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  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    I have enough books for one, but don't think I have the space to put one up! :D

    It's definitely on my to visit list this coming Christmas.

    Glad to see you back @CountryMimi! :)<3
  • CountryMimi
    CountryMimi Scope Member Posts: 156 Empowering
    Thank you 💖

    😂 I definitely think we could fit one in our bathroom! It's ridiculous how big it is - yet the bath is tiny 😂😂😂😂
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    @CountryMimi😂 You'll have to get a bigger bath! But then where would the book tree go? 

    To kick off your lists again! 

    Current Reads:
    Mixed Signals by BK Borison

    TBR:
    So many! As in over 200 books 😂

    Finished:
    In The Weeds by BK Borison
    Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

    Wish List:
    The Honey Witch by Sydney J Shields - On preorder! 
  • CountryMimi
    CountryMimi Scope Member Posts: 156 Empowering
    Hannah_Scope said:
    @CountryMimi😂 You'll have to get a bigger bath! But then where would the book tree go? 

    To kick off your lists again! 

    Current Reads:
    Mixed Signals by BK Borison

    TBR:
    So many! As in over 200 books 😂

    Finished:
    In The Weeds by BK Borison
    Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

    Wish List:
    The Honey Witch by Sydney J Shields - On preorder! 
    The bathroom would still be big enough to fit one in regardless 🙈😂😂😂 I'd absolutely love a bigger bath haha! A property I lived in about 3 years ago had an amazing bath! It was so deep! I felt like I was in my own private swimming pool 😂😂😂😂

    Loooool over 200 books!!! 🤣🤣🤣

    I still haven't gotten back into the swing of things with reading, but I bought a few more books over the last few months!

    The Road Trip - Beth O'Leary
    Deck the Halls - Tessa Bailey (I fully intended on reading this over Christmas.... Never happened!)
    Honey & Spice - Bolu Babalola

    I also have a waterstones gift voucher that I have to spend from my birthday! There's a couple of books I'm waiting for release date, so might hang on to it for a little while longer! 
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    @CountryMimi I am getting visions of those huge ornate boat baths you find in old houses / luxury hotels <3 

    Yeah.... 🤣 and many more as I preordered a load for this year when it was triple points at Waterstones! 

    I have a voucher too and I have one for The Works which I may save for the summer! 
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,990 Championing

    Not so much reading cover-to-cover but I haven’t been able to read for a long time and am trying to ease myself into it by reading little bits. I have been reading a lot about whisky and the various distilleries and their history. It’s so interesting, even if you don’t like whisky I would say, they each have such a history, and all are so different from each other. It teaches you rather a lot about social history!

  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    @66Mustang I bet it's interesting about the workforce too. With technology advances changing the way distilleries work! 

    I recently found out that my "cozies" which are murder mystery books published in the USA by a USA company have been picked up by HarperCollins! I'm going to be broke 🤣
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,990 Championing
    @Hannah_Scope oh no :D do you buy all your books, or would you entertain the idea of borrowing/renting? I can understand either way as I have a couple of family members who were utterly obsessed but had to own every book they read and never get rid of it. One had a whole room just for bookcases which we obviously called the library :blush:
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    @66Mustang I do buy second hand, but my library isn't huge for adult fictions, they put a lot of their money and resources into children's books and literacy classes. 

    I want a library! To be fair, it is a good thing I am buying so many. I'm basically insulating the house! 🤣
  • Zimba
    Zimba Online Community Member Posts: 1,822 Empowering
    One I recently read called The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.  It was also made into a film.  
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    @Zimba Ooo which did you like better, the book or the film? 
  • Zimba
    Zimba Online Community Member Posts: 1,822 Empowering
    @Hannah_Scope
     l always prefer the book 📕 I find the films miss a lot out of the story out.  
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    There has only been one movie series where I felt the movies did as well as the books, and that is the Lord of The Rings movie series. 

    But the book over the movie any day! 
  • Marydoll5
    Marydoll5 Online Community Member Posts: 651 Championing
    @Hannah_Scope I read the Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks and was incensed. I worked culturing HeLa cells and we were told they were cancer cells donated from an American woman!! Netflix did a documentary on it too
  • Marydoll5
    Marydoll5 Online Community Member Posts: 651 Championing
    @66Mustang I will hunt out The black angels thanks for the recommendation 
  • Zimba
    Zimba Online Community Member Posts: 1,822 Empowering
    @ Hannah_scope 
    I agree Lord of the Rings was a really good. 

    What’s your thoughts on the Harry Potter book’s verses the films? 
    Again a lot missing in the films. 
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    @marydoll5 I'll keep an eye out for the documentary! I liked the movie that Oprah Winfrey did. 

    @zimba There is a lot missing! I think because they put so much into the production value, they are very well-done movies and definitely a favourite in my household. It makes me wonder with the new Harry Potter TV series coming up, will we see parts of the book that wasn't in the films. Like the challenges to get to the sorcerer's stone! 
  • UKDJ
    UKDJ Online Community Member Posts: 147 Empowering
    Hi All,

    I'm new to all these Scope Forums, so just finding my way around - I hope this is OK to Post here... sorry if it's already been covered, but Searching through 17 pages of Comments (as of February 29, 2024!) is a big ask!

    For any book lovers, have you discovered the bookcrossing.com website?
    It's like a worldwide library, where people 'release' their unwanted books into the wild for others to discover...
  • UKDJ
    UKDJ Online Community Member Posts: 147 Empowering
    Following on from my last Post, I would love to hear any author recommendations from people here...
    To give you an idea, I love 'U.S. cop'/murder-mystery/thriller writers, such as - 

    James Patterson 
    Michael Connelly 
    Michael Crichton

    - but NOT...

    British crime writers, such as - 

    Agatha Christie
    Caroline Graham (Midsomer Murders)
    Colin Dexter (Inspector Morse)

    ... etc.
  • Marydoll5
    Marydoll5 Online Community Member Posts: 651 Championing
    @UKDJ I must check out the bookcrossing.com site thank you.

    The last 2 books I read were
    Daniel Hurst   The doctors wife  a thriller with 4 books in series 

    Laura Pearson    The last list of Mabel Beaumont  excellent about women and relationships 

    I love Patricia Cornwell and the Kay Scarpetta books where Kay is a forensic pathologist. There's loads of them and anything by Karin Slaughter who is an American author of who dunnits

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