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Oct 19, 2014 08:46AM
Thanks ☺That'll save a bit if time
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Good advice...I thought it might be blocked in Ireland but is available in NI. If I can easily do this on Chrome with the plug-in, I will. I am slightly technologically adventurous.
OK. I installed Zenmate and added Browsec to it. Opening Chrome with Browsec I tried to access. Browsec only gives 4 countries as choices for accessing the internet: US, Germany, Netherlands, and Singapore. Those choices couldn't get me the BBC content. Also a box kept popping up asking for authentication...Then I got a message saying there was a conflict with Browsec so removed it, Still doesn't work.
Damn. I 'll try set it up tomorrow and see if it works for me
Glad I'm not the only one with typing issues today ☺
Seeing if Paul has success...though it's Sunday I'm working here at home and probably should get back to that and go out for a walk on this cold but sunny day.
Worked fine for me just downloading the main version but no option to make it show as Ireland(it allows 5 other locations ) so probably useless for RTE player
Paul wrote: "Worked fine for me just downloading the main version but no option to make it show as Ireland(it allows 5 other locations ) so probably useless for RTE player"thanks paul.
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(1) You may have noticed that I changed the title of this thread to "Recently bought (acquired) books" to better encompass all the various ways in which books come into our lives :o).
(2) I took back four library books that I wasn't going to get to any time soon due to my work schedule. Sadly these included QIR At Swim, Two Boys. I will read it eventually....I promise! While there I took home Spellwright and Spin, the November selections for my fantasy and science fiction book groups respectively.
The library has Tana French's Broken Harbor and Ian McEwan's Enduring Love ready for me to pick up. Woo, woo! You've heard of Enduring Love? It isn't like the title suggests. Book reviews say it's eerie and fit for Alfred Hitchcok. It's won a long list of awards. - Cate
My copy of David Parks' Swallowing The Sunarrived all the way from the UK. I am waiting for Cross-Talk, poetry by Siobhan Campbell, Long Time, No See by Dermot Healy and A Year In The Province. I've picked up several Kindle books - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust and All the Light We Cannot See. On Audible I picked up Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor and Strange Highways by Dean Koontz.Thanks to a GR friend, I discovered Book Gorilla that sends out daily deals:
http://www.bookgorilla.com/deals
Barbara, I had to smile at the first review of the Park book on Goodreads, which fits in with your book group's opinion of Irish novels - 'depressing'! I have it and the Healy novel on my shelves unread. I loved the Christopher Marsh novel, which is very clever, but the blurb given on GR doesn't seem to be accurate. I think that you'll appreciate it when it arrives!Today, based on the 5 star rating Cathleen gave the book, I bought The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea as the Audible Daily Deal-the first one I've bought in a long time. A total of 6 books have dropped through the letterbox this week in our house-Manhattan Noir, Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics, Shadows on Our Skin, Odd Man Out, This Human Season and Loyalists. I've still a few more to arrive, but I know that, particularly seeing as I'm off and reading and enjoying a Brian Moore novel at present, I'll be in the second hand bookstore in the centre of town buying more books on Monday or Tuesday at the latest.
I've gotta feed the monkey...
Pretty sure you're feeding a troop of monkeys in some enclosure along with your library, Allan. :)
Kevin wrote: "Pretty sure you're feeding troop of monkeys in some enclosure along with your library, Allan. :)"Kevin - well said! This may account for all the ebooks I bought this week. While I love the feel of a book, if I don't have a physical copy I feel less "guilty". On the other hand, I love reading a book that I can then get out of the house. Of course I will hold on to my signed copy of Nora Webster.
I've spent the day doing several readings of Keynotes by George Egerton, (Mary Chavelita Dunne) who is probably one of the least known Irish authors and I have to admit, she isn't that bad. Her main theme is the Irish New Woman, which may interest some folks on here. Plus the book is a free e-book. I'd give her a read, she is famed for calling Yeats a poser, so you have to give her some credit. :)https://archive.org/details/keynotes0...
Kevin wrote: "I've spent the day doing several readings of Keynotes by George Egerton, (Mary Chavelita Dunne) who is probably one of the least known Irish authors and I have to admit, she isn't that bad. Her mai..."I love her already for that poser comment.
CPHE - ambitious!
I just started The Orphanmaster's Son and calculate it will take me 8 or 9 hours to read. It's not a quick read by any means.
