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rabbitprincess

Joined May 2016

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Rhs Pocket Diary 2025 | Royal Horticultural Society
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This week for my #FiveJoysFriday:
1. Spent most of the week working on a jigsaw puzzle: a rainbow of buildings in Copenhagen (artist: Martin Schwartz)
2. Played board games with my nephew last weekend
3. My partner and I ordered a board game table that can be converted to a dining table
4. My favourite Triscuits were on sale 😋
5. Made great progress on a work project and received encouragement on it 💪🏼

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This was pretty dang cute. The KITTENS 🥺 There are only three volumes in this series (at least according to Goodreads) so I will finish it up sharpish. Thanks @JenlovesJT47 for the rec 😻

JenlovesJT47 Aww yay I‘m glad you liked it! Seriously the cutest freaking thing I‘ve ever seen 😻😻😻 2d
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Eye of Heaven | Jim Mortimore
Mehso-so

A high So-So verging on low Pick. For the most part, Leela, who narrates most of the chapters, is rendered well, but her knowledge of sailing ships is not plausible to me (those bits felt like “research“). I also found the story was told just enough out of order to be disorienting chronologically.

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The Survivors | Nicholas Briggs
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Dalek Empire 3.3: The Survivors was my December pick for #12BooksOf2024. It was a really good listen and has me racing through this story arc a little faster than I normally read audiobooks!

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The Fearless Organization was my November pick for #12BooksOf2024. I borrowed an e-copy from the library and did a LOT of highlighting -- and then it got returned automatically when the loan was up 😂 I'll have to borrow it again to get the highlights back.

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Demons | Nicholas Briggs
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This was such a good installment of Dalek Empire! David Tennant does an excellent job as Galanar, and the dramatic cliffhangers continue to pile up. I refreshed my memory of earlier Dalek Empire arcs, and this is building on the story really well.

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The Inshore Squadron | Alexander Kent
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Overall, I'd say this was a Pick. The pace was good for a historical novel, and I enjoyed reading about the Battle of Copenhagen given that I visited the city this past summer. The only downside to this book: few female characters, and what ones exist are not well rounded. (I don't expect many given the setting, but it would be nice for the ones there ARE to be interesting.)

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Rhs Pocket Diary 2025 | Royal Horticultural Society
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Hoping to be a more regular participant in #FiveJoysFriday this year! Here‘s this week‘s roundup:

1. Excited to be participating in the #CosmereBuddyRead 😊

2. Going out for dinner with friends tonight 🍽️

3. My friend knitted me a lovely pair of dark blue cabled socks 🧦

4. Saw my nephew on Tuesday! 💙

5. I have a cupboard full of snacks from Christmas, which makes my inner hobbit happy 😂

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Apollo 13 | Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
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My October pick for #12BooksOf2024 is Apollo 13, by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. A fascinating, suspenseful read. I was inspired to watch the movie as well, and that was also great.

mom2bugnbee Had you never seen the movie? It's in my top 10 of all time. One of my favorite Tom Hanks performances. (He's my favorite.) 1w
rabbitprincess @mom2bugnbee Nope! I‘m not much of a movie watcher 😅 But I agree with your assessment that it‘s a great film. 1w
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My September pick for #12BooksOf2024 is The Fellowship of the Ring. This was a re-read inspired by meeting Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd at Comic-Con :)

thegirlwiththelibrarybag Ooh! How lucky to have met them! I love seeing clips of them online - they always seem like they are having the best time together. I was given tickets to the LOTR musical for my birthday - the show is still a couple of months away, so I‘ve decided to reread the books - I‘ve just left Tom Bombadil and am heading towards the prancing pony. 1w
rabbitprincess @thegirlwiththelibrarybag They are so fun! Elijah Wood and Sean Astin were there too and did a special panel. I got a pic with Dominic and Billy, and Billy‘s autograph on my copy of Macbeth 😍 The musical sounds fab—have an awesome time! 1w
thegirlwiththelibrarybag @rabbitprincess, sounds like a LOTR film fans dream to see them all on a panel. I‘m looking forward to the musical - it‘s either going to be the best thing ever or something that never gets bought up in conversation again ☺️ 1w
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My August pick for #12BooksOf2024 is Says Who?, by Anne Curzan. I liked her approach to grammar and language.

