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Aesaan wrote: "Agnieszka wrote: "Do you know if the Urdu & Hindi between Fiji & India is more or less the the same with some minor regional differences or..."Sorry, I missed your question... I think Fiji & Indi..."
Thank you Aesaan, it's very interesting.
Thank you all for the congratulations. Mike has been my best friend for 30 years:) We will be camping/rving first then getting married on the 7th in a helicopter flying over Niagara Falls. Then off to a party in NY with his family. It should be pretty cool. We are excited:)
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Congrats Lisa!! That is a wonderful way to travel. I am sure you will have an exciting time!
Very romantic, Lisa! I've never been in a helicopter
Ha, thanks to Vicki, I have a tie again! That's OK I want to read them both. I think I'll put aside my dog book and focus on love :)
Perri wrote: "Ha, thanks to Vicki, I have a tie again! That's OK I want to read them both. I think I'll put aside my dog book and focus on love :)"You are not the only one :-)
Vicki,I can't decide yet. The two I like most are: The Lucky Ones & Always.
Aesaan, Ann, Kirsten & Sue,I'm not sure if you missed my list or just didn't find anything you like on it. I would appreciate your votes, but don't feel forced to do so. Perhaps you can even help with the tie and if not I'll try to read both books.
Sorry, Agnieszka .... I haven't been on recently. I'll get right on it.
Lisa said, "We will be camping/rving first then getting married on the 7th in a helicopter flying over Niagara Falls.Congratulations, what a great way to get married :)
hi Agnieszka, I just voted - those cyborg crime novels look really interesting...I hope one gets picked so I can read your review(Sorry - I don't think I helped with your tie)
Ann wrote: "Lisa said, "We will be camping/rving first then getting married on the 7th in a helicopter flying over Niagara Falls.Congratulations, what a great way to get married :)"
I was very impressed with Niagara Falls. We traveled up in the glass enclosed elevator....although my sister-in-law turned her back to the view. She suffered from a case of vertigo.
I have jumped the gun and just finished Silent Scream. Anyway, it was way ahead in the voting so hope no one minds.
It was a quick read, which for me, is not always a good sign with a book. However - it was a really good one - just like you all said.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Kirsten *Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again!" wrote: "Sorry, Agnieszka .... I haven't been on recently. I'll get right on it."No worries - I know summer time is for some people off-line-time and we are only half way through the month so far :-)
Ann wrote: "hi Agnieszka, I just voted - those cyborg crime novels look really interesting...I hope one gets picked so I can read your review
(Sorry - I don't think I helped with your tie)"
I love technology and cyber-thrillers so much and have quite a bunch of those - another one I'm looking forward to read is: The God's Eye View and hope I can concentrate better the next few weeks and read a little more again and hopefully come to this soon.
No worries about the tie - I want to read all of the books from my list as soon as I can so I'll just decide on my mood between these two or start both at the same time.
I just got another one for free :-)
=> https://www.amazon.com/Janelle-Harris...I'm glad you liked Silent Scream - there are another four or five in the series you can enjoy ;-)
Thanks Aesaan, you broke the tie and it looks like I'll start with
- my personal favorite :-)
I'm sorry I didn't vote earlier, I wasn't active, and I got a bit sick, got cold... And you're welcome Agnieszka, I wasn't actually looking to break the tie however, Cold Hearted caught my attention :-)
For me it's obviously, Mystic River. I have not watched the movie yet... and I have not even read the synopsis... hoping to be thrilled ☺
I'm not sure, but Sue seems to have placed her choices in June thread. I just vote here.My vote for Sue is:
The Strangers by Harlan Coben
I went rollerblading at the weekend and fractured my wrist :( :(Ended up in the operating theatre and they put in a metal plate, then I stayed overnight at hospital so I could have morphine :(
The pain was terrible and I've been feeling v. sorry for myself :(
I'm home now and can't swim, can't drive, can hardly get dressed etc...
My spirits are coming back today and I'm thinking what I can do -
lots of reading (!)
and lots of writing (!) - I'm halfway through writing my second crime/suspense/thriller and, who knows, with weeks of inactivity ahead of me, I might finish it over the summer
Oh dear, Ann, a metal plate for a fracture sounds intense! Is it your dominant hand? Good for you for seeing a bright side
Intense is a good word for it, Perri. It was a bad one, though I have nothing but praise for the ambulance crew and the operating theatre team - they were all so nice.
Oh No Ann!Take care and let it heal properly.
I hope you feel better soon. (And read LOTS of good books to take your mind off it)
Oh no Ann! I had a bad rollerblading accident a few years ago and haven't been since. But mine wasn't that bad! Feel better. Not being able to do those things really makes you realize how much we take it for granted. I love swimmingGood luck with the writing, I'd like to check out your first one. I always see it in the Giveaways :)
Oh God, Ann, I wish you get well soon, and good luck for your writing on the bright side. You seem very strong spirited.I had a bus accident last year where I broke by tooth and damaged few... I get a terrible feeling everytime I have to travel by bus, and I do tht daily...
Ann that is terrible. I wish you a speedy recovery. Nothing like being down and in pain.
Ann, hope you'll get soon better and I hope the pain will stay bearable to have at least some fun.I hope your weather in France isn't that hot as in Germany (today 35°C tomorrow planned 37°C) or you have a possibility to stay somewhre cool. I know how it is if you have to deal with such heat shortly after an surgery - not very fun.
