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I claimed Masquerade ball or party in book and Seven or more colors on the cover with my Barbara Pym biography, which is super enjoyable BTW.
I could swear that either "dizzy" or "dizziness" has been mentioned in the text as well, but I am listening to the audiobook, am into the last 3rd and Amazon does not offer a look-inside option for the text. 😓
I put it in for the slot and hoping they get mentioned again. If not or if you find sth that fits, then just delete it from there.
Bakekujira sent back to the deep again. Hopefully it'll stay away for a while now...New Asian spin:
Penanggalan
651+
set in Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timore-Leste, Vietnam)
author identifies as female or non-binary
MPG Paranormal
word "vinegar" in text
Sammy, are you reading any doorstoppers? If not, I could move my Barbara Pym bio for the 651+ and female author slots.
Just used one to defeat the Bakekujira. My next two are shorties, and a couple of medium after that, so go right ahead! :)
Sammy wrote: "Just used one to defeat the Bakekujira. My next two are shorties, and a couple of medium after that, so go right ahead! :)"Goodie. I will finish it tomorrow. BTW, this is a biography you may enjoy. :)
I have just been disabused of my utterly false notion of Barbara Pym having been a woman with an uneventful life (mistakenly extrapolated from her books). I was wondering what the writer could go on about for almost 700 pages.
My, but that woman had an active and interesting and bizarre life and new some interesting people to say the least. :)
Great audiobook. :)
I'll add it to my audible wishlist and grab it next time it's in a sale 😁
Sammy wrote: "I'll add it to my audible wishlist and grab it next time it's in a sale 😁"🥰
Her life is presented in a kind of picarseque style that makes it just so... I don't know how to put it, but I was totally drawn in and sometimes a bit freaked out by some of the weird things she did. :)
But it all makes her books even more interesting, knowing that under that gentle facade, quite a bit of fun, adventure and wickedness were going on. :D
Definitely sounds like a lot of fun. 😁
Last week I also finished my first book by Betty Neels. I was made aware of her by a GR friend's review. Apparently she has a very dedicated and numerous fanbase. Her book's strongest point was the U-title 😅, but it was a very undemandingly OK and short read. Was also curiously and refreshingly unsentimental, maybe a bit too much at that, so the title, An Unlikely Romance, was fitting.
Her mostly medical heroes mostly hail from the Netherlands with unspeakable names, so that was reason number one I thought of you, Sammy. 😊
Reason no. 2 was that it was fully stuffed with food references, so of course My Restaurant Rocks came to mind, despite my not playing. 😊
So definitely a book to read, not to listen to the audio then, if I want to save my ears! 😂And food is always good, MRR or not!
Sammy wrote: "So definitely a book to read, not to listen to the audio then, if I want to save my ears! 😂And food is always good, MRR or not!"
She has loads of books available on kindle, but only a few on audible.com. Her U-book wasn't. It is probably different for the UK market. :)
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Cat wrote: "not at all irksome that our two location tasks for the monsters (Russia and SE Asia) are absolutely USELESS for Round 2 bonuses! gah!"Well.... of course I wouldn't dare criticise ... 🤭
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Just means that I shall have to cope with those two tasks going unfilled this round!
that Western tag is annoying me. I might hunt out Lone Woman (Victor LaValle) to fill it (I'm assuming we are OK with MPG Westerns rather than the singular....) as is the 30 in page count, but CBA hunting that down right now
Yeah, I was just writing about that 30-page count. That's really annoying. 🤭
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Pinned down a bloody 30-pager, my HU edition of The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito is 330 pages. Good ole' Perry Mason.... a lawyer to trust. :)
It will be a reread, so going to be done with that in a day or 2.
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I doubt I'll get to that Western book this week though - want to get through some location books first. I've got Seoul, Shanghai, Paris, Brazzaville-Congo, Varanasi and Bogota lined up for sure, with possibly Havana and Sydney too!
