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After @MrsMalaprop review I listened to this. What a fascinating family. The writer Suzanne Chick finds out in her 40‘s that her mother is a famous Australian author. This is the story of that journey. I then watched her daughter Gina Chick find out who her grandfather was on the Australian series Who do you think you are. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #oznonfiction

MrsMalaprop Yay! Glad you saw the Who Do You Think You Are too! 4mo

Rissreadswithcats @MrsMalaprop I couldn‘t wait to start it! 4mo

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Jeg

Searching for Charmian | Suzanne Chick

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It‘s been a while since I enjoyed a book as much as I did this one. It‘s set me off researching other books. Watching Gina Chick on Who Do You Think You are and filling in the pieces not available to Suzanne when she wrote this book 30 years ago. How much we inherit and how much is environmental and then comes the choices we make. So interesting. Loved loved loved it.

Rissreadswithcats I‘m listening to this now and loving it! 4mo

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MrsMalaprop

Searching for Charmian | Suzanne Chick

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What a story🥹. What writing 😍.
Imagine if you grew up knowing you were adopted and were told a fiction about the circumstances of your birth.
In your late 40s you get hold of your original birth certificate, and read your biological mother‘s name…famous Australian writer Charmian Clift.
This book was re-released after the author‘s daughter Gina Chick wrote her memoir, We Are The Stars, a book I read and loved in 2024.
Wonderful 🥰🙏👏

CarolynM I read this one a long time ago and I wondered if it would get rereleased when Gina‘s book got so much attention. It is a great book and a really interesting twist on the adoption story, don‘t you think? 6mo

MrsMalaprop @CarolynM Yes, so interesting and well done by Suzanne Chick. 6mo

Rissreadswithcats Staaaaaaaaaaaaaacked!!!!!!! 💙 6mo

Rissreadswithcats I just realised today that with my Spotify account I get 15 hrs of free Audio book listening. This was included. It scraped in at 14hrs and 48 mins 🤣 I‘m so excited! 6mo

Jeg Can‘t wait to read this. Heard her on the radio. 6mo

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LapReader

Searching for Charmian | Suzanne Chick

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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 ❤️ 7mo

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. 7mo

TrishB Oh that‘s a lovely story too (sad but lovely!). Beautiful and good memories. 7mo

CarolynM This was such an interesting book. I‘ve been thinking about it a lot since Suzanne‘s daughter‘s book has been out🙂 7mo

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monalyisha

Librarian's Guide to Online Searching: Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction, 5th Edition | Christopher C. Brown, Suzanne S. Bell

Is this naughty reading, or librarian-reading, or both? #naughtylibrarianstereotype

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Cathythoughts

Oh Dear! | Rod Campbell

#90sSpringFling pics : from camping ! My second wedding ! Crete ♥️ @Cinfhen ! Going bCk to UCC - pic with my son.

I had to search ... certainly brings back the memories 👍🏻