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Just a friendly reminder that we'll be reading #TheLastContinent next! Dig out your books, put in your library holds, or place your orders! The next Discworld adventure continues on July 8th! Woohoo!

If anyone wants to be tagged/untagged for future posts please let me know! Happy to oblige!

#Discworld #SirTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett #PratchettPosse #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #EpicBuddyRead

#OokBOokClub-ers, our Discworld adventure continues TODAY with #InterestingTimes and #TrollBridge!

Looking forward to our discussion next month!

Happy reading!

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Strong opening page/paragraph. Well, whatever, I liked it enough to read the book.

A titan was murdered and Cal investigates.

An interesting blend of genre and interesting world-building. Snarky MC, first person POV, villains with ethics and Sci-fi that makes sense.

#RomCom a bit #LoveAtFirstSight a bit #FriendsToLovers and a lot of not so #FakeDating (for the work-life-balance that gets them the promotion)

Liked the idea of their meet-cute: Max is the hired objector at Sophie's wedding.
Loved Sophie's flatmates. 😂😂

#52bookclub24SummerReadingList #BalanceBeam

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I had to try the AI portrait generator, @CrowCAH. So much fun.

The top one is closer to my actual face, the bottom one represents my style more. Thanks to this I know which haircut to get. 😁😁

Finished book 5 of the Time Police series in one go. Combined eBook and #audiobook.

No St Mary's this time, a pure TP affair; but it has a historical component. This time the TP Desaster Magnets have to catch a steam train that's gone rogue.

#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

I'm Killing Time today. 😁

Just released. Again: Why do I have to wait until 9.30am (CEST) to download the pre-ordered audiobook, Audible?

#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

Wow, I've seen quite a lot of those films.

My three favourites/most influential for my growing brain:

Indiana Jones Raiders if the lost Arc (any Indy, actually)
The Goonies
Die Hard

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe

Especially liked the longer stories: The Dream and Rattlesnakes

Thanks for pushing me, without pushing me @Oryx @TrishB @scripturient

#52bookclub24SummerReadingList
#Longjump

Lady Hardcastle and Florence Armstrong head to London to help Harry with an investigation. Of course nobody takes them seriously, they are women.

#52bookclub24SummerReadingList
#Fencing

#20in4 #readathon
#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

#ARC #NetGalley

A travelling theatre actress and a former military surgeon are thrown together to find the Hellfire Club's secrets her brother hid before his death. A letter with clues sends them on a dangerous scavenger hunt followed by men who are ready to kill for those secrets. Naturally the two MCs are attracted to each other, but have their reasons/flaws not to turn their collaboration into a dalliance.

This could turn into a series.

#52bookclub24SummerReadingList

#RoadCycling

Part 🌶️ #HistoricalRomance part #MurderMystery.

Great #PalateCleanser.

#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65
#20in4 #readathon

33 books in May + 3 DNF

Top books:

Shades of Grey + Red Side Story
Magie Murders
Maybe This Time
How to Bury Your Husband
The Guncle Abroad
The Paradise Problem

May's stinker was The Puzzle Wood. I might have had too high expectations. The ARC read like an early draft. The finished novel might be more well-polished and historical inaccuracies might have been edited out.

Let's see what June brings.

#WorstRead2024 @CSeydel

Not all of the things that brought me joy this week.

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

The cats are a constant well of joy, especially when they furball on my yogamat or leave their 💩in front of the litter box.

Listened to the Guncle Abroad and most of the new SK (physical copy arrived today).

One kid wanted the darkest brownies (used 95% cocoa chocolate), the other asked for cheesecake. So I combined the two and threw in some berries.

A good sequel. I love Rowley's writing and narration. And I'd love to have a GUP in my life 😁

#audiobook

#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

Not what I expected, based on the blurb.

It's the end of the 21st century. A class reunion on a luxury space station. There are two ensembles of characters, the ones "below stairs" and the ones "above stairs".

