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October 2018 – Lioness at Large

Month: October 2018

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Happy Halloween!

Seen in a Corsica winery, last week.  No pumpkins, but let nobody say the French (well, the Corsicans, anyway) don’t keep the spirit of the season. And with that, I’ll raise a glass to Moonlight and OB for hosting another fabulous Halloween Bingo!  I had an enormous amount of fun, and it was great watching […]

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Glingelingelingeling

Reblogged from: Murder by Death Just when you thought Halloween was done and dusted … there’s the Tasks of the Festive Season! Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue – or something like that could be this year’s motto. As in, some holidays that have been part of the game from the start. […]

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Houston, we had a problem …

… and it was called books.  Stacks of unsorted books, to be precise.  Three years’ worth of stacks of unsorted books, to be even more precise. Now, even back in 2015, after the last major overhaul of my bookshelves, those were already looking like this: … in other words, no room to spare in the […]

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Halloween Bingo 2018: Blackout!

(Also, bingos Nos. 12 & 13 …)   The Books: Country House Mystery: Georgette Heyer: Penhallow (Ulli Birvé audio) Cryptozoologist: Patricia A. McKillip: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (Dina Pearlman audio) Romantic Suspense: Susanna Kearsley: A Desperate Fortune (Katherine Kellgren audio) Terrifying Women: Mary Roberts Rinehart: Locked Doors (Anne Hancock audio) Terror in a Small Town: Joy Ellis: Their Lost Daughters (Richard Armitage audio) A Grimm Tale: Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber (Emilia […]

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Susan Howatch: The Waiting Sands

Reading Progress Updates 33%: Not the edition I’m reading, but by far the most atmospheric cover of all the editions on BL. I don’t like either of the men — if I’m not supposed to, job well done, Ms. Howatch.  If I am supposed to like one or all of them (or even find them […]

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Birthday Gifts

BD gifts: My mom gave me a ticket for Bonn Opera’s production of Händel’s Xerxes — a simply riveting, tongue in cheek production setting the story in a dictatorial fairy tale puppet theatre (yes, there is such a thing) — and my BFF raided my Ammy wishlist … as well as adding a few things […]

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… oh, look, illustration for the Flat Book Society November group read …

Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1799078/oh-look-illustration-for-the-flat-book-society-november-group-read   The Flat Book Society Project Page Reviews and Blog Posts

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@MbD: A Wild Bee Hotel

… at Hamburg Zoo, with all sorts of different nesting options matching the various bee species’ requirements.  Neat, isn’t it? Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1799070/mbd-a-wild-bee-hotel   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Comments on BookLikes:

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Look who I met in Hamburg …

The librarian of the Unseen University! Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1799065/look-who-i-met-in-hamburg   Narrativium: Where the Falling Angel Meets the Rising Ape – Terry Pratchett and Discworld Project Page Reviews and Blog Posts

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… and then there were books.

In addition to the books acquired upon my departure for Hamburg, that is.  Go figure, they had bookstores at Hamburg Airport and Hamburg Central Station as well … and I had way too much time on my hands ahead of my return flight to Cologne.  * whistles innocently *   Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1799055/and-then-there-were-books

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This happened today.

// TA decides to pack light because, after all, she’s only leaving for a 2-day business trip.  Then agonizes a half hour over which one of several 100 books on physical TBR to take on the trip. // // Leaving home, finds book in mailbox that was delivered yesterday but which for reasons unknown she […]

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Anthony Berkeley: Trial and Error – Reading Progress Update: 69 of 256 Pages

Hmm.  The opening pages read unexpectedly timely.  Right now we seem to be sliding into typical Anthony Berkeley mode, which isn’t necessarily a good sign.  But the premise and the introduction still hold the promise of more good things to come. Reading this for the “Justice Game” square of the (inofficial) Detection Club Bingo.   […]

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Terry Pratchett: Wyrd Sisters

One of those Discworld books that only get better with every single reread.  Pratchett absolutely hit his stride with this … one of my all-time favorites, by far not for the Shakespeare references alone. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1797970/reading-progress-update-i-ve-read-332-out-of-332-pages   Narrativium: Where the Falling Angel Meets the Rising Ape – Terry Pratchett and Discworld Project Page Reviews […]

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Agatha Christie: Murder at the Vicarage (Richard E. Grant audio)

Listening Status Updates 70 of 492 Minutes Much-needed comfort listening.  And Richard E. Grant is doing a very nice job, too. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1797226/reading-progress-update-i-ve-listened-70-out-of-492-minutes   492 of 492 Minutes Finished last night. To the resident Christie (and Miss Marple) fans: Do you recall Christie saying anywhere that Colonel Melchett is a Scot?  Because that’s the […]

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Halloween Bingo 2018 Update Post – Reading Blackout and Bingo No. 2

  The Books: Country House Mystery: Georgette Heyer: Penhallow (Ulli Birvé audio) Cryptozoologist: Patricia A. McKillip: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (Dina Pearlman audio) Romantic Suspense: Susanna Kearsley: A Desperate Fortune (Katherine Kellgren audio) Terrifying Women: Mary Roberts Rinehart: Locked Doors (Anne Hancock audio) Terror in a Small Town: Joy Ellis: Their Lost Daughters (Richard Armitage audio) A Grimm Tale: Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber (Emilia Fox / Richard Armitage audio) Genre: Horror: Michael […]

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