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« Reply #90 on: December 09, 2021, 11:23:11 AM »

Three books did become available at my Vancouver library.
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« Reply #91 on: December 09, 2021, 11:24:36 AM »

I was especially looking forward to reading the book that was released on my birthday, and I was first in line to read.
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« Reply #92 on: December 09, 2021, 11:25:26 AM »

For some reason I can't sign into my library account and retrieve the books.
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« Reply #93 on: December 09, 2021, 11:42:13 AM »

The overdrive site said I needed to go in person to fix the problem with our accounts.
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« Reply #94 on: December 09, 2021, 11:42:42 AM »

I just called and we are reconnected 😊
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« Reply #95 on: December 09, 2021, 11:44:07 AM »

Using my phone I checked out one of the books, before it timed out, and will download it later onto my tablet.
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« Reply #96 on: December 09, 2021, 11:52:21 AM »

DR JohnG's lists put me to shame. I used to read voraciously, and now I'm lucky to get through a book in six weeks.

Those were just the best books, my friend. I didn’t mention the ones that were mediocre or worse. And I didn’t mention some that were very good, like Stephen King’s Billy Dummers or Peter Mathiessen’s In Paradise.
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« Reply #97 on: December 09, 2021, 11:54:22 AM »

I left The Portable Dorothy Parker off my list.
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« Reply #98 on: December 09, 2021, 11:55:50 AM »

And Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels.
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« Reply #99 on: December 09, 2021, 11:56:10 AM »

Gratuitous post No. 99!
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« Reply #100 on: December 09, 2021, 11:56:11 AM »

John do you know how many books you read in a year?
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« Reply #101 on: December 09, 2021, 11:57:32 AM »

I am grateful for DR Jennifer asking me that question or I might never have joined Goodreads to keep track of my books for me.
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« Reply #102 on: December 09, 2021, 11:59:05 AM »

I am grateful to Keith for taking my long list of books I had read and transferring them to Goodreads for me.
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« Reply #103 on: December 09, 2021, 12:00:47 PM »

John do you know how many books you read in a year?

I’m up to 123 this year.
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« Reply #104 on: December 09, 2021, 12:03:04 PM »

Trying to decide on the worst. These come to mind:

White Ivy
A Holly, Jolly Diwali
Hana Khan Carries On



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« Reply #105 on: December 09, 2021, 12:03:34 PM »

Back then, 2013, I read 156 books for the year. These days I read fewer books.
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« Reply #106 on: December 09, 2021, 12:04:31 PM »

Trying to decide on the worst. These come to mind:

White Ivy
A Holly, Jolly Diwali
Hana Khan Carries On





I don't finish my worst books unless they are for my discussion group.
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« Reply #107 on: December 09, 2021, 12:06:34 PM »

Trying to decide on the worst. These come to mind:

White Ivy
A Holly, Jolly Diwali
Hana Khan Carries On





I don't finish my worst books unless they are for my discussion group.

I didn’t finish a number of others, so bad I don’t remember the names
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« Reply #108 on: December 09, 2021, 12:07:41 PM »

John do you know how many books you read in a year?

I’m up to 123 this year.

I am at 124 though some of my books were very short. I am not reading as much while on the road.
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« Reply #109 on: December 09, 2021, 12:08:42 PM »

Trying to decide on the worst. These come to mind:

White Ivy
A Holly, Jolly Diwali
Hana Khan Carries On





I don't finish my worst books unless they are for my discussion group.

I didn’t finish a number of others, so bad I don’t remember the names

I am relieved you do stop sometimes ;)
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« Reply #110 on: December 09, 2021, 12:15:39 PM »

Compared to you readers, I must not even have a pulse.
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« Reply #111 on: December 09, 2021, 12:20:02 PM »

I know I read more than two books, but all I can think of are Lapine's book on the making of Sunday in the Park with George and Gwen Cooper's wonderful Love Saves the Day.
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« Reply #112 on: December 09, 2021, 12:22:20 PM »

I also loved Miriam Margolyes' frank autobiography This Much is True.
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« Reply #113 on: December 09, 2021, 12:22:33 PM »

Compared to you readers, I must not even have a pulse.

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« Reply #114 on: December 09, 2021, 12:23:22 PM »

DR Laura did you get rain and how is your roof?
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« Reply #115 on: December 09, 2021, 12:24:31 PM »

And I read Hillary Clinton's thriller and enjoyed most of it!
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« Reply #116 on: December 09, 2021, 12:25:34 PM »

And I really enjoyed BK's mystery. That's five I remember.
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« Reply #117 on: December 09, 2021, 12:30:22 PM »

Tonight, tonight,
I see West Side Story tonight.

I want to see it, but this walker is keeping me out of theatres. I look forward to your comments.

We have the CD on order, but I just went to Amazon and listened to the 30-second clips of the mp3's for each song -- and I am loving the sound of the orchestra. They don't seem to have based the orchestration on the huge forces in the first film; rather, a number of moments sound to these ears like a really wonderful orchestra playing the originals. There's a doodad added or modified here and there, to be sure, with no harm done. (I did hear one "thing" -- an extension of a couple of bars -- that I will hate if there isn't an impeccable justification for it on the screen.)
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« Reply #118 on: December 09, 2021, 12:33:56 PM »

I'm up, I'm up - maybe five hours of sleep. Must stop doing that.
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« Reply #119 on: December 09, 2021, 12:34:44 PM »

Thanks for the Some Days Are Murder mentions, much appreciated. I think the only book I read this year, thus far, is the Lapine book.
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