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How to narrow the answers to these questions? 🤯🫠
1. Maybe some characters from The Neverending Story by Michael Ende?
Xayíde, Ygramul the Many, Atréyu, Bastian Bathazar Bux, Carl Conrad Coreander, Grograman etc. have maybe had the greatest impact.
Fantasy seems to be the best & neverending source for weird names... 😄
2. The tagged one, among so many other options...

#names #WondrousWednesday @Eggs
Wanna play? @RaeLovesToRead @kezzlou85

#BeginsWith
I had a few options here, but when in doubt go with Douglas Adams. I have this as both ragged old paperback and as Kindle edition, but neither of them has this particular cover. I just went with this one because of the way it makes the word #Long stand out. 😄

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Interesting story

This was even more funny than I remembered, and I think I understood the end better this time, though it still gets a bit frantic. Revisiting Adams made me happy.

I'm having book attention issues again (lack of sleep and recharge time will do that). So July was not a great month in that I didn't read a ton and I DNFed at least one book. But I did read a couple of things I had fun with, and I'm going into the new month with 3+ books started, so who knows what will happen? #JulyWrapUp

Here's my #BookspinBingo board for the month! I guess I'm finishing Adams this month since both his spaces are marked as #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin! Here we go!
@TheAromaofBooks

#BookSpingBingo card May is cleared 😄 Reviews are on their way!

@TheAromaOfBooks

This is so crazy and weird, typical Douglas Adams 😁 And of course a whole lot of fun! There's so much going on, I think I lost track. Which made it even more enjoyable. Is that even possible? 😁

#Norway #FoodandLit @Butterfinger @Texreader
@TheAromaofBooks #BookSpinBingo #BookSpin

Here's my #BookSpinBingo board for May. My #BookSpin is Douglas Adams' The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul, my #DoubleSpin is my chosen book for Liljas Challenge.

@TheAromaofBooks

1. It certainly wasn‘t a phase for me. 😅 I loved ALL mythology as a kid and willingly soaked up any culture‘s mythology that I could research. I‘m still this way.
2. Ugh, that‘s a tough one... Norse mythology would probably win out over the others by just the barest smidge.
3. Tagged my absolute fav!!! ❤️😍❤️ Can‘t go wrong with Douglas Adams!
#SundayFunday

Finished all the available Hitchhiker's Guide books available on Libby, and decided to move onto Dirk Gently. Unfortunately, only the second one is available and I haven't read the first.

I was excited to know it's read by the author. It occurred to me that I have never heard his voice. Adam's has a really good speaking voice, but for whatever reason I'm still unable to focus on the story. Might have to give another audiobook a try.

So I always have my TBR each month, but I also have a secret backup TBR, in case I finish all the books I was planning to read... this is the backup #MayTBR, but I'm thinking of switching the two lists this time! These seem a bit more comfort-read looking than what I originally planned...

#MagicalMay @Eggs

This book was all over the place in the best possible way. I'm a little sad there aren't more of these. I will probably never look at a Coke machine in quite the same way.

Also, I think JK Rowling must be a Douglas Adams fan. The scene on the train platform took that opinion to the next level.

#FestivePhotoChallenge #WinterGames #TeamNutcracker #day1 #AdventCalendar This is my kind of advent calendar! From the T2 company, which was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1996, every year they have their own advent calendars with one sachet of different teas behind the doors. There‘s a loose leaf option & a teabag option but whichever you choose, you‘ll be enjoying some amazing teas☕️ 2pts #PointsTotal-35pts

Thanks for the tag @vivastory !

Everyone has probably seen the rules by now for the #7Covers7Days #CoverCrush challenge, but just in case. Post a favorite book cover, 1 a day for 7 days, and tag someone new each day to join in on the fun! Mine won't be in any particular order, and I'll probably forget some of my favorites, but here's my day 1!

@Kayla.Adriena join in, if you haven't already been tagged!

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This book is as weird as it's title. I realized Dirk Gently didn't have much to do here but that's his whole thing right!! he is a holistic detective after all.
This book is uncanny and inexplicable at times but is a fun read. Go for this if you like fantasy mixed with science fiction!!

#quotsyfeb19 #loop @TK-421

#quotsyjan19 #intelligent @TK-421

What a welcome balm as I left a much-too-short vacation mode and launched straight back into the madness of real life!

I've been in a few airports in the last few weeks. This spoke to me.

"Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort."

Adam‘s has one of my favorite conversational voices. Especially made entertaining by the fact every time I read “Thor” I see Chris Hemsworth. Adam‘s ability to convey the setting in quick, precise, character influenced sentences has always been perfect. I especially loved the addition of the female protagonist in this novel. 5 out of 5 on GR. I wish there had been more Dirk Gently.

