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Uncle Robin · 01-26-2023, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by astrangerhere

It works if you are logged into storygraph. I'm not sure how to make it visible for folks NOT logged into Storygraph.

I am logged in to TSG, and if I click on the 2022 and 2023 links in your sig I get taken to my own tags page with a message

"We're sorry — that page is unavailable!"

astrangerhere · 01-26-2023, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

I am logged in to TSG, and if I click on the 2022 and 2023 links in your sig I get taken to my own tags page with a message

"We're sorry — that page is unavailable!"

Let me experiment a bit. Your Currently Reading signature works for me, but I am going to log out and see if that is still the case.

ETA - I think I have fixed both the 2022 and 2023 tags in the signature. Thanks for pointing it out!

astrangerhere · 01-26-2023, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by astrangerhere

I'm currently reading:

The audio book of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower and I think I'll finish it this week.
Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs. I've never read Jewett before, but I encountered her so much in my best book of the year last year (The Selected Letters of Willa Cather) that I thought it was time to give her a try. I'm reading a lovely version produced by Standard Ebooks.
Osamu Tezuka's 1953 manga Princess Knight, which is turning out to be quite an interesting critique of gender roles in post-war Japan.
My yearly re-read of Tolstoy's War and Peace at a one-chapter-a-day pace.

Finished:

The audio book of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs

Still Reading:

Osamu Tezuka's 1953 manga Princess Knight
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace

New Reads:

The audio book of Connie Willis' Bellwhether, which is a little dated but still very funny.
Georges Simenon's 21st Maigret novel The Judge's House

Uncle Robin · 01-26-2023, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by astrangerhere

Let me experiment a bit. Your Currently Reading signature works for me, but I am going to log out and see if that is still the case.

ETA - I think I have fixed both the 2022 and 2023 tags in the signature. Thanks for pointing it out!

Great, working now!

Tarana · 01-27-2023, 10:16 AM

Finished Death in Disguise by Caroline Graham (Midsomer Murders). Excellent! Plot does vary from the episode this was based on. Also completed War Brides by Helen Bryan (whispersync title so alternated between reading and listening). This book alternated between very excellent and boring depending on the chapter, but overall I'm glad I read it.

On to Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell as soon as I finish shoveling the driveway. The late UK writer wrote excellent stand-alone mysteries.

issybird · 01-27-2023, 04:45 PM

I feel as if I’m off to a good start, knock wood. I’m ticking off boxes on all my various challenges; I’ve only had one two-star rating (a sequel to a book I liked - I won’t be reading the conclusion to the trilogy); I abandoned two books that I think I ordinarily would have finished. As a result, my GR average rating thus far is 3.5 stars. It’s not a stated goal, but I’m trying to read “better” this year.

Noteworthy reads, i.e. 4 stars:

The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sheriff
Full Moon by P.G. Wodehouse
The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier
Ithaca by Claire North
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
The Collar by Frank O’Connor

Currently reading:

Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage by Tim Robinson
Home Fires Burning by Belinda J. Davis

Noting that this is my 74th Wodehouse in my quest to read all his books and my 22nd Trollope. His books are longer!

pdurrant · 01-29-2023, 10:05 AM

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Next up: The Crystal Gryphon by Andre Norton. I never got into her Witch World series. Perhaps this will do it.

Quite interesting. I shall carry on with the series.

Next up: Dragonshadow by Barbara Hambly. The second in her Winterlands series, and one I bought at full price yesterday!

pdurrant · 01-31-2023, 03:14 PM

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Dragonshadow by Barbara Hambly. The second in her Winterlands series, and one I bought at full price yesterday!

Which was excellent.

Next up: The Piper on the Mountain by Ellis Peters. The fifth in her Felse Investigations series.

CRussel · 02-01-2023, 12:21 AM

I'm about 25% into The Dabare Snake Launcher, by Joelle Presby. Strange, and more than a little confusing, but it's growing on me. I suspect that I'll either give up and abandon it, or end up liking quite a lot.

Uncle Robin · 02-01-2023, 03:22 AM

Now that it's February, I've started the shortest book on my TBR for the MR Storygraph Challenge.