The rich people "above stairs" have rich-people-problems. Foremost, how to outwit the MERIT system that could get them to Mars. They have known each other since school. They have drifted apart, but are happy to ⬇️

#NetGalley #ARC

#OokBOokClub book of the month, re-reading #Eric for the umpteenth time. 😁😁

#ShadowCat being a goofball

GASP!!! at the end of chapter 51 (the Danny story) there's Ella letting out a breath she wasn't aware of holding!

Mr King, I choked on my morning tea! 😂😂😂

@Oryx @TrishB @scripturient
#Gladstonerds

Meme from a Reddit post I found after reading Fall; or Dodge in Hell.

Well, I've given Stephenson a try. Again.

#ClassicLSFBC (I hope I got the # right)

Nope!!! Good idea, but nearly 33 hours for the #audiobook that's at least 20 hours too many.

I gave it 5 hours on 1.75x.

This is the fourth book I've read by Stephenson. The fourth
I've bailed. I've learned my lesson.

That said, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. is good, but it's a collaboration with Nicole Galland.

I folded under the peer pressure, twice actually.

1) @TrishB, @Oryx and @scripturient were all reading the tagged book yesterday and so I got the audiobook

2) the feline highnesses decided the night's up at 4:31 a.m. I got up at 5:30, have been tinkering around the flat (🧺🪣🚮) and am sitting in the early morning sunshine listening to the #audiobook

Nearly 33 hours!!! Wowza!

Honestly, listening to Mary Robinette Kowal reading this, I am reminded of The Calculating Stars and wondering whether her book was influenced by Seveneves.

Love the idea of this Kickstarter project. It's live for another four days.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/luisferro/frankenstein-pride-and-prejudice-...

A whooping 9/100. Yes, just nine!

I listen to music, but apparently not to the top 100 on the list.

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe

Bit Crazy Rich Asians, bit Ocean's 8.

Quick entertaining read.

3/5🌟

My daughter asked me pick up her Manga (Apothecary Diaries and My Roommate is a Cat in German) order from the bookshop and when I got home the tagged GN was waiting for me in the mail. (ordered it in March).

#BookMail #BookHaul

Mike gets a phone call from one of his co-workers. June needs help and he's the only one she could reach. She went through a wormhole during a solar flare and ended up in the future. Mike needs to befriend and help present day June so she won't walk into the wormhole.

Typical Bastone characters - with flaws and lots of character development throughout the story.

This would make a great film.

Book not in database yet.

#ARC #NetGalley #MountARC

A prequel novella to Dawson's HMRC series.

It's an alternate historical fantasy based on the historical figures of Anne Boleyn and her ladies-in-waiting.

The story didn't grip me like the other books in the series. It wasn't just the usual depiction of promiscuous Anne or Anne the witch that didn't sit well with me, what pulled me out of the story most often were the anachronisms used ⬇️

2.5/5 stars

#RomCom with some more sombre notes.

TW: death of a child (off page), mourning, depression

#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

For those of you, who've been waiting for over a decade for this: it's worth the wait.

Story picks up shortly after where Shades of Grey ended. I don't want to accidentally spoil anything. So 🤐

Jasper Fforde reads the information preceding each chapter. #audiobook

Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe

Music! 🤔

Vitamin String Quartett - Geek Wedding Vol. 2
Coldplay - Viva la Vida
Matrix OST

Incompetence Porn, but I just couldn't stop listening.

And with incompetent I don't only mean the characters, the audiobook has page turning (Ch 19 or 20) which is definitely not a sound effect à la graphic audio. 🤦🏻‍♀️

TW: shaming, victim blaming, gross incompetence by all and sundry

#ARC #MountARC #NetGalley - meanwhile published

The mage of mages and a queen's guard decide, after years of a secret relationship, to run away together and open a tea/book shop in a small town. So far so Legends&Latte + Bookshops&Bonedust.

The novel finds its feet around 40%, when secondary characters have been introduced and a quest seems to come up.

