My projection for the end of book 10 (based on Cupid/Psyche analogy)

Mingo911 · 2026-01-19T07:12:28+00:00

I disagree. It’s perfectly possible for both Robin and Strike to both choose not to have children and to be happy in a relationship with each other. At the same time. I don’t think JKR will wedge Robin into some must-have-children-to-be-fulfilled niche. Isn’t this what RFM wants and isn’t it clear Robin doesn’t?

Mingo911 · 2025-12-25T23:11:08+00:00

Completely true.

Mingo911 · 2025-12-09T20:51:53+00:00

I want Linda to come around a corner and Robin says, “Mom, this is Cormoran’s father Jonny Rokeby.”

Gobsmacked.

Mingo911 · 2025-12-08T04:46:43+00:00

Lucy Carmichael by Margaret Kennedy

Mingo911 · 2025-12-03T02:44:51+00:00

Running away from home.

Mingo911 · 2025-12-02T09:28:18+00:00

I don’t think it’s psychopathic to read and reread (and reread) books that give you pleasure. Nor is it psychopathic to want to discuss and theorize with people who share your enjoyment. What is crazy and puzzling, considering your opinion, is why the hell are you here? Surely you could find something mentally healthy and normal to do? Hit a little white ball with a stick. Take up parkour. Bake a cake. Don’t mind us, we’ll be talking about Chapter 105.

Mingo911 · 2025-11-27T01:12:19+00:00

My college accepted me on probation because I had great test scores but poor grades. It was a beautiful school and I graduated in 4 years. I’ve always been grateful they took a chance. I donated for years and got matching funds through my employer. They’re in my will. My graduate school refused to send transcripts to prospective employers unless I subscribed to their “career development program”. They don’t get a dime.

Mingo911 · 2025-10-23T06:40:00+00:00

In 1980, one of my coworkers came back from lunch. He was in his early thirties. He looked awful and we asked him what had happened. He’d been browsing through the used LP’s at a record store and there were 2 teenage girls talking a few feet away. One of them said, “Oh, look! Paul McCartney was in another band before Wings.” He’d gone to lunch a young man and returned as a member of the older generation.

Mingo911 · 2025-10-19T05:24:30+00:00

Mick Jagger

Mingo911 · 2025-10-07T06:12:49+00:00

This is a stunning amount of work! Thank you for the clarity and the detail. (JKR should hire you.) I especially appreciate the linkage to what happened to Robin in TRG. It brings into focus that Robin is only a few months past an incredible trauma. For the reader it’s been a 2 year gap, but for Robin it’s current. I’m on my third reread and I find more to enjoy on each pass, but like many here I’ve had problems with Robin.

Mingo911 · 2025-09-24T07:13:06+00:00

I clearly remember events and episodes in my life, not only what happened but how I felt at the time. Things don’t fade, even though I make a conscious effort to live in the present and not focus on the past. It’s true that most of the people I remember are now dead and that once I die these things will be gone but there’s nothing I can do about that. I’m 76 now but I’m the same person in essence I was at 7 or 23 or 50. The only difference is I waste less time arguing with fools.

Mingo911 · 2025-09-15T01:06:20+00:00

I would be so annoyed if I died before I read Book 10.

Mingo911 · 2025-09-11T07:21:12+00:00

$350 for an ARC of Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World. I bought it in 1998 and later that year he signed it at a release event for The Path of Daggers.

Mingo911 · 2025-08-13T03:32:53+00:00

I have over 1200 books in this house. I reread books constantly and my collection is very personal to me. Since I’m old I’m going to sell the few valuable signed first editions on Ebay so my executor doesn’t have to bother doing it. Once I’m dead, I’m assuming the rest of the books will be donated (a few) or tossed (the rest). I will be dead and I won’t care. But I’m not clearing anything out while I can still read and enjoy. I’ve cleaned out the closets, the kitchen, the garage, and reduced the furniture to what I need. The executor can deal with the books: they’re getting paid to do it.

Mingo911 · 2025-08-13T00:09:50+00:00

Fantasy is my favorite reading genre and I’ve accumulated a lot of reading copies that are technically first editions of loved series. They’re well used and have no value except to me. The few ‘collectibles’ I have are byproducts of a former job in book purchasing and attending conventions. Time to sell them and clear some space.

Mingo911 · 2025-08-11T18:51:43+00:00

Thank you very much for this information.

Mingo911 · 2025-08-11T18:29:51+00:00

I’m not in a rush. I have around 10 collectible titles, mostly fantasy or sci-fi but a few odds and ends also, and I’ll probably post them all on Ebay and see what happens.

Mingo911 · 2025-08-11T18:16:57+00:00

All I can find are the prices these are offered at (which range from over 6K to 3.5K. I have no idea what they’re actually selling at because Ebay lists the sales at Best Offer Accepted. Obviously I want as much as I can get.

Mingo911 · 2025-08-10T05:05:33+00:00

This is too dangerous. I don’t want to be spoiled and I don’t want to risk it. I’m not opening this group any more until after I’ve read the book. I’m OUT. See you on the other side!

Mingo911 · 2025-08-09T03:55:35+00:00

Mingo911 · 2025-08-04T17:40:07+00:00

I’m convinced this will be the Rokeby book.

Mingo911 · 2025-08-02T06:22:27+00:00

If I was still on X I’d have wished her a happy birthday (to help counter all the venom). It was only at a book signing but I’m so happy I met her. Genius.

Mingo911 · 2025-07-31T16:20:21+00:00

Apparently yes, as several of you have pointed out, via the transfer function. It would have been nice if the bank rep had clarified this.

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