Bushwalk to Duckhole Lake before my daughter leaves for her volunteering assignment in Fiji

Four years have passed since I published I Want yo Dis but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki.
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1. We did not have a library in the town where I grew up but I loved the monthly visits from the from the bookmobile (a converted passenger bus)
2. Library, book shops and street libraries
3. Doreen by Barbara Noble
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#WondrousWednesday

In the kitchen, he poured another drink and looked at the bedroom suite in his front yard.
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Bus driver is playing Abba on my commute. Winner takes it all, Chicquita great musuc on a #rainyday
And this is a great read - food and travel in France 🇫🇷

If Lucas is doing something, I have to be doing it too, but better.
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My March reads

1. Daffodils
2. A Town Called Solace
3. Sri Lanka!
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Stephanie‘s focus slides from the sliver of moon to the beacon at the tip of the wing, distant enough to appear as a star.
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The purpose of the Unsworth‘s party was philanthropic rather than social, and the food had the sparse chill of asceticism.
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The house is waiting.
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❄️ , 🦌 , friendship
Roswell by Connie Willis
Sarah Winman
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Think red dirt,murky water and tired trees.

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It's bookclub on Monday !

Her hand.
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There have been two moments in my life when everything changed.
Looking forward to this read - I love time travel a la Connie Willis
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To Kill A Mockingbird- Harper Lee
Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
Le Grand Meaulnes - Alain Fournier

It was a hard choice not to include Little Women - Louisa Alcott or The Getting of Wisdom - Henry Handel Richardson
#TLT
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For my eight birthday my mother made me a cake.
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The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep‘s wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world.
Phew!
I discovered a lovely illustrated copy of this at a little library. Loving it.

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The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep‘s wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world.
Phew!
I discovered a lovely illustrated copy of this at a little library. Loving it.

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The ball whizzes by my face.
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‘Oh gosh, is that the time! Sorry, I have to go,‘ the man mumbled evasively, as he stood up and reached for his bag.
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Historical/literary snippet. At the memorial to Kingsford Smith's 1933 record breaking flight across the Tasman.

Gerringong- a tiny town with five street libraries. Loved the door knobs on this one.

1. Hamilton (twice)
2. I was lucky enough to go to the debut of the play of TKaM on Broadway when I was in NY
3. Anything Shakespeare and I saw the first Australian production of Jesus Christ Superstar many years ago and have never forgotten it
#TLT #ThreeListThursday
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The two men frowned at the map.
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Reading on trains. Women of a certain age, white haired women who read.
#invisible

Having read and enjoyed the Brunetti series, I was keen to read this memoir. It's episodic rather than linear. Fascinating insights - her childhood, teaching career, gardening and ageing.
Who knew that she lost her thesis on Mansfield Park when fleeing Iran in the 70s?

Not much about life in Venice or her writing life but a delightful read. Having tried to trace Brunetti's footsteps in Venice, loved her letter to tourists visiting the Questura.

An impulse buy at Manly Lifeline. Not an author I know of, but I'm always interested in NZ writers. Fascinating historical fiction about a catastrophic eruption in the late 1800s, including the destruction of the famed Pink and White Terraces.

Apparently it was aimed at 9 -12 year olds, but the content could be distressing (searching for survivors and bodies). Sobering read in the light of the 2019 Whakaari eruption.
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Austen vibes - trimming my sun hat
#pemberlittens

‘Are we to gather that Dreadnought is asking us all to do something dishonest?‘ Richard asked.

Apparently it‘s unusual to open a novel with dialogue.
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1 yes my great grandmother and my niece
2 three sisters
3 Tom Lake and an all time favourite is Seven.little Australians
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Very sad to return this to the Library, such a lovely story. It was overdue, but I needed to finish it first!
Highly recommended.

That Veronica and I were given keys and told to come early on a frozen Saturday in April to open the school for the ‘Our Town‘ auditions was proof of our dull reliability.

Loving this novel - makes me want to watch/read Our Town
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In Christopher Koch‘s ‘The Boys in the Island‘, Hobart is described as ‘a city, but only just‘.

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#bookclub #bookclubtonight

On page 16 and I've already had 3 laugh out loud moments !

Snow and soot sprinkled the concrete runways like salt and pepper.
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When the doctor had gone, and the two women from the village he had been waiting for were upstairs shut in with her dead father, Lucy went out into the garden and stood leaning on the gate staring at the sea.

A very long first sentence
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Lucky enough to join a Tandem readalong for Michael Caine's fiction debut. Unlucky that I'm behind my reading buddies because my pack was delayed in the Christmas mail, so I'm playing catchup.
#deadlygame #deadlygamereadalong

Postie just delivered! Thanks so much and I ❤️ the card Allissa, your friend is very clever.
Happy New Year!
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Actually 132 atm because GR doesn't recognise one of the books I read.

Lovely writing but some of the 1960s attitudes to cat ownership (eg desexing) are a bit jarring. From a different time.

When Dave looked back and remembered seeing the box for the first time, he could have sworn it had been glowing.
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Delivery this morning #jolabokaflod
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#aussiesecretsanta is go! And #jolabokaflod
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And my other secret Santa's. Queue was out the door at my local PO

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Given the date of publishing and listed authors, I think this is Heerey's diary - A Tasmanian's story of the Great War.
An interesting read, but no annotations to provide context of life at the front his references to colleagues, or decipher his abbreviations

November reads part 2
Life as a retiree!
Both audiobooks were superb 👌
There was one other book, a WWI diary by a Tassie soldier. An interesting counterpoint to the Palin diary.

My November reads part 1

Claire tried her best in the supermarket, she really did.

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#whitestack
#Decemberdreams
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