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TL *Humaning the Best She Can* wrote: "🫂"

Hey, lovely! 🫂 Hope you've had a great Summer, and not too many sunburns.

Glad to see you back. We await the nuptials with Travis the Cub in New York City. And, you pissed Infantino off? Sunburned my non-covered bald head at high altitude on vacation myself.

What lucky guy managed to hold your attention and win your hard-earned affections like that? 👀

Welcome back, sort of! And congrats on your impending nuptials, how exciting! :)

They do?? Omg (also welcome back!)

Welcome back! As for getting married, go for it! After almost 59 years of wedded bliss (*ahem*!) it has worked for me and it's been great fun, too :))

Welcome back!

I’ve missed you on here!! And congrats ❤️❤️❤️

Marquise wrote: "TL *Humaning the Best She Can* wrote: "🫂"

Hey, lovely! 🫂 Hope you've had a great Summer, and not too many sunburns."

Hanging in there, many more health issues this year and pain has been a friend eep... may need two surgeries.. cross fingers for me surgeon thinks I'm a good surgery candidate for the bigger one.

No sunburns yet thank goodness.

Welcome welcome! And congratulations—aside from the theft (as if I needed more reasons to hate a corporation). Why the shift if I may ask? Also, you missed nothing😂

First Congrats! So close! A few months??? So when will the big day be?? In October, November, or December??... I honestly thought you guys already got married this year.. YES.. Sorry you had to find out the dirty truth of AmaNazi & book practices this way, but yeah.. They've done this forever.. Most of them could still be in your Kindle cloud though.. You should try that.. if they are, then you can re-download em in your Kindle.

And what does this mean, exactly?: " I'm fully transitioning into a retellings-only reviewer."

Welcome back. Was wondering about you recently.
Have you read Lady Tremaine yet?

Congratulations!!

I have over 3000 books on my kindle so if some got deleted I probably wouldn’t even notice 😭😭.

Got booted from the World Cup… as in your got kicked out or your team didn’t win?? 😅😆

Yay, she’s back! Congrats on the upcoming marriage, I wish you and Cub many happinesses for hundreds of years to come!!!

Ha, Amazon deleting ebooks doesn’t surprise me at all, that’s why I buy physical books if I really like them! Though as a suggestion, if you haven’t already tried this, if you can remember the titles type them into your Kindle and see if they come up. I’ve had this happen to a couple books where they’re still in there they just won’t show up with the rest of them and for the life of me I can’t figure out why.

Yes, they unfortunately do that. Just because you buy an ebook doesn’t mean you own it, apparently. That’s another reason to stick to physical books.

Cool that the wedding date is approaching! Do you still have a lot to do?

And welcome back, Marquise :)

Booted from the World Cup? You can’t just end that statement there. I require more details.

Socraticgadfly wrote: "And, you pissed Infantino off?"

Nah, I haven't had the displeasure of meeting that bald fraud. We just lost. 🥹

Travis the Cub. 🤣 I'm going to call him that and see!

Automemory Cub wrote: "What lucky guy managed to hold your attention and win your hard-earned affections like that? 👀"

You happen to know the old chap well. 😏

Yun wrote: "Welcome back, sort of! And congrats on your impending nuptials, how exciting! :)"

Thank you, my Yun! Missed you. 🥰🤗

Meishuu wrote: "They do?? Omg (also welcome back!)"

Yeah, the bastards do indeed do that. 😐 And I'm not talking about Kindle Freebies or Kindle Unlimited books either, but books you buy with your hard-earned money. Fic and non-fic.

Which is why so many of us back-up our eBooks off of Kindle, but Amazon is making that nigh impossible with the newer Kindle formats...

Terence M [Quot libros, quam breve tempus!] wrote: "Welcome back! As for getting married, go for it! After almost 59 years of wedded bliss (*ahem*!) it has worked for me and it's been great fun, too :))"

Thank you, Terry! I want to be like you when I grow up. 😂

Carol, She's so Novel ꧁꧂ wrote: "Welcome back!"

Thank you, Carol! <3

Erica🤍 wrote: "I’ve missed you on here!! And congrats ❤️❤️❤️"

Thank you, darling! ❤️

TL *Humaning the Best She Can* wrote: "Hanging in there, many more health issues this year and pain has been a friend eep... may need two surgeries.. cross fingers for me surgeon thinks I'm a good surgery candidate for the bigger one."

Sorry to hear that, doll! Hope your health improves soon.