No worries. :)Afterwards I need to start listening to Starter Villain. I need to finish it before Saturday as we'll be travelling to Madrid for a week and there I will have no chance of listening to audiobooks. Will be reading my Vienna book on kindle, though. Which is a bit incongruous, but the "wheel weaves as the wheel wills" to quote Moirane from the Wheel of Time. A pity Rosamund Pike only got to the first 3 audiobook narrations. She is fantastic. :D
And after all this incoherent rumbling, I am off for lunch.
Yeah, the western has been annoying me too. I was thinking of grabbing a Louis L'Amour I've got sitting on the shelf, but then Vuvuzela came up and I'm stuck reading LeGuin and it's slooooooow going!The print in this book is so tiny I'm struggling even with my reading glasses 😢
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Kilgrave (Jessica Jones)
1 350 to 450
2 MC can change thoughts/actions through magic, mind control or psychic powers
3 Purple cover
4 Author initials (all) in KILGRAVE
5 Character has "jess" in name
I wonder if the Scalzi BOM may work for task 2?
I have put the book
in the set in Russia slot, but will be very slow about it (not starting before beginning of Round 3, and also depending on the letters we get), so feel free to remove it, in case... 😊
I enjoyed that one a lot! Also saw the movies way back when (must be 20 years or so ago now!). Much preferred those vampires to the sparkly kind, lol.
😂I read books 1-4 a long time ago, and -wonder of wonders, saw the movie too.
I also checked out the songs the MC mentioned as they all were from actual bands. Some of them were really good. :)
Do we think it would fit
purple-purpose? Or not enough of it?If yes, that would mean getting rid of Kilgrave soonish, b/c it covers the other 2 missing tasks as well. :)
Fab. :)I will finish it by tomorrow probably, but as I will be travelling, I will "report" here and push the responsibility of spinning for a new villain onto all your shoulders. :)
Sorry. 😊
Cat wrote: "https://www.theguardian.com/books/202...Richard on books.... :)"
Ahhh, good morning! Always nice to be greeted upon booting up the PC by a
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I'll take the risk of the spin for you if I'm about.
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I'll take the risk of the spin for you if I'm about."
I was somewhat hopeful for Austin, but ran out of hunting steam!
Sophie wrote: "And ooof Armitage has some heavy reads mentioned in that article! Obviously doesn't take the easy route."Got to love a man that reads... I personally rather enjoyed Proust, and will probably re-read some time, but then I didn't have to turn it into a play, lol.
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I've yet to tackle it, but have do have the books hidden somewhere....
Cat wrote: "Sophie wrote: "If you'd found one set in Nashville that would have been a great double hit.I'll take the risk of the spin for you if I'm about."
I was somewhat hopeful for Austin, but ran out of..."
Only one I can think of personally is Lonesome Dove, and I'm pretty sure that doesn't come remotely close to 50% (5 is more likely, lol)
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It is, and probably not, lol.Awesome book though! 😁
For Austin (I think it has an Ed character), Jane of Austin is a Sense &Sensibility retelling and quite readable as far as a JA retelling can be.
I didn't have time to read the article yet as yesterday was a crazy workday and then there was the last-minute panic-packing for our journey to Madrid. But will read it later. I am also hoping to finish Wildfire on the plane (if my medication lets me keep awake, lol. I have a mortal fear of flying, so I need succour for that to get me on a plane.)
Managed to finish Wildfire even before takeoff and even thel wheel spinning is working on my phone. :)
Got us The Governor1. 350 to 450
2. tagged zombies (10 times minimum)
3. Character is a local official (mayor, governor, city council etc).
4. MC has a daughter
5. One eye (only one) on cover
Brilliant! The book I just finished fits none of them 😂I'd say "enjoy your flight", but how about "travel safely" instead? :)
Travel safely (and hopefully turbulence-free) is all I am hoping for, lol. It is "only" a 3-hour-flight, but by my meagre standards that's practically round the globe.
It took 24 hours and 3 planes each way to get to Oman last year. I don't mind flying, but that was quite an undertaking. Plane number 2 took us over Hungary though. I remember thinking "I should wave to Mel" 😂
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Red Death (EA Poe)
175-225
Masquerade ball or party in book
Seven or more colors on the cover
"dizziness" or "dizzy" in text
Tagged "plague" (5 or more times)
Oof! Some of those look tricky!