#TLT #ThreeListThursday
Thanks for the tag @Lizpixie In your honour I limited my choices to Aussie music.
Ita - Cold Chisel (I believe, I believe in what she says, yes I do!)
Love Is (What I Say) - INXS (the extended remix on the cassette only release Dekadance which I listened to obsessively in 1985)
Love In Motion - Icehouse (I wish the Chrissie Amphlett duet re-recording was 80s rather than 92, but the original version will do)
1. Together In Electric Dreams - The Human League/Giorgio Moroder.
2. Rock The Casbah - The Clash
3. Don‘t Believe Anymore - Icehouse
All are subject to change, music has always been my escape(along with books of course!)I have a large Spotify playlist of most of my fave 80s tunes with a few early 90s ones sneaking in.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0dQ9iDyd4zMrUv9A8JLrE0?si=ctjnpl3KTDmDfcg6wNsM...
#TLT #ThreeListThursday
If you could have a sequel to any stand-alone book which would it be?
My answer: Peter Pan
i was lucky to have met margaret atwood at a book fest and also met ransom riggs and anne rice at a barnes and noble book signing… @BookmarkTavern #sundayfunday
1. bette davis 2.ingrid bergman 3. cate blanchet 4.barbara stanwyck 5 nicole kidman 6. lucille ball…in no particular order…i watch a lot movies and tv aside from reading lol… @dabbe #tlt #threelistthursday
What is your favourite book cover?
1. robyn harding/ liane moriarty/ frieda mcfadden/ margaret atwood/ dan brown/ david sedaris 2. too many to count but my favorite classic is age of innocence 3. more of a stand alone kinda gal but have read some series and my favorite is stieg larsson @Eggs #wondrouswednesday
March 16 #ItTakesAllKinds With ? Or.! Love this song @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
i finished my reading goal of 52 books read and did 3 extra yay #readinggoal #sundayfunday @BookmarkTavern
#TeamEvergreen
1. Date Me, Bryson Keller
2. Pet
3. Reading - trying to complete my Goodreads goal before midnight, 🤞🏻
4. No, but I did look online for shopping deals
5. Brown, but I didn‘t take any outside pictures. I did take lots of pictures of Whitley with her new cactus chew toy though.
1. HALLOWEEN AND THANKSGIVING 2. baby its cold outside—not sure if its a xmas carol tho 3. wearing fuzzy socks under a thick blanket with a snack or a hot drink while watching tv or reading a book or sewing @Eggs #wondrouswednesday
#teamreindeergames #wintergames
1. Cozy up with a book under a blanket
2. Romance
3. hot apple cider
4. Movie: White Christmas; Book: A Christmas Carol
5. immersing myself in holiday cheer. I feel like the last few years I haven‘t really embraced Christmas as I‘m single and live alone. I‘m hoping this will help!
@liseworks @kezzlou85 @jessclark78 @karons1 @toriestories @matchlessmarie @aperfectmjk @clwojick @staycurious @Bluebird
#teamraindeergamers
1. Snuggle under the covers, I‘m not a fan of the cold
2. Mystery and historical fiction
3. Hot chocolate and butternut squash soup
4. Love holiday movies, have many favorites. The first that come to mind: Die Hard, You‘ve Got Mail, Miracle on 34th St.
Don‘t have a favorite holiday book
5. Finding new books (because my TBR list always wants to grow! 🤯). Enjoying December with Litsy friends
#TeamRaindeerGamers here is a little #GettingToKnowYourTeam questionnaire.
@annahenke @kezzlou85 @JessClark78 @Karons1 @TorieStories @MatchlessMarie @aperfectmjk @Bluebird My answers:
1. Hike in the forest with my camera and dog.
2. Thrillers. 3. Turkey Pot pie, tea. 4. The Grinch..and the Grinch. I just love the Grinch.
5. Getting to know Litsy Friends. Adding books to TBR list
1. Jaxon
2. Tavis
3. My library.
Those two gorgeous babies are my grandsons & they are my reason for fighting so hard. And I‘m so grateful for my library & for my hubby who brought my dream to life. Love all three of those boys soooo much! Now I just need a granddaughter and life will be as perfect as it‘ll ever get.
