Today, I beg your indulgence. I am going to combine two sign up/week one reading challenge posts into one. There has been quite a bit of overlap in my non-fiction and novella choices this past year, so it seemed an obvious solution to my current time-poor situation. Week 1: (November 1-5) – Your Year in … Continue reading Nonfiction November & Novellas in November
WELCOME to AusReading Month 2021 One of the things that I did not factor into this year's AusReading Month was a Covid-19 lockdown. Or more precisely, the end of an extended (107 day) Covid-19 lockdown. Just three weeks ago, when NSW reached the magic number of 70% double vaxxed, restrictions were eased. Schools, restaurants, businesses … Continue reading AusReading Month Master Post 2021
Committed Writings by Albert Camus contains Letters to a German Friend, Reflections on the Guillotine and The Nobel Speeches (Acceptance Speech and Create Dangerously) with a Foreword by Alice Kaplan. Books come into my life for all sorts of reasons. Before working in a bookshop, I bought books for myself very deliberately and carefully. I … Continue reading Committed Writings | Albert Camus #FRAnonfiction
When my three children left home all at the same time thirty-five years ago. I decided to leave too and travel around the Mediterranean. I went alone, a l'aventure - without plans or arrangements. I'm never quite sure how to review a cookbook. Obviously I'm not going to read every single word or cook every … Continue reading Med: A Cookbook | Claudia Roden #cookbook
A woman sat in a hotel bar, watching the door. Sally Rooney writes about the glorious and torturous intimacies that are a part of all the close relationships that we create for ourselves - best friends, lovers, siblings, colleagues. In Beautiful World, Where Are You Rooney continues this process, moving through the world of twenty-somethings … Continue reading Beautiful World, Where Are You | Sally Rooney #IRLfiction
When Gregory Hays' translation of Meditations came out in 2002, it was a bit of a landmark event in the classics world. There had not been a new translation of Meditations since 1969. When I started researching for this post, there was love and admiration for the translations by Richard Graves (1792), George Long (1862), … Continue reading Meditations | Marcus Aurelius
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
There are lots of ways to start a story, but this begins with a chicken. One of the many strings to Risbridger's bow, is food writer. She has written a children's book, edited a poetry anthology as well as numerous other journalistic efforts, but food writing seems to be the things she keeps going back … Continue reading Midnight Chicken | Ella Risbridger #GBRnonfiction
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
Once again, another Club read has snuck up on me! Although for 1976, part of the problem was the lack of contenders. Pre-blog I had read: All Things Wise and Wonderful | James HerriotChildren of Dune (Book 3) | Frank HerbertTintin and the Picaros (Tintin, #23) | Hergé, Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper (Translator), Michael Turner (Translator) All enjoyable reads … Continue reading The Bicentennial Man | Isaac Asimov #1976Club
Announcing Rumer Godden Reading Week! The 10th December is Rumer Godden's birthday. To celebrate, I will be hosting a Rumer Godden reading week from Saturday 4th December to Sunday 12th December 2021. Margaret Rumer Godden was born in 1907 in Sussex, but spent most of her childhood moving between India and boarding school back in … Continue reading Rumer Godden Reading Week #comingsoon
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