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Gilbert is MIA and the dragon hunting “journalists” are all over. It’s chaos. The WI is trying to help but communication is at an all time low. Yikes!!

It’s slow reading with lots of words like ontology and phenomenology etc and a few I have to keep looking up again and again.
I admit to be a bit daft but sometimes writers get too in love with ologies and isms and basically muddle the point they’re making.

I love Agatha Raisin. She is successful and strong but also a bit vulnerable. She’s a bit brusque but has still managed to find herself a good group of people in her life. The greatest pleasure of Agatha is that she’s flawed but still appealing as she grows as a person and deals with life’s slings and arrows.

It is a good reminder to get with it and not just let life pass us by. Imperfect, but some good advice.

I like these stories. They’re sweet and the characters are good.

Togo’s writing is a bit like Twain and Pinkwater’s mixed together. It’s weird and regional and I have enjoyed the two other books of his I have read.

The publisher Peter Weed of Condon & Weed gave me a bunch of his books when I was a little kid. I started with the Blue Moose in the 1970s and I have now read almost everything he has written. His writing is like eating dessert for me. Huge fan and I will finish this one this year.

I have reread parts of this a few times but then lose my place. It’s also on my “will finish in 2026!!!” List.

Written by a friend and I am truly enjoying it and will finish in 2026. It’s interesting how we can procrastinate even on reading things we enjoy and like.

I may have to reread this one since I have moved twice since I last read it. I’d bow my head in shame but I shall read and finish it this year.

This is going to be one of the many books on my “currently reading “ that I am going to finish this year. Come hell or high water I am gonna get that darn list down to no more than 10 books.

These are fun stories. It’s hard not to like mysteries that are being investigated by middle aged women and dragons. Not great literature but delightful escapism.

Somehow this just isn't grabbing me like I thought it would. Will come back in a few months and try again.

I downloaded the preview and it caught my fancy so I bought the book. I hope it is as good as Inspector Chopra books, but without an elephant side kick.

These are fun stories but you really want to slap some of the characters.

It's total camp and while I hate politics with a passion, it's also funny to make it into poetry cause real life is a bit too disturbing.

Pretty riveting story. What tangled webs we weave! When I first started reading this book I saw all these discrepancies which get resolved along the way. Fun story.

I used to really enjoy this series, but it's dragging on a bit and as much as I used to enjoy hating aunt Agatha, I just find myself being irked by her and wanting to shove her in a closet. I also begin wondering why Melrose doesn't demand she behave herself and not abuse his hospitality! I guess if that happened there wouldn't be the whole schtick about him and their relationship and it would be duller.

The main characters aren't all that bright or likeable. They're just sort of bumbling along. He's old school she's youngish and the first book was kind of flat but okay. I'm on the second and sort of disinterested in our heroine. It's just something to listen to while I work.

Always well written and fascinating little bit of India for those who only get to visit via their arm chair.
Includes Indian politics, social analysis, relationship complications, elephants and the mischief of children and elephants and other creatures. Not just a mystery.

I really like his essays about his life or his family as much as his children's stories. I imagine his adult life is an effort to get the things he didn't as a child but makes the rest of us enjoy the trip.

"The world can be spelled". Makes one realize the power or reading and writing and how it gives us understanding and control where before we may have had none.
Fascinating book and interesting ideas, alliances and bonds.

Pinkwater has a bunch of his books free to download and listen on his website but you can leave a donation which I did and you get to listen to the author read which is a pleasure. Here are essays on his life and family.

The short story "Your Question for Author Here" by Kate DiCamillo is just wonderful. I've listened to it twice and I never do that and I am considering listening to it again.

A bit of a slow beginning but then kept me awake it was so interesting. I am doing the audiobook but the reader's mispronunciation of the word "reputable" makes me clench. I also had a misconception of what the book was about so it's fairly interesting listening to a story you thought was about one thing only to find out it has nothing to do with it at all. Fighting misconceptions is a fascinating exercise as well

I like Gretel. I identify with her in many ways such as always being at the disadvantage at the absolutely worst time when you want to make a good impression and then getting a bit huffy with a "I meant to do this " attitude. While both a bit full figured or traditionally built, we do not share a love of clothes and dressing to the 9s to show ourselves at best advantage but it might not be a bad idea if I took it up.

Too depressing. Not what I thought I was getting into.