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A #Roll100 wrap-up for 2024. I managed to read 15 of 36 picks, which is pretty good given that most of my reading time was monopolized by my master‘s degree. It‘s a part-time degree, so it will be taking up a fair chunk of 2025 as well, but I am looking forward to a clean slate of reading!

kwmg40 Good luck with both your reading and your master's degree in 2025! 1w
rabbitprincess @kwmg40 Thanks! Happy new year 🎉 1w
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A Man and His Cat 11 | Umi Sakurai
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My July pick for #12BooksOf2024 is A Man and His Cat, Volume 11. This series is just so darn cute and warm-fuzzy-inducing 😻

I've just learned that Volume 12 is available in English and my library has it, so of course I immediately requested it 😄

JenlovesJT47 I love that series, so adorable! If you like those and haven‘t already read it I would recommend reading Cat Massage Therapy. One of the cutest freaking things I‘ve ever seen 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ 2w
rabbitprincess @JenlovesJT47 I am requesting the heck out of this from the library! 😻 Thanks for the rec! 1w
JenlovesJT47 I hope you enjoy it! I got them from the library but I‘m thinking about buying them eventually. Cuteness overload 😻 1w
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My June pick for #12BooksOf2024 is Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop. I am totally here for all this cozy translated bookshop fiction, and this one in particular would go very well with a coffee.

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Rhs Pocket Diary 2025 | Royal Horticultural Society
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First #Roll100 of 2025: all Doctor Who in a variety of formats 😂

1️⃣ Doctor Who: Eye of Heaven (Mortimore) (print)
2️⃣ The Diary of River Song, Series 7 (audio)
3️⃣ Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen (ebook)

PuddleJumper Haha a themed month! 2w
rabbitprincess @PuddleJumper Love when that happens! 2w
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Rhs Pocket Diary 2025 | Royal Horticultural Society
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For this first #BookSpinBingo of 2025, I‘m reducing the number of spaces dedicated to school texts (either book or article will count) but adding some extra freebie spaces in case some months have more school reading than others.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w
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Mistborn: The Final Empire | Brandon Sanderson
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A cheeky Christmas present to myself so I can start the #CosmereBuddyRead in January!

JacqMac Yay!!! Mine came yesterday. I‘m really excited to get started. 2w
Jess861 So exciting - this is the set I own as well! I can't wait to dive back into this world!! 2w
rabbitprincess @JacqMac I was going to order it online but then my local Indigo had it in person. A lucky break! @Jess861 I‘m excited to start exploring this world! 2w
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A Man and His Cat 10 | Umi Sakurai
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My May pick for #12BooksOf2024 is A Man and His Cat, Vol. 10. This series about Mr. Kanda and his cat Fukumaru is super adorable. A lot of these books received high ratings as I zoomed through the series.

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My April pick for #12BooksOf2024 is Voice Lessons, by Rob Paulsen. I read the audiobook version, read by Paulsen himself, and it was excellent. Definitely a must-listen if you enjoyed the cartoons he did voices in (I loved Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain).

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My March pick for #12BooksOf2024 is Dr. Jen Gunter's latest (at December 2024). I found it extremely informative and well put together.

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My February pick for #12BooksOf2024 is Days at the Morisaki Bookshop. I found this book cozy and heartwarming. It doesn't have much of a plot, but that's not what I was after when I read it. The only disappointment for me was that there's a cat on the cover but no cat in the book. That would have made it purrfect. :)

Andrew65 This looks good, strange about the cat, 2w
rabbitprincess @Andrew65 Must be a marketing thing! I was at the bookstore today to buy the Mistborn trilogy and this book was out on a table with other cozy Japan-set books. Cats were very prominent 😹 2w
Andrew65 @rabbitprincess Clearly a thing for them! 2w
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Howls Moving Castle | Diana Wynne Jones
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Howl's Moving Castle is my January pick for #12BooksOf2024. It's the sort of book I would probably have LOVED as a teenager; I still liked it a lot even now.

mom2bugnbee My daughter has a degree in Cinema & Media Studies and this is her all-time favorite movie. ☺️ 2w
rabbitprincess @mom2bugnbee It‘s so good! I might need to watch it again. 2w
thegirlwiththelibrarybag Howl & Sophie are forever faves! 1w
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The Survivors | Nicholas Briggs
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Say WHAT! That ending was a jaw-dropper. Nice work.

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Just what I‘m after in a Verlaque and Bonnet mystery. The initial crime—the clearing out of a small museum over a long weekend—was an interesting change of pace.

CarolynM I‘m a fan of this series too. 3w
kwmg40 Adding this series to my TBR list! 3w
rabbitprincess @CarolynM I have only one left now 😢 such a treat of a series! @kwmg40 I can‘t remember if you have BritBox, but the first three books in the series were adapted under the title Murder in Provence 😄 3w
kwmg40 @rabbitprincess I don't have BritBox but might be able to get this through Amazon Prime or another source. Thanks for the info! 3w
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Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song | Jenny T. Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Andrew Lane, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams
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Overall, a good collection. However, one author clearly does not knit or crochet, because at one point the story « Death in New Venice » refers to a « crochet needle » (it‘s a crochet HOOK, and it would not make a good stabbing implement). And of course this is the one thing I trip up on in a sci-fi story ?

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Mattimeo | Brian Jacques
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I last read this a couple of decades ago, but it felt like a brand-new read. Kept me turning the pages quickly!

