tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post5197422552885469555..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: How was it for you? by Tracy DarntonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-72489215216291897262021-01-26T09:42:57.521+00:002021-01-26T09:42:57.521+00:00Thanks Andrew and Sue. Eleanor Oliphant is one of ...Thanks Andrew and Sue. Eleanor Oliphant is one of the books on my TBR pile. It's been on two holidays with me but I haven't read it yet. I'll push it nearer the top...Tracy Darntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16326842005003081128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-28700363706332901452021-01-23T15:49:17.794+00:002021-01-23T15:49:17.794+00:00Aye, it must be magical realism, the ghostly hand ...Aye, it must be magical realism, the ghostly hand that presses the delete button. Andrew Prestonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14063661979113168003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-67452885177516963492021-01-20T12:10:03.673+00:002021-01-20T12:10:03.673+00:00Interesting selection, Andrew. I liked Eleanor Oli...Interesting selection, Andrew. I liked Eleanor Oliphant too, and The Beekeeper - though I found it took a bit of getting into. I don't know what happened to your FOCL post. The whole page seems a bit odd these days - Facebook has changed things, and I'm never quite sure what's going where. Do feel free to post again, but bear in mind that it's not the official library page, and I'm not sure how often they look at it.Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-63356088736238223882021-01-18T22:54:36.017+00:002021-01-18T22:54:36.017+00:00Well, it's a quiet Monday evening at the Andr...Well, it's a quiet Monday evening at the Andrew abode, so I thought I might as well do the starter comment. Due to current events, for quite long stretches I didn't feel much like reading. I did though post on the 'Friends of Cheddar Library' Facebook page, my suggestion to have an Open Day when we've all got vaccinated. ( Yes, Anne Rooney, I do believe in vaccinations, and no I'm not a Daily Mail reader ). I felt that a suitable theme might be... 'Plague Days and the Zombie Apocalypse'. Dedicated to all the maskless morons. Unfortunately, this suggestion did not go down well, and was deleted shortly afterwards.<br /><br />Early on, I intended to re-read 'Small Island' by Bill Bryson. I eventually did. I'm not sure that it has dated very well.<br /><br />What I did really enjoy, that really hit the spot for me, wasn't in fact a book. It was the TV series 'Normal People'. <br /><br />Then there was a rather long gap, where I hardly read at all. More recently...<br /><br />'Financial Peace Revisited' by Dave Ramsey. <br /><br />'Made in Scotland' by Billy Connolly. <br /><br />The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri. I bought this before Christmas with the intention to send to my sister as a present. However, when I came to pack it, I read the back page notes, and thought that perhaps she might not want a Christmas read of '... in the midst of darkness and tragedy". So, I bought a copy of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, and sent her that instead for a bit of feel good. I then re-read my own copy of Eleanor Oliphant, and reminded myself of how much I enjoyed it first time round. Beekeeper is still waiting to be read. <br /><br />'Silent Spring' by Rachel Carson. I've borrowed this from the library, and it's been sat on the 'quarantine table' for a couple of weeks waiting for me to get round to it. It's one of those books that is so famous, and referred back to, that I was fairly certain that I'd read it many years ago. I opened it this evening at a random page, and thought..."Wow.... ". The rigorous, and well researched certainty of the writer. I'm looking forward to this. <br />And no, I hadn't read it before.<br />Andrew Prestonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14063661979113168003noreply@blogger.com