Lisa - (Aussie Girl)’s Comments (group member since Jan 23, 2016)

Lisa - (Aussie Girl)’s comments from the The Perks Of Being A Book Addict group.

Did you say TT ..... but ready to enjoy UNO first, LOL...

Sally906 wrote: "Can we bank books read after Feb 1st so if they don't fit this first hand they can be used for future hands?

If you haven't thought about zombies in the back garden you obviously haven't watched W..."

Haha. I watch that one too. But I hide under the pillows when the zombies are around - I love watching the machinations and the twists and turns in the human population. Daryl.. sigh!

That's good about the chunksters. I've had this one to start from before Christmas.. and it starts with a V...

Breakfast - Its's Australia Day - so a lazy one for me. Husband away working - so had toast and tea and went back to bed.

Totally - emotional!

The Bronte Sisters - it has always amazed me how these sheltered women wrote so passionately.

I cry at everything - movies, books, the news... The biggest sobfest I've had in the last couple of years was funnily enough in a YA book - Cassandra Clare's . The epilogue just wrecked me. And the end of the movie, The Notebook! Wahhhhhh.

Has anyone read ? They highly praised it last year on ABC's The Book Club and I think it will be a Buddy Read in one of my groups next month. It's written by a first time Australian author, I believe.

Kathleen, I've heard that the beaches in the Philippines are really beautiful. My sister who lives in Singapore at the moment has visited quite a few times.

by Evangeline Anderson

Both Shelved as Erotica.

Lisa's Total: 6
Group Total; 78

byKaren M Moning.

Connection: Both female authors.
Lisa's Total: 7
Group Total: 79

Karen, I think the fact we came off a cruise ship with a group Visa was part of the problem. It was so regulated that that you couldn't leave the guide's sight to wander off for even a minute. I don't mind tours but I do like the space and freedom to look at what you want. A lot of the places they took us were for tourists, eg approved souvenir shops and restaurants where the staff seemed openly hostile to the western travellers. So I don't think I got an accurate representation of the city really.

Here goes-

No pets, as we travel a lot between our farm and Sydney so not practical.

Weekends - Saturday morning coffee with husband and daughter is a ritual. Then play it by ear..

Favourite place - That's a hard one. I've been fortunate enough to travel a lot the past ten years... Being up the top of the Eiffel Tower at midnight as it sparkled was a highlight, as was swimming in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland, flying in a helicopter over the Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii was terrifying.. in a good way.

Interesting Karen said St Petersburg. Loved the architecture... but I really didn't like the vibe of the city. One of the few places I've felt uncomfortable when travelling.

Want to go... Cheesy I know, but the Bran Castle in Romania! and the Bronte Parsonage in England has been on my travel bucket list for ages. I may get there this year.

Best Friend... I've had the same one since I was 12.. and we're 54 now. Done all the big things in life together, bridesmaids, godmother's to each other's children and now on the 0 and 5 big birthdays we go on a trip together. This year we're hoping to do Northern England/ Scotland. Previously we're done Thailand, Noosa and New York City!

Doing now.. eating lunch and playing on Goodreads.

Pleased to "meet" you, Nikk. I'm also from Sydney and by coincidence live a couple of suburbs away from Karen! What a small world.

I've just become a grandma for the third time which is exciting. I also read anything and everything especially in the romance genre but I also love historical fiction/non fiction and travel books, especially when I am going on holiday, half the fun is doing the research. We counted up over 50 Lonely Planet Books on our bookshelves over the holidays.

Where are we all from? Half Aussie and half USA?

Sally906 wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Hi everyone, I'm checking in.

Here's my shelf with the very imaginative name of Uno -2017 -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list....

i'm excited ..."

We sure are! Remember this time last year you were getting ready to do your river cruise.. now I'm getting ready for mine - 8 April! We're so looking forward to it.

Here's the first book I intend on reading -

Identity: Unknown by Suzanne Brockmann

Character: Zoe Robinson 0
Character: Luke "Lucky " O'Donlon 1
Title: I 5
Author: S 6
No 8 in a series. 8
Setting: New Mexico 9
Character: K Becca Keyes skip

I'll let the Capt/Co-Capts put it where it fits best.

Hi everyone, I'm checking in.

Here's my shelf with the very imaginative name of Uno -2017 -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list....

i'm excited to be playing again.. with some lovely familiar friends and some new people to get to know (waves...)

by Sandra Brown

Lisa's Total: 5
Connection: Female authors.
Perk's Total: 58

by Dan Brown

Connection: Both first published in the first decade of this century. - 2006 and 2009.

Lisa's Total: 4
Perk's Total: 54

Finished another one for Bingo 3.

Lost - by Dan Brown.

Good one Karen.

There's only a few in Bingo 3 to finish now. Maybe before Uno 2017 begins? Let's see how we go.

We only need a red cover to complete Bingo 5.

by Lorraine Heath

Connection: Both covers main colour is shades of blue

Lisa's Total: 3
Perk's Total: 22

by Suzanne Brockmann

Connection: Both military men on the cover.

Lisa's Total: 1
Perk's Total 20

by Thea Harrison

Connection: female authors

Lisa's Total: 2
Perk's Total: 21

We'll miss you...big congratulations and best of luck for your manuscript project. Well done!