There is potential for a series and I'm looking forward to it.

Low pick

#CozyFantasy

It's nearly Halloween and the old-timers from next door let themselves into Riley and Nick's fixer-upper, which still stinks btw, to ogle the sleep-stripper and eat all the Halloween candy. Riley's psychic antennae aren't working properly and Nick is obsessed with a cold case.
Will Wanda and Gabe stop making googly eyes at each other? And how does Riley manage to be held at gunpoint yet again?

#SeriesLove2024
@TheSpineView @Andrew65

This was fun. Annie is to meet her great-aunt for the first time. But just before the meeting aunt Francis is murdered. Annie, being a writer of murder mysteries, jumps in to solve the murder. What she finds out is connected to a fortune Francis was told at age 16, which predicted Francis's murder and had haunted her all her life. It seems Francis had solved her murder and paid for it by being killed. (yes, I'm wording it like this on purpose).
⬇️

@Robotswithpersonality's post reminded me that I'm in the middle of a Rivers of London re-read. That's why I'm spending my morning with Peter Grant and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.

#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

Weird, maybe bonkers, definitely ingenious dystopian fiction. It's unlike anything I've read before.

I need the sequel by yesterday.

#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

It's 1926, Ringmaster and her crew of Sparks (people with magical abilities) travel across the US to bring people joy and to help "special guests" in which ever way possible. This also includes Ringmaster, her wife Odette and their friend Mauve to travel through time (⬇️)

It's also 1917, Edward was just rescued from a WW I trench by Ruth. The two run away to join the circus.

#buddyread @DuckOfDoom

Low pick for me, see comments

Out already

Debut SF novel with a bit of romance. Unique cultural approach: Korea is the leading nation for space exploration.

Found family, enemies-to-lovers(?), cliffhanger ending.

Nothing much happens in the first 3/4 of the book, unfortunately. Secondary characters are mere plot devices and can only be distinguished by their quirks.

#MountARC #NetGalley

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

A quiet week thanks to a public holiday on Thursday (May is full of public holidays here in Germany).

I should have added: a lovely cup of coffee and some Christmas biscuits (leftovers in a tightly closed tin) while sitting outside in the sunshine. 😜🙈

Holmes and Watson are trying to find out who the Black Baron is. Meanwhile bombings happen across London and draw ever closer to Buckingham Palace, the Queen might be their intended target, naturally Mycroft engages Sherlock to investigate.

Spoilers⬇️

Just a friendly reminder that we'll be reading #InterestingTimes and #TrollBridge next! Dig out your books, put in your library holds, or place your orders! The next Discworld adventure continues on June 8th! Woohoo!

Troll Bridge is in "A Blink of the Screen" or can be downloaded here:
https://jerrywbrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Troll-Bridge-Pratchett-Terry....

ETA: changed link

#Discworld

#OokBOokClub-ers, our Discworld adventure continues TODAY with #BOOKTITLE!

Looking forward to our discussion next month!

Happy reading!

#Discworld #SirTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett #PratchettPosse #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #EpicBuddyRead

Hello friends! Open discussion is in the FOLLOWING POST marked as a spoiler. Find the Sourcery post & tap "show me" on the spoiler tag to join in the discussion. Join in whenever you can! Today. Tomorrow. Next month! The post will always be up so just tag each other & we'll jump in to discuss with you. Feel free to chat about anything!

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It's Friday. 🎉🎉 And someone has to make a start. 😉

I cleaned my honestly tiny balcony on Wednesday, because the cat wouldn't let me do #audioknitting. As soon as I was done, #GhostCat vanished into her tent (pic above) and I could play with my yarn and knitting pattern.

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

Not a case of #KAL, but Her Feline Highness #GhostCat is sitting on my knitting pattern and hence I have to enjoy my #audiobook without #audioknitting.

The disadvantage of sitting here with idle hands, I see the dirty spots that need to be spring-cleaned.

#KnittersOfLitsy #CatsOfLitsy