Well, What Can I Say?
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.
More Posts from Qbc-melbourne and Others
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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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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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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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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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 midnight bell
Little pink post-it gave K action. She was unusually quick to get back to us with a title for March. Normally she agonises about what to get – and normally picks great reads. I wish she had agonised over this one a little. What a shit book. K hated it, and gave up on it at chapter 3. I hated it and gave up on it at chapter 6 – but that probably doesn’t count because I sped read those chapters…
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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.
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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