Trala’s Tent

[Trala]

I love the Aussie 'as'. And 'yeah' as a replacement for a question mark.

BOOKS: No fucking Twilight. I grew up on Anne Rice, tyvm. I hate to admit it but I mostly read non-fiction now but fantasy/horror like Clive Barker, Peter Straub, and Tad Williams used to be my favs. Love Russian writers and history so I can recommend anyone wanting to get into russian writers start with Cancer Ward by Solzhenitsyn. It's one of the less dreary ones most closely relatable to modern Western culture. It even has some decent romance (which I tend to not like). Fuck I sound boring but the last books I read were on Poland's use of civilian police corps to aid Nazi Germany's concentration and extermination in the camps. Just finished one on a small group of hunters in Greenland attempting to repel the Germans to preserve one of the most critical weather station of WWII, AND...a book on Stalin's daughter. I uh, kinda dig WWII/Cold War history >.>

Good morning Ladybird

I‘m not really a non fiction reader. In fact I don’t think I’ve ever even read a true story.

While I’ve never read Russian non fiction I have read fiction. Omg Stalin sounded so let them eat cakeish. He sat in his warm palace while the people froze.

The Cold War was after WWII aye when the big players halved the territory of Germany. I’m not at all well versed on history.

 

[Trala]

Segway is the brand name for one of these:

My 2 favourite David Baldacci books are Absolute Power and The Winner.

Three favourite books will be hard to narrow down but I will do my best.

• Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (humourous fantasy)
• Tell No One by Harlan Coben (suspense)
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (historical)
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (historical fantasy)
• A Certain Justice by John Lescroart (legal mystery)
• The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (mystery)
• A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George (mystery)
• The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill (mystery)
• Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld (YA sci-fi)
• Unwind by Neal Shusterman (YA sci-fi)
• The Unsung Hero by Suzanne Brockmann (romantic suspense)
• Fat Tuesday by Sandra Brown (romantic suspense)
• Anyone But You by Jennifer Crusie (humourous romance)
• Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati (historical)
• Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner (suspense)
• Dark Lover by J. R. Ward (paranormal romance)

I'm getting carried away. There are just so many good stories. The ones above haven't even touched my list of around 2000 books read.

Anyhow, I started this post hours ago and I'm high and tired and am going to go check out FB for a little while before bed.

Night, Tra.

I know segway segway. I mean the word segway.

I’ll use it in a sentence.

Hashgirl and I were discussing a ride on black thing which allowed me to segway to my next thought bubble, which was the word segue. Is it in fact spelled segway. My red you spelled it wrong line suggests no.

The Winner! Omg fucking cracker of a book. I’m going to download Tell No One today. So I’ll get back to you with review.

 

[oldmanjj]

Not sure if you can get it in your neck of the woods Trala but I have used the CRAP out of my Kindle Unlimited subscription over the 3+ years I've had it. Not as many "main stream" authors but I have found some really good ones. It let's you download up to 10 books at a time before you have to start returning them. If you can get past a few "grammar" mistakes due to low budget editing, you can find some really good stuff there.

Some Mainstream stuff I like:

History + ass kicking - James Rollins Sigma Force series
History + Religion + ass kicking - James Rollins The Order of the Sanguines
Fantasy - Robert Jordan - Wheel of time.

Those are just a few. I have read countless books. Sometimes 2+ per week.

 

[Trala]

Your talent is raw.
Please waste no more of my time.
With your weak rambling.

*drops mic*

*picks up mic*

Rose’s are red and Trala’s are lacy
Strap yourself in coz I’m gonna get CrAzY
You call my gift weak and a waste and rambling?
Best you can do is this haiku? It’s just babbling!
My talent is real and it‘s raw - I’m a linguist
If you want to battle me, you will need to really think first.
I am the queen of rhyme! I wear the crown!
If this was WWE it would be a smackdown.

*drops mic*
*pirouettes*
*moonwalks off stage*

PS since this time yesterday I have learned 2 things
1. Vogon poetry really is viewed as the worst (I don’t know why)
2. A haiku is a Japanese poem with 17 syllables and 3 lines

 

[Trala]

That example was fuckin' schmick Tra?

Omg no.

Its a statement not a question.

Actually noice works too.

That example was fuckin schmick Tra.
That example was fuckin noice Tra.

Yep both work.

