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11-9-19: My 91st finished book of 2019! #justonedamnedthingafteranother #joditaylor 👍🏼📖#️⃣9️⃣1️⃣

11-8-19: My Friday hour of alone time. #justonedamnedthingafteranother ☕️🍽🥨📖

11-6-19: New delivery from the library! #justonedamnedthingafteranother will be my first one up! 👍🏼📖👏🏼

If you‘re looking for a fun (but not mindless) series to delve into, this should be it!

It‘s speculative/historical fiction about a group of eccentric academics (is there any other kind?) who travel through time to discover the “truth” of history. The books — & Madeleine Maxwell, their protagonist — are funny, smart, sexy, & profane. In the first book, we visit the Cretaceous Period.🦖 (I wish Roanoke was in my future, but they‘re SUPER British.)

I am LOVING this story about eccentric, young academics preparing to travel back in time to discern the “truth” of history!

I have to be honest, though. My listening comprehension skills aren‘t up to snuff. The narrator is very quick & British and I am very slow & American. Especially at 8am. I‘ll probably read the next one in-print.

Here is my car. It is dusty. I have cookies.

So far I‘m loving this adventure!

‘Hold on,‘ said Chief Farrell. ‘I‘m duty officer this week and I want to see if the fire alarms go off.‘

They didn‘t.

‘That‘s good, isn‘t it?‘ I said.

He sighed. ‘No, it just means they‘ve taken the batteries out again.‘

This really was my sort of place.

I'm a quarter of the way through #TBRbingo I love the summer holidays... lots of books and all the time in the world.

Except for packing up and leaving Spain. And then moving to Thailand. ARGHHHH...

I enjoyed JUST ONE DAMNED THING AFTER ANOTHER a lot. It was fun and full of snark, and reading about the eccentric time-travelling historians of St Mary's was exactly what I needed after the interminable slog that was 2312. A quick, easy read that fit my mood perfectly. ⭐⭐⭐

He was calm and soothing and had a reasonable explanation for everything. No woman should have to put up with that.

An entertaining and fast reading time travel adventure novel. 4⭐️

You put dinosaurs and people together, you always get screaming.

historians are easily distracted. Attention span of a–what was I saying?

I‘d like to think we‘d do the right thing but I suppose you never know until it actually happens to you.

I‘m shallow. I can only do one emotion at a time

The reason I can‘t deal with sympathy is because I never bloody get any.

Health and Safety is something that happens to other people and there was no time to stand and stare.

‘It was nearly an emotional moment, but we took it like men.‘

it's not just any old panic. It's highly trained panic. It's taken years of hard work and practice.

I don't know if it's because I've gotten to know the characters better since I first read this, but I enjoyed the audio drama much better than the book 🙈🙈

‘I‘m fine,‘ I said, because that's what you always say, even if your head's just fallen off

I was an historian and cautious and sensible were things that happened to other people.

I never thought I‘d say this, but nothing you learn at school is ever wasted! Years of bunking off had finally paid off.

People see what they expect to see.

My book is back home after a nearly 3 year journey around the globe. Fun to see the comments from my fellow #24HRR members. 😊 @Smarkies Thank you for the bookmark! I love it! And thanks to @andreadmw and @GirlMeetsBook for coordinating this whole thing!

Hmm... thinking of starting this series. Anyone else read the series and have strong feelings either way?

Don‘t expect any gratitude from the rest of the human race.

Nothing good ever happened on a Friday morning.

‘Show me a cup of tea and I‘ll show you at least two historians attached to it.‘

‘Please take a minute to think very carefully before proceeding.‘
Thinking carefully is something that happens to other people.

Silence holds no fears for me. I never feel the urge to fill it as so many other people do.

‘Go straight up the drive and through the front door. You can‘t miss it.‘
A bit over-optimistic there, I thought. I once got lost on a staircase.

you cannot let your home circumstances define your entire life. You are intelligent–you have abilities of which you are not even aware.

Time to catch up on my holiday reviews.

I‘d been looking forward to reading this for ages (slightly nonsensical time travelling historians - yes please!), but honestly was a little disappointed. Yes, there were 🦕 🦖 & war zones & the library of Alexandria, but there was so much else going on, you barely got to spend any time in the past. Chaotic fun, but not quite what I was expecting- I may try another in the series, one day! (Old grouch!)

Back in Devon, dreaming of Greece!

My weekly #bfc check-in:
✅ Fitness goal: Over 60000 steps (85000ish) across Greece, Turkey & the UK.
✅Book goal: Read ‘Just one Damn Thing After Another‘ & ‘Strange Weather in Tokyo‘ (AND finished Gone with the Wind - started way before #bfc, but it needs celebrating!) 2/6
😬 Will be able to do more cheering this week, now I‘m on actual wifi! But steps and books will both be competing with work, so more tricky..

I have finally succumbed and bought a Kindle. My overjoyed sister gifted me a book through her amazon account which she has had for years, long before Australia had their own Amazon. Unfortunately, I am with Amazon Australia and the book she gave me is not available here, they offered me a gift certificate instead but it also is not available on Amazon AUS so I would have to temporarily migrate my account to the US, to retrieve it. Nope. Refund!

Just finished this and it was so hilarious! Needed a cozy mystery and an alternate history book for my #readharder2019

Though I did overall enjoy this book, it took me sometime to really get into it. I love the concept and the character and I'm curious to see what twists and turns the series will take. Despite all this though, I didn't get emotional invested which is why I'd only give it 3/5. I will continue the series at some point however and I'm looking forward to trying to audio drama version 😊

Not as good as I'd been led to believe but good enough to keep me reading

#coffeeandabook #mycover #Scribd

A fun time-travel, sci-fi, historical romp to get through the last of this winter weather! Not the most well-written book I‘ve read, but still readable, and quite fascinating! It‘s not light, in that many characters die and tough things occur, and it‘s not reverent, but it‘s a lot of fun! There are some dark parts, so this will be a series I read in the daytime. If you like Doctor Who, this one is for you!

⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

Listening to the audiobook and this meme complements the mood 😹

I‘d like to give this a Pick Minus, or maybe a So-So Plus. I love a good time travel book and the concept of this series is appealing - a cabal of adventurers skip through time, solving historical puzzles and getting into trouble. The science is slight and the characters kind of wooden. I could do with more historical details too. Some day I‘ll give book 2 a try.

I really enjoyed this. It was funny, had adventure, sad bits, happy bits. A quick fun read (although I listened to it on audiobook). Maxwell is recruited to St Mary‘s, and there her life truly begins. Just don‘t think too hard about the plot line.

#musicalnewyear #timewarp
I read this first book of a zany time-travel-through-history series for a book club. I know many people enjoyed it, not my jam, though.

“Thinking carefully is something that happens to other people.”

I read this book purely because i see it everywhere. I didnt even know what genre it was. I think i lucked out cos it was lots of fun. Its about time travelling historians

There was some annoying tropey bits that ruined my immersion and the main character was an idiot to her boyfriend but these all seemed minor when the book was so fun overall

Photoed with tissues as I have a horrid cold 😔

I struggled to start this book due to a book hangover from my last read and because I found a new tv show but I'm jolly glad I have started it! I'm loving it. Great characters so far and a really interesting plot idea

I was shocked by the high praise this series has gathered. The heroine was entirely TSTL, and I bailed at the midway point, about the time the romance kicked in. The world-building was an interesting premise, but everything else was horribly cliche.

#unpopularopinion

Found a cute little tea shop. Luckily I have a book to keep me company while I wait for the tea to brew. 📚🍵