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Hayes has busted her 2012 TBR list
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Apr 28, 2012 02:57PM
Yay! I've been waiting for you to give Terry Pratchett one more try. :)
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Starts really well... I hope it doesn't get too silly as it goes on.
Pratchett is funny, smart, and veers quite rapidly to the absurd sometimes. I picked this one because it doesn't, imo. Pratchett is also one of those authors where the more you read, the more in-jokes there are, and it makes the later volumes so much fun. Many of my favorites are later in the series(s).
Sloooowly.... *sigh* But I am determined to finish it, Sera!
Now where did Hayes post that picture of a dumpster......
Oh yes! I'm a little past the halfway point, but will stop a bit and wait for you. Gives me an opportunity to read a few other things.
Hayes, I need an excuse to read Hunger Games. I see it is on your list, maybe we can do a buddy read and get some others to join in.
I said I would read it for another challenge, but I am resisting. On the other hand several people I know have said--unexpectedly--that they enjoyed it. So I am glad to have a buddy to push me along.
I don't know when I will get to it. Do you have a time frame?
I don't know when I will get to it. Do you have a time frame?
Hayes wrote: "Oh yes! I'm a little past the halfway point, but will stop a bit and wait for you. Gives me an opportunity to read a few other things."Sounds perfect, I am starting it today.
Hayes wrote: "I said I would read it for another challenge, but I am resisting. On the other hand several people I know have said--unexpectedly--that they enjoyed it. So I am glad to have a buddy to push me alon..."I have another buddy read and some reads for my niece's book club after my current buddy read. June is Tale of Two Cities, and then open until Vanity Fair in November. So there's a lot of time in there for Hunger Games.
I would be reading it for the same reasons as you because of the unexpected response of others. Let me know what your reading schedule is like. If it is okay with you I will ask on the TBR buddy read thread if anyone else would like to join us.
Absolutely! The more the merrier. Just say when.
Okay, I will post it tonight and see if there are any takers.
Jeannette wrote: "Yay! I've been waiting for you to give Terry Pratchett one more try. :)"
No, I guess Pratchett is not for me. Thanks anyway for getting me to try again. Next!
What is the word on the DNFs? Do they count for the challenge?
No, I guess Pratchett is not for me. Thanks anyway for getting me to try again. Next!
What is the word on the DNFs? Do they count for the challenge?
So, you bailed on Monstrous Regiment? Too bad. :( You can go back to the boy now.
Yes, I'm afraid I did. And I've got the Boy on hold for a bit. I'll be reading Anne of Green Gables with Margaret to cleanse the reading palate!
Too bad we can't "like" a post, Hayes. :)
Anne to cleanse the palate is a very good choice. Enjoy!Wanted to ask if there was anyway to arrange the cover photos, in our challenge tracking post, horizontally instead of them coming up vertically? Thought you would be the one to ask.
Mine were horizontal but just recently they went vertical!! Would love to know how to make them go back horizontal preferably without having to do them all again! Sigh...
I have the same problem, Jemidar. In the past if you left a space between the covers they went vertical, but if you had them right next to each other they went horizontal. Now just vertical. Might be another GR glitch while they work everything out.
Thank you, Margaret!
Thank you, Margaret!
without space:
with space:
nope.... and now there is that minute black line at the bottom right corner of the book... hmmm...
ETA: seems they have worked something out.
with space:
nope.... and now there is that minute black line at the bottom right corner of the book... hmmm...
ETA: seems they have worked something out.
There's been at least one thread about this in Goodreads Feedback. It's a bug.
I'm not glad it's a bug but glad to know I wasn't doing it wrong and that I wasn't crazy. I didn't want to say that I thought I had them horizontal before but now they are vertical, ha-ha. Thanks for checking into it everyone! I didn't think a formatting thing could be a site wide bug. It sounds like GR is aware of it then and will have it ironed out soon.
I'm almost finished with Anne of Green Gables... I will make a push to do that today. I hate reading so slowly; I forget what happened at the beginning of the story!
Anne is best read in big chunks. I love getting into her world.
I cried like an idiot over the last three or four chapters... such a nice story.
ETA: posted my review
ETA: posted my review
I was gonna say: You have to read the ending in one swoop. I cry every time, too.
I haven't read Anne in about 30 years. A couple of years ago, I book the first three books in a one set volume. I will have to check it out - probably next year. My TBR list for this year is almost full! Plus, it is almost June - where did this year go?
I was just thinking the same thing, Sera! *June*
We listened to Anne on audio a couple of years ago, and we watched the TV series around the same time. Time for a re-watch, at the very least.
We listened to Anne on audio a couple of years ago, and we watched the TV series around the same time. Time for a re-watch, at the very least.
Finished Northern Lights (which is the Nora Roberts book, not the Philip Pullman story, which by sheer coincidence I am starting now)
Will post a review when I am back in civilization.
Will post a review when I am back in civilization.
Posted my review... top of this page.
We're back.
We're back.
Read Seabiscuit! Read it, read it. Go Seabiscuit! *Though War Admiral had better offspring*
I'll get to it before too long. Can't wait. Wasn't War Admiral Secretariat's daddy?
Nope. Bold Ruler x Somethingroyal. I think Sec. is related but cousins or something. Man O'War isn't in his bloodline.Funny story for the day. My vet owns a few race horses (my vet is great and rich). He brought a horse from Bobby Flay. Horse is grand-colt of Secretariat, and can't run. My vet paid under 13 thousand. Flay bought the horse for a millon.
Those guys earn too much money, imho! lol
Perhaps. But my vet is great. When my cat, the one who died in 2010, got diabetes, it was a really difficult case to treat. It took forever to find the right insulin as well as the right dosage. My vet did many of those tests free of charge.
I guess I was thinking more of Bobby Flay -- he earns way to much, I'm sure!
I'm glad you found a vet who is good at what he does, and is a good person on top of it.
I'm glad you found a vet who is good at what he does, and is a good person on top of it.
Slipped in a "micro read" (to make up for "The Boy")
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and noticed they have fixed the "cover bug", see message #124.
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and noticed they have fixed the "cover bug", see message #124.
2-1/2 hours to go. She's in Detroit and they will board soon, if they aren't already. We leave in about 1-1/4 hours to head to the airport. I sure do miss her!
How exciting though! I remember when I came back from my first trip overseas and my mom met me at the airport... it was a great moment.
I might be driving her crazy..... But I know she's happy at the thought of seeing me again!
Hayes wrote: "Slipped in a "micro read" (to make up for "The Boy")and noticed they have fixed the "cover bug", see message #124."
I was wondering about that the other day, glad to know it is taken care of finally.
BTW, nothing wring with quickie, micro reads, it's all good!
I was just sent a biog of Herge', so I wanted ot read this.
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