Chit-chat

[vicki]

I thought it might be nice to have thread for those who are online to shoot the breeze and chat with anyone else who's around.

The highlight of my day so far is that I got the new Thursday Next book--First Among Sequels, which I'm glad to finally get my hands on! I also got the Lois McMaster Bujold books so many people have been talking about--The Curse of Chalion, Paladin of Souls and The Hallowed Hunt, sample chapters of which are available here. I adore Bujolds' Vorkosigan books, and Piper <waves to Piper> says these new three are some of her best work, so they must be fabulous. I also got a newer book of Bujold's--Beguilement, which jtb, Grey Badger and kuttlewis have mentioned here.

[KarenB]

Love them! I'm wishing I hadn't read them already, just to have the pleasure of reading them for the first time. Enjoy

[vicki]

Yah, I'm looking way forward to them. I'd gotten The Mists of Avalon at the library book sale recently and I picked it up yesterday to read it. But I hadn't finished the first page when I realized that what I really wanted to read was some LMB. So I busted off to the bookstore once I figured out the library didn't have them. Finding the new Thursday Next was just gravy. I'll still have TMoA ahead of me when I'm in more of an Arthurian mood. After the kids are down for the evening, I'll have some good reading to do!

I just got in from a run and the skeeters are fierce out here since the drought broke. I reek of Off so badly I can't stand myself.

[spiston]

I would almost be glad for skeeters and a broken drought.

Here in the desert we've had 22 days in a row of 100+ degrees. From a weather website: "More notable within that was a 10-day stretch at 106 and above from June 28 to July 5 and 16 days in a row with at least 104 from June 20 to July 5."

Damnation. I don't care what folks say about a dry heat. I'm about to pack my bags and move to the Antarctic.

[Strawberry Curls]

Originally Posted by spiston

Damnation. I don't care what folks say about a dry heat. I'm about to pack my bags and move to the Antarctic.

I hear you. I live by the beach in So. Cal. but I love Palm Springs. This time of year it is always over the century mark and dry heat or not, it is just too hot to bear.

[vicki]

Crikey--y'all do have some dreadful heat! I'm a warm-weather gal, but that's way too hot for me. I'll keep our standard 90ish degree days that we have from mid-June to mid-September.

I'm about to pack my bags and move to the Antarctic.

There's always Bouchercon in Anchorage this September. But I checked on the weather sites and it's actually pretty mild there most of the year on account of it's in the jet stream or something meteorological like that.

[jtb1951]

We have been very dry here in the Midwest, but at least the number of 90+ days has been at a minimum; however, the last couple of days we have been treated to deluges of rain and monstrous lightning storms. At least the farmers are happy! , and when they are happy we're all happy!

John.

[vicki]

Our farmers are much happier, too, although the rain comes too late for a good many of the crops around here. We did manage to have good Chilton County peaches (yum!--even better than GA peaches imho, <ducks to avoid hurled peach-pits from the GA-folk>), although they were smaller than usual.

Oh, I did decide to read HBP in anticipation of tomorrow, although I may skim some of it. I'll pick up the new Thursday Next and my new Lois McMaster Bujold books next week.

Must. Read. Faster.

[jtb1951]

Originally Posted by vicki

Must. Read. Faster.

I just had to chuckle; you sound so much like me sometimes! Here's your cheery thought for the day: they are going to keep writing good books faster than we can possibly read them (of course, my Time-Turner does help a bit!) Being a reading addict is quite the double-edged sword!!

John.

[KarenB]

Vicki and John - It seems you both need this poster: http://owlsquarepress.com/btocepo.html

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