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Good luck with that snow folks!! Brake pumping ftw.

Hello again old friends and people that I haven't met yet!

I would like to declare that I am once again trying to get back to the book reading happy fun times! I started reading 20+ books in the last couple of years and didn't finish a single title. Not because they sucked, but because there was no follow through, and too many titles sitting around that looked good (the downside to ADD). So I'm trying to come back to get some reading accountability in my life! It's good to see a lot of names that I remember from 6-7 years ago, hopefully we can reconnect and get some buddy reads on the go. Now if I remember right, updating your "Currently Reading" page numbers and comments spams everyone's main page, for this, I'm so sorry. But I had to add the books that I started as a way to get a reminder going of what I'm "Currently Reading" LOL --> Yep, 20 books. The first time that I REALLY got into FBR was when my oldest son was about 8, and that's now the age of my youngest son. So that's another reason why I'm trying to get back into the swing of things here, I read 30 books that year, I'm hoping for a repeat!

So I'll just leave that as is and try to reach out to those folks that I remember chatting with so many years ago to try to reconnect and see what's up!? I'm also looking forward to meeting new peeps as well! Cheers!

Welcome back Chris!

Welcome back, Chris. Happy to hear from you again! What were your 20+ books? Maybe you can find a BR here - there are lots! - and we can read along.

Welcome back Chris!

Hi hi! Nice to meet you Chris! Looking forward to reading with you.

Gone but still remembered...

Chris H vs Chris M FOREVER, in the reading competition :D

Welcome back... we've had our ups and downs here as well... we're definitely on a post-covid upswing, back to the old days of 30-50 BRs/month, so there's always something to get into...

Looking at your 20 Currently Reading books...

If you want to keep reading those, and talk about them, plenty have recent threads you can pop in on...

Lies of Locke Lamora was read back in October... I don't know if people continued with book 2+ or treated it as a standalone...

We're Legends and Lattes megafans around here... I think someone is reading it in their real life book club this year so it's on the docket... i'm sure you can get a Bookshops & Bonedust BR started between then and the release of book 2/3 in the Fall: Brigands & Breadknives

We love Murderbot around here, altho it's been over a year since the last BR...

We finished a Dresden BR a year past last summer, and I think Nirkatze is eyeing her next re-read sooner than later... they'd be on book 4 in no time...

I think people were reading that John Gwynne series super recently...

We read Malevolent Seven a year or 2 ago... we're neck deep in reading our way through the Sebastien de Castell bibliography... Malevolent Seven, Greatcoats, Spellslinger, now Argosi, with plans to end on the Greatcoats anthology and the newer sequel series Court of Shadows... and probably revisit Malevolent Seven when it gets a sequel (it's open to a sequel someday)...

We/they read Empire of the Vampire last year leading up to the release of Empire of the Damned, and I'm sure there'll be another re-read when book 3 comes out...

Blacktongue Thief was read last summer...

I see you love Murderbot so much you're Currently Reading it twice ;)

Saar The Book owl wrote: "Welcome back, Chris. Happy to hear from you again! What were your 20+ books? Maybe you can find a BR here - there are lots! - and we can read along."

I've posted them all in my "Currently Reading". Nice to "see" you again Saar!

Chris wrote: "Saar The Book owl wrote: "Welcome back, Chris. Happy to hear from you again! What were your 20+ books? Maybe you can find a BR here - there are lots! - and we can read along."

I've posted them all..."

I'll have a look :)

Sometimes, ya just need a silly song.

When a Man Loves His Pizza by Dominik Witka

That was a fun song. Thank you for sharing!

Just wanted to announce the birth of my baby boy! Arrived 2/23 and we are doing well! Not surprisingly, have been too sleep deprived to read a word since then lol

Congrats

Congratulations! I hope you get some more sleep going forwards!!

Congratulations!!!!!

Tonari no Emily wrote: "Just wanted to announce the birth of my baby boy! Arrived 2/23 and we are doing well! Not surprisingly, have been too sleep deprived to read a word since then lol"

Congratulations!!!!

Congratulations Emily!

Congratulations Emily! I am glad to hear you are doing well but hopefully you can get more sleep soon. I just did the second ultrasound exam this week and learned it's a boy, too.

Congrats, Emily!!

Tonari no Emily wrote: "Just wanted to announce the birth of my baby boy! Arrived 2/23 and we are doing well! Not surprisingly, have been too sleep deprived to read a word since then lol"

WOO! =D

Hope you both the best!

Tonari no Emily wrote: "Just wanted to announce the birth of my baby boy! Arrived 2/23 and we are doing well! Not surprisingly, have been too sleep deprived to read a word since then lol"

Congratulations!

Congrats, Emily :)

Congratulations Emily!!

Congratulations, Emily!

Tonari no Emily wrote: "Just wanted to announce the birth of my baby boy! Arrived 2/23 and we are doing well! Not surprisingly, have been too sleep deprived to read a word since then lol"

Congrats!

