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24/6/2019

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..at least three books at once! Do you do this?

I'm getting behind with Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life which I said I'd read, and review, one chapter a month, Gretchen Rubin's Better Than Before about making and breaking habits has just come through the door and is tempting me away from Michelle Obama's Becoming which I am rushing through for book group which is tomorrow!

I ordered Becoming a bit late (do you find that if you don't pay for Amazon Prime deiiveries take a lot longer than they used to?) so to get a start on the content I started listening to interviews with her about her autobiography.

In this interview (25 mins 36 seconds in) with Oprah they both get very giggly about some major experiences they have had which they found themselves reacting to with an inner Mm,mm,mm!  I found it pretty funny and quite endearing and began to think of some things which have happened to me to which I can only respond Mm,mm,mm!

Can you think of any such moments?
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Mary
25/6/2019 03:53:29 am

Almost always have more than two books on the go. Think it must be part of my age, but I also find myself more willing to stop reading those that don't grab me in the first three to five chapters. A sort of impatience.

Amazon is a #$%^&. See article in NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/technology/amazon-domination-bookstore-books.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Technology Lots of counterfeit products (esp books), authors having their work and identities stolen. A isn't doing much to stem the tide. What is also scary is how hard it is to find some things online these days without going through them (aka monopoly). I try hard to find other sources for items I need that I can no longer find locally, but it takes a major effort. Sigh.

As for mm, mm, mm moments. Oh yes, but I'm not talking!

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Freda
25/6/2019 01:44:02 pm

A sort of common sense/good judgement I'd call it - not coitinuing with a book you are not liking.
Amazon is about world domination for sure - their own currency next?!
Wise not to talk about everything isn't it..

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Viv link
25/6/2019 07:44:04 am

I have been known to have slightly more than three! I have Gretchens book at the moment - dipping in and out also an interesting book on autophagy.
I think we all have the mmm mm moments.

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Freda
25/6/2019 01:46:00 pm

Gretchen's Happiness Project prompted me to start this blog. I do find her interesting. Have you done her Four Tendencies quiz Viv?

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cath
25/6/2019 08:12:20 am

Have you tried BookDepository? They ship worldwide without shipping cost. Service is very good we think.

I usually read more than one book at the time, albeit they must be a different genre: just now non fiction Sharon Blackie's 'If Women Rose Rooted', poetry: 'What it is' by Dutch poet Esther Jansma,
Memoir: Terence Frisby 'Kisses on a Postcard'.
There is one more but that is read aloud to me: Robert Waldron'Blue Hope.

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Freda
25/6/2019 01:47:39 pm

I love getting new-to-me authors here Cath. Thank you.

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Liz Wood
26/6/2019 04:04:16 am

I lovie audiobooks at the moment. A huge surprise is how wonderful McCall-Smith’s Scotland Street stories are when read aloud - especially by David Rintoul. Yet I found them so tedious in The Scotland newspaper. The dialogue is wonderland laugh out loud funny.

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Julia
26/6/2019 06:48:56 am

Hi liz....yes i found the same with mccall-smith’s series about portuguese irregular verbs...the audiobooks are so funny i can’t help but laugh aloud!

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-Freda
26/6/2019 02:43:16 pm

Hi Liz - I must try these.

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Swissrose
26/6/2019 12:41:59 pm

Chipping in - I have started Becoming, have Peterson ready to go and read Rubin's first book when it came out, so snap!!
And I will put a book aside I'm not enjoying, which I never used to do when I was younger...
McCall Smith is amazing and the audiobooks are very well read, especially Hugh Laurie doing Prof von Igelfeld... I love all the series, though prefer to read (rather than listen to) the Sunday philosophers!
I am very picky about the readers of audiobooks, I have to say.
Anyone else read Beth Lynch's Where the hornbeam grows? Beautiful garden writing but I found myself very indignant about her attitude to Switzerland! My loyalties ran away with me and I got very frustrated, how silly of me...
Just returned from a school reunion, yes, some things should remain unrepeated ;o

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Freda
26/6/2019 02:46:19 pm

I love when you 'chip in' Swissrose! Clearly we like the same books so I shall look out for Where The Hornbeam Grows (and for the references to Switzerland). I've never been to a school reunion....

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Declan
27/6/2019 02:03:48 am

I enjoy your posts. May I gently warn you away from Jordan Peterson? I don't think he has much to say to those of us who want to live in a simpler, gentler way. He has more in common with the alt-right, and (as an academic) I think that his supposed scholarship is charlatanry.

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Freda
27/6/2019 02:18:56 am

Thanks Declan. I am well aware of the controversy surrounding Jordan Peterson but am interested in, and considering only, his book 12 Rules For Life! I'm glad you enjoy the blog.

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