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[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Darcy wrote: "I haven't seen them in a while, looking at the internet, I'm having trouble finding a link to show what it is. But it looks like a grey-ish sponge, and you can use it to just wipe them down. I used..."

darn. Wanted to see more on this technology. :)

[Gretchen]

I know. I was kind of excited to see this magic sponge like thing. You know how many random smells make their way into a house with all kind of kids?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Gretchen wrote: "You know how many random smells make their way into a house with all kind of kids? "

Ohhhh yes, I sure do.
I have no kids of my own, but I have kids in my life. Kids make things smell weird. lol. All those smashed up chips (crisps) and spilled fluids. Especially cars and prams. They take on a special set of aromas don't they. :D

[Gretchen]

My six year old was up most of last night throwing up so we are all about weird smells today. I might have to bake some cookies to cover it.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Oh. :( Hope she is okay now.

[Gretchen]

All better or so she says. She's bound and determined to be in school Monday morning. She stopped throwing up and has no fever so I won't be stopping her.

[Allison]

A child that wants to be sick on the weekend so she can be better and in school by Monday????? You might want to make her lie down, I don't think she's feeling well!

[Gretchen]

She's my odd little child. She loves being in school. I think she likes the time away from her sisters.

[happy]

:)

I finally finished the book I was reading on the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in North Viet Nam - great read. If anyone is interested in the start of the Indo-China war - this is the book to read. I think it is better than Bernard Fall's classic on the battle, Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu




Currently reading volume 1 of Robert Asprey's 2 volume biography of Napoleon

[Linda]

And the Mountains Echoedby Khaled Hosseini. Trying to read it, but 'My Library' through ASUS just doesn't want to cooperate today

[A.R.]

The God of the Hive

"The God of the Hive," by Laurie R. King, is the 10th in my favorite series of Sherlockian take-offs. I love reading about an older Sherlock Holmes, and Mary Russell makes a great heroine.

ARK

[Allison]

Gretchen wrote: "I think she likes the time away from her sisters."

Hahaha!!

[Jerry]

Trying out a book Weaponsmith by a new author to meMike Crawshaw. Interesting start, and if the rest is just as good, I'll add this author to my favourites list.

[Lariela]

Got Outlander as my travel book yesterday. I should have started that series sooner.

[Rebecca]

Lariela wrote: "Got Outlander as my travel book yesterday. I should have started that series sooner."

I read all eight books in just over a week! I could not put them down!

[Allison]

Rebecca wrote: "Lariela wrote: "Got Outlander as my travel book yesterday. I should have started that series sooner."

I read all eight books in just over a week! I could n..."

Jesus Pete! They're a bazillion pages long!!

[Darcy]

Yup. Lots to savour ;=)

Not that I know from personal experience or anything....

[Jane]

Adrift by Loren Edizel

[Lariela]

Rebecca wrote: "Lariela wrote: "Got Outlander as my travel book yesterday. I should have started that series sooner."

I read all eight books in just over a week! I could n..."

Pretty sure the local library has the others.

[Gretchen]

I have quite the stack of books going right now. I'm trying to clean out my library books before the start of the new year.

(I finally got a copy that doesn't smell!)

( I was fortunate to get an arc)

[Linda]

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini Finally found it through Nook on android tablet. My b/a feature stopped working, but I fixed it. It is Christmas Day, and I have eaten way too much food. I started off with 2 slices of left over pizza, popcorn (candy and cheese), peanuts (chocolate and candied) three pieces of caramel cake, and a salad made with can of cherry pie filling, can of eagle brand milk, can of drained pineapple and kool whip. Traditional dinner tonight, but I have already reached the 'I am never eating again' stage.

[Pamela]

Just started reading 1356. Hoping to finish off the Thomas of Hookton series by the end of the year.

[Bobby]

happy wrote: ":)

I finally finished the book I was reading on the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in North Viet Nam - great read. If anyone is interested in the start of the Indo-China war - this is the book to read. ..."
Waiting for this one on Kindle. So far only find a hardback.

[Dawn]

I started Will Starling by Ian Weir yesterday.

I'm hoping to finish some books over the next 5 days so I can start the New Year with a few books for the 2 challenges I've joined as well as a couple buddy reads I've promised to do in January.

[Kimber]

Finished The Daughter of Time by Tey and Loved it. Blew through Hugh and Bess: A Love Storyby Higginbotham. I sometimes have a problem with her fiction being a tad dry. Not this time. I didn't even realize I was reading her book until I went to mark it read on my Goodreads. I am now playing around with my Christmas pressie from Mr. Kimber - a brand new Kindle Voyager. I'm in love. After watching TBS's 24 hours of A Christmas Story I thought I'd get back to the basics and read the book it was loosely based on.... In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash. Ralphie Parker travels back to Hohum, Indiana from his now permanent digs in The Big Apple. He steps into the local bar where Flick (the kid who got his tongue stuck to the flagpole) faithfully tends the bar every night and is happy to exchange 'remember when' stories with his old pal Ralphie. So far it's been a light, easy read and it's fun to pick out certain parts that made it into the movie but completely out of context from their location in the book and oh my gosh I just realized i'm pretty much writing a review. I'll stop and review will be up as soon as I finish reading the book. :D

[happy]

I finished a book I was reading on my nook

The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England 1327-1330

- I didn't have it on my currently reading list, because I was reading it catch as catch can.