Updated TBR stack.
This time Dirk finds his client‘s head spinning on a record and his “partner” gets mixed up with Norse Gods. Can‘t wait to finish!

“He turned to the front page to see if there was any interesting news.”

#bluebooks #31bookpics @howjessreads

Small haul! I‘m a quality over quantity type of guy. 😉

#agameoffavorites day 5, while I do enjoy poetry and have favorite poets, I gotta go with sci-fi! Douglas Adams has been one of my favorites since I was 17-18. I adore Hitchhiker's Guide. But nothing can upset Tea Time as my favorite Adam's book. I know it's not as sci-fi-ish, but it is still classified as such. His favorite book, I can't find; but his favorite author was PG Wodehouse. He's an unread on my tbr pile.

@ErinSueG @WhiskeyMistress

#readingresolutions day 4 #coverlove @Jess7

My very old and well loved first edition copy of one of my absolute favorite books, also happens to have one of my absolute favorite book covers.

I miss Douglas Adams. Great dramatization of this book, but these characters were knockouts to start.

New post on the blog about favourite first lines. I confess I don‘t pay a lot of attention to first lines. Do you? What are your faves?

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Kid 1: “Hey, mom, what are you reading?”
Me: “It‘s called The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.”
Kid 1: “But why aren‘t you reading your buddy reads?”
Kid 2: “Yeah, don‘t you have those two big books as buddy reads?”
Me: ...

The moral of the story is: don‘t tell your kids when you‘re doing a buddy read.

Ha! So relatable.

With that she marched out, and slammed the door on him. She waited in the other room, firmly reading a book.

✨My momma got me another tea set 😍 I have noooo idea where she keeps finding all these tea sets, but I don't care! Just call me the Mad Hatter. It's tea time! ☕💜
...I should also invest in some sort of glass hutch (?) case?? Not sure what they're called, but I have a hyper active pitbull who I don't fully trust with breakables around 😂🙄

1. The Sacred Enneagram and a book by Pema Chödrön that my Sissy (@BookishBelle) bought me for Christmas.
2. Not really. I have to work. Although, I was invited to join my @BookishBelle on her awesome vacay.
3. I absolutely love flowers so much I buy a small bunch every week, bc I deserve them. Currently I am digging daffodils, but I am a sucker for a white Lily any day.
4. Totally jelly beans...especially the black ones.❤

Almost half way done with this book and someone wants a foot massage... I think they'll have to wait. Also, an Aunt suggested this book as a good book to read while grieving. So far, that has not been the case, though it is quite decent and I have a history of liking this author...So it's not terribly upsetting to go on another absurd adventure. #DouglasAdams #DNA #SundayReading

1. 31
2. One sister and two brothers (twins), all younger
3. None
4. The Plague by Albert Camus, Dracula by Bram Stoker and the Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
5. Hahaha
6. 🙄😍
7. nudiustertian (bonus least favourite: fecund!)
8. How quickly and completely I can lose my temper 😳
9. Both 🐱🐶
10. Tea
11. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
12. @Kalalalatja @Libby1 @PagesOfKate
#hallowhoareyou
Thanks for the tag @saresmoore!

Is this not the most perfect tea mug?! Hands down this may be my next bookish purchase! And I swear I was looking at Amazon for hangers, not books, or bookish things. This is all Amazon's fault. Yup. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

This was full of all the usual quirky wit I like about Douglas Adams, but overall I just didn't enjoy this as much as the first Dirk Gently novel.

#GIVEAWAY!! In celebration of Reading Envy 100th!
I'm going to send a bag of Reading Envy tea to a random person who comments on this post. USA only since I'll ship from the company.
Comment by midnight Wednesday EST.
Question: Is it tacky to have a giveaway of books I may have read or bailed on?

Playing #anditsaugust catch-up now that I'm back with my books for a few days. Here are two with #drinksoncovers I feel like the tagged book' series #needsmorelove - yes Hitchhiker's Guide is a killer series, but I ❤️ Dirk Gently a little bit more.

I've heard variations of this quote many times over never knowing it was something uttered in a Douglas Adams book!
#DirkGently

I have really not been feeling like myself lately and so I haven't been able to finish any books in what feels like an eternity. Tonight I'm going to try to start the second #DirkGently novel before I drift off to sleep!
#dogsoflitsy #readinginbed
#readingslump

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Thank you @Aninski for the book and the adorable kitty you crocheted! Such a sweet surprise! He survived the journey quite well 😺
Since he's the same color as my cat, I will try to get them in a portrait together at some point 😽
And I am looking forward to the book 📚💕📚

Just found out I have 2 copies of this book. Would anyone like to have one? It's the second book in the Dirk Gently's series by Douglas Adams. (It's brand new and the shiny TV series thing is a sticker, it can be removed 😊and yes, I mean for free!)