You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

I am going for 36 this year - should be fun !

Found you! Keeping it simple might be a good plan. I hope to do 36 too ;-)

36 is my goal too :)

And me! I don't want to do as many as this year as i have some chunky ones to read.

Margo wrote: "Found you! Keeping it simple might be a good plan. I hope to do 36 too ;-)"

yep keping it simple is the only thing i am capable of doing :P if i could use crayons instead of typing that would be ideal but i cant :( they always get stuck in my nose!!!

good luck to the both of you! please feel fre to gloat when my haphazard style completely backfires

Cody wrote: "if i could use crayons instead of typing that would be ideal but i cant :( they always get stuck in my nose!!!"

... you owe me a beer. I just spat mine.

Crayons up the nose, beers, spiting - this is my favorite thread so far ;-p

I love your minimalistic approach Cody!

Rusalka wrote: "Cody wrote: "if i could use crayons instead of typing that would be ideal but i cant :( they always get stuck in my nose!!!"

... you owe me a beer. I just spat mine."

haha i'll send youa can of skol, i am not sure whether you have that in Oz but it is awful.

@Margo @Peggy lol thanks i think it is also the tidiest thread by far although i am not sure if there are points fo that

Ewww no. And it's a lager. Boooooo! You're talking to a wee northern lass here. Ale all the way. Yorkshire would be best, but it was an Aussie Summer ale today, so whatever ;)

i think coming from Manchester that Yorkshire might be my spiritual nemesis, that or evil dentists, i do not know. either way the best i can do is a can of John Smiths with one of those little balls that keeps it fizzy

A widget I believe they are called. Or at least that's what we call the balls in our household (to clarify before people get strange ideas I'm referring to the balls in the John Smith's cans).

Sarah wrote: "A widget I believe they are called. Or at least that's what we call the balls in our household (to clarify before people get strange ideas I'm referring to the balls in the John Smith's cans)."

haha the name would not come to me when i was typing but i think i realised as soon as i saw the of widget

Cody wrote: "I am going for 36 this year - should be fun !"

Good luck!

I have decided to be more organised and as many others have done, i am 'borrowing' someone elses method :) thanks to the original creator

BADGE 1

Aries – Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
Taurus - Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
Gemini – The Wasp Factory - Read
Cancer - Apathy and Other Small Victories
Leo - The Gunslinger - read
Virgo - Night Watch
Libra -The Fifth Witness
Scorpio - Childhood's End
Sagittarius -Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Capricorn - Returning to Earth
Aquarius - Elric of Melniboné
Pisces – Stillhouse Lake

BADGE 2

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The impossible BADGE 3

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Cody wrote: "BADGE 1
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Gemini – The Wasp Factory..."

Interesting. What task?

I'll wager a bet it's for the Scottish author. The book sounds a bit creepy. I'll be waiting to hear your thoughts on it Cody.

@Rus Janice was right the Scottish writer and I am fairly sure it is set on an island off the coast of Scotland (could be wrong there)

i think i am looking forward to the bobby fischer book most, he is one of the most interesting players in chess, i kn o there arent too many interesting people in chess but anybody who attacks a russian prison guard with an egg gets a thumbs up from me

Janice wrote: "I'll wager a bet it's for the Scottish author. The book sounds a bit creepy. I'll be waiting to hear your thoughts on it Cody."

I will let you know :) i might read it first as it is actually on my bookshelf. i do know that i love Iain banks culture novels so hopefully this will be good too

sorry about my typos, i am set about 10 ft from my pc and the keyboad that i have had for the past few months is not the best, will repleace soon

YLTO has a lot of members with good reading comprehension, regardless of typos and unusual auto-correct.

If tou hadn't mentioned typos I wouldn't have noticed them.

@janice @sarah thank you both :):)

Cody i think most people just see the correct word i.e. What they expect to see. At least i hope so - Autocorrect on my kindle has never worked and i can't spell for toffee lol

The only one of those that i've read is The Fifth Witness. I am a bit of a haller fan.

