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Rusalka :-) I read "The Likeness" years ago and found it quite interesting ~ let me know once you start .. there is a question I have.
Caecilia wrote: "Rusalka :-) I read "The Likeness" years ago and found it quite interesting ~ let me know once you start .. there is a question I have."Have you read In the Woods?
Rusalka ~ no, I haven't. "The Likeness" is French's only book that I have read.
:-) I'm so eager to ask my question, but better to wait until you are right into the book. it's not necessarily spoiling but I would like to know if you also get a similar impression that I got when reading it.
Yeah, you'll need to wait until I've finished the book, if her first in the series is anything to go by. I won't be getting to it for at least two months, if not more. Sorry to leave you hanging.
;-) your reply is so lovely. thank you - no worries, I will patiently wait with my question.
Hah! You're patience is commendable! I'm sure there are others in the group you can sound out in the meantime ;)Once I get back from our trip in mid-April, I will have much more time to read. At the moment I'm floundering behind where I want to be. Soon!!
Janice wrote: "I read The Likeness last year. I'm not sure I remember enough about it, but ask away.":-) Janice ..
thank you.
back then, when I was reading "The Likeness" - I could not help but think of "The Secret History". The setting of the students, all of them close and living together in that cottage. How about you?
Caecilia wrote: ":-) Janice ..thank you.
back then, when I was reading "The Likeness" - I could..."
I haven't read The Secret History so can't compare the two books.
Janice wrote: "Caecilia wrote: ":-) Janice ..thank you.
back then, when I was reading "The Likeness" - I could..."
I haven't read The Secret History so can't compare the two books."
Oh, you sure should ;-) (read "The Secret History") - it's a great book.
@Janice - Let me know what you think of The Hypnotist when you get to it. I've had it on my wishlist for ages. I feel like I have to read it being a hypnotherapist and all but at the same time I think it will rub me up the wrong way and I'll question everything that goes on. But if it's a good thriller, perhaps it will be worth it.
Caecilia wrote: "Oh, you sure should ;-) (read "The Secret History") - it's a great book.."I thought I had it on my wishlist at one point, but I don't see it there now. I keep getting distracted by all the new books out there. It's like - ooh, look at that shiny book over there!
Darn these Audible sales! I have a whole slew of books in my cart again and need to narrow down my options. I will never have enough time to listen to all the books I want to. I think I may need some sort of step program to stop myself from buying Audible sale books. ;)
It wouldn't work, Kristie. :D
I think you're right, Sandra!
Kristie wrote: "Darn these Audible sales! I have a whole slew of books in my cart again and need to narrow down my options. I will never have enough time to listen to all the books I want to. I think I may need so..."I know! Dang. And yet, I whine when Audible doesn't have a sale in a while. I will have to postpone the pain of deciding till tomorrow. My friends dragged me off and plied me with drinks tonight.
Janice wrote: "Caecilia wrote: "Oh, you sure should ;-) (read "The Secret History") - it's a great book.."I thought I had it on my wishlist at one point, but I don't see it there now. I keep getting distracted ..."
haha - I think every avid reader can but well-relate to this feeling ;-) I am constantly buying new books, although my shelves are full!
I had "Ready Player One" in my shelf for months and when I picked it up in Dec 2015, I got really angry at myself for not having read it earlier - lol. there are books that do not get hyped but are absolutely, worth the reading time spent.
Audible sale schmaudible sale. I may need to find my way to the library as my wife has banned my credit cards and taken over all my online accounts. Even my emails get sent to her phone. They get sent to me also of course. I had an intervention. I needed it to be honest. I didn't even get a 12 step program I had to stop cold turkey.
Oh no! Well I guess you probably already have hundreds of books to read and listen to Travis!
This shoukd take care of that pesky backlog of unread books
lol, Travis. I'm sorry, but it's kind of funny. You'll finally have the chance of make a dent in actual pile. :)
Well if you get this the strong American dollar screws evwry dairy farmer in america. No one can afford dairy exports. Milk price is in gutter and probaly 90% of US dairies went in the hole last year and are taking a bigger loss this year. Our pay has dropped 40-45%. I bet you haven't seen the grocery store drop their price that much. Basically have to pinch every penny possible to ride the storm. Funny milk and all your grains have dropped by 40-60% yet that doesn't get passed on to conaumers. There are some middle men with very fat pockets right now I can tell you that. Even wheat has dropped 40% in the last 15 months yet I bet bread and flour and the hundreds of items containing wheat has not changed in the store. Beef has dropped 30% in last 4 months. So next time you buy groceries ask why your bill is so high. It isn't going in my pocket
I've heard that's the case here to for British farmers.
Janice - I also whine when Audible doesn't have a sale for a while and I can't wait. Travis - Cold turkey is a tough way to go! I wouldn't even be able to look at the sale, if that was the case. Though my husband reminds me every time that I don't need any more books. He doesn't have my same issue with book sales.
Sorry to hear about all the faming issues. That's a huge pay drop and you're right, we don't see the drop in price on the shopping end.
Travis of NNY wrote: "Audible sale schmaudible sale. I may need to find my way to the library as my wife has banned my credit cards and taken over all my online accounts. Even my emails get sent to her phone. They get s..."Ouch! I can feel your pain.
Its sad when I can't feel symoathy for myself. With all the books I haven't read, ones I want to reread, overdrive books if I go get a library memvership and my 24 audible credits a year since I will keep my membership I could easily occupy myself for 5 years easily. Its jist the sales. They are like crack for nerds. Lol
lol, Travis! They are! Such an addiction. I certainly don't need more, but they're on sale, so I can't resist.
