Bright.ton ... I have never read (I don't think), a James Patterson book ... and when I found out that he'd moved to assembly line production I decided that I never would.

I need to know some good current writers ... I'm stuck in a rut ... I get the latest books from authors like John Grisham and North Patterson ... but I'm not exploring any new authors. Recommendations and reviews are welcome for good authors of the 21st century 🙂

Bandcamp ... I think the builders of my unit (40 years ago) gave it a 40 year life. Since we moved in, we've had electrical failures (lights), leaks (toilet and kitchen tap), shower head droop. There again, the two year old stove has all but one element (back left) dead, the grill and the oven have also died. The new toaster worked for a couple of weeks, the last time I tried it, it made spitting noises and the bread cradle relentlessly rose to the top again and again. The stove started playing up about a month out of warranty.

I'm ready for renting a brand new unit.

Thanks, Nicnacs 🙂

Have you tried Claire McNab's books?

The apple peeler corer and slinky machine! It arrived today, best $17 I have spent recently, lol.

The children love it, great for carrots and potatoes as well.

Clean neat and easy to use, has a vacuum attachment to the bench.

az,you can use it to make veggie "pasta" too,according to baby sister. she's been making curlies from zuchini,squash,turnips,parsnips,sweet potatoes,that sort of stuff.

she cooks it like pasta,serves it with marinara,or alfredo,and meatballs made from ground veggies with just a bit on meat,the grand babes love it! *shhhhh...so does jim,her S/O,as long as it's white. then he doesn't notice! ssshhhhh.....*

at first I pooh-poohed the concept of horse racing as a background for suspense novels, but was quickly educated........

 

A really good true crime book that has a lot to do with horses is called Blood and Money by Thomas Thompson.  I really enjoyed it.

 

A great product review is this little do-dads that I recently bought to hang on my bi-fold doors.  I have cats that have learned to pull the bottom of the door and open it.  There are all kinds of breakable things in the room and I don't want them in there.  These little clips go on the top of the coor, where the joint is so they can't pull it open.

 

Definitely looks better than a wedge of cardboard.

 

DEB

Yes it does Deb, and it definitely looks better than having a couple of heavy boxes stacked in front of the door, that I have to move whenever I want to go in the room.  Plus, I can lock it from the inside the same way.

If you only read one book this year, it should be Hardacre, a novel of late Victorian England, written by C.L.Skelton.  It is about this family who migrates up and down the English coast, where the father guts and cleans newly-landed fish.  He cuts his finger, and it becomes infected, leading him to a change of professions.............and prosperity. 

 

"History comes alive...innocents, rascals, middling humans-an authentic bunch to set against tempestuous times"--Publishers Weekly

 

No problem finding a copy...........I read a library copy decades ago, subsequently forgetting the title and author,  and searched high and low, even querying the bibliophiles on CTTP, when I found it on line strictly by accident.

Sounds good, Az ... got a link?

That's neat, Egulch 🙂

Bandcamp, have you read The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett? Absolutely awesome in every way: as a story, a historical account, as as introduction to architecture and building. It's long ... and after a while, you don't think it's long enough.