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Mar. 24-27: What are we reading now? Any surprising finds?
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RE: RE: All They Will Call You
deenbat
6 yrs ago
[[Thanks for the link.]]
My pleasure! The book is nicely written, so far - very readable, although sad, since one knows what will happen...
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Mar. 24-27: What are we reading now? Any surprising finds?
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RE: Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
deenbat
6 yrs ago
[[I read this years and years ago so it’s like a new read for me. I love Agatha Christie, she began my life long love of mysteries, especially the cozy type.]]
Christie is definitely re-readable!!
deenbat
6 yrs ago
because for what I think of as a tote bag I am probably going to stuff it too full to carry comfortably around my shoulders.
deenbat
6 yrs ago
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by Tim Hernandez, about the victims (well, some of them) of the January, 1948 plane wreck over Los Gatos Canyon. If you've ever heard the song "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos Canyon," (commonly referred to as "Deportees,") by …
deenbat
6 yrs ago
[[Has anyone heard from Buffra? For some reason her name popped into my head a few days ago.]]
She'll be chuffed you asked - I'll let her know. (In case she doesn't stop by, she's doing fine.)
Bugs and Broken Bits Reporting
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[fixed] I can't update a cover - NOT a jpeg problem
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RE: RE: RE: RE: I can't update a cover - NOT a jpeg problem
deenbat
11 yrs ago
spot on, as usual - thanks, Gory!
Bugs and Broken Bits Reporting
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[fixed] I can't update a cover - NOT a jpeg problem
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RE: RE: I can't update a cover - NOT a jpeg problem
deenbat
11 yrs ago
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hopefully this works:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/11673916/
deenbat
11 yrs ago
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The original registration was quitcky and I somehow managed to register a book twice. Ok, I went back to the book details and changed them to those of a book I hadn't intended to register - but after several days of tryi…
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Free reviews of a self-published book: is there such an animal?
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RE: Free reviews of a self-published book: is there such an animal?
deenbat
11 yrs ago
Has he looked into doing a giveaway on Goodreads? I'm reading the second of three self-published titles that I learned about on Goodreads and bought on Amazon... Just a thought.
deenbat
11 yrs ago
My sympathy to Mary's family - I know she will be missed.
deenbat
11 yrs ago
I adored the movie, and thought Dahl's book was deadly boring. Glad it wasn't out when I was a kid.
deenbat
12 yrs ago
Hard to say.. I've bever read the titles she orginally published under the name Mary Westmacott, and I gave up on the ones that Christie wrote as plays and which were bieng "novelized" by Charles Osborne - originally the…
Chit-Chat
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Very sad news: our friend joseki died this morning
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RE: Very sad news: our friend joseki died this morning
deenbat
12 yrs ago
Sad news indeed. He will be missed... Condolences to his family and loved ones.
deenbat
12 yrs ago
Shadow of Night, by Deborah Harkness - not out until the summer of 2012 :(
deenbat
12 yrs ago
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Earlier today I was looking at some customer reviews of the P.D. James book on Amazon, and at least a few of them mentioned enough inconsistencies & errors in the references to P&P that it put me off, and I've decided no…
deenbat
12 yrs ago
Definitely one thing I do not miss about NH!!
deenbat
12 yrs ago
buffra does...
deenbat
12 yrs ago
On rare occasions we cook together, but that's limited due to the size of the kitchen. He does at least 50% of the cooking, and probably 90% of the dishes. I cook the "complicated" meals, but that tends to be seasonal.
deenbat
12 yrs ago
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Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series is great (IMO, of course). The first is called Soulless.
There's also a series by M. K. Hobson that starts with The Native Star.
deenbat
12 yrs ago
where we live right now there is a wonderful little indi book shop, and no chain book stores in town at all (although there are some about 20 minutes away, I guess). I am loving having access to an indie, and there are s…
deenbat
12 yrs ago
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I really loved Still Life With Woodpecker when I read it in highschool, and kept up with his work for a while after, but haven't read the several most recent titles. What did you start with?
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25 years ago today, 7 brave people lost their lives
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I never object to an observation of the day
deenbat
13 yrs ago
and I saw it live on tv even though I was at work (and living in NH, where one of the 7 lived at the time) - but I cannot bear re-seeing it. Our evening news (not in NH) showed the explosion itself 3 times in the first s…
deenbat
13 yrs ago
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There are communities that do this food "rescue," and I'm quite sure that the US one I've heard of was in CA - although it may not be near you. I'll see if I can figure out where I saw it...
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when (in history) did it become unacceptable for a man to hit his own wife? (book related)
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RE: when (in history) did it become unacceptable for a man to hit his own wife? (book related)
deenbat
13 yrs ago
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I think the answer is very case-specific. I also think that a good argument could be made for the idea that it has never really been considered "acceptable," depending on how one defines "abuse." Certainly it only became…
deenbat
13 yrs ago
with the possible exception of the Tommy & Tuppence stories. If you're reading Poirot or Miss Marple the order really doesn't matter.
Another possible starting place would be "Murder on the Orient Express."