Kristie wrote: "lol, Travis! They are! Such an addiction. I certainly don't need more, but they're on sale, so I can't resist."I'm also hopelessly unable to resist a sale. Luckily I haven't started with Audible yet, but the Amazon Kindle Countdown deals are murder... I've tried to stop looking at them, sometimes I even succeed in not checking them in a couple of weeks.
Travis of NNY wrote: "Well if you get this the strong American dollar screws evwry dairy farmer in america. No one can afford dairy exports. Milk price is in gutter and probaly 90% of US dairies went in the hole last ye..."Sorry to hear, Travis. I never realized. Where I grew up, dairy was under price control- the dairy board analyzes the cost of commodities, utilities, taxes, etc. and sets a minimum price milk is sold at. So even if companies want to import cheaper milk, they have to sell it at the same price as local producers. So most people buy from local dairies- tastes better, obviously, because it's fresher. (Or the companies that buy product from local dairies.)
Holy moly Bella. A mythical land of common sense. I never knew a place existed. Right now, there are always exceptions of course, on average the most profitable dairies are operating $3 a hundred under cost and up to maybe $7 a hundred undwr cost. There are so msny variables. That is about $.27-$.60 a gallon below cost. So roughly $2.0 to $4.5 per cow per day loss rpughly depending on many variables. Losses could bemore or less. There are large dairies of like 1000 cows that ptobably borrowed 1.5 - $2 million last year to stay in business. A small farm lije myself obviously not anywhere near that big of numbers but its bad out there. I have already found a way to cut costs by some $50,000 for this year but making cuts always has a negative effect. If price rebounds for next year it won't be bad. If price stays low eventually we will have to get out you jist can only go so far backwards to try to move forwards. It's tricky business. Yet you will find most all farmers greet ypu with a smile.. Because we are crazy
With thay negative post I will add that tjere are no doubt dairy farmers making money. Namely older farmers who have no debt. And some guys who really really know what theyre doing. You always have some peoplebthat always pull a profit
Same here in Aus. The two major supermarkets (90% of the market almost) got into a price war over milk trying to sell it the cheapest. The only people who got screwed where the farmers, if you refused to sell for that low, there was no one else to buy. Coles and Woolies made a mint, as people came to get the cheap milk, and then bought all their other groceries while they were there.Sorry you've been so affected by the same sort of thing, Travis.
And don't even start me on the strong US dollar.
Someone needs to explain why the dollar ia strong. Oh yeah it isn't. None of the money is real. Economies are made up basically using monopoly money. Honestly the economy follows agriculture. The US dollar is allegedly strong because milk hit record highs in 2014. Don't worry if milk stays low it will all be crashing soon. Agricylture ia the base of econonies. Its basic economics 101 except they quit teaching it in achool.
Alrhough it ia devastating honestly for US ag prices we need a bad new zealand drought. Not that I wish this. I nevwr actually wish ill on anyone. But everytime new zealabd has a bad drought us ag prices improve. I just wish with so many people starving in the world they wouldn't twll us there is a surplus of food since obviously thwre isn't.
Also if welfare went back to its original form it kept ag orices in check and boosted economies. There never used to be food stamps or ebt cards. Originally a famiky was issued rations of bread milk cheese etc. The government bought the aurplus for welfare. That welfare system was a good one and a far cry from what we have today.
New Zealand affects you guys that much? I didn't think they had enough cows over there. And I didn't realise they had droughts...It's not our lot? We have heaps of cows and lots of droughts.
Well its the new zealand based market. Fonderra? Something like that
Fontanna? Geez I oughtta know they are like the biggest processor in the world
China crashed our corn market then the beef market
Fonterra it looks like. I didn't realise that all those brands were owned by the same company. Man... and tied to Nestle. More to cross off my list.
I think I need to find my cattle prod to herd you guys back onto topic.
Ah yes Fonterra. They basically own the export business. So when they say a New Zealand drought I will assume they mean countries shipping to or through Fonterra. This allows us to get some exports out. Its hard fonterra has alot of power and out bids us all the time. I never thought about it before but i did always wonder how little New Zealand was so powerful. Like wow ot must be all cows. This new reasoning makes more sense to me. We have similar companies. The whole industry problem ia that it is a monopoly. Except on paper they make it look like many small comoanies. US anti trust laws have been trying to take down ours for years but they just have too many lawyerx too good and they can't prove them as a monpoly. There is a pending lawsuit been working for years. They keep offering a payoff in fact last year we thought we were going to rwceive several thousand dollars from it but the farmee group is not taking the fast cash rhis time. This thing is going to be in courts foe years probably with no result. Last lawsuit took the payoff which didn't solve the problem. We really didn't get much money considering how much we lost wjen their market control crashed the market. I'm sure there are similar things going on with Fonterra. Or maybe thwre aren't the anti trust laws over there. This is all so interesting as I've never discussed this with soneone who lives over there before
Travis! LOL! Read message 296.
Ok....getting back on topic. The Audible sale got the best of me today. I didn't even try to narrow down my selections. I got:
Touch & Go
The Lake House
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Finding Audrey
Saint Odd
The Girl You Left Behind
Friction
The Kind Worth Killing
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes
Don't Let Me Go
The last two I already owned on Kindle, so they only cost $1.99 each.
Good job, Kristie. I think you could be a bad influence.
Did hijack thread for well all day. I don't know how I missed your get on topic message actually. Fair enough.
Definitely, Janice! Did you notice how I qualified the last two books? lol
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