What are you grateful for @LeeRHarry @CarolynM @MrsMalaprop
#WondrousWednesday
i feel like the last few months is going by so fast…im glad to end 2023 but also dont want fall to end… #thisorthat
1. The smell of a summer thunderstorm.⛈️
2. A garden full of flowers, especially gardenia, rose & murraya(mock orange).🌹🪻🌺🌸🌼🌻
3. Ozone & sea salt smell of thundering waves at the beach.🌊
#TLT Tagging @CarolynM @Andrew65 @thegirlwiththelibrarybag
i dressed up as sally from nightmare before christmas a few years ago and then as laura ingalls last year #sundayfunday @BookmarkTavern
#Scarathlon
Is this allowed? 😅
1. There were so many! Tom‘s Midnight Garden, the Wizard Of Oz series, Asterix & Obelisk & Tintin GN, & Samanthas Secret Room which as 1 of 5 kids really made me want my own cave! I was a big reader🤷🏻♀️
2. My dad had itchy feet so every weekend all 7 of us would be crammed into the Valiant Station Wagon & go exploring up & down the NSW coast. Fun times! And family BBQs.🥩
3. This was a tough one. I‘d have to say when my grandson was born.👇
!) The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner. It infected my brain in a way usually only scary visuals do.
2) I would once have said an emphatic NO WAY, but I have learned to enjoy small amounts of the creepy variety. Still hate gore and grisly -- body horror is right out.
3) Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. It's so dark and twisty and romantic.
A day late but here i go…1. pumpkin pies pumpkin muffins for me 2. definitely spooky stories #fallseasonishere #twofortuesday @TheSpineView
1. You betcha! I do both, I listen to audiobooks in bed & read when my eyes are actually open. Mostly😁
2. a. It helps with my pain control(I‘m in pain 24/7 so it takes my mind off it). b. It helps with my depression(takes me away from myself). c. It keeps my brain active(reading has been proven to help with brain function & memory).
#WondrousWednesday
1. Oh yeah. There‘s two large wood cases in the loungeroom, two large TBR bookcases in the spare room AND I have a library that was my sons room. And I still have double stacked shelves, a metre tall stack next to the bed and 4 stacks on the library floor. Oh, and a TBR cart! I‘m drowning in books. Which is fine.🫣
2. Alphabetically then chronologically. Except my #MountTBRShelvesOfDoom are also grouped by genre first.
@CarolynM @Cinfhen
i usually borrow books both ebook & physical and audiobooks from library and will only buy the book if i really really like it…saves me space and i support our local libraries #readinglife #sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz
First off, no that's not one of my cats.
My question: Is "cringe" the new standard for #RomCom?
I'm working my way through a few "hilariously funny" contemporary romance ARCs and they are giving me second hand embarrassment. I don't think any of the supposed to be funny stuff is actually funny. Is this the new normal?
And yes, you can tell me I'm a curmudgeon, though I don't think that's the problem here.
1. I love Wednesday, Sandman, The Expanse, Three Pines, Foundation & I‘m planning on watching Daisy Jones & the Six. NF I‘m watching The Problem with Jon Stewart, Emergency NYC, Homicide with Ron Iddles(Aussie true crime with the best detective we‘ve ever produced)& Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
2. Anita Blake would be interesting! MurderBot, Nevernight, A Darker Shade Of Magic, The Lost Man & Killers Of A Certain Age.
#WondrousWednesday
1. apples never fall & house of hunger
2. edith wharton, lian moriarty, margaret atwood, ruth ware, agatha christie, lisa see
3. ten days in a madhouse
@rachelsbrittain
1. usually after jan 6th…the three kings day…a filipino tradition…
2. i like both but love the rain more as long as no thunder and lightning lol…ima scaredy-cat 😂 @TheSpineView
#two4tuesday
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📚The Forgotten Garden- Kate Morton. Brilliant aussie writer.
✍🏼Raymond.E.Feist. Magician is still one of the best epic fantasy‘s written.
🎥Firefly! Of course🙌
🎤Foo Fighters forever! Taylor Hawkins will be missed always💔
🎵Friend of a Friend- Foo Fighters. Dave‘s love letter to Kurt. Another star that burned too bright for this world.🤘
#ManicMonday #letterF
What don‘t I collect? The tops of my library shelves hold my collection of literary mugs, POP vinyls etc. There‘s a giant novelty mug full of bookmarks on my desk, there‘s trinket dishes, stickers, magnets, my huge Potterverse collection including wands, and beside the library door is a display of pin flags that are full with more in progress hanging on the door.I have a box full of book sleeves. And there‘s stationery….🤔 #LittensWantToKnow
i used to finish every book but once i started abandoning books i dont enjoy i have been DNF-ing since and its been liberating…too many good books out there waiting to be discovered so why waste time on something you dont enjoy 😊 #littenswanttoknow @Bklover
#LittensWantToKnow
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I stopped and started a few books this week, couldn‘t stick with one and now I‘m #CurrentlyReading three books
A NF in print
A current fiction in Ebook
An HF in audio
What about you @Allylu @Megabooks
📚The Eye Of The World- Robert Jordan
✍🏼David Eddings.
🎥The Exorcist. Scared the crap out of me when I was 12!