Cphe, you really are a machine when it comes to getting through books-I hope your plans go well!Barbara, the audiobook of The Orphan Master's Son is 19 hours, so you're doing well to read it in 10-it just underlines, I suppose, just how slow narrators in audiobooks can be!
As for me, as you know, I'm a sucker for an NYC book of any description, so when I saw the article posted below, I couldn't resist buying Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times In Today's New York, despite having to order it direct from the publisher in the US.
And so it begins..
A tale of two New York Cities: I was rich, my brother was down and out
http://gu.com/p/42khy
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@Barbara and @Allan. I'm thinking of starting Orphan Master's Son this weekend.
@Allan I saw a review of Tales of Two Cities a few months ago and immediately thought of you. I'm surprised I never sent you the review! I know what your kyrptonite is.
With the amount of newly published books this month I've a few arrived or awaited in the post. Two new George RR Martins , The Ice Dragon and Worlds of Ice and Fire , Retribution by Mark C Newton , Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz, Prince Lestat by Anne Rice and possibly one or two I've forgotten.
Kevin wrote: "I've spent the day doing several readings of Keynotes by George Egerton, (Mary Chavelita Dunne) who is probably one of the least known Irish authors and I have to admit, she isn't that bad. Her mai..."
Downloaded. Good call, Kevin.
Downloaded. Good call, Kevin.
So, I bit the bullet and took a quick run in to the second hand bookstore in Belfast and went on a bit of a Brian Moore buying spree buying Lies Of Silence, The Temptation of Eileen Hughes, The Luck of Ginger Coffey and An Answer from Limbo, as well as We Are the People: Journeys Through the Heart of Protestant Ulster by Geoffrey Beattie, all for a tenner.That concludes my book buying-for today anyway! :)
Allan wrote: "So, I bit the bullet and took a quick run in to the second hand bookstore in Belfast and went on a bit of a Brian Moore buying spree buying Lies Of Silence, [book:The Temptation of Ei..."
Brian Moore is one of my TBR authors. Presumably you've managed to sneak them all in unnoticed... Have you much free bookshelf left?
Brian Moore is one of my TBR authors. Presumably you've managed to sneak them all in unnoticed... Have you much free bookshelf left?
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Today in the mail arrived my second issue of Stinging Fly Literary Magazine...Of course I haven't read the one I got a few months ago yet.
The last week, I was in New York City and it was wonderful ! I'm so happy that I was able to go to two bookstores :D the one is "192 Books" at Chelsea and Barnes & Nobles, near Time Square. In the first one, I bought Harry Potter 5 (an other version than the one I already have)In the second bookstore, I bought three books but not the same day, "Jane Eyre" and "Pride and Prejudice" one day, and "Wuthering Heights" the other day.
It was a wonderful trip, and I will never forget. I was so happy to find these bookstores ! I bought a bookmark to, and it is written on it "Keep calm and read on".
I don't have enought words to say how much I'm happy.
There are the links (I hope it works because I never put links already.)
https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/_imag... (Harry Potter)
http://img1.imagesbn.com/p/9781435129... (Jane Eyre)
http://www.trashionista.com/leatherbo... (Pride and Prejudice)
http://img2.imagesbn.com/p/9781593081... (Wuthering Heights)
I hope you'll like what I bought :D
Have a nice day !
I agree with Emma, they're beautiful editions Pauline. It's always worth investing in nice editions of your favourite books. In other news, Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz arrived in our house today. Really looking forward to this one as House of Silk was superb.
The reviewer wanted fun but I liked Horiwitz's take for its darker slant on it all.
So between a small shop online and attending a car-boot sale with my aunt I have come into a mound of books. It's intimidating really. I could not be bothered linking them to goodreads either :)Nocturnes, John Connolly
Inferno, Dan Brown
The Girl with Glass Feet, Ali Shaw
The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
HHhH, Lauren Bint
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Book of Lost Things, John Connolly
the Etymologicon, the Horologicon and the Elements of Eloquence by Mark Forsyth
Rogues, George R.R. Martin
A Slow Regard for Silent Things, Patrick Rothfuss
Beginning Theory, Peter Barry
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Killing Floor, Lee Child (Thought I would give Jack a go)
The Earth Hums in B Flat, Mari Strachan
and finally!
The Fall of Giants, Ken Follett
The Laurent Binet is a great book. If you've ever been to Prague, you'll be able to visualise every scene.:)
Carboot sales, a gold mine. 5 books for 4 euro. They don't know what they're selling!
