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I love books (fantasy, mysteries, YA, historic, science fiction and non-fiction) and writing. Check out my Gravatar profile for more info, if you're interested.

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OT: Spending time in 3D

So, like most other people, we’re basically in isolation. Since I have two very demanding kids and two equally demanding nieces, I pretty much stay busy all the time anyway. Still, when the kids are asleep or even when they’re busy with undisclosed mischief, I have started playing around with my Second Life avatars. Somehow, I always find visiting the 3D world very relaxing.

I’ve been shopping for new outfits and hair. Well, my main avatar got to keep her hair, but the other two were upgraded to a more modern and mature look. Incidentally, I think they’ve both become more like me which is fun. Like me but cooler, obviously.

There’s something about walking around all those fascinating regions that’s very relaxing too, just like shopping.

A few words about the shopping… Old accounts get a bit of pocket money. I’ve decided never to use real money. My sister has, on occasion, because she had an active social life and at least three close friends to spend time with. My only friend has disappeared. I’m not sure what happened. He’s very ambitious and hard working in real life so I imagine he decided that he couldn’t justify hanging around online just for fun.

I think I’ll start exploring again. Lately, I’ve found two Irish-themed regions and a couple of others that seem nice. Maybe I’ll also go to some concerts again. Sometimes there’s classical music. A few regions specialize in 80’s music. There should be something that I could enjoy.

 

Tonica

 

Rosa

 

Misabel

My new hairbrush

I recently got a new hairbrush, and I know that's not much of a topic for a post, but I also had it decorated by a promising young artist. ;)

 

 

Hairbrush

 

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Booklikes Active Poster

I thought this would be a good way for us to comment and then share the post to see who is still here to make sure we are all following each other. I only bring this up because I see some people posting and I appear to be the only one following their reviews.

 

I have gotten some comments from bots though which is another reason why I wanted us all to take this Friday to comment and share this post so we can all find each other. 

 

Feel free to drop your name in the comments and share! 

Reblogged from What I am reading
Birthday books

Today my children turn four. These are some of their presents. 

 

 

They both like books and dinosaurs. 

Some thoughts on dealing with Spam

(Updated 12/4/19 with additional thoughts shared in the comments)

 

I've been thinking about this.

 

Spam is the bane of our existence. We all hate it. We all want it to go away.

 

Spammers love our attention, whether it be positive or negative. The more we respond to spammers, the happier they are and the more they want to keep posting here.

 

In light of the fact that for all intents and purposes this community is entirely without moderators who can deal with spam and delete spam accounts, here is what we should do with spammers: We should make this place as uninviting as possible for spammers, a place where they are entirely ignored.

 

 

1. DO NOT respond to them. Do not add a comment to any discussion.Do not comment on any post. Do not engage. Period. (Yes, I know this is hard but don't do it! Not even to warn others that we have a new spammer; we are smart enough to figure it out for ourselves.) 
2. DO NOT block them unless they are following you, because to block them you have to follow them first and following is engaging. 
3. Check your follower page regularly and block spammers. 
4. The only reason to visit a spammy looking discussion is to change the notification setting to "no notifications" -- and then only when you receive a notification. Out of sight, out of mind. 
5. DO NOT keep returning to spam discussions. Do not add to the visitor count. Do not feed the spammer ego. Make this place as unfriendly as possible.
6. Report spammers here. It is not an official list but it can't hurt.  Do it without opening the blog you want to report; copy the link/URL that takes you to the blog. (Thanks to Themis-Athena for this addition to the list).
7.  The administrator of any discussion group can delete spam discussions & block spammers from the group. If you recognize the administrator of a group or discussion as a legit member (such as the admins of BL Bookish Bingo Club), use PM (private message) to report the spam to the administrators. Include the URL for the discussion and the post# for the spam. DO NOT respond to the spammers or plus/minus them; just report them. (Thanks to Moonlight for this addition to the list).
 

