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I just bought Towles short story collection and read one of the stories has a character from Rules so pushing it up my TBR now!
Getting Deja vu with Curtis Sittenfeld and the Prep short story.
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I just bought Towles short story collection and read one of the stories has a character from Rules so pushing it up my TBR now!
Getting Deja vu with Curtis Sittenfeld and the Prep short story.
This book is always tapping on my mind wanting me to reread it.
I know when I read it again I won't remember much, as I think it was a windy, windey kind of story - quite comforting and engrossing.
I gave it 5 stars so it must have been good.
Just seen this in the paper for the Leeds shopping centre:-
I think it will be for me too. I loved it, found the end quite emotional even though really, what is it?? I saw there’s a novella sequel called Eve in Hollywood so I’m going to read that
Ah I think the character is Eve as I think the new short story collection incorporates stories from
Eve in Hollywood
Thanks the irony is our library even before they closed it and moved to what will be a couple of shelves at the council. very rarely had decent books (ie ones i;d want to read) and they seem to get ones on Borrowbox that they never bother buying
feeling self being influenced.. can anyone give a brief summary/synopsis? I dont find the ones on Amazon v helpful and tbh trust you lot more
MFC reminiscing on a year in her life in 1938 and the occurrences that happened with 3 other main characters. It’s strangely emotional for such a simple tale really. And Towles writes so beautifully and elegantly. I’ve seen people say they re read it regularly and I can understand why. But I do love simple stories about life and its happenings !
Does anyone know if there’s likely to be double plus stamps at Waterstones for Easter or May Day? I’m 6 stamps away from a full card and if I use my birthday voucher plus a little more I can fill it. Although him indoors accused me of starting a library last week when we were decluttering 
I did and thought the same lolI did, ages ago, I do remember it being very grim very bleak. Read it after Gone Girl because I wanted to read all of Gillian Flynn's book but Dark Places was way way darker and just relentlessly depressing. It was good at doing that, though
I think the odds are in your favour!Does anyone know if there’s likely to be double plus stamps at Waterstones for Easter or May Day? I’m 6 stamps away from a full card and if I use my birthday voucher plus a little more I can fill it. Although him indoors accused me of starting a library last week when we were decluttering
I am not big on short story collections, I liked his but didn't LOVE it, but the Eve one is definitely more of a novella and it was nice to see Eve again and find out a bit more about her life post New York. She always had such gumption.
Yes, agree with this summary and would add that through the relatively straight forward story Towles also explores issues of fate vs free will for your own life. Our MFC is constantly going through subtle "who am I? Who do I want to be?" reckonings, at her job, in her friendships, in her love life. It was also fascinating to read about the late 1930s and how social mores were changing in NYC.
Aaaah I am 4 books away from single digit books on my tbr.
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Let Me Lie by Claire Mackintosh. Not a bad book, just a predictable Claire book. Blah , blah.
White Lies by Lucy Dawson. This was closer to being a 4*. I enjoyed it, but I did realise it is my stereotypical thriller book with a formulaic sorry line.
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Just went to what is being claimed as our new library, Flagship in the borough. Regular readers of this topic thread may recall this on going saga of how the Council shut down our massive 6 floor library to move to their buildings to save money and so they can sell off the old property.
As i suspected it was utter crap. Outside the Council they have put a canvas sign with X library on it using a brick background so the whole thing just blends into the wall. You walk up the 36 steps to what you think is the library. (so much for the more disabilty access they claimed at the planning meeting) then you see ahead of you CHS (whatever that is ) and registrars office signposted. You look around and see a hidden door marked library. You enter and find a lot of empty broken shelving units , the whole place reeking of damp, and a desk with a man sitting behind who immediately aggressively questions you What are you doing here? When you say looking for the library, he waved an arm distainfully at a door marked something to do with children.
You walk in past a load of cheap desks full of young people dicking about ( so no hoped for crackdown or security guards we suspected the Council would have in their building) and theres a few mostly empty shelves, some uncomfy chairs at coffee tables ( no armchairs etc) and a load of builders materials loose and roped off.The books they do have seem to have been mostly drawn from branch libraries as their non fiction sections have a lot of not new books I have never seen before
It's soulless and stockless as suspected. I mean lets face it who wants to go hang out or sit around or even spend time at the Council. I gave them the books back and walked out.
So sad. I went to browse and get some books and I was in and out in less than 5 mins.My flatmate said I thought you were going to the library.. I said so did I..
Weirdly Slough Council went bust and they still have a fantastic library much better than ours. I might have to look into seeing if I can join a library in another borough
As i suspected it was utter crap. Outside the Council they have put a canvas sign with X library on it using a brick background so the whole thing just blends into the wall. You walk up the 36 steps to what you think is the library. (so much for the more disabilty access they claimed at the planning meeting) then you see ahead of you CHS (whatever that is ) and registrars office signposted. You look around and see a hidden door marked library. You enter and find a lot of empty broken shelving units , the whole place reeking of damp, and a desk with a man sitting behind who immediately aggressively questions you What are you doing here? When you say looking for the library, he waved an arm distainfully at a door marked something to do with children.
You walk in past a load of cheap desks full of young people dicking about ( so no hoped for crackdown or security guards we suspected the Council would have in their building) and theres a few mostly empty shelves, some uncomfy chairs at coffee tables ( no armchairs etc) and a load of builders materials loose and roped off.The books they do have seem to have been mostly drawn from branch libraries as their non fiction sections have a lot of not new books I have never seen before
It's soulless and stockless as suspected. I mean lets face it who wants to go hang out or sit around or even spend time at the Council. I gave them the books back and walked out.
So sad. I went to browse and get some books and I was in and out in less than 5 mins.My flatmate said I thought you were going to the library.. I said so did I..
Weirdly Slough Council went bust and they still have a fantastic library much better than ours. I might have to look into seeing if I can join a library in another borough
Awful! I think several libraries in London boroughs allow you to join even if you're just passing through, so worth having a look if you can get to one to ID yourself - looks like Barbican, Kensington & Chelsea, Islington, Camden, and Lambeth all do.
Thank you
you've made an old woman v happy. I will look into those.. its also sad because those boroughs are not local to me in West London. Looks like I will have to get a long bus or tube ride to use a decent library. SMFHI think if you join one of the libraries in The Library Consortium, you get access to all books across the members? https://thelibrariesconsortium.org.uk/ Hopefully one of them is more convenient for you!Thank you
I can't believe as a VIP tattler and a book OBSESSIVE that I've only just found this thread!!! I've read this whole thread and added the Strike books to my wishlists and looked up a few others so this may be a bad idea!!!! I have over 500 books on my kindle, two bookcases full - one fiction, one non fiction plus there are book cases in most rooms in the house as well. I will read quite a wide variety of books but really into history at the moment and I will NEVER be doing a 'not buying anymore books till I've read all the TBR' challenge!!! I am a trustee for our local library and I find it impossible to even go in for other things without bringing at least one book home!!!! I always think it could be worse....could be drugs!!!
I usually aim to read 52 books a year (one a week) but have only managed to do it since having kids once but this year I'm on 29 books read already - partly due to deleting tik tok off my phone! So looking forward to chatting books with you all! <3
I usually aim to read 52 books a year (one a week
) but have only managed to do it since having kids once but this year I'm on 29 books read already - partly due to deleting tik tok off my phone! So looking forward to chatting books with you all! <3This worries me greatly - we have an amazing charity run library service in our county but the council have just voted to take it back in house (despite absolutely no one wanting this to happen other than them) and wouldn't be surprised if this is how we end up.
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