What's on your agenda for today?

Woke up in Georgia. Going to sleep in Kentucky. God willing will be in my own bed tomorrow night in northern Michigan!
 

Last couple of days have been headache-inducing! While driving my car to the pharmacy through sleet and rain, my dashboard warning light came on - I hate when that happens! Apparently, the tire pressure maintenance system is not functioning properly and car needs servicing ASAP. As luck will have it, the service center isn't open on weekends and so I can't drive the car until it eventually gets fixed. I feel imprisoned. In addition, yesterday something went wrong with my laptop and couldn't get hooked up to the Internet - so I called my ISP who sent over a guy to work on the wiring to the modem. Well, those were yesterday's happenings. Today I hope to finish this really fascinating book I'm reading called "The Bookseller." A great read - about a woman living in alternate realities, one of which is real and the other probably a dream-like state but she doesn't know which is which.

I haven't been able to use my computer since Friday sometime so I now have to find the other discussions I follow. I hope everyone's day is very peaceful and relaxing.
 
I have been wondering where you were the last few days Kath thought you might be having a busy weekend away from us ...glad to see you back,:D and hopefully the car will get fixed really soon, I know exactly what you mean about feeling imprisoned when you can't get out..


Kadeee...oooh that's a long trip to go dancing..wow!! by the time you'd danced for hours then drove home again it's no wonder you were exhausted... that said...I envy you, I love dancing but I have no-one to go with. My o/h's idea of dancing is to hold up a bar with a pint of ale in his hand...:(
 

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Flying today. It is a 2-hour drive to Washington, D.C. from where I liver here in PA. There is a senior executive for a big company here where I live that flies almost everywhere he goes. Today, he was given permission to use the corporate jet to fly him and his family down to DC. I will be sitting in the right seat today. We will be leaving at 9:30 and hopefully be back by 8:00 tonight. He is taking his wife and daughter down to just walk around and see the sights. I could think of a hundred other places better and safer than DC to take my family to. BTW, this is not a cheap flight for such a short distance.
 
Kadee, you party animal! Sounds fun.

Kathy G, did you have a nice trip?

Kath, sorry about all those issues, especially on a weekend when it's more difficult to things fixed.

Finished a thriller this morning 'The Girl on the Train' by Paula Hawkins. Gave it 5 stars on Goodreads. Deciding what book to read next. I have another thriller on my Kindle so might read that next. I have dozens of books on my Kindle that I haven't read yet.

Set the clocks forward last night.
 
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Flying today. It is a 2-hour drive to Washington, D.C. from where I liver here in PA. There is a senior executive for a big company here where I live that flies almost everywhere he goes. Today, he was given permission to use the corporate jet to fly him and his family down to DC. I will be sitting in the right seat today. We will be leaving at 9:30 and hopefully be back by 8:00 tonight. He is taking his wife and daughter down to just walk around and see the sights. I could think of a hundred other places better and safer than DC to take my family to. BTW, this is not a cheap flight for such a short distance.
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Have a nice flight. Some people have more money than they know what to do with. I loved our visit to DC in 2010 and would love to go back.
 
Morning Georgia...Happy Sunday to you too ..it's lashing of rain and blowing gale force winds here today..so no going anywhere for me...I wish I was in Sunny Spain daughter has 80 deg F today
 
Hollydolly, you don't need to be going anywhere. Your weather is probably Mother Nature telling you to stay put and heal.

Sunny here today but cold. Right now it's only 31. High temp today won't even get to 60 but warmer than yesterday. Our 70-degree days have spoiled me, and I want them back.
 
Kath, sorry about all those issues, especially on a weekend when it's more difficult to things fixed.

Finished a thriller this morning 'The Girl on the Train' by Paula Hawkins. Gave it 5 stars on Goodreads. Deciding what book to read next. I have another thriller on my Kindle so might read that next. I have dozens of books on my Kindle that I haven't read yet.




AS - Recently finished "The Girl on the Train" too and I loved it! It was really hard to put down - now I'm reading "The Bookseller" by Cynthia Swanson which is a really fascinating book as well. It has only been out a week or two but saw it on Amazon and had to get it. I'm on Goodreads too - one of my favorite websites!
 
Kath, it was hard to put down! Really well written, I liked the style. And it was the author's first fiction book.

I'm thinking about reading another mystery I've got on my kindle 'In the Woods'. Think I'd better read Gone Girl as well since everyone says how good it is.

The Bookseller sounds very interesting!
 
I tried and tried again to like Gone Girl. I couldn't do it. I couldn't get into it. There must be a flaw in my character or something because I haven't heard anybody else say they didn't like it:(
 
Nope. Maybe too much "explanation" about nothing much? I dunno. I for sure didn't like the writing style; don't care for stories that jump back and forth among or between characters, back and forth in time. Blech.

Fooey. Tomorrow's client just texted me. She's on her way to ER. Kidney stone(s). Guess I won't clean my own place today so that I'll have something to do tomorrow.
 
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Nope. Maybe too much "explanation" about nothing much? I dunno. I for sure didn't like the writing style; don't care for stories that jump back and forth among or between characters, back and forth in time. Blech.

Fooey. Tomorrow's client just texted me. She's on her way to ER. Kidney stone(s). Guess I won't clean my own place today so that I'll have something to do tomorrow.
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Some books just have too many characters and jump around too much. But I'm giving it a chance. Just downloaded it.
 
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I tried and tried again to like Gone Girl. I couldn't do it. I couldn't get into it. There must be a flaw in my character or something because I haven't heard anybody else say they didn't like it:(
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You are not alone in disliking it! Listed as a page turner and a thriller, well I struggled to turn the pages and didn't find anything thrilling about it. I was determined though to read it to the end and wished I hadn't bothered. I won't be reading anymore of her books that's a dead cert! ;)
 
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You are not alone in disliking it! Listed as a page turner and a thriller, well I struggled to turn the pages and didn't find anything thrilling about it. I was determined though to read it to the end and wished I hadn't bothered. I won't be reading anymore of her books that's a dead cert! ;)
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Well, I just shelled out $4.20 (I have a US Amazon kindle account). So I'll read it and let you know what I think.

One book I read that people either loved or hated was The Book Thief. I loved it. It's one of the very few books that made me cry.
 
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Oh, thank goodness, Pam. I struggled to turn the pages, too, but I gave up after maybe the first 50 pages. Ugh. Another one that I couldn't make myself get into was Fifty Shades of Grey. Yawn. I think it was written for the giggly set...preteens, maybe.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
I tried and tried again to like Gone Girl. I couldn't do it. I couldn't get into it. There must be a flaw in my character or something because I haven't heard anybody else say they didn't like it:(
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Well, I didn't read the book, just saw the movie and I wasn't blown away, in fact found myself laughing at a lot of the stupidity. Some of it was a little entertaining, but, very contrived, sort of pretty to look at. I thought the ending was the least of how it should be though for hubby.
 
Morning has broken and the sky along with it. It's raining pitchforks and hammer handles. Glad I don't have to go out in it.
 

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