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Nov

17

Lost on a Book Buying Binge

Filed under: Rambling, TV/Movies — Tori @ 12:26 pm
 

Today’s horoscopes:

Phone calls and e-mails between you and your friends may get misplaced, or otherwise go astray, VICKI. A little patience is called for when trying to reach anyone at this time, especially if modern technology is involved. If a matter is urgent, it might be best to do the old-fashioned thing and actually go see the person in question. That’s the only way to ensure reaching anyone right now.

I just have one question… how does one misplace a phone call??? :rofl:

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So who watched Lost last night? What did you think? I thought it was interesting but they really needed more than one episode to tell us what happened to the Tail Section Group, IMO.

I wish I’d recorded it so I could double check this, but one thing I think I saw when they first found the bunker was some kind of tower—like a cell phone tower or a television broadcast tower—on the mountain behind them. I don’t think I should have seen that. :rofl:

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Just got a book order. :wave: New books! Fun! I got:

  • A Mourning Wedding by Carola Dunn
  • We’ll Always Have Parrots by Donna Andrews
  • You’ve Got Murder by Donna Andrews
  • Estate of Mind by Tamar Myers
  • Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
  • Third Sight by Suzanne McMinn

    • However, I’ll probably finish the book I’m re-reading right now before I start on the new ones. I started reading Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series again the other night. I love this series. Much fun! I finished The Eyre Affair last night, and started on Lost in a Good Book. Then next up—er, no pun intended—in the series is The Well of Lost Plots and we finish out with Something Rotten. Then he wrote an independent though related book in the new Nursery Crime series called The Big Over Easy. I’m hoping he’ll write more Thursday Next books, though, in addition to the Nursery Crime series.

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    And just so you don’t think I’ve abandoned my writing :) I finished my read-through and now I’m working on fixing all the problems I found. Not as much fun as I’d like, but that’s life in the writing world.

    29 Comments

    1. That is so funny that we blogged about the same things today!! Books and writing.:smile:

      Comment by trace — November 17, 2005 @ 3:52 pm

    2. Great minds think alike, Trace. :)

      Comment by Tori — November 17, 2005 @ 4:07 pm

    3. Wow, I so didn’t see the tower. There are so many things I bet I’m missing. I need to get the first season DVD set and watch them more carefully, then do the same when the second season comes out.

      Comment by Trish — November 17, 2005 @ 5:07 pm

    4. My latest box of books arrived today and I have now put a moratorium on buying for … at least 2 weeks. I’m running out of TBR piles, I’m now on tower #5. I think I’ll be reading for a while!
      Don’t watch Lost anymore - when I was taping it and not getting around to watching it I realized that I wasn’t really missing the show. My sister-in-law still tapes it and saves episodes that she thinks I’ll like and that’s about it.

      Comment by Eve — November 17, 2005 @ 5:23 pm

    5. Trish, if I wasn’t seeing things it may well have been a blooper. :) Like jet contrails in westerns. :rofl:

      Eve!!! Scandalous! I can’t imagine not missing Lost. :) I had a huge TBR pile several months ago, but when I realized I had no desire to read most of them, I decided it was time for them to go to the library. They were thrilled to get them. :)

      Comment by Tori — November 17, 2005 @ 6:00 pm

    6. Well, I’ve never watched Lost. I take that back, I watched one episode, was completely LOST, and haven’t attempted to watch since. I hear there’s a hot guy on the show, though. Or did he die? They always kill off the hot ones…

      Comment by Danica — November 17, 2005 @ 9:45 pm

    7. Great book list. Ha-ha, I’ve never misplaced a phone call.

      Comment by Mary — November 17, 2005 @ 9:55 pm

    8. I don’t remember seeing the tower. Good point! But I wonder if there are TWO groups of Others. :coffee:

      Comment by Michelle — November 18, 2005 @ 7:24 am

    9. Thanks for the information. What amazed me was the part about the King Ranch being larger than Rhode Island! Wow.

      Comment by Eve — November 18, 2005 @ 1:48 pm

    10. I didn’t remember seeing the tower. I’m actually glad they didn’t spend more time on the tailies. But it was odd hearing Boone’s voice over the radio!