Oh my goodness, Kevin, Allan is a bad influence on you. Trust me that he will go back to work one day and leave the rest of us with teetering TBR piles.I really like the Lee Child series but just to give you a tip, he's called Reacher. No one refers to him as Jack. Wait, maybe it the horribly misguided Tom Cruise film that I will never see. Cruise is a good actor but not good enough to play 6'5" and 250 pounds.
That is some load of books Kevin, I hope you have your course work finished ;)
Susan, I can only claim responsibility for one of Kevin's titles-I don't think that he needs a bad influence, he has the same addictive personality as the rest of us when it comes to books!Kevin, I'm glad that you found books that interested you at the car boot sale-anything like that up here just tends to have books by the likes of James Patterson and Maeve Binchy-I can understand your economic argument for buying said titles, having used the same one myself on many occasions!
I don't think I've ever found a book I wanted at one . I've had better luck at charity shops. Well done Kevin . I've read quite a few of your new books. Nocturnes is quite a good collection
I agree it is more often that you meet a mountain of the 'standard' books. I didn't do terrible though, you have to meet right guy who have lots of books but no knowledge of them at all! Seraphina, I like to justify my procrastination through reading, by saying that reading improves my writing. :) hopefully my lecturers will agree with me.
I rarely buy books now but I found a gift certificate for Barnes and Noble and yesterday I got the Gillian Flynn collection (no link yet here) and Ordinary Grace.
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Its basically where people sell stuff out of the boot of their cars. They organise locations for people to do this but a lot of the time its people clearing out tgeir rubbish
It sounds like a garage or jumble sale but just done out of the boot (trunk) of cars. I remember my mother used to buy us anoraks out of the boot of a Pakistani man who used to come through the neighborhood.
It would differ from a garage sale in that there would be multiple sellers
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I just bought a few audiobooks.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, today's Audible Daily Deal
Frankenstein
The Good House
The second and third were part of Audible's current sale on "spooky" tales.
Kevin, you write The Book of Lost Things, and you make me think, I have to buy this book. Many people speak about this book already, and it should be great :)
It sounds good alright Pauline! I will let you know when I have read it. You're right though, everyone keeps talking about it.
I found this summury Kevin, and it makes me want to buy the book right now : 'Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother ...' As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and the fantasy world begin to blend. That is when bad things start to happen. That is when the Crooked Man comes. And David is violently propelled into a land populated by heroes, wolves and monsters, his quest to find the legendary Book of Lost Things.It looks so great ! But, I never thought at this book when I was in NYC last week... I will wait for my future shopping in a bookstore. And, I have so much books to read that I make me wait to Christmas to buy books. It's crazy.
You'll have to get someone to buy it for you for Christmas Pauline. Or buy it as a present to yourself :)
Sara, thank you for asking about the car boot sale. I couldn't imagine what is was. It sounds a little creepy to me going around looking through people's car trunks. In CA. if that happened it probably would mean recently stolen items. And books? No no. Allan, I hold you responsible for everything. You should know that by now. It's the result of your Irish charm. It is so hypnotic that we follow your book buys with our own. :)
Its not quite as sinister as that. Generally they are for charity and people have a table in front of the car rather than selling from the boot
I guess that's the equivalent of our yard/garage sales.We used to go to a large Flea Market and on Sunday morning you could find the spoils of Saturday night's activities. One guy would have like 20 used garden hoses, one would a ton of hub caps. You'd go, hm. I wonder where that came from?
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Since I'm a member, every time I purchase get 20 items, I get a coupon for 10% off the total value of those purchases. I thought I was getting close so when I checked out, I asked. It turned out that I was at 18 items. The clerk rang up the first two purchases to get me to 20 items. They were:
Ancillary Sword (the followup to wonderful Ancillary Justice
Locke and Key #2 (the second in a graphic novel series I'm reading.
He then printed out my coupon which allowed me to purchase two books on remainder (surplus stock sold at discount). These were:
The Guts (I've been enjoying Doyle and the Rabbitte family so much that I don't want to let them go! The hardback was also only $8 on remainder.)
Astray (I enjoyed The Sealed Letter immensely and couldn't pass up another of Emma Donoghue's books. Of course I still have Frog Music borrowed from Barbara months ago.)
I always like to read of a Sara book buying expedition! I bought The Guts in Dublin on remainder myself, and will have to read it soon. I haven't read any Donaghue yet, but am intrigued about her latest. Perhaps when it comes out on paperback...All the best for the next couple of days at work! :)
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