🎤Elvis Costello
🎵Eagle Rock- Daddy Cool. I dare you to listen to it and not dance 🕺🏻
#ManicMonday #letterE
📚The Dry- Jane Harper
✍🏼Stephen Donaldson
🎥Dead Poets Society. Still makes me cry every time.
🎤Dire Straits. Mark Knopfler is a genius with a guitar & a tune.
🎵Drive- The Cars. Heartbreak song of my teenage years.
#ManicMonday #letterD
Catching up on these, didn‘t realise how far behind I was!
📚Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey
✍🏼Ann Cleeves
🎥The Cannonball Run- Burt Reynolds & Dom DeLuise. Perfect duo!
🎤Cold Chisel- Aussie rock
🎵Crunchy Granola Suite- Neil Diamond. My dad played Hot August Night constantly when I was a child. I still rock out to that intro🤘
#ManicMonday #letterC
1. I‘m actually reading one right now! I started the ebook of Five Days At Memorial by Sheri Fink on Scribd after watching the first eps on AppleTV. As a chronic care patient, the thought of being caught in something like that terrifies me.
2. Salvage The Bones by Jesmyn Ward is one I have to read.
3. Ironically, it‘s rain!
#SundayFunday
📖 The Black Echo by Michael Connolly. 1st Bosch book & one of the best.
✍🏼 Alan Bradley. His Flavia de Luce novels are brilliant.
📺 The Blacklist. James Spader. Enough said.
🎸 Beck. Especially his Seachange album. Gorgeous.
🎤 Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty. That sax brings back the 70s for me.
#ManicMonday #letterB
1. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. The best locked-room mystery ever written.
2. Sarah Addison Allen. Gorgeous whimsical writing.
3. Agatha Christie‘s Poirot. David Suchet IS Poirot.
4. AC/DC! Only with Bon Scott of course🤘
5. April Sun In Cuba-Dragon. Song of the aussie 70s.
#ManicMonday #LetterA
Thanks for the tag @Cinfhen Your turn @CarolynM @MrsMalaprop
1. Yes! Even though I‘ve been struggling with brain fog from illness, I try to at least listen to a few hrs of audiobook every day.
2. I‘m pretty much bedbound from illness now so it‘s the only thing that keeps me sane.
3. Magical realism for cheering me up & crime to help me think it could be worse!
Your turn @CarolynM @Cinfhen @Jeg
1. Magic of course! Watching Bewitched as a kid made me long to be a real witch my whole life!
2. So many. The Wheel Of Time series has a wonderful magic system, Sarah Addison Allen has some gorgeous books, the All Souls trilogy, the Sparrow Sisters duology, then there‘s single books like The Nature Of Witches, The Price Guide To The Occult, The Witches Heart, Warbreaker & how can I forget Harry Potter!
#Two4Tuesday
1. I like hardcovers now but it‘s mostly paperbacks in Aussie bookstores so I tend to buy from overseas online retailers. Otherwise if it‘s for a series I‘ve started collecting in paperbacks they‘ll do.
2. I read indoors coz of my health mostly but I do love to read outside sometimes.
3. Fall for sure. Autumn is my favourite time of the year, the changing trees, the cooler weather. Perfect.
#WondrousWednesday
1. Yes! Being interrupted by someone who wants to have a conversation even though they can see you‘re deep into the last few chapters of a great story(I‘m looking at you hubby👀)
2. Signed first editions of The Wheel Of Time series & maybe a signed Dame Agatha too🤔
#Two4Tuesday
1. Yep. They‘re currently by genre-alphabetical-pub date. Then there‘s the special shelves of classics, special editions etc.
2. Everywhere! There‘s bookcases in the lounge room, spare room, I have a library plus stacks in my bedroom & kitchen.📚📚📚
3. Every format. I have 1,000s of physical(hardback & paperback),1,000s of ebooks on my kobo & almost 400 audiobooks. Yes, I‘m obsessed🤷🏻♀️
#ThoughtfulThursday
1. I actually have no preference, either types are fine for me.
2. No unfortunately. I‘ve read translated books but I‘ve never learnt how to speak, read or write another language. Though I would love to learn! Russian has always fascinated me and Mandarin Chinese.
3. Most definitely a mood reader, I couldn‘t follow a list to save my life!
#WondrousWednesday
Your turn @CarolynM @Cinfhen @Clwojick @Ciara_Rosey
1. Wow, probably Dame Agatha honestly with a few crime writers who have written absurdly long detective series like Elizabeth George & Peter Robinson.
2. Right now, my library chair. But I wish I had a seaside or mountain cottage with a fireplace & big windows!
3. Oh yeah. As many as I possibly can🙌
#WondrousWednesday
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