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BethM
Drylands | Thea Astley
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My hubs went up north for Easter weekend hunting. He very proudly surprised me by bringing these home for me. He doesn‘t read, but they‘re his taste if he would. I, however, don‘t want to read a single one and feel terrible about it. But come on man, you couldn‘t just go for the easy win with some romance? 😂

Ruthiella It‘s the thought that counts! 😅 6d
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LapReader
Searching for Charmian | Suzanne Chick
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Pickpick

I think the sun is going down on my last summery day 😭 so I am sitting on my balcony reading about books and drinking a birthday bottle. I think the tagged book will be the one I take to the Sydney Writer‘s Festival this year to read. Turns out my parents will be in old Sydney town for dad‘s drs appointments to do with his accident not this January but the last so we will catch up for dinner both nights and they have booked the same hotel as me.

TrishB Sounds like a plan. Love your glass ❤️ 1w
LapReader Thankyou @TrishB It was a gift from an old man whose wife I work with. She is way past retirement. I don‘t have a license so he would drive me home from work once a week in exchange for the use of my sauna as it helped with his emphysema which he died of eventually. They were his mother‘s and so delicate. I cherish them. Very generous people. 1w
TrishB Oh that‘s a lovely story too (sad but lovely!). Beautiful and good memories. 1w
CarolynM This was such an interesting book. I‘ve been thinking about it a lot since Suzanne‘s daughter‘s book has been out🙂 1w
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LapReader
The Children | Charlotte Wood
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Today‘s Book Nook scores to entertain myself over my quiet Easter weekend. Yin yoga this morning really helped with my dicky hip. I need to get myself sorted as I got myself a showgirl gig. It may just be the greatest achievement of my life! The Angelica Banks and Judy Blume are for my book crazy niece. I could have filled another bag but it may not have been a good look. Libraries are the best invention ever. Medicine is great but books are fab.

Bookwormjillk Good luck with your gig! 2w
CarolynM Some great titles there! Congrats on the showgirl gig, sounds like fun 💃 2w
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Lauredhel
My People | Noonuccal Oodgeroo
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I‘ve read a little bit of Oodgeroo‘s poetry before, but I didn‘t realise how funny she is.

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xicanti
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Another tasty DELICIOUS TONIGHT recipe that isn‘t remotely the same colour as the example picture. Oh well. The lentils in this soup cooked down beautifully and the overall flavour is great—which is a relief, because the recipe made a TON of it. That‘s my supper sorted through the weekend.

TheBookHippie I had this tonight and forgot to take a picture but I was remembering our conversation about this very thing! 2mo
xicanti @TheBookHippie so much intense filtering. Sigh. 2mo
TheBookHippie @xicanti seriously!!! 2mo
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rachaich
Monkey Grip | Helen Garner
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Mehso-so

Gotta say, I've wanted to read this for months and I almost bailed... The grown up part of me was shocked by the transient and neglectful lives, the use of drugs and apathy to do much. But remembering the era and the youth made me re consider. I particularly liked the last 50 pages or so as it felt she was accepting herself and her friends.

HardcoverHearts I felt the same about this. It felt like a book very much of its time. The lack of any backstory to the characters made me feel continually unmoored. It was an effective choice but one that made it almost impossible for me to connect to the characters or plot. 3mo
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Mr. Scobie's Riddle | Elizabeth Jolley
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Last night‘s scores from the Book Swap on my way home from pole dancing. I love a good magazine.

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xicanti
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Another recipe with a pretty serious filter on the example photo. Even with Litsy‘s food filter, this soup is way more brown than gold. Maybe Australian creamed corn really is yellow enough to overcome the brownish broth you mix with brown sauce?

It‘s pretty tasty, at least. She cites it as a Chinese restaurant staple, but I‘ve never had it before or noticed it on a menu around here, and I HAUNT my top restaurant‘s menu. A regional thing, maybe?

TrishB It‘s very common in Chinese restaurants in the U.K. 3mo
xicanti @TrishB ah ha! The Canadian equivalent is probably hot & sour soup; something a lot of people start the meal with, and which used to be on every buffet before the buffets went away. 3mo
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Little Mother Meg | Ethel Turner
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Before op shopping today I had a peak in the Little Free Library and scored these. 36 degrees in Dubbo today and I loved every bit of it. I‘m staying with my nan at the moment. This is one of her spare rooms. She took her car to be serviced so this is how I filled in time. We spent the morning running errands as she is hard of hearing and less mobile so needs more help nowadays. We had a delicious pub lunch. She was buggered at the end of the day.