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Each Sunday, we state where we are and what we're doing as if we are the character in our book.

Get as creative as you like, just don't reveal your book.

I am in 1722 London planning to break into the British East India Company. It’s the most heavily fortified building in town but if I don’t succeed all those closest to me will face financial ruin.

I'm in Ireland returning to my homeplace which, according to my snarky teen, is called Ballygobackwards.

I am in San Francisco trying to figure out why someone pushed me off the pier.

I am living in New York as one of the "one-percenters" and am disillusioned with high society.

I just found out I am pregnant and my husband lost his job, so I have moved back in to my childhood home where my parents were killed years ago. I haven't been back since I was a child.

I'm in Glasgow, in hospital and telling the stories of our combined 100 years.

Later today, I'll be a further south, and a further past in Victorian London where I'll be hunting a serial killer.

I'm in the UK, having just been told I've got Alzheimer's.

Camilla wrote: "I'm in the UK, having just been told I've got Alzheimer's."

I had to peak at your currently reading shelf to see what book this was because it might fit the disease task in "Nala's World Hike". Wow! 8 books on the go. How do you do it? It was easy though to identify the one in question. It looks interesting.

I am in Norway, on a small island, and just had to go out to sea to catch fish as the village is struggling to feed itself.

I'm hunting for my children who were sold from the plantation on to various locations from the island of Barbados. I'm getting ready, I think, to board a ship for Trinidad.

Janice wrote: "I had to peak at your currently reading shelf to see what book this was because it might fit the disease task in "Nala's..."

Well, one of the books I started already some years ago, but haven't touched it in a few years, so I'm not actively reading it, just don't want to remove it as it's technically not finished. Maybe this year I'll get it off my currently-reading list. So I'm only reading seven books actively at the moment.

But I'm easily bored, so I always need to switch between books. One is an audiobook I listen to on my phone. Another is an audio CD I listen in my car. One is a kindle and one is an ebook I read on my tablet; those I read mainly later in the evening, if hubby wants to sleep, or I take the kindle with me, if I know I have to e.g. wait for a doctor's appointment. And the books I'm alternating between are always different types of books, e.g. now I have a collection of science fiction short stories (very good, by the way), a mystery/thriller, and two non-fictions of very different topics. The Alzheimer's book is not very interesting, I'm afraid, and it's written as diary entries and a few letters, which is a type of writing I'm not fond of. If you need something related to an illness, I would recommend Still Alice, although the latter is a novel, not non-fiction.

My ears are in the Berkshires where I will be attending a wedding. And they are also in Benchley Park, where I decode war messages.

My eyes are in Russia at a party.

Camilla wrote: "Janice wrote: "I had to peak at your currently reading shelf to see what book this was because it might fit the disease task in "Nala's..."

Well, one of the books I started already some years ago,..."

I read Still Alice a number of years ago. It was my selection for my real like book club and everyone really enjoyed it. I still think about the events in the book. It says something that I haven't forgotten it.

I read two books concurrently - one audio and one print.

I'm in a chalet turned Catholic school in the Rhone Valley of rural France, using a heron to send messages to my friend Julian who is in Paris, mentally complaining about my golem and mourning the loss of my mother, while being pretty much oblivious about the danger that I'm in from the Nazis.

I'm on an alien planet pretending to be someone else whilst trying to steal tech.

I'm in Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan where I married a fur trader. I just met another Metis girl and we are becoming good friends.

I am a violent crimes detective in Copenhagen.

I've just purchased a farm that used to be my grandmother's from someone who held a grudge against her. The former owner sent a drilling team to search for underground oil (she retained the mineral rights). She is now dead and I am being accused of her murder.

I've still been back in my childhood home. A lot has happened and I'm trying to figure out what happened the night my parents died all those years ago because I think it may have something to do with what's happening now.

I'm off world again and everything still wants to kill me, so pretty much business as usual lol

I'm also listening to how crucial it for the future of the planet that we all give up animal products. I need this push to wean me off cheese!

I've just left Tirimo after nearly destroying half of the village.

Margo wrote: "I'm off world again and everything still wants to kill me, so pretty much business as usual lol

I'm also listening to how crucial it for the future of the planet that we all give up animal product..."

Which book is it, Margo, about the animal products?

I’m very just arrived in north London to become a librarian. My boss is not thrilled to have a women in this position but the men are needed to fight the war so he will have to deal.

My ears are baking lemon pies in Seattle while I dream about living out my dreams instead of my obligations.

Margo wrote: "I'm also listening to how crucial it for the future of the planet that we all give up animal products. I need this push to wean me off cheese!"

Disclaimer: This is not me arguing with Margo at all. I am really interested in what you are reading and want to explore. I know these subjects can be emotional to some, so preempting.

Interested to know if your book dealt with the issue about how we have bred animals for thousands of years to support human food supply (eg. bred for milking every day, or laying eggs every day) and how we deal with that? I agree, we need to cut down our reliance on animal products for smarter plant based solutions, but I have never found a book or philosophy that deals with the thousands of years of animal selective breeding issue properly. So very interested to hear!

I'm a teenager in the terminal ward of a hospital. I just saw an older woman dumpster diving and was introduced to an art room.

I am currently at a dance place in St. Louis wanting to listen to some music and watch the activities.

I will be joining Kristie at the hospital in a little while.

I have no idea where I am or who I am except that I'm a guest in a falling apart mansion surrounded by forest somewhere in England. And a woman has been murdered but none of the other guests are aware of her. Help!!!!

