Kevin's Watch

Avatar wrote:Hahaha, I like being able to hold a book in my hands. And to look up at my shelves and feel the satisfaction of having collected so many.

I felt the same way until I lost 95% of my collection in a flood a few years ago. I feel guilty about giving my money to Amazon instead of my local bookstore, but I have fully embraced the digital side.

Now that really sucks Sorus. I do sometimes wonder how many I could save in the event of fire... But I don't dwell on shit like that.

Anyway, reading book 3, Mockingjay.

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I had all the HUnger Games books but leant them to a friend before reading them .. and never got them back .. that was several years ago now. When I asked her if shed finished with them .. she said that she didnt recall borrowing them and that the books she had were hers.

Yeah .. wasnt happy about that .. then I heard shed sold all her books, including the fucking ones I leant her

I had the entire Walsh set and leant them to a work mate, who took them with him back to Qld .. I was ok with it cos he said hed mail them back to me .. nope never did

Now I dont lend my books out

My books are my treasures. I love having shelves upon shelves filled .. if I come upon a book that doesnt do it for me .. those Ill willingly part with .. but not my faves. I would hate to lose them in a bush fire etc. Just one of the worst things I can imagine

Yeah, its happened to me a few times, but at the end of the day, I still lend them out. Bit more careful these days...keep a list of who has what and remind them every now and then. Haven't lost any for a good long while. (With 1 exception, but wasn't a fave, so not too worried.)

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Yeah .. well done.

I should keep a log ..

I hate lending out my books. I buy hardcovers and they aren't cheap. I still do it, though. At least to good friends.

btw: Just finished Joe Hill's Strange Weather, which was a good 4-novella book in the spirit of his dad's Different Seasons. Except the final one was so preposterous from a science standpoint that it took me out of the story and I couldn't get back in. Finished it anyway but sort of a downer to end the collection.

Now reading King's The Outsider, about 100 pages in. Good so far, typical King stuff (from me, that's a compliment, as I usually enjoy his writing style).

Reading Transcendence by Lynne Cantwell

I think I've heard of her...

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Finished The Calculating Stars. I don't usually get through audiobooks that fast, but I was doing some really boring grindy stuff in WoW so I decided to listen while I did.
It's an excellent book! An alternate history about America rushing to get into space in the 1950s after a meteorite hit, from the PoV of a female pilot and mathematician - with severe anxiety - who's pushing for women to be allowed to be astronauts. There's a sequel coming very soon.

Mary Robinette Kowal is a professional audiobook narrator, so the audio performance was also very good.

Just finished reading Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant by Veronica Roth. I'm kind of on a YA kick because my daughter (fawn of the dawn) gave me her old Kindle to give away in Africa, and her books from high school were still on it. (Also read The Fault in Our Stars, which was beautiful.)

I really loved the Hunger Games series, more than I expected.

deer of the dawn wrote:Just finished reading Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant by Veronica Roth. I'm kind of on a YA kick because my daughter (fawn of the dawn) gave me her old Kindle to give away in Africa, and her books from high school were still on it. (Also read The Fault in Our Stars, which was beautiful.)

I really loved the Hunger Games series, more than I expected.

What part of Africa are you in? I have a friend in Mali right now, weird coincidence!

Haha, Deer is in Nigeria. (Or will be shortly anyway, on her way back there from the States.)

Hey, I just re-read The Hunger Games myself.

There's plenty of good YA stuff out there.

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Didn't know what to read, so fallen back on Pratchett's Night Watch, my favourite of his books.

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Red Country by Joe Abercrombie.

Seems to be set some years after the events on the First Law books. AndI have a sneaking suspicion that a major character from them is back...

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Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology. A bit oversimplified, but entertaining.

Been reading Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor over the weekend.

Pratchett's Snuff.

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Pratchett: The Wee Free Men

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