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[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Dani wrote: "And happy belated birthdays to Mayim and Sha!

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wow.............................................

[Beste]

Happy birthday @Mayim!
Happy birthday @Sha!!
I just checked your horoscope and it says eventhough you have a rebelious spirit you also seek comfort in life. So I wish you a chill year for your new age.

[Zaara]

Angela wrote: "I passed my first essay on my course with an A. Given it's the first essay I've written in 18 years I'm very pleased!"

Go Ange!

[Miche]

Happy belated birthday, Mayim and Sha!

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Me today: thinking about Robin Hobb. Wishing I had nice, uniform copies (like the ones Petrik has) for my shelves to represent. Have hunted for hardcovers before but didn't want to risk spending $40+ for unguaranteed conditions. Happened to be on book depository... :D :D :D UK Editions available for ALL THE THINGS!!! Ordered them all. Worth it. ^_^

Who wants to tell my husband I bought more books? Anyone? Bueller?

[Lena]

Sell/donate a few and it will be like nothing ever happened.

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Haha I like the way you think. ;)

[Chris]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Me today: thinking about Robin Hobb. Wishing I had nice, uniform copies (like the ones Petrik has) for my shelves to represent. Have hunted for hardcovers before but didn't want to risk spending $4..."

Just tell him, "It's not hoarding if it's books, it's building a personal library!"

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Exactly!

[[deleted user]]

Hello! I'm just trying to get the minimum comments to start the challenge.

[Margret, Caladan Brood Face]

I’ll tell him, but only if you tell my hubby about all the fabric I ordered

[Margret, Caladan Brood Face]

@slytherpuff. Well at least join the conversation 😳

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Trading Spouses -- FBR Edition

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Margret, deal. :)

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Margret wrote: "@slytherpuff. Well at least join the conversation 😳"

Agreed!
Get to know the group, check out some buddy reads etc. don't just comment all over the place for number purposes.

[Sarah]

Chris wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "Me today: thinking about Robin Hobb. Wishing I had nice, uniform copies (like the ones Petrik has) for my shelves to represent. Have hunted for hardcovers before but didn't want..."

Good one, Chris!

I have a shirt that says "It's Not Hoarding If It's Books"
Maybe you need to get one, Niki!

[[deleted user]]

What are we discussing? I have no idea.

[Virginie]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Me today: thinking about Robin Hobb. Wishing I had nice, uniform copies (like the ones Petrik has) for my shelves to represent. Have hunted for hardcovers before but didn't want to risk spending $4..."

Garh, Petrik's pic of his Realm of the Elderlings collection got me into buying the books as well (UK editions).
That guy is evil. Not only does he make my TBR grow at an alarming rate but now, I'm buying books I already own (in ebooks)...

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Virginie wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "Me today: thinking about Robin Hobb. Wishing I had nice, uniform copies (like the ones Petrik has) for my shelves to represent. Have hunted for hardcovers before but didn't want..."

I've gotten in the habit of buying physical books for any ebook I read and would love to reread. If I leave it on my kindle I'll forget it exists.

[Narilka]

Yanique wrote: "I've gotten in the habit of buying physical books for any ebook I read and would love to reread. If I leave it on my kindle I'll forget it exists."

I do this too :)

[[deleted user]]

I personally only read physical books.

[Mayim]

Hello all my favourite people on Goodreads in the very best group that exists here and thank you so much for beautiful wishes. Apologies for not replying earlier but I am absolutely flattened by life this spring and have no time for pastimes. This, sadly, includes favourite hobbies like Goodreads (and leisure reading in general).

[Beste]

I love my books in my hand. (But man! Way of Kings was heavy..)

[Beste]

Since we said physical books, Fahrenheit 451 is coming out next month.

[Anni]

Virginie wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "Me today: thinking about Robin Hobb. Wishing I had nice, uniform copies (like the ones Petrik has) for my shelves to represent. Have hunted for hardcovers before but didn't want..."

But these books are so terribly beautiful :) I'm working on my 'UK-Collection' as well. I got City of Dragons and Blood of Dragons as a present yesterday and now I 'only' have to buy the first 3 trilogies as UK copies. I only own the german translations so far... Speaking of them... The german cover for Fool's Errand is so damn stupid!

You might know the Cover:

It's honestly not my favourite, but as I finally read the book, the cover make sense.

Yeah, and now look at this:

What's that? The cover made no sense at all! There is no scene the picture matches and also no such characters... Why did the publisher did this? The covers of the whole series made no sense at all (Book 3 is splitted in two books)...



While reading I had a really hart time, trying to find out who's who at the cover... I guess these are stolen from other books as well 😂

[[deleted user]]

There are a lot of stolen covers. In one of my other challenge groups we had to find matching covers

[Anni]

I know that covers are used for more than one book quite regulary and if the cover suits the story it's fine. But I guess the scene pictured there is quite specific and I'm wondering why they haven't used a picture that would suit the book a little better 😅

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Slytherpuff wrote: "There are a lot of stolen covers. In one of my other challenge groups we had to find matching covers"

They're not STOLEN, per se... they just both make use of the same stock photos available for purchase... some duplicates are more obvious than others... depends if they just slapped some text on the image, or added other things to the image or zoomed in to cut something out...

