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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
Oh my, which covers should I choose? There‘s the Seasons Editions of classics, the Bloomsbury Modern Classics, the special edition Pratchetts or SOIAF special editions, the Harry Potter books, the Penguin Galaxy series or the Daughter Of Smoke & Bone series, I could go on. And on. Yes I know, I‘m a total cover whore! I‘m totally drawn to a beautiful cover. But if a book is good, I‘ll read it no matter what it looks like though!
#SundaySoapbox
1. The Devil & Sherlock Holmes by David Grann
2. Yep. Something To Hide by Elizabeth George.
3. Currently rereading The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen & have Perdido Street Station & Olympus Bound started as well.
Tagging @Ciara_Rosey @CarolynM @MrsMalaprop @TheAromaofBooks @Cinfhen Tag you‘re it!
1. I‘d go back to the 70s! I absolutely loved my childhood in that decade. We struggled with no money due to my dad being injured at work but I remember the 70s as being a time of being free. We roamed our town, played outside till the streetlights went on, went on picnics, to the river or beach in summer, the mountains in winter. The music was awesome, the whole vibe was just wonderful.✌️
2. Shadow Of Night by Deborah Harkness.
#TwoForTuesday
Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView
1. According to GR it was 1,031pages!
2. Not at all! I think 7 out of 9 books so far this year have been over 500 pages #ilikebigbooksandicannotlie
Tagging @Ciara_Rosey @MrsMalaprop @Teresereading @Clwojick @RamsFan1963 @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego @thegirlwiththelibrarybag @LeeRHarry @LeahBergen
1. Oh god yes! I‘ve seen snow three times in my life and it was magical each time. Once when I was a child with my mum, once when I had a school camp to the Snowy Mts in year6 & once as I was walking in Mt Victoria & it started snowing on me. So beautiful.
2. Under a blanket, Listening to the rain while reading a book. I also love watching a winter stormy sea too.
Thanks for the tag @Andrew65
Can I count non-Christmas reads for #wintergames2021? #mistletoemaniacs
🧡 I just finished Gayle Foreman‘s The Wickeds and haven‘t decided yet what to read next
🧡 maybe a picnic, if the Melbourne weather gods are feeling kind
🧡 finally being fully vaccinated ✌🏼 just in time for everything to reopen 😅
Play if you feel so inclined! #wonderouswednesday
🎃 The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones. Halfway and it‘s very creepy & weird😬
🎃 Lots and lots of reading, trying to finish up the numerous readathons I‘m doing🤓
🎃 My grandson Jaxon‘s cute face & having so many books to choose from🙌
#WondrousWednesday
@CarolynM @thegirlwiththelibrarybag @Clwojick Tag you‘re it!
1. The Eye Of The World by Robert Jordan & Empire Of The Vampire by Jay Kristoff.🧙🏻♀️🧛
2. They Never Learn by Layne Fargo. Female retribution killer on a college campus. Amazing!
3. The end of this bloody lockdown hopefully🤞
#WeekendReads
1. I LOVE autumn(seems to be my fellow Littens fave too)
2. Spending weekends in the Blue Mountains with its spectacular autumn trees, smell of woodsmoke & fog.
3. My dream is to visit the Bodleian Library in Oxford or Trinity Library in Dublin. Bookstore would have to be Strand in NYC or Shakespeare & Company in Paris with hon mention to Word On The Water in London.
4. My husband, books & tea.
#WondrousWednesday
Your turn @CarolynM @Cinfhen
1. Yep. I love gardening mags, music mags & of course, book ones. We have one in Aus called Good Reading.🗞
2. I don‘t have any IRL friends(chronic illness whittles them down over time)but I have plenty of family that are👨👧👦
3. It has to completely capture me, when I finish it‘s like waking from a dream. 🛌
4. Blue skies, warm breeze & honestly, being able to sit upright without pain!💃🏻
#WondrousWednesday
@CarolynM @LeeRHarry Your turn!
Littens - would love suggestions for #Booked2021 prompt Appalachian Noir. I abandoned Winter's Bone... is there such a thing as a story in this genre that's not quite so dark? I like thrillers, but Winter's Bone was just too disturbing for me. TIA!
1. The Splendid And The Vile by Erik Larsen on audiobook. I‘m #audioknitting which actually helps me concentrate on both more!
2. At the moment it‘s knitting, crochet & cross stitch. Last lockdown it was gardening. I need to get back outside, my poor gardens are full of weeds🤦🏻♀️
3. The Nature Of Witches by Rachel Griffin. Absolutely loved it, it was a gorgeous book! Persephone Station by Stina Leicht was another.