      Comment by Melissa Mc — November 19, 2005 @ 2:18 am

    11. If you like Terry Pratchett, I highly recommend “Good Omens”. He wrote it with Neil Gaiman and it’s absolutely hysterical!

      Comment by zonker — November 19, 2005 @ 10:12 am

    12. I just picked up Sue Miller, Lost in the Forest, has anyone read?

      Comment by armywifetoddlermom — November 20, 2005 @ 10:21 am

    13. Hey Tori - where are you?:waving:

      Comment by Eve — November 22, 2005 @ 1:59 pm

    14. Hope you didn’t get lost in one of your new books. :book:

      Comment by Danica — November 23, 2005 @ 12:20 am

    15. Thanks for buying my book!!!

      Comment by Suzanne — November 23, 2005 @ 8:46 am

    16. I didn’t notice the tower either. And I think I erased the episode already so I can’t go back and check. I love LOST. Never miss an episode. I don’t always watch it the night it’s on but I still never miss an episode.

      Comment by Cindy — November 23, 2005 @ 10:22 pm

    17. Hey, Tori, how are you doing? Happy Thanksgiving.

      Comment by Mary — November 23, 2005 @ 11:16 pm

    18. Happy Thanksgiving Tori!!!

      Comment by Eve — November 24, 2005 @ 6:59 am

    19. I think that was one of the best episodes yet! :wave:
      The characterization is just AMAZING! And I find myself watching stuff more and more and thinking about how they put it together. Anyway it was a great episode but I didn’t see the tower–i did notice the “quarantine” sign on the inside of the door a couple episodes ago.

      Comment by Cece — November 24, 2005 @ 7:18 pm

    20. Popping in to wish you a happy holiday weekend, Tori. may it be filled with good movies and good books. You’ve certainly got several to choose from! :book:

      Comment by Beth Ciotta — November 25, 2005 @ 8:38 am

    21. Getting a little worried here Tori. Hopefully it’s the old computer problems and nothing worse that is keeping you from us.

      Miss you!

      Comment by Eve — November 25, 2005 @ 12:24 pm

    22. Hello Tori!!!
      Long time, no blog. *waving*
      WOW!!! On the books. I’m so envious. :book:
      My best on the writing world. And have a great holiday!!!
      Grins*

      Comment by Crystal* — November 25, 2005 @ 6:38 pm

    23. Hey, gang! I’m still alive & kicking but my laptop’s monitor went kahblooey! So I’m having to use my dad’s computer which is inconvenient to say the very least. Anyway, from all the estimates I got it was going to cost more than half the cost of a new laptop to fix the problem, so I ordered a new one. :mrgreen: Like I really had to think long and hard about doing that… Got a new iBook which is way more powerful than my old one so it should be fun to play with… er, work with. Yeah, that’s what I meant. Work with…

      Anyway, I haven’t updated here because I can’t remember my password. :rofl: All that info’s on my old system so until I get the new baby I’m kind of blogless. Should be here by Wednesday, according to Amazon. But I’m getting way impatient. :crazedjumping:

      Comment by Tori Lennox — November 26, 2005 @ 11:04 am

    24. :relieved: Was getting a bit worried. Glad you’re okay and it was only your computer that died:rambo: Have fun with the new one - “see” ya Thursday?

      MISSED YOU!!!!!!

      Comment by Eve — November 26, 2005 @ 8:10 pm

    25. Hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful!!

      Hurry back to blogland!!!:wave:

      Comment by Steph T. — November 27, 2005 @ 1:58 pm

    26. Oh, now I have to go book shopping. There’s a few I want but have been holding off buying for a while. I must go shopping now!

      Comment by Teresa — November 27, 2005 @ 2:18 pm

    27. I second that…hurry back to blog land.

      Comment by Mary — November 28, 2005 @ 9:35 pm

    28. Yes hurry back. :)

      Comment by Danica — December 1, 2005 @ 1:45 am

    29. Where are you at? This is Thursday - didn’t you get the new laptop yesterday? :jumping:

      Comment by Eve — December 1, 2005 @ 9:31 am

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