Kingdom of Knuffel

I did that for a long time. Tried hard to hang on to it, too. Then my sister got into the editing and reviewing business and for the past ten years she's casually been talking about this or that and the other pattern here and I ended up absorbing more than I really wanted.
At least she helped me figure out that the common denominator to all those books everyone would recommend that I'd be so astonished by disliking was that they were all first person. So now I can save myself some trouble in a lot of cases, which has been nice!


I just finished "Worth Dying For" and "Die Trying" (two of the Lee Child books). That author seems to really like analyzing violence, and its use, and effectiveness or lack thereof. I find it fairly disturbing, honestly, and yet I got sucked into the stories anyhow, and ended up absorbed by them! Funny how that goes.

I just finished book 31 for the year! Wilder Girls was some book! I did like it but boy was it a ride!

My library's website has been down for days. Since Friday at least. It's driving me nuts to not be able to check my holds and see when my stuff is due! I hope they put things like holds, late fees, etc on hold until they get it sorted!

Sanssouci, that is reassuring that you are like that as well :D
I can imagine that it is driving you nuts!

I don't think I will get much reading done in July and August, but let's see :)

Congrats bombus on that, what a great achievement!

Akili, well, if you sister primed you all this time then I can see why you reflect so much :D

LittleJulez wrote:Sanssouci, that is reassuring that you are like that as well :D
I can imagine that it is driving you nuts!

I don't think I will get much reading done in July and August, but let's see :)

Congrats bombus on that, what a great achievement!

Akili, well, if you sister primed you all this time then I can see why you reflect so much :D

Ha ha, true.... if she were just BAD at it, I wouldn't, but sadly she is good at it.
<- highly biased/super proud of her

Well, if you don't get much reading in July and August, I hope it is at least a productive time for other things.

Sounds like you've been pretty busy with other things, too!

Honestly, though, sleep is pretty important.... not a bad thing to give up reading for....


I've got to take off, but I'm still looking for (more) autobiography recommendations if anyone has any.

Akili Li wrote:Sounds like you've been pretty busy with other things, too!

Honestly, though, sleep is pretty important.... not a bad thing to give up reading for....


I've got to take off, but I'm still looking for (more) autobiography recommendations if anyone has any.

Have you read Educated? that was an interesting read for sure

I finished my book last night and I started a new book
Daisy Jones and the Six - so far so good, not loving it but not disliking it either