Hmmm

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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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