I am currently in Colorado in the witness protection program. Having been a lawyer for the mob, tasked with the duty of laundering money, I've never had a gun, and now I apparently own one.

I'm also in illinois. School's out for summer. It's in the 1960's and Alice Cooper hasn't written that song. We don't even know that is. All we want to do is ride our bikes and have fun.

I am a confused 20 something who has been offered a full tuition to a prestigious magic school. But, I don’t have any magical abilities…or do I?

Rusalka wrote: "Margo wrote: "I'm also listening to how crucial it for the future of the planet that we all give up animal products. I need this push to wean me off cheese!"

Disclaimer: This is not me arguing wit..."

@Rusalka: if you're interested, I think I have a couple about that...

Saar The Book owl wrote: "Rusalka wrote: "Margo wrote: "I'm also listening to how crucial it for the future of the planet that we all give up animal products. I need this push to wean me off cheese!"

Disclaimer: This is no..."

I'd be interested! It's something I can't get my head around the "right thing to do", particularly with a backyard of creatures that we have domesticated.

@Rusalka: I'll PM you this week :)

👍 Whenever you remember or have time. Thank you 💙

Sorry - I meant to check in yesterday, but I was at the 36th Evac Hospital in VietNam during a MASCAL push and was dodging bombs and sewing up chest wounds. When that was over, I stopped off at the OC for a gin, and that ended up being three or four and next thing I knew it was today.

And I'm back in the war - more wounded. This place sucks.

Hi Rus, I missed your question as my notifications feed is playing up again. I wrote a long reply to you and managed to lose it. Cursing ensued... This the shorter version - no, he doesn't address those points in this book, but he also wrote a book called Eating Animals which I haven't yet read. I understand your question and from what I understand of his philosophy he would probable argue that herds be allowed to dwindle by 60% and that we treat the remainder better.

I should clarify that he states that if the entire population of UK and US were to not eat any meat products for breakfast of lunch, that would ease the climate crisis by 60%, he doesn't give any stats to back that up with though. He's not by any means advocating for veganism, that was my own inner demons. Coming from a rural area I know only too well how badly livestock going for slaughter is treated. It is not the farming methods that are cruel here (except in the case of poultry), it is what happens when animals leave the farm.

I know how much our economy relies on agriculture but since we consider superior to farm animals, surely we have a duty to treat them better? And here I am preaching to the owner of the most spoiled hens in Auss LOL

This is the short version, I swear 😉

No problems at all. I agree, my notifications have gotten wonky again too. Thanks for coming back to me though, and I am so sorry your first reply was lost. How annoying!!

That completely answers my question, thank you! I have this conversation all the time with vegans I know, and I get so annoyed that people haven't considered what to do with the cows who by no fault of their own need to be milked every day, or the chickens who just lay eggs because we decided 3000 years ago to choose those ones to keep breeding.

I 100% agree our farming and particularly our slaughtering of animals is terrible and in a lot of cases, cruel. Personally I think we should be focusing on farming smarter, more sustainably, and more kindly to animals first. Meat and eggs that are treated better taste better anyway, and plants could be farmed much smarter for the planet and for farmer's pockets.

I shall check it out, thank you for your answers!!
I also write this while Lexx is sitting behind me with a chicken on his head, as these two are so incredibly cute we have been lax on our training and they are complete spoilt monsters. No way we have ever let chickens on our heads before... Maybe farming shouldn't look to us as examples lol

Hahaha, I love your chicken stories!

At first I had an image of that Friends from Thanksgiving, the one were some of them end up with their heads in the raw turkey - eeuk on so many levels!!!

Lol oh no! Evidence of lovely live chicklets. No longer on Lexx's head but pretty cute. The one eyeing the camera, Ria, was the offending chicken. Ella's too sleepy for such shenanigans.

Aww, they're the one on right is a real poser! That's a great pic.

They are pretty lovely. The big girl is in bed tonight, so just these two inside. You should hear the noises coming out of them. The happiest, most content, trills ever.

So not saying this should be the animal husbandry standards, but maybe we should scoot a bit towards this end.

Yes, a slightly different philosophy to battery farming! I know where I'd want to be if I was a chicken 🐣🐣🐣

I'm living on a remote Scottish island with my two children. Technically my husband lives with us too but his job counting puffins is so much more important than the book I'm trying to write that he's never around!

I'm at the Fulcrum, trying to find an ally to survive the bullies.

I have to go back to Kansas and help my mom with her animal sanctuary - a woman I haven't seen in six years. I am not pleased.

I’m in a magical hunger games like contest with 5 other people. Lots of shady stuff going on.

I've just kidnapped my best friend's baby and I'm listening to her cry from downstairs.

My eyes are in space, trying to find a way to remove the cyanophage that attacks our algae. If I don’t soon, we are done


My ears on Holliday in a isolated rented house. The proprietors just walked in�� or are they?

I'm still in Illinois and things are starting to get weird. Someone tried to run me over. My friends are also experiencing weird things.

I'm also in Manhattan where a phone booth is sending me to addresses with huge coincidences. I reconnected with my former boyfriend from 10 years ago through it. I didn't even know phone booths existed anymore.

Jayme wrote: "I have to go back to Kansas and help my mom with her animal sanctuary - a woman I haven't seen in six years. I am not pleased."

Ooh, think I visited your Mums place recently!