Last weekend I went to a staged reading performance at the State Library of NSW. The play, Her Brilliant Career, is about Miles Franklin and written by Alice Spigelman. According to the event spiel, The State Library was a home away from home for Miles where she often arranged to have tea with one of … Continue reading Her Brilliant Career | Alice Spigelman #Play
Firstly, Happy Winter Solstice! Last night was the longest night of the year. It also seemed to be the darkest. Every time I woke up, the room was pitch black with no moon in sight. Why was I waking up so often? It seems I have caught another flu. Sometime today I should find out … Continue reading Paris In July 2022
I've started our winter with a nasty cold that is lingering way too long for my liking! So I've been pretty quiet lately. Reading lots but not writing or blogging about it as much. A new CC Spin is the perfect opportunity to get back into the swing of things. Ohh, I hope Jean returns … Continue reading Classics Club Spin #30
What's On My Mind: I have had a head cold this past week, so not much!And it's cold outside. I don't like being cold. What I'm Reading: Grand Days | Frank MoorhouseChernobyl Prayer | Svetlana AlexievichH is for Hawk | Helen MacdonaldBurning Questions | Margaret AtwoodEssays Two | Lydia DavisCollected Stories | Shirley HazzardMauritius Command … Continue reading Stories & Shout Outs #50
20 Books of Summer Winter with Cathy @746 Books is an annual blogging event that I simply cannot resist, despite the fact that the only way I complete it each year is by swapping out some of the books from my original list! But that's half the fun. There are always a handful of books … Continue reading 20 Books of (Summer) Winter
What's On My Mind: After my holiday, I flirted with the idea of giving up blogging.I'd run out of scheduled posts and I thought, that's that.I've got nothing left to say write.I backed up my blog and logged off.It lasted a week! What I'm Reading: The Birds and other Stories | Daphne du MaurierOctober | … Continue reading Stories & Shout Outs #49
It's not easy to find unemotive reports about what is happening in Ukraine right now. The history of Europe and the West with Russia is a long and complex one and the seeds of the current war can be found in this historic relationship. Modern day leaders, politicians, oligarchs, journalists and historians all play a … Continue reading Understanding Ukraine Master Post
The Self-Help Books For about a decade of my life, roughly 25-35, I struggled to work out what this whole thing we call life was actually for. I'm not the first person to ask such questions, and I'm sure I wont be the last. Which is no doubt why the self-help section at your local … Continue reading Shelf Life #8
This week sees us reading books with Simon @Stuck in a Book and Karen @Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings that were first published in 1954. And what a stellar year it was! Looking through the various online lists, I see that I have read and reviewed an impressive number of books from 1954 already. From children's fiction, … Continue reading The 1954 Club
My Month: My writing hiatus is mostly a reviewing hiatus. The words to describe my reading journey have deserted me, for now.Instead, I have been tidying up behind the scenes.And catching up on my Classic Club duties.In case you were wondering, it's still raining! What I'm Reading: His Excellency Eugene Rougon | Emile ZolaThe Tortoise … Continue reading Stories & Shout Outs #48
182 years ago today, Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was born in Paris and for the past nine years, Fanda @Classiclit has hosted Zoladdiction throughout April. I joined in the first two with the only Zola's on my TBR pile - Germinal (1885) and Nana (1880). At that point I didn't really understand how the whole Rougon-Macquart thing … Continue reading Zoladdiction 2022
Life has been pretty hectic this year, one way or another, and my writing mojo seems to have gone missing in action. Lately I’ve been resorting to old, half finished drafts to keep my blog active. You know those posts...started in good faith a while ago but never quite let out in public because you … Continue reading A Little Hiatus
It's time to spin again with The Classics Club. Details on how to play are here. On Sunday the 20th March (tomorrow), a random number will be drawn. Match the number to the book on your list, then read said book before the 30th April. I have a few reading plans throughout April (see here) … Continue reading Classics Club Spin #29
East Gippsland panorama | Image source Native-Born, according to Wikipedia, regularly appears in Australian anthologies. However I had never come across it until an article in The Conversation last year when Donna Mazza^ referenced it. Mazza declared that, Native-Born...is still startlingly relevant to contemporary ecofeminism by subtly linking the discovery and cremation of a dead … Continue reading Native-Born | Eve Langley #AWWpoem
The autumnal months in Australia have turned into the busiest three reading months of the year. I'm struggling to stay on top of everything going on in my life right now, so creating a page that I can refer back to seems like an essential step in managing my reading and blogging life. Let me … Continue reading Autumnal Reading Plans
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