 

[Trala]

I was no nuke, we were referred to as forward pukes. I loaded torpedoes because I wanted to blow shit up.... never got to... And then another bubblehead who owed me $5 gave me a bud instead, I smoked it over the weekend, and piss test on Monday. I went from average on a submarine to a super genius on an aircraft carrier.

Are you ex military too?

 

[copperrein]

*picks up mic*

Rose’s are red and Trala’s are lacy
Strap yourself in coz I’m gonna get CrAzY
You call my gift weak and a waste and rambling?
Best you can do is this haiku? It’s just babbling!
My talent is real and it‘s raw - I’m a linguist
If you want to battle me, you will need to really think first.
I am the queen of rhyme! I wear the crown!
If this was WWE it would be a smackdown.

*drops mic*
*pirouettes*
*moonwalks off stage*

PS since this time yesterday I have learned 2 things
1. Vogon poetry really is viewed as the worst (I don’t know why)
2. A haiku is a Japanese poem with 17 syllables and 3 lines

yer a bush poet, Tra!

 

[Trala]

Not sure if you can get it in your neck of the woods Trala but I have used the CRAP out of my Kindle Unlimited subscription over the 3+ years I've had it. Not as many "main stream" authors but I have found some really good ones. It let's you download up to 10 books at a time before you have to start returning them. If you can get past a few "grammar" mistakes due to low budget editing, you can find some really good stuff there.

Some Mainstream stuff I like:

History + ass kicking - James Rollins Sigma Force series
History + Religion + ass kicking - James Rollins The Order of the Sanguines
Fantasy - Robert Jordan - Wheel of time.

Those are just a few. I have read countless books. Sometimes 2+ per week.

Good morning

Thank you for your tip.

My one luxury is buying books on my kindle, look that’s not my only luxury, I just wanted to romanticise my reading. I am currently buying one book per month on average and I read quite slowly because I’m not the brightest star in the sky. Sometimes I have to reread things to get where the story is going, particularly when there are a lot of characters.

I‘ve never heard of James Rollins I don’t think. I’ll check him out.

Sigma hmmm isn’t that a rude word? No judgement mind, I’m all about the profanity. I’m 93% sure that’s actually a dirty word.

 

[Trala]

yer a bush poet, Tra!

I fucking love that you know Aussie terms.

 

[Trala]

Okay so sigma is the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet. So I’m wrong... again.

@copperrein whats the word that sounds just like that - it DISGUSTING the meaning of it. Involves man.

 

[oldmanjj]

Nope, no naughty books. Thats what they make VIDEO for!!!

 

[Trala]

Nope, no naughty books. Thats what they make VIDEO for!!!

Omg I’ve got it! Smegma!

This is what I mean. I get words so SO wrong.

If the mispronunciation stays in my head it’s all good. But when I take the show on the road and my voice box gets involved it ends with me BIG CRINGING!

Imagine it. Me at your Bookclub discussing the James Rollins series.

Me: Well I felt the Smegma Force series was some of James Rollins best work.
The Bookclub members:

I joined a Bookclub once. Omg I was so cringe in my review. I’m literally still traumatised by it.

 

[oldmanjj]

Lmao, smegma is not gender specific. Knew a dude in college who's nickname was smegma, i don't think he knew what it was....he was a huge mother fucker and could kick all our asses. Watched him carry a full half barrel of beer across a field on one shoulder!

 

[Trala]

Lmao, smegma is not gender specific. Knew a dude in college who's nickname was smegma, i don't think he knew what it was....he was a huge mother fucker and could kick all our asses. Watched him carry a full half barrel of beer across a field on one shoulder!

Omg I’m clutching my pearls and I’m not even wearing any!

I am here to tell you it is totally gender specific! I REFUSE to believe it is an affliction that has ever affected the female gender.

 

[oldmanjj]

Cough...google it

 

[Trala]

Cough...google it

Cough.. NEVERRRRRRRRRRRR

L O L L I N G

 

[oldmanjj]

And pearls reminds me. Dusty Hill passed away today...rip. Get the reference?

 

[Trala]

And pearls reminds me. Dusty Hill passed away today...rip. Get the reference?

No I don’t.

Don’t take it personally tho. I often need jokes explained.

 

[Trala]

First shock. Dusty Hill is a man.

Ohhh ZZ Top guy.



She got legs.

 

[oldmanjj]

Dusty Hill was the bass player for ZZ Top, they have a song called pearl necklace, whenever I hear it, my mind goes straight to the gutter.