Plans for next Christmas :D

Timelord Iain wrote: ""

That is terrifyingly cute.

Timelord Iain wrote: ""

LoL Agreed! Cute

Terrifyingly cute is pretty much their brand... Kay & Tay have been in my youtube feed since before Kay got pregnant with baby Elle...

That vid popped up in my feed last night, and not long later I saw a 10 month video where Elle was in a Pikachu onesie picking her starter pokemon (not sure why that was a thing... at least Harry Potter made immediate sense to me with the 9.75 month age)...

Congratulations Emily!!

My special edition Words of Radiance books have finally been delivered. (Thank god!) They're still gorgeous but I feel like the artwork in Way of Kings was stronger. Anyway, I think I'll leave it there for now, especially considering they took a loooooong time to come for such a lot of money (must be like a year and a half) and I just wanna see how the series progresses with RoW and the 5th book not being as great.

How is it already March?!

Here are these month's selections:

Mar 1, 2025 The Heart of What Was Lost (Osten Ard: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn #3.5) by Tad Williams
Mar 1, 2025 The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower #3) by Stephen King
Mar 1, 2025 Parasite (Parasitology #1) by Mira Grant
Mar 2, 2025 Every Which Way But Dead (Hollows #3) by Kim Harrison
Mar 3, 2025 Gobbelino London & a Collision of Catastrophes (Gobbelino London, PI #7) by Kim M. Watt
Mar 3, 2025 Archangel's Consort (Guild Hunter #3) by Nalini Singh
Mar 3, 2025 Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass #4) by Sarah J. Maas
Mar 4, 2025 Kingdom of Copper (Daevabad #2) by S.A. Chakraborty
Mar 4, 2025 A Cold Day in Hell (Circles of Hell #2) by Mark Cain
Mar 5, 2025 That Ain't Witchcraft (InCryptid #8) by Seanan McGuire
Mar 5, 2025 When the Moon Hatched (Moonfall #1) by Sarah A. Parker
Mar 5, 2025 Goldenhand (Old Kingdom #5) by Garth Nix
Mar 6, 2025 Stone Maidens (Stone Maidens #1) by Lloyd Devereaux Richards
Mar 7, 2025 Dark Horse (Ohphan X #7) by Gregg Hurwitz
Mar 7, 2025 Scavenger Door (Finder Chronicles #3) by Suzanne Palmer
Mar 8, 2025 The Hollow Boy (Lockwood & Co. #3) by Jonathan Stroud
Mar 8, 2025 Survival (Species Imperative #1) by Julie E. Czerneda
Mar 8, 2025 The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett
Mar 9, 2025 Blackbirds (Miriam Black #1) by Chuck Wendig
Mar 10, 2025 Gentleman Jole & the Red Queen (Vorkosigan Saga #15) by Lois McMaster Bujold
Mar 10, 2025 When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
Mar 10, 2025 Sisterhood of Dune (Schools of Dune #1) by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Mar 11, 2025 Midnight Smoke (Firebrand #3) (Supernatural London) by Helen Harper
Mar 11, 2025 The White Rose (Black Company #3) by Glen Cook
Mar 12, 2025 Deliverer (Foreigner #9 Arc 3 #3) by C.J. Cherryh
Mar 13, 2025 Hell to Pay (Tear Down Heaven #3) by Rachel Aaron
Mar 15, 2025 Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day and Other Stories (Anthology) by Jonathan L Howard
Mar 15, 2025 Terms of Surrender (Revanche Cycle #3) (First Story Universe) by Craig Schaefer
Mar 15, 2025 Morning Star (Red Rising Saga #3) by Pierce Brown
Mar 15, 2025 Wrath of the Triple Goddess (Percy Jackson #7) by Rick Riordan
Mar 16, 2025 War of Honor (Honor Harrington #10) by David Weber
Mar 16, 2025 Salute the Dark (Shadows of the Apt #4) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Mar 17, 2025 The Second Summoning (Keeper's Chronicles #2) by Tanya Huff
Mar 18, 2025 Naamah's Kiss (Kushiel's Legacy: Moirin #1) by Jacqueline Carey
Mar 18, 2025 Steamsworn (Steamborn #3) by Eric R. Asher
Mar 18, 2025 Dead Tired (#1) by Ravensdagger
Mar 18, 2025 Tomb of Dragons (Cemeteries of Amalo #3) by Katherine Addison
Mar 19, 2025 Galaxy In Flames (Warhammer 40k: Horus Heresy #3) by Ben Counter
Mar 19, 2025 A Feast for Crows (Song of Ice and Fire #4) by George R.R. Martin
Mar 20, 2025 Godkiller (Fallen Gods #1) by Hannah Kaner
Mar 22, 2025 Feet of Clay (Discworld #19) by Terry Pratchett
Mar 23, 2025 Bloody Acquisitions (Fred, the Vampire Accountant #3) by Drew Hayes
Mar 24, 2025 Differently Morphous (DEDA Files #1) by Yahtzee Croshaw
Mar 25, 2025 Something (Full Murderhobo #1) by Dakota Krout
Mar 27, 2025 Fate of the Argosi (Spellslinger: Argosi Saga #3) by Sebastien de Castell
Mar 27, 2025 The Poisoner's Ring (A Rip Through Time #2) by Kelley Armstrong
Mar 27, 2025 He Who Fights With Monsters 5 (HWFWM #5) by Shirtaloon
Mar 28, 2025 Observer Effect (Joseph Bridgeman #3) by Nick Jones
Mar 28, 2025 Heartsong (Green Creek #3) by TJ Klune
Mar 30, 2025 The Song of the Quarkbeast (Last Dragonslayer #2) by Jasper Fforde

