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| Ahab and the whale become good friends | June 24, 2014 | Little did I realise that in 2011, when I tentatively purchased my first Kindle, that it would change the way I read and consume books. My hoarding tendencies and love of books meant that I adored buying books in hardcopy. Whether it was to read once or many times, I had a […] |
| am I a chick lit chick? | June 18, 2014 | This post is about books and reading and stuff so I must be a librarian in training after all? Is that how it works? (Jokes. Never a good start to a post.) At the recommendation of @rachwray I’ve been reading some Freya North. I didn’t really know where to start so I was guided by […] |
| Saturday morning | June 8, 2013 | For the last decade or so every Saturday morning I have gone out for breakfast and coffee with my Mum. Over the years there have been a variety of other companions – friends and family – but my Mum and I are the constants. We started off at Talking Point – a cafe now shut […] |
| 902 Miscellany | June 4, 2013 | Wendy Davis’s Dewey Decimal Section: 902 Miscellany Wendy Davis’s birthday: 9/29/1973 = 929+1973 = 2902 Class: 900 History & Geography Contains: Travel, biographies, ancient history, and histories of continents. What it says about you: You’re connected to your past and value the things that have happened to you. You’ve had some conflicted times in your […] |
| the narrator is Death….puh-lease | April 26, 2013 | When the lovely and welcoming @jobeaz kindly let me become part of her book club I was full of good intentions. Here was my chance to get back into reading fiction. For the last few years it’s been lots and lots of memoirs, autobiographies, biographies and non-fiction. (I actually believe that finishing my PhD some […] |
| and I am cute too…. | January 5, 2013 | So it seems that today is the last #blog12daysxmas. I thought we had a day to go. I know I promised to write a post about what I read in 2012 but seriously, I didn’t keep track. That’s why I just signed up to goodreads now and started a 2013 shelf which I hope to […] |
| Blind mice, Brahms, books and Belafonte (with added Muppets) | June 3, 2012 | Ah Sunday…a day of blind mice, Brahms and books. I began the day by getting up late, eating a nutritious yet slightly horrible breakfast of cereal,music and yoghurt (yoghurt because I ran out of milk yesterday and forgot to buy any at the shops). Then I raced through the shower, jumped in the car and […] |
| Blind mice, Brahms, books and Belafonte (with added Muppets) | Ah Sunday…a day of blind mice, Brahms and books. I began the day by getting up late, eating a nutritious yet slightly horrible breakfast of cereal,music and yoghurt (yoghurt because I ran out of milk yesterday and forgot to buy any at the shops). Then I raced through the shower, jumped in the car and […] |
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| I’m betting on the Dickens | February 4, 2012 | We waved goodbye to January and welcomed in what I think is the worst month of the year – February. Why so bad? It’s stinky hot here in sub-tropical Queensland and it’s too short. Suddenly I seem to be running out of time on everything. This year it was made worse by having to go […] |
| What should I read first? | December 31, 2011 | Hooray for me! I made it to 100 posts in 2011. As I wrote yesterday I resolve to do much better in 2012. I mean look at the years before that. I must have done nothing else but blog. I blame twitter actually which has gradually taken a much bigger part in my online activity. […] |