Janice wrote: "YLTO has a lot of members with good reading comprehension, regardless of typos and unusual auto-correct."

Yeap. That are we

@all above thanks :) i do try to pick through them but the wireless does not seem the best :P

@margo i am a haller fan also, i have read the lincoln lawyer and the one after that escapes me currently, i do not like the bosch ones though, i think connolly writes a lot better first person

2 hours til christmas

Janice wrote: "YLTO has a lot of members with good reading comprehension, regardless of typos and unusual auto-correct."

Yeah. I and my broken English never had a problem to be understood here.

Sandra wrote: "Janice wrote: "YLTO has a lot of members with good reading comprehension, regardless of typos and unusual auto-correct."

Yeah. I and my broken English never had a problem to be understood here."

looks like broken english may be the way forward then :)

🎁christmss day is upon us 🎄hi hip horray for christmas day 🎅

Oh Scottish makes sense. I was wondering if I could slip it in somewhere too.

Typos are the least of our worries, with all our lingo, slang, abbreviations, and vocabulary from around the world. We are an extremely flexible bunch.

Merry Christmas!!!

Margo wrote: "🎁christmss day is upon us 🎄hi hip horray for christmas day 🎅"

thanks Margo :)merry christmas to you too :) just getting ready to go to mum and dads setting off in maybe 10 minutes

Rusalka wrote: "Oh Scottish makes sense. I was wondering if I could slip it in somewhere too.

Typos are the least of our worries, with all our lingo, slang, abbreviations, and vocabulary from around the world. We..."

I had noticed, and thank god :)

Mery Christmas!

Book1 Badge 1
The Wasp Factory
Gemini - Scottish writer / author


I finished this in the early hours of this morning, I always struggle sleeping my first night back in work after time off

This book was ok, I thought it was slow but it is only a baby book so I powered through it.

there was nothing in there that really surprised me, everything that was meant to be a surprise was fairly obviously telegraphed and I didn't think the main character should have been written first person as they were really unlikeable and this fed into the other characters. Maybe this was the point

it was probably 2.5 stars

The book sounded so intriguing. Too bad you didn't like it more.

Good job on your first book, Cody. I read a couple of reviews and I think I will pass on this one.

Congrats on finishing your first book :)

Janice wrote: "The book sounded so intriguing. Too bad you didn't like it more."

There is also a (this is only a mild spoiler) (view spoiler)[ lot of animal cruelty in it (hide spoiler)] and there are some things that are pretty much guaranteed to stop me liking something and that is one.

I will say that I love Iain M banks and I know how good he is, this was his first book perhaps I just expected something else?

I suppose it is telling that I finished it around 4AM and I had given it to a colleague and told him I never wanted to see it again by 8.15 lol

Sandra wrote: "Good job on your first book, Cody. I read a couple of reviews and I think I will pass on this one."

It might be a bit like marmite - absolutely horrible lol

Well there is a reason we call them vegemite/marmite books! Sorry you didn't enjoy it, but one book done :)

Great start Cody 😉

Rusalka wrote: "Well there is a reason we call them vegemite/marmite books! Sorry you didn't enjoy it, but one book done :)"

It is a shame but at least I am expanding my horizons ! there were no dragons in this one (oops late spoiler :P)

Starting my next one tonight, hoping to get halfway Apathy and Other Small Victories

Margo wrote: "Great start Cody 😉"

Thanks Margo :)

Badge request

Badge One Book 2
Leo - superhero - kraven the hunter
main character is 60 +
The Gunslinger
Roland is hundreds of years old

there is a thread on this particula book i will report to :)

Enjoy that one more?

Rusalka wrote: "Enjoy that one more?"

than the wasp factory? no, i actually reviewed it here and have been talking with a couple of others about it

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

have you read it Rus? i want to know if i just completely misread it.

i thought i had read this before but when iread it 'now' i realised that i had actually put it down after the first section

cant believe how late it is here, i really need to take more notice of time now i am getting on!