[Shaitarn]

And I thought the ubiquitous 'man in black with keys/dagger/whatever held behind his back' covers were bad!

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I went outside today during the sun times... :)

Was at an intersection and somebody in the car nearby was listening to rap music...

Apparently the rapper was saying "Count em' up, Count em' up, Count em' up" over and over... for 10 seconds tho, I thought he was saying "CANADA, CANADA, CANADA!!!"

:D

[Ahdam]

So today was such a great day as me and the family went out for a walk in the Yorkshire dales and we went to Malham Cove (that place that was in Harry Potter and the deathly hallows) and thought I would share some of my favourite pictures here since I took a while off to focus on my deadlines

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Hmm today seems very down for a sunny day talking about politics and then someone getting spoiled so I hope this can help people if it works also *cough* https://www.instagram.com/ahdamrana_p... *cough*

That was weird

[Andrew]

Looks like you had a fantastic day, Ahdam. Glad you enjoyed yourself with family. And such beautiful country, too!

[Ahdam]

Cheers Andrew its always nice to go out when the sun comes up and it's great because I've been trying to get used to my camera again I even made a small video to go trough it

Unfortunately I can't show you guys the video but I'm sure you can imagine it from the pictures above

[Ahdam]

Okay so yesterday I decided to make a video of my time there (I know I go on about it but here me out)

And I’ve decided to show you guys it because I need to get it off my chest

The cameras a bit shaky but I’m still rusty with holding a camera so yeah also I’m gonna delete this post in a few hours so it’s pretty exclusive so WATCH IT WHEN YOU CAN.........please?

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CDS...

[[deleted user]]

@ahdan I love the pictures

[idiffer]

@Ahdam
I liked the music, color goats and the reverse water you did.
PS. why u delete video? I'm glad I made it before that.

[Ahdam]

Cheers guys I'm surprised you noticed the reverse water idiffer because I was moving a lot so it would probably be difficult to see

Also those aren't goats there sheeps/lambs so there's that and to answer your question maybe I just want it to be shown to a few people to see what they think I plan to use this as a stepping stone for my portfolio anyway so who knows what is gonna happen with this

[Sedat]

Ahdam wrote: "Okay so yesterday I decided to make a video of my time there (I know I go on about it but here me out)

And I’ve decided to show you guys it because I need to get it off my chest

The cameras a b..."

It's a good video, and I agree that you shouldn't delete it.

What are you using as camera, the shakiness was slightly annoying yeah :)

[Ahdam]

I used a Panasonic Lumix camera (I showed a picture of it here somewhere)

That may be due to a few factors

-rushing through the place with the family
-not taking my time with shooting
-haven't used the camera in quite a while

Also there's the fact I literally thought of making the video when I was there so the more I use it the better I'll be

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

I saw it before deletion - nice video. :) seeing you actively updating and working on your passions everyday really inspires me to get going on some of mine.

[Ahdam]

Thank you Niki I think I finally know what I want to do or what I want to get into and I’m hoping this summer I can improve on this making more videos I’m trying to get my blog going when I have time and I’m still trying to figure out my next blogpost if I want to do a ready player one rant or talk about a film that amazed me and take the time to write it so I’m wrestling with a lot including reading books which I’m falling behind with first world problems am i right

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Lol that exactly how I feel - so many things I want to work on that it's almost overwhelming.

[Ahdam]

Honestly I can list all the things I want/need to get done but I'll probably look like an idiot doing so

[idiffer]

@Niki
What are your passions? Curious.

[Yanique, Thread Master]

So I ordered a bunch of books from bookoutlet that I think you guys may be interested in checking out (if you don't already have them):







I LOVE cheap books!

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Yanique wrote: "So I ordered a bunch of books from bookoutlet that I think you guys may be interested in checking out (if you don't already have them):

[bookcover:Death's End|2..."

WOOT!! Me too. :)

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Yanique wrote: "So I ordered a bunch of books from bookoutlet that I think you guys may be interested in checking out (if you don't already have them):

[bookcov..."

Great selection right now.

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

idiffer wrote: "@Niki
What are your passions? Curious."

I missed this comment - sorry! It seems like I'm pulled every which way with "likes" but only a few passion (aside from books - the obvious). I love organizing.. anything from sock drawers to putting together a budget. It has recently manifested itself into a bullet journaling passion. I pour at least a couple of hours into it every day. Another is just a general "being creative" which usually means either cross stitching (it's a really organized pastime lol), colored pencil works, and writing. Writing about books and writing books, both of which I don't spend nearly enough time doing. I'm hoping to change that asap. I'm also trying to work up the nerve to start a booktube channel because I think it has the potential to join the list.
What about yours?

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Yanique wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "Yanique wrote: "So I ordered a bunch of books from bookoutlet that I think you guys may be interested in checking out (if you don't already have them):

[bookcover:The Dark Fore..."

I really should stay away. On cyber Monday I bought like 40 books because they were good ones all at a killer price. Most of them came in really decent qualities too, which surprised me.

[Ahdam]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "idiffer wrote: "@Niki
What are your passions? Curious."

I missed this comment - sorry! It seems like I'm pulled every which way with "likes" but only a few passion (aside from books - the obvious)..."

Wow that are some cool passions and I shared some of those passions i.e. writing, YouTube channels and I hope to continue them after I finish my placement at a production company