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This was pretty good, leaning into Seven‘s more manipulative side and presenting some truly horrifying Cybermen. Maybe don‘t read this when eating lunch 😅

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A fun way to revisit the first two seasons of Sherlock.

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Mystery on Southampton Water | Freeman Wills Crofts
Mehso-so

This is more of a will-they-get-away-with-it-dunnit than a whodunnit. I don‘t object to those, but it took forever for the murder to happen, and I found the company setting rather dull.

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The Trojan Horse | Hammond Innes
Mehso-so

The story did pick up toward the end, but it took a long time to get there.

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This was great. I highlighted a lot in the ebook copy but had to return it to the library, so I have to borrow it again so that I can retrieve the highlighting 😂

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Panpan

The PD James story (the first of the collection) was my favourite. The rest of the collection was not terribly interesting to me.

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#Roll100 December 2024 picks:
1. Sherlock Holmes Essentials, Vol. 1 (Doyle)

2. Cinq semaines en ballon (Verne)

3. Doctor Who: Illegal Alien (Tucker)

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My boring #BookSpinBingo list for November 2024. I just use posting the list as an excuse to play with all the backgrounds I keep downloading from PicCollage 😆

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2mo
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#Roll100 list for November 2024 contains all print books for once 😆
1. The Trojan Horse (Innes)

2. Mike: The Memoirs of the Hon. Lester B. Pearson (Pearson)

3. The Navigator of New York (Johnston)

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Going to call it a low Pick. Still depressingly relevant even 20+ years after publication. I do remain cynical that organizations would ever fully deal with burnout in the ways presented in the case studies, but it‘s nice to imagine.

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Mehso-so

Working my way through the Reginald Hills I‘ve collected and passing them along. This installment was well structured but on the long side.

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Mehso-so

I always enjoy reading Flavia‘s voice, but I found it hard to suspend disbelief for some of the plot elements. For this reason I do not regret keeping the series a borrow rather than buy. A possibly spoilery musing is spoiler tagged in a comment.

rabbitprincess I had about the same feelings about this as I did about Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew‘d…or rather, the same non-feelings. I just felt empty reading the end of both these books, and in a way it makes sense. 3mo
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McNally's Gamble | Lawrence Sanders
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An Archy McNally novel is always a fun time. This one is a little bit racier than other installments, on a similar level to McNally‘s Risk. But the story is good.

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Apollo 13 | Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
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Loved this! Even though I knew roughly how this story ended, the journey there made for a suspenseful read. Great work by Lovell and Kluger.

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I‘ve been reading a lot of articles for school this month and will probably fill up my #BookSpinBingo card the same way next month 😆

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3mo
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Great story! I also literally LOLd at the little intro story in the first part of the collection.

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October 2024 #Roll100 picks:
1. McNally‘s Gamble, by Lawrence Sanders

2. The Tenth Doctor Vol. 6: Sins of the Father

3. We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story, by Simu Liu (audio)

PuddleJumper Good luck! 4mo
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My favourite of the trilogy (and I suspect many others‘ favourite as well). It has so much heart and adventure. This time round I was moved to tears by Gimli and Galadriel.

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#BookSpinBingo list for September 2024 is all set. Thank goodness there‘s a comic book on the list (although have I read the comic book on this month‘s list? Absolutely not 😂)

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4mo
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#5JoysFriday
1️⃣ Going to see orchestra shows for The Legend of Zelda and Studio Ghibli!
2️⃣ Led a study group at work for friends interested in my master‘s program
3️⃣ My parents came to see the new house, and they loved it 🥰
4️⃣ Spent the past couple of days watching the Baldur‘s Gate 3 cast play D&D. So fun!
5️⃣ Found some nice photos to frame and hang on my walls

kspenmoll Happy new house!🏠 5mo
rabbitprincess @kspenmoll Thanks! Buying a house was not on our agenda this year, but a great opportunity landed in our laps 😄 5mo
DebinHawaii A wonderful list of joys—sounds like a great week! 💛💛💛 Thanks for joining in & helping spread the joy! 🤗 5mo
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#Roll100 for September 2024:
1️⃣ The Tenth Doctor, Vol. 5: Arena of Fear
2️⃣ The Order of Time, by Carlo Rovelli
3️⃣ Sherlock: The Casebook, by Guy Adams

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A vey good usage guide that encourages the inner wordie rather than the inner grammando. Curzan brings her own experience and input from her students to make this a well-rounded book.

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Rim of the Pit | Hake Talbot
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I don‘t generally get along with impossible crime mysteries, and this was unfortunately no exception. I preferred the supernatural explanation. Also the “romance” between Rogan and Sherry made my skin crawl (which is why this is a Pan raher than a So-so).

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Cat + Gamer Volume 1 | Wataru Nadatani
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This was fun, but sometimes the video game metaphors/analogies felt a bit over the top. I did like the cat POV interludes.