Maine Coon or Norwegian Forest Cat?

Excellent! I absolutely love Indian food - butter chicken, korma, mahkni, dal...

Looks delicious - well done! Did it taste good?

One of the nice things about the site? The more you buy, the more books you can get either discounted or free. I recommend joining their loyalty program.

I'm a big fan of thrift shops... and ThriftBooks.com

I've decided, after reading a book about what James Joyce did to his daughter, that I would never read any of his work. Thank you for validating that stance!

I have it, but have not yet had a chance to read it - a friend sent it, highly recommending the book.

Patrick Rothfuss could use this too, I expect.

You are one incredibly patient person, OP - not sure I'd have the wherewithal to place all of those candies.

Mm, true. And it isn't as if you limited it to 'potable water,' strictly speaking.

Not true. I've worked at houses where five different wells were drilled to 1500 feet and never got more than 0.10 gpm flow rate in any of them, which isn't really enough to support a home. That's when you get into the complicated stuff - a system that draws from each well to a point, creating a storage reserve, switches that sense lack water and turn off so the pump motor doesn't burn out.

For the most part, though there are no guarantees at what depth you will hit water, the rate of flow, or the quality of the water when you reach it - the level at which the local aquifer exists varies wildly. Wells can go upwards of over a thousand feet down without finding water. In some places, because the drilling can actually clog aquifers, they'll try hydrofracking to increase rate of flow. And sometimes, people are lucky - they have artesian wells that provide an abundance of water that naturally flows to the surface thanks to the rock formations in that area.

Before a driller gets started on a well, they'll check local water tables, the geology of the area, examine previous wells drilled in that neighborhood to determine at what depths water was discovered, what the average well depth is, and ensure that Call Before You Dig has been out to mark the area with possible underground hazards (cable, power, gas, fiber, sewer, etc). On occasion, they'll blast if drilling where the bedrock is particularly thick (such as granite).

My father and grandfather worked in the water well industry for over 30 years and both have agreed that while dowsing is by no means a perfect process, it can work in the correct hands. A lot of times, my father was able to look at an address and determine the approximate depth the well would need to be, take an estimated guess at the quality so that he could then design a pump and storage system to maximize the well's production.

This is probably my favorite Christie novel - if you like this one, try Murder on The Blue Train too.

I loved it, both Rubenhold's writing style and the information regarding the victims themselves. It was fascinating to learn more of who the women were in truth, versus the perception of them at the time.

I have a hold on it - hoping to get it in the first week of December.

Have you ever seen The Professor and the Madman? The movie highlights the initial creation of the OED in the 1870s. Was surprisingly good.

Thriftbooks.com, thrift stores, or library book sales.

... but is it free-repeating?

The earlier books show more effort, I agree - the more recent books in the series are getting downright formulaic. And honestly, I wish she'd chuck the sex scenes because there are too many, and Eve never seems to change. She's still fairly clueless, grumpy, and brusque with no progress, whereas Peabody, Mavis, the other detectives show growth.

Sadly, I don't read the books for Eve, I read them for the other characters.

Except that this sub-reddit is as much about books that are not liked and why as the reverse. If we start with this, where does it stop? If you demand that Hoover not be discussed, then you have to say the same for all the other authors who keep being posted. No one reads a book the same way you do, for the same reasons. They have just as much freedom to post their opinions as you do.

Selective censorship doesn't play here. If you don't like seeing it, try just scrolling past or use Enhancement Suite, see if you can set a filter.

Courtesy was key, especially in the upper classes - it was deemed that the better your conduct and manner of speech, the better your income/education/worthiness was. And if you were noble, your title was expected to be used - for instance, it wasn't unusual for a Duke to be addressed as Duke, not merely Your Grace or the title's location (i.e., the Duke of Cambridge was often addressed as Lord Cambridge, or just Cambridge among his peers and fellow members of his class).

Cultured tones, courtesy, formality - those marked the gentry and aristocracy. Rural accents were considered gauche also.

You're still supervised, so either way, she wins.

I love to read for a number of reasons, escapism being among them. I also love to learn new things, or gain more information on a topic I don't know a great deal about, but more... it keeps me challenged, informed, and entertained. Though I've felt guilt over reading when there were plenty of other things I should have been doing.