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[Allison]

Nayeli? Aleigha? I don't even know how to pronounce those.

[Jane]

They're easy -- take syllable by syllable.
KAH-mee-lah Ah-LEE-ya.

I'm with you on Nayeli. My best guess: Nah-YE-lee

[Laureen]

Ace wrote: "Laureen wrote: "I need to ask. Is anyone else here shy of taking on book Series due to the fact they don't have the time to follow through on one series when they have a huge to read book list "

..."

Thank you to everybody who replied. Ace, I am glad I am not alone. What I do with series is if I think I would like the author, I check out the authors other writing until I find a stand alone book. I work 6-7 days per week and am responsible also for my 89yr old mother and all her financial and legal matters as she is in a nursing home with Alzheimer's.

Hence, I can't read as much as I would love to but I am going to have one hell of a time reading when and if I can ever retire. I keep adding to my book list so I won't have to wonder what to read next, HaHa. Maybe then I will be able to engage in that hobby/project you spoke of.

[Gretchen]

I was thinking Kamila was a different way to spell Camilla for those parents who wanted an older name but with a modern twist. I could be wrong. I just know how plagued we were with suggestions to make our girls' names "modern".

Completely unrelated to names, I am half way done with my book challenge for the year! Maybe at the summer midway point, I might have to up my goal. I never thought I would get this much reading in. It helps that I spend 4-5 hours a week in a waiting room with nothing else better to do.

[Ace]

Laureen wrote: "I am going to have one hell of a time reading when and if I can ever retire. I keep adding to my book list so I won't have to wonder what to read next..."

Well, talking about retirement, we are planning that for the next couple of years, so I have been adding to my TBR madly also, and someone was selling some books on FB in my area, so I now have a heap of David Gemmell's for a $1 each. I just couldn't resist....

I plan to read them over christmas...

[Ace]

Gretchen, good effort [big clapping], I have been stuck at 48% for a while, so when I finish the one's I am currently reading I will leap ahead into my second half. I'm aiming for a book a week, which is more than I've read in a year before!

[Mark]

Ace wrote: "Laureen wrote: "I am going to have one hell of a time reading when and if I can ever retire. I keep adding to my book list so I won't have to wonder what to read next..."

Well, talking about retir..."

Hope you enjoy the Gemmells books Ace.

[Teanka]

Gretchen wrote: "I was thinking Kamila was a different way to spell Camilla for those parents who wanted an older name but with a modern twist. "
It's also a Polish version of this name.

[Laureen]

Ace wrote: "Laureen wrote: "I am going to have one hell of a time reading when and if I can ever retire. I keep adding to my book list so I won't have to wonder what to read next..."

Well, talking about retir..."

Oh Ace, good for you. I plan a much longer retirement that Christmas though and will need it to get through my book list. I hope my health lasts - don't want to kick the bucket in the middle of a good read. HaHa.

[Linda]

A movie about Alfred the Great will air on the Turner Classic Movies channel in the near future. If you have that TV channel (or Biography) check your listings.
Mr. T has now retired. It has become our custom to retire to the reading/TV bed everyday at three to watch classic Movies on TCM or on my tablet. We look the epitome of what some call 'laid up sorry.' .

[Linda]

Weather report! It is 64℉ at 5:30 a,m, where I live. Our high today will be near 90℉ unless it rains. We have had tornado watches, alerts, and warnings for three days. Warnings for thunderstorms and flash floods have been sent daily for forever. A tree was uprooted and fell on a car traveling on the highway. The driver and her baby were killed. That is so sad. We had flash floods yesterday, and I just happened to be driving when that happened.

[Gretchen]

I have seen some of the flooding stories from Texas on the news. It really makes me put the rain we've had in perspective. Yesterday it was perfect out. I don't remember how warm it was but I recorded my first sunburn of the season. My daughters on the other hand started the gorgeous tans they will have until November. They didn't get that from their mom.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Having a tooth removed sucks. Just sayin'. :p

[Allison]

Wow, it had been quiet in here for a few days!!

Have friends in Texas but everyone seems to be ok so far. One had her workplace flooded but I think she was ok with that :P

Sorry Margaret :(

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

It has been quiet, hasn't it?

Had a wisdom tooth removed years ago, but this is the first actual tooth that needed extraction. I broke it several years ago, and the repair job was bodgy. Went to a new dentist and he's been keeping an eye on it. Went last Friday and x-rays showed the nerve under it was dead. So off to an oral surgeon yesterday for it to be removed.

[Jane]

Margaret wrote: "Having a tooth removed sucks. Just sayin'. :p"

Dentist has told me I should have two teeth removed, but I'm on Fosamax for osteoporosis so I'm putting it off.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

I'm actually pretty shocked. The oral surgeon reckoned I'd had an infection under the tooth for at least 6 months. But I had no symptoms.

He also reckons I have one hell of an immune system!

[Jane]

Your pain tolerance must be very high!

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

I felt no pain at all!

Oral surgeon reckoned the nerve death was quick. Blood supply cut off and the nerve dies quickly and painlessly. Like when they put a rubber band around a lamb's tail. :p

[Simona]

Margaret wrote: "I felt no pain at all!