 

The more of us who follow the non-engagement plan, the less inviting we will become.

 

If you think this plan will work, please feel free to pass it along. The more times this is re-blogged, the more active members will see it --and maybe even a few spammers.

 

 

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My birthday books
My birthday books

My birthday books! I loved them and will keep reading all series. :)

OT: A futile long walk

Today, we ventured outside the old city center to go to Lidl. In Sweden we frequently found great bargains on vegan food, clothes, household appliances and much more. Guess what? That will never happen here in Denmark. Apparently, it’s the only country in Europe where Lidl doesn’t sell vegan food and even though there was some stuff other than food, it’s clear we’ll never bother with Lidl again. We needed sheets for our new beds and more clothes for my kids. Grr. That long, long walk in the relentless heat all for nothing. Well, there was vegan ice cream and ’accidentally’ vegan chocolate. At least the kids enjoyed the ice cream. And chocolate makes pretty much everything at least a little better. Now I’m semi-passed out on one of the new couches trying to simmer down and get over my disappointment. I didn’t take any photos. Out there even our cool new home isn’t very pretty. 

No reviews for a while

As you might have noticed I haven’t posted any reviews for quite a long time. I have been reading though, but haven’t felt up to reviewing yet. When I settle down here and things calm down a bit I’ll get back to posting again.

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My new home
My new home

I haven’t had time to do much sightseeing, but this is from our little corner of the city.

We’ve moved

Since I’m on my phone (the computer still isn’t working) I’d like to ask anyone who’s interested to visit my links blog for this post. Sorry about that. 

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Cool image
Cool image

So we’re on vacation but will actually move here. I just picked the photo of the poster for the music festival because I like the image. It’s the city we will be living in. I’m excited about this. I hope we’ll be happy here. More about it all later.p

 

Oh, no. I can’t turn the photo right way up. Sorry about that. :(

OT: Cute

Yesterday, my sister, my children and I went to a larger town to do a bit of shopping. On the way to the shop, we passed a playground. My daughter loves swings and slides. 

 

Here she is on the swing: 

 

Swing

 

It was grey and rainy, hence the rainjacket.

How time flies

I didn’t realize how long it’s been since I was last logged in here and even longer since I posted. Sorry about that. I’m still having computer problems and having to post whole reviews on a phone isn’t much fun. The last physical books I read were my Christmas presents. On the other hand I’ve also read plenty of great free ebooks. There will be reviews of them as soon as my sister fixes my computer. Unfortunately, my Bookeen Cybook is broken again. One of my nieces took it and dropped it on the floor. The little button with which you turn the device on and off or turns on the screen saver fell off and disappeared. Sadly, it seems it’s almost impossible to get spare parts for this type of device. Also, it’s quite old. But it annoys me to have to let it go when it’s still working more or less perfectly. It’s just so hard to start it or shut it down. Sigh. 

 

For other updates, please visit my Wordpress blog with photos. (http://veganlynx.wordpress.com)

The new EU law

Does anyone here know if it will still be legal to post book reviews online after the new EU law about links to copyrighted material? I’d really like to know. As far as I can tell it’s now all over for links to articles etc as well as posting fan fiction online. I might still be able to post links to donations sites and petition sites online but I’m by no means sure about that. What a sad ending to most of my internet life. Reminds me of the title of a book classic and an eighties song by the same name. We do live in interesting times... :/  

Bad news for my blogs

Does anyone here know how the new EU law about copyright etc will affect this blog site? Apparently, links are more or less banned. If I’ve understood this correctly, blogs can be shut down or the blogger may be prosecuted for any content that the blogger can’t prove ownership to.

Ads or not?

I was going through my Tumblr dashboard and someone mentioned that there are ads on people’s blogs there. It’s something I haven’t noticed but if it’s true I don’t want my photo blog there. Could you take a look at it and let me know?

 

You’ll find it here.