The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion
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Yes long walks cooking collecting craft bits as driftwood also every weekend friday have dinner with mum an siblings nieces nephews, Saturday we go to main town for big shop and Sunday in laws for dinner with husbands siblings nieces nephews... So... Yea not much time for reading x
Ha, same with the weekends for me! I end up doing legos and baking and art projects with the kids. I only get to read if I let them play video games for a while coz then they leave me alone. lol.
And of course the boatload of homework they bring home in friday.... I'm sure you can relate lol
Your weekends sound pretty busy for all of you. Although it is nice to be able to sit down and read for an 1 after having a mad busy day.I am assuming you have age school kids. I have two myself but they are still young and it is always mayhem. I do enjoy the continuous chaos and noise, not so much the mess left behind though.
I'm not working atm we work seasonally here so I won't start till may..... so I read with housework :-) My boys are 4 and 6 so they have just come out of the mayhem stage... I now have two pint size dictators lol......
Hi Laura,unfortunately I have to remove your book "Wales" from the ss. While the word count should be ok, but the general ruling -which got confirmed yesterday- says that only books over 100 pages, i.e. from 101 onwards, count.
Sorry about that.
My son will turn 7 in April. He started school last September, so when he comes home in the afternoon, it's lesson time, though thankfully he completes the majority of homework in school.
Lorna wrote: "Luckily for me at the moment I don’t have kids (me and my partner are skint renters haha) so I have plenty of free time to read but due to covid I have a lot of hours at work so used my three days ..."Lorna, 9 day-shifts sound really tough. What's your job?
no worries XXX
My kids are 5 and 8 and I think we are still in a mayhem stage. Lol. We are doing distance learning here so they haven’t been to school in person all year. So they have schoolwork all week though we thankfully don’t have to do any on the weekends.
Finished a book last night so I’ll update the list today. And I picked my next one... I’m also working on the popsugar challenge so trying to pick stuff that will fit there too. My next one is about a social justice topic!!
Heather wrote: "My kids are 5 and 8 and I think we are still in a mayhem stage. Lol. We are doing distance learning here so they haven’t been to school in person all year. So they have schoolwork all week though w..."Us too since Last April they have only been in school about a month... they started up two weeks ago again as the cases in Greece dropped low... But they are picking up again so not sure how long they will be going for.
Just finished my last around the world in 80 men which fits my bachelor challenge.... Admittedly they are not my favorite read but they were quick and got some points for here and my other team.... Going to settle down with My J.D. Robb now this i LOVE!!!!
Completion post
Romania
4th Feb
3 Stars
*Loved the Dominating Fane
Belgium
4th Feb
3 stars
*Was great to have some Fin time!!!!
We were very lucky that our school has not been closed at all since September, apart from the holidays.
It sounds pretty chaotic everywhere at the moment. I usually work 4 days a week and they go to crèche and preschool. I have been working 7 days a week and theres no creche or preschool. I cannot wait to go back to normality to have time to do nothing.
Just finished An Enderly lady is up to no good2* I bit disappointed with it. I enjoy the first short story but then it just became repetitive.
Alma wrote: "Just finished An Enderly lady is up to no good2* I bit disappointed with it. I enjoy the first short story but then it just became repetitive."
Thank you for the completion post, Alma. I am sorry it wasn't so good, but at least it was short. :)
Completion Post
Judgment in Death
Completed 5th of Feb
5 star
*Brilliant loved how Rourke and Eve become even closer while hunting down the cop killer with the help of the usual bunch!
COMPLETION POST:
5 stars
I don't know how many times I have read this, but this is the 1st time I listened to the audiobook and enjoyed it a lot.
The right edition is on my uno shelf/ss. As there are 100s of editions, I don't have the time to go through all of them till I find the rght one to link it here.
The Prisoner of Azkaban is my favourite HP. :) Which is yours?
Loved Gary Oldman as Sirius.I love the HP books 1-4, but I found The Order of the Phoenix a complete letdown. I don't think I have ever recovered from that personal disappointment. :) Also I am not much taken with books 6-8.
Happy Saturday! I'm sorry I haven't been around much. I've been working a lot, but I've also got some reading in. I'll be able to post my books either this evening or tomorrow.
Thank you, Sandy. Have a lovely w/e.
So, it wound up being too cold to go up north and ice fish (-30-40 degrees below zero) so we nixed that idea. Don't want to risk things not working right in the Ice Castle and not being able to go outside. I managed to finish a book anyway.The End Games
2/6/21
2 stars - ideal for a teenage boy or other zombie story lovers - just not my style.