C wrote: "Why the shift if I may ask? Also, you missed nothing😂"

The shift towards retellings only, you mean?

Hehehe, I know. This site has sadly lost many of its stars...

~*~Princess Nya Vasiliev~*~ wrote: "First Congrats! So close! A few months??? So when will the big day be?? In October, November, or December??... I honestly thought you guys already got married this year.. YES..."

We hoped to get married last year, then this Summer, then this December, but life got in the way . . . and work got in the way . . . and family got in the way . . . and bureaucracy got in the way . . . and Cristiano Donaldo got in the way . . . So here we are. Gotta talk to the wedding planner and the lawyer about the exact date, but it's this year or I'll just kidnap the Cub and talk some unfortunate registrar into marrying us before 2026 is over.

~*~Princess Nya Vasiliev~*~ wrote: ".Sorry you had to find out the dirty truth of AmaNazi & book practices this way, but yeah.. They've done this forever.. Most of them could still be in your Kindle cloud though.. You should try that.. if they are, then you can re-download em in your Kindle."

I had those deleted books de-DRMed and downloaded for saving off of Amazon, so I didn't lose them in the end as I still have my backup copies. But even so . . . it's so bloody annoying! They don't even warn you. And with the newest books I can't de-DRM to save them because the old tricks no longer work with the newest Kindle formats, so I still own a sizable amount of books I don't have a backup copy for in case Amazon deleted them too.

Sure, most are just retellings and hard-to-find indies (that don't sell anywhere, hence why I still buy from Kindle), but some are non-fiction books that have cost me a lot of money... Those I am worried about losing if I don't de-DRM and save.

"And what does this mean, exactly?: " I'm fully transitioning into a retellings-only reviewer.""

Something I've thought about during this holiday and will talk with the girls for input. You got my email, right? Can talk over there.

Karen wrote: "Welcome back. Was wondering about you recently.
Have you read Lady Tremaine yet?"

Thank you, Karen! <3

Lady Tremaine? I don't remember seeing a book with that title... Or I forgot, most likely.

CB wrote: " I have over 3000 books on my kindle so if some got deleted I probably wouldn’t even notice 😭😭."

I wouldn't have either if not for my organisational bug biting me hard. I was moving books between folders on my Kindle, and there's when I noticed the deleted books.

I'd recommend you de-DRM and save the most important ones, just in case...

"Got booted from the World Cup… as in your got kicked out or your team didn’t win..."

The latter. 😂 And because I'm cursed, all the other teams I supported on the side also got the boot. 😂

Sarah wrote: "Yay, she’s back! Congrats on the upcoming marriage, I wish you and Cub many happinesses for hundreds of years to come!!!"

I'm of the Maximus Decimus Meridius school of thought, so with Cub it's in this life and the next. 😂

Thank you, dollink! <3

I had backup copies anyway. And also, I'm also going back to buying paper copies of books I really loved. It's been ages since I did this, because I kept losing my books during moves and had little space, so when eBooks came along, I embraced them and got rid of my paper ones...

Thibault wrote: "Yes, they unfortunately do that. Just because you buy an ebook doesn’t mean you own it, apparently. That’s another reason to stick to physical books."

Thank you, Thibu!

True, but in my usual genres many don't have paper editions, and when you're a dedicated reviewer, eBooks are far more convenient. Not to mention that digital copies are easier to buy from outside the US/UK/CA area when booksellers do not ship outside those countries, and a loooooong et cetera.

Yeah, still lots to do. International weddings are a headache. I now understand why people elope so much in romance novels. 😂

Victoria wrote: "Booted from the World Cup? You can’t just end that statement there. I require more details."

Missed my collectible shirt of Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal shirt 7. Lost the match to Cristiano Donaldo, US team shirt 47, and my team lost, and the other teams I also supported also lost WHEN I started supporting them as per the stipulations of my curse.

Successful hate-watching of the final, though! 😂

Congrats on the impending nuptials.

Sorry to hear about the Kindle plundering, but not surprised. When you buy e, you buy the air. If I really care about a book, I get it in hard copy. Books that I especially like in a nice edition, hard cover, first edition, sometimes association or signed copies (my favorite being a presentation copy of Oedipus Rex to Edith Hamilton from Robert Fitzgerald and Dudley Fitts; you can't get those on Kindle!). And you can get new print books from France and Germany (probably other countries as well) through ABE (sorry still Amazon). In any case, screw Amazon.

Fred wrote: "Congrats on the impending nuptials.

