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Oct 14, 2012 06:30AM
Still on the Beatrix Potter biography. Thorough!☻
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Yummy talk of scones, cakes, slices, cookies, you name it!Pragya, sorry about your late start. It will be fine... no worries!
Good morning! The slow poke has waken and is catching up on reading everyone's posts.I will start with Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs,
.But first, I have to go move my office into my apartment, so I will get a later start than everyone else.
Thanks Judy! You can cheer us on and mediate the fights. :)BTW, I love love jaxnsmom's new avator for the toppler.
I wonder how well received it would be if I sat, Toppler book in hand and just pointed - this goes here, that goes there. Careful not to drop anything!
I have had a little snooze and have read a good bit during the night, so I am going to the kitchen to see what goodies I can rustle up since all this talk of food is killing me! Oh, yes! I had my husband's day planned...golf for him/ reading for me; however, terrible storms are moving into our area, so I just heard him on the phone cancelling his golf game. He will be roaming around the house like a wounded tiger before the day is over! : )
Ah, all the food talk here is making me hungry, will go grab my dinner and be back.
Switched to Sunset in Kasauli tea. Yummy. Enjoying
and learning lots about Liberia.
Almeta wrote: "Still on the Beatrix Potter biography. Thorough!☻"I have read that one. Lots in depth talk about sheep and other livestock. : )
I'm going to start with Dracula. (As if working retail isn't scary enough!) Hopefully I can finish it before going to sleep tonight, got Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India sitting out just in case.
I think I gained a few pounds just reading about those raspberry and peppermint slices...those sound absolutely delicious!
Good morning everyone. It's 11:15am here in rainy Michigan and Almeta and I stayed up most of the night except for maybe 4 hours sleep. We are still plugging along!
Good morning 8:30 here in Banning, Ca.Just finished
The Casual Vacancy
Starting
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Does The Casual Vacancyqualify OR does the book have to be read entirely during the timeline?
Rusalka wrote: "Oh look at everyone go! I was planning on getting some reading done and some life stuff done, but then the other half invited people to over to play board games at exactly the Toppler start time, a..."But what exactly are digestives? Or is that just a British thing? Chocolate digestives make me think cookies, but I'm just not sure. They were served with tea.
Digestives are a plain biscuit, made with wheatmeal flour. they are more textured than Rich Tea biscuits, which might be described as a sweet version of a water biscuit. (I'm guessing that's made no sense whatsoever).
You can also get chocolate coated digestives, which are, obviously, even better. I think of cookies as being thicker, softer, cakier biscuits. you can dunk a biscuit, but not dunk a cookie.
IMO an Oreo is an abomination, not a biscuit.
In the UK there is a tax implication to being a cake or a biscuit - biscuits were 0 tax rated (as an essential) whereas cake (as a luxury) was at full rate VAT. hence the court case over a jaffa cake being a biscuit, not a cake, despite its name.
the only true definition is what happens when they go stale. biscuits go soggy, whereas cake goes hard/dry. I've never had biscuits or cake around long enough to check the definitions are correct.
You can also get chocolate coated digestives, which are, obviously, even better. I think of cookies as being thicker, softer, cakier biscuits. you can dunk a biscuit, but not dunk a cookie.
IMO an Oreo is an abomination, not a biscuit.
In the UK there is a tax implication to being a cake or a biscuit - biscuits were 0 tax rated (as an essential) whereas cake (as a luxury) was at full rate VAT. hence the court case over a jaffa cake being a biscuit, not a cake, despite its name.
the only true definition is what happens when they go stale. biscuits go soggy, whereas cake goes hard/dry. I've never had biscuits or cake around long enough to check the definitions are correct.
That's what Almeta and I had a midnight: tea and digestives! Taste like cookies to me!
Switched to
on audio while playing with Katie (age 4). Not ideal but what I have. Making bead necklaces at present. No biscuits and cake, but consuming much tea.
I'm ready to begin reading for the day.
Shirley wrote: "Good morning 8:30 here in Banning, Ca.Just finished
The Casual Vacancy
What did you think of The Casual Vacancy?
I'm a quarter through The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, now time for Chili for dinner and then start packing! Hopefully I'll get a little more reading done in bed!
Pragya wrote: "Shirley wrote: "Good morning 8:30 here in Banning, Ca.Just finished
The Casual Vacancy
What did you think of The Casual Vacancy?"
It was very good IMO characters were well developed and adult but could have been any town any where.
Oh good. I'm planning to read it for the toppler too.
Oh, Beverly, I'm so sorry I missed your post on individual reporting threads. Thank goodness Judy caught it!Shirley - to qualify for the Toppler, a book must be started and finished during the Toppler. So if you started The Casual Vacancy before midnight last night it won't count. I've been hearing so much about this book, what did you think of it?
jaxnsmom wrote: "Oh, Beverly, I'm so sorry I missed your post on individual reporting threads. Thank goodness Judy caught it!Shirley - to qualify for the Toppler, a book must be started and finished during the ..."
Thanks I didn't think it would so no problem. No way was I not finishing it when it was down to 2 + hours left.
what's the rule on page numbers?