Ann ,I second the sentiments from Agnieszka. Hopefully you are not experiencing the heat wave we are having here in Southern California. Thank goodness I live fairly close the coast since some of the inland communities are seeing 120 degree temperature. Our high here has been around 85. I don't know how to convert that into celsius.
It's been in the mid-90s here in eastern Washington State.
Kirsten *Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again!" wrote: "It's been in the mid-90s here in eastern Washington State."What part of Eastern Washington? My sister used to live in Moscow Idaho. That wheat country in Washington is beautiful.
I live in Kennewick (one of the Tri-Cities) at the confluence of the Columbia, Snake, & Yakima Rivers. The Palouse is gorgeous but very lonely.
I grew up in Portland but spent many days with my family digging clams and oysters in Washington. My aunt lived in Gig Harbor.
So different from where I live, Patricia! All the roofs have moss growing on them and the slugs are so big they have to be licensed.
Kirsten, that is funny. We are infected with bed bugs. All of the hardware stores in the area are getting wealthy off the foggers and sprays. I have never experienced anything like this. We were told that anyone who has stayed in a hotel or motel carries them in their clothes and are nice enough to leave them on the furniture of those they visit. Geez!
Oooh, I remember a couple of years ago there was an infestation of bed bugs in the Midwest. Didn't know they were this far west... nasty!We usually get an infestation of something every year. One year it was army worms, we had to wear shoes in the basement all summer. Nothing's worse than walking barefoot on army worms - gross!
We have been washing everything we don't use daily and packing them into plastic bags until we fog. This has been a nightmare. We have friends who have a baby and are not enthused about fogging. They find the little buggers climbing their walls. Until this year, I couldn't have identified a bed bug. I've not seen one before.
hi Vicki, Dana, Aesaan, Lisa, Agnieszka and Patricia - thanks so much for your good wishes - this is such a nice group to be part of, I really appreciate it
Dana said "I had a bad rollerblading accident a few years ago and haven't been since."Hey Dana - when I was in the ambulance I decided I'd never go rollerblading again but I enjoy it so much I think I've changed my mind - I'll let you know in a few months time...
As for the heat wave, it's mid 30s celcius here in the south of France - pretty standard for the summer. If it gets over 40 then that's bad news but we haven't had that yet.Agnieszka - we have a sea breeze from the Mediterranean most afternoons, so I guess that makes it more bearable.
Patricia said "...some of the inland communities are seeing 120 degree temperature. Our high here has been around 85."according to google -
120Farenheit = 48celcius (wow that's HOT)
85Farenheit =29 celcius
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Ann wrote: "I went rollerblading at the weekend and fractured my wrist :( :(Ended up in the operating theatre and they put in a metal plate, then I stayed overnight at hospital so I could have morphine :(
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Much sympathy Ann. I didn't try rollerblading until I was turned sixty; didn't fall though. I know pain is about the worst element to attempt to describe but to relate your unfortunate state with a book I am reading, Power Down by Ben Coes; given five stars, worthily, by Sean, the only thing I found unbelievable about it is that he seems to have no experience of pain. He has people with all broken fingers, one with both arms broken and still fighting and another with shot knees and still talking back; I think the body cuts in before then and one loses consciousness. I once got my finger stuck in a sash-window and hung there with it broken and had to fight not to faint. I managed to get my other hand up and fee myself and fell three feet. I then went to work. That's about as good as it gets I think, even in thrillers. Good luck with your rehab
hello P.K, thank you for your sympathies. Gosh - your sash window experience sounds dreadful and you're right that extreme pain can close down the mind and body very effectively.
Amazing you went to work afterwards.
In fact, I don't really remember how I got back to my car, nor how I managed to get my phone out the boot. It was 8am on Sunday morning and I was at a lovely cycle path in the woods that's busy later in the day but isolated early on - so no one was yet around to help.
(I've been doing it for 3 years and I've fallen before but never like that.)
Still, that's life....
P.K. wrote: "Much sympathy Ann. I didn't try rollerblading until I was turned sixty; didn't fall though. I know pain is about the worst element to attempt to describe but to relate your unfortunate state with a..."I love to read Cussler's Dirk Pitt series, and I always wondered about that man's medical bills.
Kirsten said, "..and I always wondered about that man's medical bills."I don't know that series - haha - I guess he gets multiple limbs broken?
Vicki,I placed my vote for Always - it looked so lonely and abandoned ;-) and a vote for The Lucky Ones would create a tie :-)
Ann wrote: "Kirsten said, "..and I always wondered about that man's medical bills."I don't know that series - haha - I guess he gets multiple limbs broken?"
Not just broken limbs - broken ribs, gunshot wounds, etc.
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Sorry, I missed your question... I think Fiji & India's Hindi & Urdu are similar enough for us to be able to understand each other. They seem to be using more pure (difficult and polite) words whereas here it's made quite simple with native and English mixtures (one funny example, "cane top" is usually called "kan-ta'p" here. I think the British people tried to teach these people some English words which they got quite wrong, LOL. Also, lots of mixtures since, people from different casts and groups from India were brought to Fiji, and in India, each state has very much there own language i.e. Tamil, Hindi, Telugu etc...
The name for the natives and its language (iTaukei) was changed recently from 'Fijian' since Fijian is our nationality. I also like the sound of it :)