This is Non Fiction and I think a very good look at Edward II's reign, the problems his favorites caused as well as the theories surrounding Edwards death

(view spoiler)[ Prof Mortimer accepts the theory that Edward was assissinated with a red hot poker, but was spirited out of the country and spent the rest of his life as an iterant monk in Lombary (hide spoiler)]

Solid 4 star read

[Jerry]

happy wrote: "I finished a book I was reading on my nook

The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mo..."</i>

I'm really glad you enjoyed this book Happy. It sits beside my computer as a constant source of reference for my own attempts at fiction writing, along with two others by the same author, [book:The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation and The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century. He has also written a similar guide to Tudor England, and a couple of fictional stories under the name of James Forrester, also set in Tudor times.

[happy]

This is the 4th one of his I've read, including both of his Time Traveler's guides. I've enjoyed each one and look to read more of him.

[Pamela]

Have just finished 1356 , that was great fun. Now reading Treachery
it's started very well.

[C.P.]

Gave up on The Winthrop Woman. Not the author's fault: I just have too many other books to read and not enough interest in seeing a lovable heroine pitch herself into another 300+ pages of trauma.

Instead, I am starting Gutenberg's Apprentice, which looks really interesting despite some oddities with past/present tense, and rereading Sylvester for another group before tackling A Burnable Book for this one.

[Jane]

started rereading Eagle in the Snow. I'm finding it helps to know something about the period beforehand, and some of Breem's references are VERY subtle, e.g., "fox under the tunic". That's a classical reference--ancient Sparta, anyway.

[Carol]

Reading Lamentation by s j sansom

[Histolicious]

started . It´s okay so far ... A strange "Vampire-Killer" in Hamburg.

[Mark]

[Bobby]

Us and Shadow Child

[Dawn]

Mark wrote: ""

Oh, I love David Gemmell!!

[Jerry]

80 Not Out: My Favourite Cricket Memories by Dickie Bird. Nothing to do with history, but it was a Christmas present. It's all about cricket, which I enjoy (except when the Aussies are winning), so can I now apologise to all American followers of this discussion.

[happy]

LOL! Apology accepted (from this American at least)

[Chris ( librocubicularist )]

Currently half way through Sworn Sword by James Aitcheson and it is a great read.

[Linda]

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.

[Jane]

Shades of Artemis: A Novel of Ancient Greece and the Spartan Brasidas by Jon Edward Martin

[Victor]

Just started by Robert Harris for the monthly read.

[Histolicious]

Okay

I started with I totaly love the idea. alternate history. Opera. Natural Philosophy. Everything. Anyway, this book is a challenge. It´s incredible slow. So much talking. So much "walking in circles" I want to crawl inside ... give the characters a push. "Come on guys. I´m 60p in ... and still you are talking about the same stuff! MOVE!"

I must finish after 2 Inspector Pekalla novels in one month ... this one is just annoying. Maybe I read the first two novels to fast. In the third one the author repeat stuff from the first two vols. BY WORD! And yes ... this is annoying.
+ I dont like Stalin. Seriously I hate this guy. I hate that his "screentime" grows and grows in every vol.

Maybe I start today with

[David]

Pompeii was written two years after the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York and Robert Harris's book is not only a chilling account of what it was like to experience such an unexpected disaster but also a reminder of the political triumphalism that preceded these catastrophic events. The Roman empire in AD 79 was as much a superpower as the United States in 2001.

[Linda]

All the Light We Cannot See. Yes, I am still reading. I started this book last year, way back in December! Read the sample before moving on to the book.

[Jane]

Zoli by Colum McCann: about the Roma

[happy]

I finished the first volume of Robert Asprey's two volume biograhpy of Napoleon



good read - good mix of personal, political and battle

My current main read is Barrett Tillman's history of the USAAF's 15th AF flying out of Italy during WW II



and for good measure - I got Martin Middlebrook's



on my nook, I'll read this one catch and catch can

I got with gift cards I received for Christmas

[Allison]

Think I burned myself out on reading HF after slogging thru a few... read a chick book (which is not me) and am now reading Primal Fear but the movie is running thru my head.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Anell wrote: "Maybe I start today with The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson ..."

This is a German edition or a UK edition, Anell? I have wanted to put that book in the group read polls for a while, but I don't think our US members can get it yet. Maybe not even our Canadian members.
Its out over here in my country. Australia. As we share the UK release date on books pretty closely.

[Darcy]

It is available in Canada, just not from one the large chain Indigo/Chapters. There seems to be something going on between them and Hodder (& imprints). I bought mine direct from the publisher.