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Carolyn wrote: "Leonie wrote: "Carolyn wrote: "You're all making me feel really bad that I haven't had a check up since the pandemic started. I used to go every 6 months so I really need to make an appointment asa..."New glasses for me too! Got some nice funky frames. Pity the health fund doesn't give much of a rebate though.
Oh please! I'm so over men treating GR as a dating agency Msg from a man with no books, no reviews:subject: INTRODUCTION
message: Hello my dear friend how are you doing??
BLOCK!!!
Marianne wrote: "Oh please! I'm so over men treating GR as a dating agency Msg from a man with no books, no reviews:subject: INTRODUCTION
message: Hello my dear friend how are you doing??
BLOCK!!!"
I also can't stand GR being used as a friend accumulation site like FB. 1000 friends and 0 books :(
It's sad that so many use GR for dodgy reasons! I delete around a dozen friend requests per day from such accounts and have almost 100 people blocked.I even became paranoid my account was being targeted after reviewing a non-fiction book on Russian spies Haha
If I'm experiencing this on here as a male, then I can only imagine the extent of it for female users of the site :(
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In brighter news, I made Rob Mills cry (good tears) with my review of his new book, Putting on a Show today.He just made a beautiful video and post about it to his 80,000 Instagram followers. It's funny to think what a few words on Gooodreads can do.
I'd say the good always outweighs the bad! :)
Rowan wrote: "In brighter news, I made Rob Mills cry (good tears) with my review of his new book, Putting on a Show today.He just made a beautiful video and post about it to his 80,000 Instagram followers. It'..."
Well done Rowan, it’s a great review! I saw Rob Mills interviewed about it on TV yesterday, and whereas I previously wouldn’t have given his book a second glance, I’m now thinking I might track it down at some stage.
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He just made a beautiful video and post about it to his 80,000 Instagram followers. It'..."
That's brilliant Rowan! You do write a great review so I can believe it!
Thank you for your kind words! They mean a lot to me. The past couple of months have been rather challenging and books are my go-to form of escapism, so it's quite nice when a review is acknowledged in such a positive way!
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Rowan wrote: "In brighter news, I made Rob Mills cry (good tears) with my review of his new book, Putting on a Show today.He just made a beautiful video and post about it to his 80,000 Instagram followers. It'..."
That is wonderful. Like Andrea, not something I would ordinarily consider reading but your review made me interested.
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Hi Nadeen. If you could create a thread in the Book Related Banter folder for your post it'd be better for you. Your post will get lost in this thread. Thanks.
Thanks for the advice Brenda, will do!
Diana wrote: "Rowan wrote: "In brighter news, I made Rob Mills cry (good tears) with my review of his new book, Putting on a Show today.He just made a beautiful video and post about it to his 80,000 Instagram ..."
Thank you, Diana! I think that’s the beauty of Goodreads reviews. They can often make us consider reading a book that we otherwise wouldn’t. This happens to me quite a lot here!
Last night while DH and I were watching the news, the tuner/DVD recorder suddenly just stopped working, lights out, finis.This morning DH went to pull it out to see if our electronic experts could fix it, to find a massive nest of ants, eggs etc underneath, and obviously inside. Most unexpected!!
Took it in, after dealing with the ants, expert opened it up, removed ants etc and bingo, working again!
That expression of a bug in the system does have a history.
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Marianne wrote: "Last night while DH and I were watching the news, the tuner/DVD recorder suddenly just stopped working, lights out, finis.This morning DH went to pull it out to see if our electronic experts could..."
Poor little things were probably sick of the wet weather and came in to keep warm and dry, lol.
Marianne wrote: "Last night while DH and I were watching the news, the tuner/DVD recorder suddenly just stopped working, lights out, finis.This morning DH went to pull it out to see if our electronic experts could..."
I bet that’s the most ants you’ve ever recorded! 😂 😂 😂
Marianne wrote: "Last night while DH and I were watching the news, the tuner/DVD recorder suddenly just stopped working, lights out, finis.This morning DH went to pull it out to see if our electronic experts could..."
Yikes! Better ants than spiders I think!!
Marianne wrote: "Last night while DH and I were watching the news, the tuner/DVD recorder suddenly just stopped working, lights out, finis.This morning DH went to pull it out to see if our electronic experts could..."
Better ants than cockroaches! They do a lot of damage to the insides of electronic gadgets.
