my GPS sent me the wrong way. Luckily I wasn't too far off, but it confused me and stressed me out enough that I thought I would explode then and there. Of course I arrived there way later than I anticipated. The furniture I wanted was not in stock, so I had to choose something else. I did not have my parents store card, so I had to make a new one. I waited about half an hour in a 3 people queue because of course two of the chittiest customers were right in front of me. And then an a**hole thought it was okay to pass before me. I had to put my foot down. Of course it took approx 10 second to get the card made, so I really felt like queuing was worth it...
I paid for everything without any incident, and the cashier was even nice enough to propose that someone come with me to the parking lot to help me put everything in the car. I waited another half hour there, no sign of the guy... So I decided to just do it myself !!! Argh ! My patience had been tested too many times already.
I arrive at my car and get to work. And... The furniture does not fit in the bloody car.... Jeez... Had to call my parents for help and spent another half hour waiting for them...
The whole thing exhausted me!

Damn, that's something to brighten my day !! Thanks !

Judith wrote: "No, I confirmed the word count on arbookfinder to be over 88,000 words. It can be used for anything fresh or frozen. 8 ingredients (based on the version you linked).

No Children's can be used for ..."

Sorry, I linked the wrong version. Here is the edition I own, Little Women. It has over 500 pages. Does it mean we get to use 12 ingredients?

If I read Little Women, do we lose points, or ingredients rather, because it's considered a childrens book?