#WeekendReads
1. My squad! From my birthday, I‘m with my 2 daughters & daughter-in-law.🤘
2. Loyalty. Then kindness, empathy & honesty. I‘m a big believer in honesty, most of my extended family don‘t speak to me because I refuse to lie & placate their feelings.🤷🏻♀️
3. A world destroying nuclear war. I grew up in the Cold War era.💥
4. Tasmania, it‘s wild, rugged & beautiful. It has some of the most beautiful bays & mountains in Australia🏔
#WondrousWednesday
1. Just about anything except death metal! I do have a preference for anything emotional, it‘s gotta hit the heart strings. Or make me wanna dance insanely!💃🏻
2. Kim‘s Resort on the Central Coast of NSW. Adults only, all gourmet in house food & drinks included, villa on the beach with a hot tub, double shower, king size bed & turn down service while you‘re at dinner.🥰
3. Don‘t really have one honestly.🤔
4. My grandbabies!👫
#WondrousWednesday
1. The Blue Mountains on the west of Sydney are my place. My dream is to retire there, I love autumn & winter when there‘s mist & the smell of wood fires burning & the trees turn🍂then snow❄️
2. It‘s a beautiful autumn day, the sky‘s blue with just a hint of chill.
3. Mist! I love foggy mornings & nights, then I‘d have to say birdsong. I love the diversity of birds in Aus, they have some of the most distinctive calls.
#ThoughtfulThursday
1. My names Liz & my hubby used to say I walked like a pixie sprite, like I was dancing on my toes.🧚🏻
2. Anywhere and anytime! My library chair is the most comfy & I enjoy late night reading coz I‘m an insomniac & it‘s quiet.🌘
3. Near The Bone by Christina Henry. Just read it in 2hrs!
4. 2 adults & 1 tomcat who‘s the king of the neighbourhood. I really want a corgi though, I grew up with two & love them to bits.🐶
#wondrouswednesday
We've all cancelled nights out with friends & family etc (at least when those were a thing) to read, but I want to know what is the farthest that you have gone in order to read? I was ENGROSSED in my book earlier today & had only about 30 pages left when I had to leave for a Dr appointment. I was sorely tempted to reschedule for Monday. Like 85% tempted...
1. Yes! I‘m that old I‘ve actually listened to books on CD, both ones I bought & ones I borrowed from the library.🎧👵🏻
2. Not all the time but yes I do. I like to match up playlists with either the setting of the book or the time period it‘s set in.🎵
Have at it @CarolynM @Cinfhen @Andrew65 & @AmyG
#Two4Tuesday
Quick question: do you guys count your DNFs toward your yearly reading goals or just finished books? I am thinking that it's best to just count the finished ones but would like to know what others do. Thanks!!
1. The Ladies of Missalonghi Colleen McCullough
2. On Doubt Don Watson
3. The Italian Ann Radcliffe Litsy readalong #Pemberlittens
#Goodbye2020
@ShyBookOwl
1. Dark Prince by Christine Feehan on audio
2. 4.50 From Paddington by Dame Agatha
#Goodbye2020
Hey Littens! Can you help a girl out? For those of you who use Goodreads, do you log your books read using the appropriate edition, whether that be hardcover, paperback, eBook, or audiobook? I‘ve always tried to pick the corresponding edition, but that means never meeting my annual page goal. Just curious how everyone else does it. Thanks!
1. Douglas Preston. Until I read The Monster Of Florence I hadn‘t picked him up at all.
2. Brutally Honest.😋
3. Escaping into another world.
#WondrousWednesday
@erzascarletbookgasm @julesG @Cinfhen
What is August‘s #BOTM ? Who usually has the spoilers for the next month? Thanks.
What is #bookspin? 😊😊😊
I keep seeing it and it looks like fun. I love a reading challenge.
Thanks!
Wow, this is such a tough question to answer. I have so many books in my mental Rolodex, it‘s hard to choose 3.
♥️ The Eye Of The World-Robert Jordan. Bk1 of the WOT series is fantastic & has a special place in my heart.
♥️ Skin Privilege-Karin Slaughter. Bk6 of her Grant County series, this is the one that changes Sara‘s life forever😭
♥️ The Rowan-Anne McCaffrey. I love all of McCaffreys series, but have a soft spot for Bk1 of TTATH.
#Favs
So..... @TheAromaofBooks, are you planning on doing another #bookspinbonanza for June? I'm already preparing my list....
🐐 Guilty Pleasures - when the Anita Blake books were good reading🧛♂️
🐐 Elizabeth George - The Inspector Lynley series is fabulous👮🏻♂️
🐐 Gladiator- “ Are you not entertained!”⚔️
🐐 Green Day - Dookie is still in heavy rotation on Spotify💚
🐐 Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones. Rule Britannia!🇬🇧
#ManicMonday #LetterG
🦊 The Fifth Season - N.K.Jemisin. The whole series was brilliant!🌋
🦊 Raymond.E.Feist - Magician is still in my top 3 fantasy books.⚔️
🦊 Firefly - love me some Mal Reynolds!🚀
🦊 Foo Fighters - Dave Grohl. Enough said.🎸
🦊 Frontier Psychiatrist- The Avalanches. One of the best put together “sampled” songs of all time.🤪🥥
#ManicMonday #LetterF
🐘Evil Under The Sun - Dame Agatha🌞
🐘Albert Einstein - this was a hard one!😛
🐘The Exorcist - my No1 horror movie🤮
🐘Melissa Etheridge- #oncean80sgirlalwaysan80sgirl
🐘E-Bow The Letter - R.E.M. & Patti Smith. Love this song!
#ManicMonday #LetterE
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