Oral surgeon reckoned the nerve death was quick. Blood supply cut off and the nerve dies quickly and painlessly. Like when they put a rubber band around a lamb's tail. :p"

Ugh! They do that?

[Flatenchilada]

What is the title of the movie about Alfred the Great? Back in the back of my mind, I seem to remember seeing one.

[Andy]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064000/

Alfred the Great - Really good film too

[Gretchen]

Andy wrote: "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064000/

Alfred the Great - Really good film too"

But Uhtred isn't in it...

[Allison]

Gretchen - I think you might have a serious problem, dear :)

[Andy]

Gretchen wrote: "Andy wrote: "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064000/

Alfred the Great - Really good film too"

But Uhtred isn't in it..."

Its only make believe is Uhtred :D

[Gretchen]

Allie wrote: "Gretchen - I think you might have a serious problem, dear :)"

Just one?

[Lisa]

Andy, stop spreading malicious rumours!! Uhtred is make believe!!!!

What next??? People landed on the moon, I suppose. Shame on you.

[Andy]

Lisa wrote: "Andy, stop spreading malicious rumours!! Uhtred is make believe!!!!

What next??? People landed on the moon, I suppose. Shame on you."

Actually they didnt.... but thats another conspiracy!

[Ace]

Andy wrote: "Actually they didnt.... but thats another consp..."

I'm glad there are others out there who believe this

[Lisa]

Definitely a non believer here Ace!

[Gretchen]

This morning, the librarian told me I don't read enough "mom books" as she processed my loan books. I'm not really even sure what that means

[Jane]

Gretchen wrote: "This morning, the librarian told me I don't read enough "mom books" as she processed my loan books. I'm not really even sure what that means"

Huh?

[Mark]

Gretchen wrote: "This morning, the librarian told me I don't read enough "mom books" as she processed my loan books. I'm not really even sure what that means"

What's a mom book?

[Gretchen]

This month the local library book club is reading something by Emily Giffin. Maybe that's a "mom book".

[Dawn]

People apparently shelf quite a bit of stuff as mom-books, check it out...https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

I thankfully have a librarian who tries to convince me into Neil Gaiman and Douglas Adams, much better than some kind of ChickLit.

[Gretchen]

Those are definitely not my kinds of books. Parenting is one of those things you can't figure out from a book.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Dawn wrote: "People apparently shelf quite a bit of stuff as mom-books, check it out...https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

I thankfully have a librarian who tries to convince me into Neil Gaiman and..."

I prefer Neil Gaiman's short stories to his novels. Apart from Neverwhere, I find his novels tend to meander all over the place. :p

Kind of worried about Agatha Christie being shelved as a "mom book". :p

[Catherine]

Yeah, I saw that Agatha Christie there and went, "Huh?" One book is not like the others!

[Linda]

Gretchen wrote: "This morning, the librarian told me I don't read enough "mom books" as she processed my loan books. I'm not really even sure what that means"

I think what she meant was what I call "girly books" or chic lit. I don't read them either. Yuck!

[Jane]

My guess: parenting?

Only one I ever read was Dr. Spock and that was in the Dark Ages. :)

[Allison]

Agatha Christie lol.

[Linda]

I thought the mom books were in the 'how to' section.

[Simona]

Jane wrote: "My guess: parenting?

Only one I ever read was Dr. Spock and that was in the Dark Ages. :)"

I actually bought a "mum book"... because of its title: "Le mamme hanno sempre ragione" by Giovanni Bollea (Mothers are always right...) :P
(PS it was a really good book)

[Gretchen]

According to the local librarian, another example of a "mom" book is Gone Girl. I asked her if she meant bestsellers because if that's what she means I have a serious love/hate relationship. See my review of Frog Music for proof of the hate side of the relationship. Apparently, "mom" books aren't limited to bestsellers but generally are bestsellers. Make sense? It's ok if it doesn't. I'm not sure I understand the whole thing. I'm just going to keep reading what I'm reading.

[Deb]

'mom books'?!? what a strange classification. I get the pregnancy and baby books. But christian? oh dear.

And I have read several of them without ever having been, or ever aspiring to be, a mom to anything but fur and feather babies...

[Dawn]

Aaah, so essentially she's just trying to fit you in to a typical category (ie. Mom) and the books they usually read are not the books you read.

Well, I say, be a rebel Gretchen. Who wants to be like everyone else?!

[Gretchen]

I've made it this far being more than slightly rebellious. I don't see any reason to quit now.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Hi all. Still alive. :)
Still got too much going on with farm and hobbies, plus in law problems..only they are no longer family rift related problems it is the mother-in-law possibly dying...firstly they thought it was motor neuron disease and gave her 2 years, but the symptoms are too quick and she may have only months. Now they think a tumour or a viral disease in her brain nerves. basically they don't know what it is and they don't know how to save her.

I haven't felt like reading and talking books much with all this going on.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Ah crap :(

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I don't like my mother0-in-law, but it is just an awful thing to see her go through. I would never wish her ill and I would never wish this medical issue on anybody.
To be normal one day, then suddenly drooling and can't write, then within a few weeks, can't walk, swallow liquids, talk. Awful. Hubby isn't coping all that well. Poor love.