Right in the Table of Contents, I've learned something I didn't know - that Machiavelli's famous 'feared/loved' dictum was actually phrased as a question in a Chapter heading, 37.

astrangerhere · 02-01-2023, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by astrangerhere

Finished:

The audio book of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs

Still Reading:

Osamu Tezuka's 1953 manga Princess Knight
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace

New Reads:

The audio book of Connie Willis' Bellwhether, which is a little dated but still very funny.
Georges Simenon's 21st Maigret novel The Judge's House

Finished:

The audio book of Connie Willis' Bellwhether
Georges Simenon's 21st Maigret novel The Judge's House
Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Lee Smith (who lives just down the street from me) (first five star of the year)
Osamu Tezuka's 1953 manga Princess Knight

Still Reading

Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace

New Reads:

The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France by Caroline Moorehead

pdurrant · 02-03-2023, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by pdurrant

The Piper on the Mountain by Ellis Peters. The fifth in her Felse Investigations series.

Which was enjoyable. Nice to see Dominic out of his own.

Next up: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. Looking good.

pdurrant · 02-04-2023, 03:31 AM

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Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. Looking good.

And it was indeed extremely enjoyable. Great fun.

Next up: Three Shadows by Cyril Pedrosa. A freebie from Tor.com back in 2008!

Uncle Robin · 02-04-2023, 03:41 AM

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Originally Posted by pdurrant

Which was excellent.

Next up: The Piper on the Mountain by Ellis Peters. The fifth in her Felse Investigations series.

I have The House of Green Turf as one of my prompts in the MR Challenge at Storygraph. I enjoyed all the Felse in my teens, started a re-read a few years ago. I suspect I'm one of not that many who couldn't get into Cadfael at all, but have enjoyed reading and re-reading Felse

pdurrant · 02-05-2023, 05:32 AM

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Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: Three Shadows by Cyril Pedrosa. A freebie from Tor.com back in 2008!

A graphic novel on the subject of

Spoiler:

Not really my kind of thing at all.

Next up: The Great North Road by Robert Louis Stevenson

01-27-2023, 04:45 PM	#31191
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 18,620 Karma: 213318500 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5	I feel as if I’m off to a good start, knock wood. I’m ticking off boxes on all my various challenges; I’ve only had one two-star rating (a sequel to a book I liked - I won’t be reading the conclusion to the trilogy); I abandoned two books that I think I ordinarily would have finished. As a result, my GR average rating thus far is 3.5 stars. It’s not a stated goal, but I’m trying to read “better” this year. Noteworthy reads, i.e. 4 stars: *The Fortnight in September* by R.C. Sheriff *Full Moon* by P.G. Wodehouse *The Way of the World* by Nicolas Bouvier *Ithaca* by Claire North *Home Fire* by Kamila Shamsie *The Seventh Cross* by Anna Seghers *The Collar* by Frank O’Connor Currently reading: *Rachel Ray* by Anthony Trollope *Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage* by Tim Robinson *Home Fires Burning* by Belinda J. Davis Noting that this is my 74th Wodehouse in my quest to read all his books and my 22nd Trollope. His books are longer!

02-01-2023, 03:22 AM	#31195
Uncle Robin Diligent dilettante Posts: 3,108 Karma: 41262122 Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: in my mind Device: Kobo Sage; Kobo Libra H2O	Now that it's February, I've started the shortest book on my TBR for the MR Storygraph Challenge. Right in the Table of Contents, I've learned something I didn't know - that Machiavelli's famous 'feared/loved' dictum was actually phrased as a question in a Chapter heading, 37. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by Uncle Robin; 02-01-2023 at 03:25 AM.

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01-27-2023, 10:16 AM	#31190
Tarana Wizard Posts: 3,814 Karma: 38475226 Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Minneapolis Device: PWSE, Voyage, K3, HDX, KBasic 7 & 8, Nook Glo3, Echos, Nanos	Finished Death in Disguise by Caroline Graham (Midsomer Murders). Excellent! Plot does vary from the episode this was based on. Also completed War Brides by Helen Bryan (whispersync title so alternated between reading and listening). This book alternated between very excellent and boring depending on the chapter, but overall I'm glad I read it. On to Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell as soon as I finish shoveling the driveway. The late UK writer wrote excellent stand-alone mysteries.

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