PattyMacDotComma’s Comments (group member since May 18, 2015)

PattyMacDotComma’s comments from the Aussie Readers group.

Leonie - happy birthday for tomorrow! Hope it's a good day to celebrate. 🎈🥳🎉🎁🍰

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEAUTIFUL BRENDA! May you enjoy a wonderful new year leading us astray into books instead of whatever else people are expecting us to be doing! 🥳🍾🎈📚🎂🎁🎈

Meg wrote: "PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Marianne wrote: "Tell Me Something True by Michael Robotham is up FOR REQUEST"

Ooooo fingers crossed! Thanks!"

I was just approved for it!"


Got it - YAY!

Marianne wrote: "Tell Me Something True by Michael Robotham is up FOR REQUEST"

Ooooo fingers crossed! Thanks!

Sandi W - I hope you've had a good start to your birthday week today and will continue to enjoy the celebrations! 🎂🍾🎁🎈

For something completely different, have a look at We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor. It is mind-expanding in a most unusual way and is also out-of-this-world. Sci-fi with a moral slant and a sense of humour.
My review of We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

A View of the Woods is a 1957 short story by Flannery O'Connor that I hear haunting echoes of today in passionate arguments about "progress". Short and memorable and worth a look.
My review of A View of the Woods with a link to a PDF of the story

Carolyn wrote: "PattyMacDotComma wrote: "I have a question about NetGalley audiobooks. I don't always read my ebooks on time, but they stay in my Kindle account permanently. I can read them whenever I want on my K..

Others may have more experience, but I've listened to a couple of audiobooks on the App (on iPad) and they were fine. They're not permanent - I think you get the same time to listen to them as the for the books - 65 days after you download them. Just make sure you do that just before the archive date to get the max time."

Thanks, Carolyn. I'll be careful if I'm tempted. I seldom listen without having the text to refer to anyway.

I have a question about NetGalley audiobooks. I don't always read my ebooks on time, but they stay in my Kindle account permanently. I can read them whenever I want on my Kindle. I do try to be near publication time.

I haven't used the NetGalley app, and I'd like to know if that's the only way to listen to audios and how good is the app?

Also, how long do audiobooks stay accessible? I'm sometimes far behind and don't want to request something and then lose it (because I'm slack).

Phrynne wrote: "Wouldn't you like to know what the book was???"

Yes, of course!

I enjoy visiting Sebastian St Cyr, Viscount Lord Devlin, in Regency England, but When Blood Lies by C.S. Harris takes place in Paris. The defeated emperor Napoleon is in exile and the royal Bourbons (the survivors who still have their heads) are back on the throne - taking advantage of the resentful poor again. Will people never learn?
My review of When Blood Lies

The Peak by Aussie author Sam Guthrie is NOT an outback or mountain-climbing thriller. The Peak is a place in Hong Kong. This is about dirty foreign affairs (both diplomatic and romance) and a story of horrifying intrigue that moves between China and Australia. This author knows his stuff.
My review of The Peak

Gheesh - I've missed a whole bunch of us!
I hope you each celebrated your day well, and may you all enjoy a happy year ahead!
🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎂🍾🍾🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🌻🌼🌷🌹🪻

2nd - Ashleigh, Helen S, Helen
5th - Heather
6th - Amanda (Brisbane)

Sally906 wrote: "Noticed a few of mine showing read twice - when I haven’t.

Is a blank date for the “first” time and the correct finish date for the time I actually read it.

I’m really not sure if I’m even going to bother updating them..."

I won't unless I happen to notice them.

The Use of Force, a very short story by William Carlos Williams, shows a battle of tempers. It happens.
My review of the Use of Force with a link to where you can read it yourself.

Aussie author M.L. Stedman's recently published novel, A Far-Flung Life, will be as opinion-provoking as her earlier The Light Between Oceans was. Is Western Australia's remoteness big enough to hide secrets? Perfect for discussions.
My review of A Far-Flung Life

Has there been a discussion about this that I've missed? I just noticed that a bunch of my books are showing as not having READ dates. Some are showing they've been read twice, with dates only for the so-called first reading and the second one blank.

I was sorting a list by Date Read, and found these mismarked ones. I don't think I want to go through them all right now!

Anybody else noticed anything?

Happy Birthday Week, Veronica! Hope the actual day was a good one. 🎁🥳🎂🥂

Ted Chiang writes science fiction short stories and also writes nonfiction articles about AI for The New Yorker. His Story Of Your Life combines aliens, science, and family relationships - unusual and moving.

My review of Story of Your Life with a link to the story online and also to the film Arrival which was made from it.

The General Hospital is #3 in the Menzies Mental Health series about a fictional hospital, written by Aussies Anne Buist, a mental health psychiatrist, and her husband, author Graeme Simsion, best known for his popular books about The Rosie Project, which was delightful.

It didn't matter that I hadn't read the first two hospital books - they made it easy to pick up the connections.
My review of The General Hospital