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  • Brie
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    Cruise ship said they have a library. So one book each. Turns out it's a reading room with fake books on the shelves.  Grrrrrr
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    Brie said:
    Cruise ship said they have a library. So one book each. Turns out it's a reading room with fake books on the shelves.  Grrrrrr
    How disappointing! 

    Hopefully @Brie you’ve got some e-books.  At least that will give you something to read.

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    Brie said:
    Cruise ship said they have a library. So one book each. Turns out it's a reading room with fake books on the shelves.  Grrrrrr
    How disappointing! 

    Hopefully @Brie you’ve got some e-books.  At least that will give you something to read.

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  • alicef
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    @redofromstart I've ordered some thru' the library and have picked up 3 Miss Silver from a 2nd hand book dealer in our local market.   I've gleaned that, whilst there is some repeat of characters, the books don't have to be read in any set order.
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    Brie said:
    Cruise ship said they have a library. So one book each. Turns out it's a reading room with fake books on the shelves.  Grrrrrr


    @Brie - this is the library on my ship, all real books...sorry!
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    alicef said:
    @redofromstart I've ordered some thru' the library and have picked up 3 Miss Silver from a 2nd hand book dealer in our local market.   I've gleaned that, whilst there is some repeat of characters, the books don't have to be read in any set order.
    No set order, and they do turn up regularly second hand and in charity shops. May be worth having a look on awesome books too. I have them all on kindle when they are 99p
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    Brian Boitano won the Men's Singles Figure Skating gold medal at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. Since then, he did the usual professional skating stuff, appeared in a skating-based movie (and won an Emmy), and did a few TV shows, appearing in Hell's Kitchen USA with Gordon Ramsay, as a judge on Masterchef in USA, and as a restaurant critic in California. He went to Liguria, Italy and found the ancestral village and lots of Boitano relies. Bought a derelict house which his great-grandfather had lived in, and his relies helped him completely restore it in six months. 

    So then he did a series on the village life and was cooking local recipes. I watched all the episodes I could find on YouTube. He's pretty good at the cooking lark. 

    Just found the cookbook for the series on eBay, day made !
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