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Helen Garner

Helen Garner is 71!? Check out this article about her experience as a person “of a certain age”.

It’s always given me the ibits when people over 60 get treated as if they are somehow out of sync with the rest of the world.

My grandmother at 98 was more interesting and fun then most of younger people I knew..

#HelenGarner   #monkeygrip   is the only book of hers I read.

“I had known for…

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slightly over two months later...

Now there are two cats, the black still snoring, the orange chasing a moth...

So easy to be fickle with social media - so many platforms, so little attention span

Hey babe, call for you ..

Hey babe, call for you ..

Today you had a call from a recruitment company.  I was a little curt with the poor fellow .  I felt bad about it. But not so bad that I would be endlessly kicking myself, the way I normally do when I feel I’ve been unkind.. But he got me by surprise.  It was the last thing I expected. The first time they called (yesterday) I saw the 02 area code, and ignored it thinking it was another…

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hmmm

My fridge is makings sounds like a tardis ..  

Ferney

Ferney, by James Long Jo suggested this one.  She said it was a story with a bit of time travel. Fab! I love science fiction. Only, it wasn’t.  It was more fantasy. What is the difference I hear you ask? Well, Science fiction usually involves a scientific idea, and/or an amazing technical feat or at least some sort of semi coherent explanation for the weird stuff that happens.  In fantasy, weird…

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Home with Alice by S Fallon

Home with Alice by S Fallon

I came across this title when I was shelving books at work – as I was walking by the travel books and having a quick squiz for something to read.  This book is more of a memoir than it is a travel book and that made it interesting for me. Full disclosure – I’ve been a little bit obsessed with Ireland since my first trip there in 2017, around the time of my last book “review”.  A lot of what I’ve…

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Where was I?

Been reading a cute little number that has had me in fits of giggles on my commute each morning. Sometimes I’ve had to snap the book shut just as a guffaw was about to erupt. Very frustrating, reading in public and having to contain myself  like that.

Eats shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation. Truss, London : Profile Books, 2003.

2003!  Where the hell was I when this was…

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Ithaka

How could I resist a title like that? So this is a side story to the Odyssey – it is set in Ithaca during the period Odysseus is trying to make his way home.  The protagonist in this story is a young girl, who along with her twin brother, grows up as playmates with Telemachus, son of Odysseus and Penelope.  As they reach adolescence their close bond is strained due mainly to the introduction into…

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Comparative Government

No! Do not panic. I’m not reviewing a book on government systems from my Year 11 Politics class.

I came across this little beauty today, as I was cataloguing my book collection. I opened it up for a quick look see, and found something quite telling about why I have not been here over the last three and a half years.

Get this. ‘The Façade democracy’

This is where “liberal democratic…

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