Thanks everyone! I am getting a little more sleep now.
Also I am definitely tempted to try a sorting ceremony now lol

Gotta wait until baby is 9 & 3/4 months old :D

Timelord Iain wrote: "Gotta wait until baby is 9 & 3/4 months old :D"

OOooh, is THAT why she announced the age? I was trying to figure out what the significance of the nine months was...

Yea... play on Platform 9 and 3/4 :D

Tonari no Emily wrote: "Thanks everyone! I am getting a little more sleep now.
Also I am definitely tempted to try a sorting ceremony now lol"

One of the ceremonies that I think is fun from Asian cultures is the future career pick. Generally done on 1st birthday. Put stuff that represents different kind of professions in an area, put the kid in the middle and whatever the kid grabs & keeps in hand is the "job" they're gonna have.

Pretty sure I had this when I was a kid, but I never talked about it with my family.

That sounds a lot like the ceremony for identifying the next Dalai Lama (or other minor Lamas).

I thought this was interesting - a video proving the existence of a country called "Bookland" -

Narilka wrote: "I thought this was interesting - a video proving the existence of a country called "Bookland" - "

Ooh, that was really interesting! I didn't know that information about ISBNs. Thank you for sharing!

Need to vent. I’m already behind on all my reads and now I’m going to fall even further behind. I part time dog walk and I listen to books while walking. Yesterday I stepped off a curb wrong and fractured my foot so no walking for me for a while. I have the most annoying injuries 🤦‍♀��

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Need to vent. I’m already behind on all my reads and now I’m going to fall even further behind. I part time dog walk and I listen to books while walking. Yesterday I stepped off a curb wrong and fr..."

That sucks! I hope you are back up and walking quickly!

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Need to vent. I’m already behind on all my reads and now I’m going to fall even further behind. I part time dog walk and I listen to books while walking. Yesterday I stepped off a curb wrong and fr..."

Ouch! I broke my foot back in 2021 and know that pain. Hope you heal quickly.

I fell and fractured my toe around 14 months ago... later found out I partially tore the sesamoid ligament, too... and between that and trying to avoid putting pressure on my foot while healing, my knees started bothering me, and lifting myself out of chairs in bad ways, my arms started hurting me...

Everything's connected sadly, and I'm constantly trying to find the best way to not hurt old injuries or cause new ones, until they're all 100% healed...

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Need to vent. I’m already behind on all my reads and now I’m going to fall even further behind. I part time dog walk and I listen to books while walking. Yesterday I stepped off a curb wrong and fr..."

That sucks! Hope healing & recovery will be on the faster end.

Timelord Iain wrote: "I fell and fractured my toe around 14 months ago... later found out I partially tore the sesamoid ligament, too... and between that and trying to avoid putting pressure on my foot while healing, my..."

The answer is to always move your body well and stop trying to overcompensate with bad movements.

At least that's what I have to do.

Plus massage, proper treatment, ointments, rest and adjustable compression braces.

Oh and stop doing stuff that totally aggravates injured parts. That's the hardest one to do, but it's better to put that on pause for 6-8 weeks vs constantly being injured.

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I know... it's hard avoiding basic movement/tasks, tho...

I had a month of pain after some bad luck pushing snow away from apartment/car in January... jolted arm/shoulder and it led to alot of tightness/pain... time/RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation) and alot of massaging the areas helped and now that's mostly passed...

I'm sorry to hear that, Diana! I wish you a speedy recovery.

I hurt my left knee about 3 years ago, right before we went to Disney world. I had to ride around in a scooter which was equally horrible and awesome cause we got to skip lines. Anyway, it just randomly flares up. I can never tell what will set it off. I'll do nothing new and wake up the next day and can barely walk. Frustrating.

I also hurt my shoulder playing fetch with my cat. Yes, he loves to chase puff balls. He even brings back the puff. But I messed up a ligament. I went to the doctor and had to do physical therapy because my doctor was afraid it would heal wrong. Everybody I talked to about it laughed at me especially the doctors and nurses. It is actually pretty funny.