If the book I've read has 276 numbered pages of story and then 12 pages of forward, acknowledgements etc and is listed on GR as having 288 pages, which do I put down?
If the book I've read has 276 numbered pages of story and then 12 pages of forward, acknowledgements etc and is listed on GR as having 288 pages, which do I put down?
Robin's not participating this time? I am missing her, what with all the classics around.
LOL Amber, the stack looks good. I will be reading two of those too. And you do make sense inspite of the coffee. ;)What is that 10+ days overdue book?
Amber, he he. Caffeine is good.I am seriously thinking of begging my hubby to watch Katie this afternoon and let me go to a laundromat to do laundry this afternoon. Dryer is on fritz and I could use the time sitting there to read unmolested.....
Helen wrote: "what's the rule on page numbers? If the book I've read has 276 numbered pages of story and then 12 pages of forward, acknowledgements etc and is listed on GR as having 288 pages, which do I put down?"
It's my understanding that we report the actual number of pages read. So add the 12 pages.
Good afternoon,I'm coming late to the party but I just got back from the library to pick up some books.
I got:
and
.I need the Treat points so I can read another orange book. I have to say figuring this one out was difficult for me. I think my head exploded a couple of time but I'm good now. Good thing I'm taking off Tuesday to wait for the oil burner guy to come clean the furnace so I'll just sit and read. What a hardship, right?
Think I'll start with a little H.G. Wells.
Good reading everyone.
Roz, jealous of your off day. :pYay for Dracula, I will be reading it too.
Happy reading.
My daughter has been home from college for Fall Break since Thursday. She left not long ago, so I haven't done any OcToppler reading yet.My hubby and I will be in the North Carolina mountains (Asheville) tomorrow through Friday, for our 31st anniversary. I will be reading some in the car, and some in our hotel room, but may not be online much.
I will definitely be back online for discussions and posting of pages read, etc, on Friday evening and Saturday.
Gotta say, it's a near perfect day. Reading a good book, eating crackers, cheese and grapes (provided by hubby), and watching football on tv. I have to keep track of my standing in the office football pool. I may have to start a load of laundry to justify my status as domestic goddess.
It's 5 hours later and my house is quiet! We emptied my office in record time. I think we were there for 1 hour. Then, we hauled all my office stuff into my apartment (in the rain). It took a little longer to haul it in, dry it off, and set it up. I ordered pizza in to thank my kids for helping. And now they've gone.It's time to crack open my first book.
Happy Anniversary Jane! Enjoy your trip.
Jane in SC wrote: "My daughter has been home from college for Fall Break since Thursday. She left not long ago, so I haven't done any OcToppler reading yet.My hubby and I will be in the North Carolina mountains (A..."
Happy Anniversary!!!! 31 Years is no easy task! Marriage is WORK! Enjoy!
Roz wrote: "Gotta say, it's a near perfect day. Reading a good book, eating crackers, cheese and grapes (provided by hubby), and watching football on tv. I have to keep track of my standing in the office footb..."I was also thinking about laundry. Then, I thought, "Naw". :)
Janice wrote: "It's 5 hours later and my house is quiet! We emptied my office in record time. I think we were there for 1 hour. Then, we hauled all my office stuff into my apartment (in the rain). It took a l..."You deserve it!!!! Moving is SUCH STRESS!!
April wrote: "Jane in SC wrote: "My daughter has been home from college for Fall Break since Thursday. She left not long ago, so I haven't done any OcToppler reading yet.My hubby and I will be in the North Ca..."
Thanks!!
Judy, I had to laugh at your comment about having a nap because I was just thinking that! I'll read for a bit, if I can ever get caught up on here, and then I'll go for a nap.
April wrote: I was also thinking about laundry. Then, I thought, "Naw". :)Unfortunately, I must do more than think about it. My 1st load is in the dryer, 2nd load in the washer, and loads 3, 4, and 5 are on deck.
ugh
Happy Anniversary Jane. Have a good time.
Judy wrote: "Do you like audiobooks Jane? They work good for laundry days."I am a "dinosaur" without an MP3 player, so I'm not sure how well that would work.
Now that I am almost done with the review book I was reading (50 pages left), I think I will start with my first toppler book before going to bed (it's 1am and tomorrow's a work day, so wouldn't be able to read as much as I would like). Now which one to start with?Ah...First Grave on the Right, here I come.
Wow, you all are some seriously dedicated readers!I started with
and am now moving on to
.
Helen wrote: "I've never had biscuits or cake around long enough to check the definitions are correct..."This makes me laugh!
Recently I had someone try to tell me what to do with left over potato chips.... What are those?☻
Seriously, left over potato chips? I know what can be done with those. Send them over to me. Simple. :)
Judy wrote: "I download books to my computer (the library offers free downloads) or listen on my cd player. I haven't made to MP3 land yet either. :-)"I got an audiobook novella from the library, for the beach-read challenge this summer. I listened to it on my car cd player, as I was driving to and from work. When I got home, though, I didn't know how to take it inside to play it on another cd player without starting over.
My computer is desktop, and my cd players are not portable, so I think I will have the same problem if I start an audiobook in one room and want to re-locate.
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