Give Thanks to the Lord, because I finally finished my 1st readingThe Corset
06.02.2021
4 Stars: Read this book if you:
- Have it Marked as to-be-read
- Like Victorian Era
- Have No Idea What Victorian Era Is
- Like Laura Purcell
- Have No Idea Who Laura Purcell is
- Like Reading
- Don't Like Reading
- Breath
Since The Boy in the Suitcase I have not found a fiction reading that involves me in its story in such a way that I want to know more and finally find the truth! It is so far one of the best fiction stories I came across in the past years and I will take a look at other Laura Purcell's titles.
Sounds intriguing, but I admit I am not keen on thrilles/horrors, even if they are in a Victorian setting.
Completion
The Player and the Pixie - L.H. Cosway
5 huge stars
7 - Feb
*Couldn't stop laughing, Brilliant characters and Humour
Lorna wrote: "My favourite film by far is Prisoner of Azkaban but my favourite book is Goblet of Fire! They did this book 0 justice when it came to the film in my opinion😂 just missed out SO much of the backstor..."Mines Also the Goblet of fire for books!!!! As far as films my least fave was the chamber of secrets not sure which i liked best... but i agree they missed out alot in the films... Headless nicks party!!!!
Barbara wrote: "Give Thanks to the Lord, because I finally finished my 1st readingThe Corset
06.02.2021
4 Stars: Read this book if you:
- Have it Marked as to-be-r..."
Love the cover.... I prefer Elizabethan era and Tudors.... Love Phillipa Gregory lol... Not a big historical reader though... although im glad we are not restricted to Corsets anymore!!!!
Hope you are all having a great weekend!!!! Just finishing the last dregs of my coffee before all hands of deck xxxx
Happy Sunday, Teamies!
As this is the end of week 1, thought I'd give you a qucik update about where we are.
You were smashing! :)
Out of the 101 cards we already covered 40 (including the duplications with the 5 Draw 2 cards and the 3 Sandy posted below), we have 66 to go, but we still have 3 weeks, so I don't think we will have any problems reading for all the cards. :)
Some time next week, we will learn about our exciting February Mini challenge.
This does not affect the number of books we have to read by the end of the month (the books used for Mini tasks will also be used for the regular uno cards), just some exciting extra tasks. :)
COMPLETION POST:
The right edition is on my shelf.
3 stars
I love The Lord of the Rings book. I enjoyed The Hobbit, but was not blown buy it that much.
Hello Teamies,Just to put it out there: we are in need of a book to cover the 7 Red card.
So if you have 1 that would work, just give us a shout.
Thanks!
im reading read queen but the audio edition im reading has a white cover rather than red... Sucks the biscuit!!!!!I read the Hobbit back in uni for my English Lit class... Cant say i loved it either... Neither LOTR..... Loved the films (please dont shoot me) its rare that i enjoy film over books... Orlando bloom helped
I love the films as well, even though I am a fan of the book. In January I re-watched the extended dvds + the detailed documentaries about how it was all designed and filmed. I love those as much as the films. :)
I'll look to see if I have anything red to read. And I'm so impressed by how great we are doing so far!!!!
I didn't get much reading in this weekend, between the kids, my husband, etc. But I'll be pushing to get another book done this week.
The red book I planned to read/listen to does not cover 7, so I'll possibly postpone that one for March.
I don't have anything that will cover red 7 and I have been looking but I haven't found anything I would read. I still have a couple of books to finish, hopefully this week
Thanks for checking!No worries. I have one, but as it would be a re-read, I was not that keen. But it's a quick read, so not a big issue. :)
I've looked thru all my reds and none seem to be a 7. I'll keep looking to see if I find anything just browsing around on goodreads. lol
Also going to throw out there that we have a few 7s in general to complete this month, and based on what everyone has put into the sheet so far we're running a little short there. So if you do have a book in your TBR list that happens to have a 7, consider picking it up this month!
I will be on the lookout for 7s !!!! V!Its my little Mans birthday today hes 6!!! how time flys... plus i have two longish books on the go atm (thats why i tried to cram last week) but im hoping to have them done by Thursday then will read Forever Wicked as its a quickie before weekend.....
Happy Birthday to the Little One! :)
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Same for me. I have time to read during weekdays now, but not that much over the w/e.