Slightly Over Two Months Later...

The Good People

Oh boy – months since my last. Oh well – not like anyone is waiting for them, or reading them. Kent, Hannah, The Good People Set in the late 19th century rural Ireland  – where people lived a simple, yet harsh existence.  Their labour was arduous, their earnings meagre, the climate mostly frigid.   The country at that time is at the cusp of losing their traditional superstitions (Fairies) and…

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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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The Dry

The Dry, by Jane Harper I forgot how much I love a whodunit until my book club buddies started suggesting them way back at the start of this caper – with Adrian McKinty’s and his Sean Duffy series. Jo’s pick for this month hit the sweet spot.  This one is set in a rural township, drought stricken, tinder dry and unbearably hot. The locals are not necessarily welcoming.  A gruesome murder suicide…

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Euphony

euphony  ˈjuːf(ə)ni/

noun

the quality of being pleasing to the ear. “the poet put euphony before mere factuality”

the tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation.

  I will name my next cat Euphony.

When I was required to read poetry for school, it was not a pleasant experience.  Chaucer, or anyone from the 18th century woulds’t doth mine own headeth in.  But, spoken…

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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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A Cork Hangover

Ireland and the Cork Hangover

Rode parts of Ireland recently, had to write it down to make sure I remember it. 

Pt.1 getting there

Buses, the lovelorn, and a bit of hangover.

well, what can I say?

The clock is ticking, the cat is snoring - I should be in bed....but here I am. Just started this up so I could check out some nice little library posts...will probably delete this account in under a month.  We'll see.

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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Bloody Hell!

Bitten off more than I can chew?

I started a book club specifically so I would stop doing this … Four books on the go – that I’m listing here.  This is not counting the ones I started and stopped reading last year. Made the mistake of updating my Goodreads account.  There it was – the books listed as ‘currently reading’.  And that is only the one I am willing to show you.  A a sense of guilt, or is it defeat? whatever it is, it…

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