My Week: NSW has now enjoyed a week and a half of 'learning-to-live-with-Covid'. After 107 days of lockdown, we were all looking forward to some relaxation of the restrictions.Our new Premier may have overestimated this mood though.Many people I know, including me, are feeling very cautious and careful about this phase of opening up.Even B21 … Continue reading Stories & Shout Outs #44
Photo by Daiga Ellaby on Unsplash Last week I read Sally Rooney's new novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You? (review to come). Her book title was inspired by the 2018 Liverpool Biennial statement, which came from a line in an 1819 composition by Franz Schubert (D677), which he based on stanza from the 1788 Friedrich Schiller poem, The Gods of Greece (Die … Continue reading The Gods of Greece | Friedrich von Schiller #poem
It's time to spin again with The Classics Club. Details on how to play are here. On Sunday the 17th October, a random number will be drawn. Match the number to the book on your list, then read said book before the 12th December. November is AusReading Month, for spin #28 I am therefore going … Continue reading Classics Club Spin #28
It has been a long winter of Covid lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne. The regional areas of both NSW and Victoria have moved in and out of lockdown as their numbers fluctuated, but Sydney and Melbourne, and now Canberra, have borne the brunt of the Delta variant. Writing a Covid Chronicle update has been the … Continue reading The Covid Chronicles #13
My Week: Same as last week, except I am now double vaxxed! What I'm Reading: Mrs Marsh | Virginia FeitoBewilderment | Richard PowersThe Bombay Prince | Sujata Massey (book 3 in the Perveen Mistry series)Meditations | Marcus Aurelius (translator Gregory Hays)Committed Writings | Albert Camus (translator Justin O'Brien)The Countess From Kirribilli | Joyce Morgan (bio)Julia … Continue reading Stories & Shout Outs #43
It’s that time of year again! Time to think about how many Australian books and authors you can read during the month of November for AusReading Month. Now in it’s 9th year, AusReading Month is a chance to celebrate all the things we love about Australian literature. Back in 2013, I was looking for an … Continue reading AusReading Month is coming soon…
My Week: Same as last week. E x a c t l y the same as last week.Although I did get my first Pfizer vaccination today. Finally. I booked this appointment back on the 23rd June. This was the first available time slot. It's a huge relief to be on the road to protection. What … Continue reading Stories & Shout Outs #42
I have written so few poetry posts over my 12 years of blogging, that I thought I might use this month, poetry month, to highlight a few of the older posts and bring some sense of order and cohesion to the few I do have. Robert Frost was one of my first attempts at poetry … Continue reading Robert Frost #PoetryMonth
Portrait of a girl, previously thought to represent Sappho the ancient Greek poetess, with tablets and pen. She is also known as Meditation. Italy. Roman. c 75 AD. Pompeii. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images) I'm a book behind already in Nick's Master and Commander four year readalong of the series. I knew it … Continue reading Midnight Poem | Sappho #poem
Poetry Month (1–31 August) is a new initiative presented by Red Room Poetry to increase the profile of Australian poetry, poets and publishers.Our goal is to increase access, awareness, value and visibility of poetry in all its forms and for all audiences. The inaugural Poetry Month will be held during August 2021 with the aim of an ongoing … Continue reading August is Poetry Month
My Week: Bah!Three Australian states are in various degrees of lockdown once again.The politics of fear is in full flight. It's hard not to get caught up in it, as states are pitched against states against the federal government, who sends it back against the states!Trying to remember instead that I am/want to be a … Continue reading Stories & Shout Outs #41
It's time for another Classics Club Spin.The rules are easy: compile your list of 20 books by Sunday 18th July.On that day a number will be randomly selected.That's the book you read.You have until the 22nd August 2021 to finish your book and review it.Join in the fun by visiting the other players and commenting on their lists.It's … Continue reading CC Spin #27
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