More puzzles

 I've got more vintage puzzles on the way.  Someone online got a bunch of vintage from a friend, and doesn't care for them.  I posted about a vintage one I'd finished, and she asked if I'd like these, if I paid the shipping.  Yep. 

She's sending them in two boxes, for cheaper postage, and couldn't fit them all in, so I"m getting 7 or so of these.  I know I'm not getting the 3000-piece one on the right, but I am getting the oval one on the left.  Hoping I get the ship in the center.  

Watch this space for an update.  Ha ha.

I also bought these three on eBay, after asking very odd questions to make sure that the Eurographics Mediterranean Harbor is one with a random cut, or at least not an all-H cut.  All three of these met the criteria, so that's two more Euro and a Ravensberger added to the stash. 

November First Reads

This month's choices: 

 

1. Mystery- At First Light
2. Book club fictio - Three More Months
3. Domestic suspense - into the Sound
4. Historical Fiction - Last Rose of Shanghai
5. Memori - Flying on the Inside
6. Literary fiction - Bed Stuy
7. Contemporary romance - Read between the LInes
8.  Historical Fantasy - Innate Magic
9. Picture book - Dancing with Daddy

1 - serial killer, no thanks.  2 - woman's mom dies and she wakes up 3 months earlier, before the death.  Nope. 3 - more suspense with abuse and kidnapping, no thanks.  4 - jazz in Shanghai, could be interesting.  5 - widow with a brain tumor, sounds depressing. And it's the only one the library hasn't got on order. 6 - literary fiction but also a romance.   7 - Contemporary fluffy chick-lit romance.  8 - historical LGBTQ fantasy.  Meh.  

(Some reviewer has left a review with a count of the swears, f-bombs, and how many times "the Lord's name was taken in vain" - a lot of time on their hands.)

By process of elimination, I'm down to Last Rose and Bed Stuy.  Last Rose seems more interesting.

 

Puzzle non-defeat

I bought still more puzzles on eBay recently. I found a Eurographics version of the Mediterranean Harbor puzzle that I gave up on over the summer (the Runlycan version was very low quality). I'm the odd person who emails eBay sellers to ask for pictures of the puzzle pieces in the box, because the puzzles where all the pieces are the same basic two-knob, two-hole all-H shape are not my friend. So I made sure that the Eurographics version had a more variable cut. The other two puzzles in the group are a Euorgraphics of the Rialto Bridge in Venice, and a ravensburger puzzle, the Bella Positano.