Sorry to hear about the Kindle plundering, but not surprised. When you buy e, you buy the air. If I really care about a book, I get it in hard copy. Books that ..."

Thank you, Fred-sense! <3

Yeah, I'm planning to buy some favourites in paper too. It'll have to be a long-term endeavour. For the volume I read and the space I have, eBooks are just way more convenient, and my books budget can get me all the books I want to read but not on paper.

Backup is and has been my solution for a long while now, only that Amazon is making it difficult or impossible with the changes to the formats they've forced on all eBooks they sell. There are tricks, I learnt some for the older formats, but I'm not as tech-savvy as to manage with the newest. Not yet, at least, I'll have to learn, there's some non-fics I couldn't afford to buy in paper due to price but could pay for the digital version. Those I'm most interested in saving from potential deletion.

Finally, she's back!

Mixed news but the good one easily eclipses the bad ones: congrats to you two!! (And very glad to see you back around here! ☺️)

Who is this "Donaldo"? Is that Ronaldo's doppelgänger? A reference to Christiano Donaldo T-Rump who got the FIFA Peace Price from the bald-headed goon Infantino, who is not to be confused with Goebbels Jr., the bald-headed goon Stephen Miller?

On Yellow Satan, many, many years ago, they pulled a just-released new edition, in Kindle version of .... wait for it, wait for it ...

1984. Made news for all the obvious reasons.

Marquise wrote: "TL *Humaning the Best She Can* wrote: "Hanging in there, many more health issues this year and pain has been a friend eep... may need two surgeries.. cross fingers for me surgeon thinks I'm a good ..."

Thanks hun 😘 yay body and genetics hmm?
Just makes ya tired too in different ways.

Sending good energy ✨️ youins' way 💓

CB wrote: "Congratulations!!

I have over 3000 books on my kindle so if some got deleted I probably wouldn’t even notice 😭😭.

Got booted from the World Cup… as in your got kicked out or your team didn’t win..."

Same here, my memory sucks lol, so it would take me forever to notice .

I also have a couple of thousand books on kindle, many are no longer available and a couple that were deleted, when I contacted them via chat, they reinstated both of them to my kindle. Congrats BTW Marquise

Congrats on #3. I feel you on #4.

Looking forward to seeing what you have going on retellings. I feel like I've drifted away from reading retellings over the last couple of years and I want to get back into reading them regularly.

Welcome back. Best wishes on Number 3! And, amazon deletes ebooks you buy? That's insane! I hope that you find some great retellings to review whenever you feel ready.

@Marquise..

Yeah.. I'm pretty sure I gave you my email in one of our DM chats before DM's went away.. Should be there.. :)

Hit me up when you have time..

You both can always just do a private ceremony-since this one matters the most anyway.. This way, in your hearts and before God, you two are already joined in holy Matrimony..Then you go & change your last name to his legally, yourself..

Then once you can, have an official (law ceremony) The Legal way, when you're able to do so, would just be a formality at that point..

I have cousins who have done this before, for one reason or another.

nastya wrote: "Finally, she's back!"

You're not getting rid of me so easily, Anastasia Batkivna! <3

Where's your alter ego?

Leilin wrote: "Mixed news but the good one easily eclipses the bad ones: congrats to you two!! (And very glad to see you back around here! ☺️)"

Missed you, Lei. I don't miss many here, but you're one of them. <3

Socraticgadfly wrote: "Who is this "Donaldo"? Is that Ronaldo's doppelgänger? A reference to Christiano Donaldo T-Rump who got the FIFA Peace Price from the bald-headed goon Infantino,"

Cristiano Donaldo is your president, unfortunately. I dubbed him that sometime before the bald fraud gave him that useless prize. No offence meant to Cristiano Ronaldo, though. Great player, the best, yuuuuge in footy. :D

(Cristiano Ronaldo was named after Ronald Reagan, by the way. Heh!)

John wrote: "I also have a couple of thousand books on kindle, many are no longer available and a couple that were deleted, when I contacted them via chat, they reinstated both of them to my kindle.."

Thank you, John!

They're not as accommodating with clients outside the Anglosphere, let me tell you. I prefer not to have to deal with their Customer Service, dumbest AI I've had the displeasure to talk with.

Kati wrote: "Congrats on #3. I feel you on #4.

Looking forward to seeing what you have going on retellings."

Thank you, lovely! <3

Yeah, most of you don't follow me for my retellings, but that's going to have to change...