I can't be the only one that feels like things are crawling over me after reading Marianne's story, right? Haha
Rowan wrote: "I can't be the only one that feels like things are crawling over me after reading Marianne's story, right? Haha"See I'm one of the few people around who actually LIKES bugs and beetles and spiders and crawly things. Not saying I want a nest of ants in my dvd player mind, lol, but yeah I'm one of those who can't move anything out in the garden if it happens to have a nest under it as I don't want to disturb all their hard work, lol.
AND I am currently spending hours catching tadpoles that silly frogs laid in a puddle - moving them load by load into the dam before the sun dries them out.
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We have our school citizenship awards tonight. We nominated 4 students for their work in the library and they will all be given the award and book vouchers. I love this event.
Marianne wrote: "Last night while DH and I were watching the news, the tuner/DVD recorder suddenly just stopped working, lights out, finis.This morning DH went to pull it out to see if our electronic experts could..."
Glad you got to to source of the problem. Not fun to have an ants nest.
I noticed today that none of the Netgalley books I had downloaded over the last two weeks had turned up on my kindle, despite all being sent from Netgalley. I tried sending a couple again but they still didn't appear on my kindle. 😱After a little panic, I eventually figured out the email address on my new kindle (about a year old) had reverted to the kindle address of my previous kindle. 🤷♀️
Once I changed the kindle address back to the old one on Netgalley and downloaded again the books all appeared. 🥳
No idea why this happened (Amazon Halloween joke maybe?). Just thought I'd mention it in case this happens to anyone else!
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This has happened to me in the past Carolyn. It is scary until you sort it out!
Phrynne wrote: "Carolyn wrote: "I noticed today that none of the Netgalley books I had downloaded over the last two weeks had turned up on my kindle, despite all being sent from Netgalley. I tried sending a couple..."I was relieved to have found the answer after scratching my head for quite a few moments!
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I had a dream the other night that I was organising a book event for Jay Kristoff and I was fumbling everything and doing terribly and he was just peeping through the window waiting for his entrance cue. XD what is my brain doing to me lol
Krystal wrote: "I had a dream the other night that I was organising a book event for Jay Kristoff and I was fumbling everything and doing terribly and he was just peeping through the window waiting for his entranc..."LOL that’s very specific! Is this something that could happen in your new role?
Krystal wrote: "I had a dream the other night that I was organising a book event for Jay Kristoff and I was fumbling everything and doing terribly and he was just peeping through the window waiting for his entranc..."The brain is very good at featuring your inner anxieties in your dreams! I've never seen Jay Kristoff give a talk but I think he'd be very laid back and easy to talk to :)
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Haha!!
I thought I'd mention here that we have a date now for the Sydney get-together, see https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I actually have no idea why it came up - I do dream of work trying to get him in to sign books but I don't know that it will happen any time soon! It was quite a funny dream!
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"The damage to our warehouse was significant. Books and water do not combine well, and we have lost a large amount of stock. Due to this, our website has been temporarily closed."
So sad - exactly as what happened to the library in Lismore earlier in the year :(
Heartbreaking for them to see all of their beautiful books ruined by the water. My heart goes out to everyone in Victoria effected by the floods.
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Brenda wrote: "I have just received an email from Brotherhood Books whose website has temporarily closed due to the flooding in Melbourne of their warehouse. "The damage to our warehouse was significant. Books ..."
Oh no, that's disastrous for them! I hate seeing books damaged, even though people have lost homes and so so much more in these floods.
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That’s terrible news 😢 Brotherhood books has always been my favourite go to for used and hard to source books. I hope they can salvage some.
I hope the sunshine we have in Sydney is also where it's needed most, helping in the clean up so many are sadly facing after losing so much.
Very sad for all affected by the floods.
Marianne wrote: "Last night while DH and I were watching the news, the tuner/DVD recorder suddenly just stopped working, lights out, finis.This morning DH went to pull it out to see if our electronic experts could..."
So strange, but excellent no new equipment needed!
Diana wrote: "We have our school citizenship awards tonight. We nominated 4 students for their work in the library and they will all be given the award and book vouchers. I love this event."That's so lovely, Diana. My kids used to receive vouchers from school, but this seems to have fizzled out. $$ I guess - but sad.
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Same here Leonie - mine keeps reminding me that I've missed two annual checkups and I know I need new glasses for close work (either that or I need to buy a magnifying glass!).