Loving this so much😍. Oh, and the book too 😁. #currentlyreading #ozfiction

*From Behrouz‘s Facebook page today.

For those in Canada & the US.

This first hand account of the impact of Australia‘s offshore detention policy is definitely worth a read. 😢😡

In the tradition of Garner, Wood & Blain? I‘m in! #currentlyreading #ozfiction

Chose this for my book club, to be discussed on Monday night. I‘d planned to read it and thought I‘d appreciate the help of my book club to pull it apart.
Fascinating and enjoyable when read in the context of Greek Mythology. Loved the feminist lens.
My sister‘s wife is from Ithaca and I can‘t wait to go there with them one day. I‘m told you get a bit bored with the beaches, goats & Greek food after a while.
🏖🌞🍅🥒🥙🤤

Very pleased to have found this on a weekend jaunt to the historic town of York, Western Australian. Have wanted to read White & this book was recommended by contemporary Australian author Christos Tsiolkas as a good one to start with. The owner of the bookstore highly recommended it too.

Having read the blurb I‘m pondering the timing with regard to the plot mirroring some current challenges in my personal life 🤔. #artimitatinglife #ozfiction

#Upnext #Bookclub

Chose this for my book club to read this month. Better get on it 🤓📙.

#currentlyreading

Yep, that was just what I needed. Beautifully written snippets of Georgia Blain‘s life.

Originally published in 2008, there should have been much more life for Georgia, but she died tragically, way too young, in December 2016.

This is the second book I‘ve read by her and I have utterly fallen in love with her writing. Luckily there are many more novels and another memoir, written just before she died, for me to immerse myself in. 💔😓❤️

The author‘s dad interviewing Germaine Greer in 1972.

Germaine:
“If you think I have any interest in what‘s pattering about under your belt, you are mistaken”. 😂👏

Be still my beating heart ❤️. This book is just what I need right now.

After reading and adoring her novel Between A Wolf And A Dog and now starting this memoir today, am thinking I am going to have to read EVERYTHING Georgia Blain ever wrote.

#currentlyreading

Hmmm, no. Not for me.

Forced myself to read this for book club. The person who chose it loves the series (this is number 28!). I found it tedious, sexist and boring.

I had planned to write a more diplomatic review, but then decided to do a @shawnmooney 😂👍. #noonegottimeforthat

P.S. Sorry, it‘s been a tough week.

Ok, so I have to read this by tomorrow night for bookclub at my place. I‘m up to page 43. I can do this 👊. #currentlyreading

I did it! I started the series when the first books were written many years ago. I stopped after The Order Of The Phoenix, thinking Harry Potter and I were done with each other.

But now I have two Potter-head sons, one of whom is currently reading the series. They have harassed me to read the last two books, and now I can finally say I did 😁.

📚🙌👏👊.

1. Depends....when it‘s evocative? Of time, place, character & relationships.
2. Hmmm 🤔, only books. All the books 🤗
3. Delia Smith started me on my cooking journey when I nannied in London many years ago.
4. E. E. Cummings
5. @Lizpixie @Lidia and anyone else who‘d like to have a go 😊. Although it‘s almost Friday here now 😆.
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs @Rissreads

Needs must. So hungry. #booknlunch #currentlyreading #autumnsun

Getting ready for work this morning & my 10yo (who sees me take my book everywhere just in case) asks why I‘m not taking my book to work. I explain that I don‘t have time to read fiction at work & that besides, I‘m not really allowed to.

He looks at me incredulous,
“But what do you do between meetings?!” 😆

This from the kid we had to ban from reading in the shower. 😂👏📚 #raisingreaders ❤️

P.S. Here he is restaurant-reading 😁

Getting into this and my ugg boots as the weather finally cools down in my part of the world, although it is going to be 26 degrees Celsius tomorrow ☀️😎.

#currentlyreading #finishingwhatistarted

We discussed this #ozfiction at book club this week. It was quite literary and written by a local author (Perth, Western Australia).

Set variously in New York, Cape Cod & Israel & featuring Rwandan refugees, it not surprisingly has an international feel.

Themes of motherhood, family and loving a child that is not your own are explored. We noticed that there were a lot of ‘bad mothers‘ featured, leading me to wonder about the author‘s own 🤔.

#Nextup #Bookclub #Ozfiction

How pretty is this book, the strelitzia....& my nails?! 😍😍😍

CN: sexual assault

A very moving and unique perspective on sexual assault and the aftermath. Powerful stuff.

I watched the Tedtalk immediately on finishing the book. Wow. Thordis is an amazing human being.

https://www.ted.com/talks/thordis_elva_tom_stranger_our_story_of_rape_and_reconc...

CN: sexual assault

Thordis says this to Tom, her ex-boyfriend and rapist. This is an important book. I‘m so glad to be finally reading it.

#currentlyreading

#Currentlyreading I decided to start this today.

I have been following Thordis on Instagram for about 18 months. She does daily stories and I have loved following her amazing journey of pregnancy with extremely premature twins who are now almost 1 year old 👶👶❤️❤️!

I started following her because of this book and her feminist activism. So I think it‘s about time I read it. I‘m bracing myself for a tough read.

So this is Kate Atkinson number four for me. I really enjoy her writing and am meandering my way through her work.

This is a British detective novel and whilst I enjoyed it, I struggled to suspend judgement when presented with a private detective who has all these juicy crimes just land at his feet.

But maybe I need to get over myself & learn to go along for the ride 😂?

An enjoyable read 👍.

Luncheon with old friends ☺️. #raisingreaders

Oh dear. Michelle‘s in a bad way if she‘s feeling like this 🙁. #currentlyreading

#currentlyreading #teaandbook #bathandbook

Working my way through Kate Atkinson, one book at a time 📚📚📚💕.

I discovered this memoir in a Little Free Library a year or so ago. At the time, with my own parents aging, I felt it may resonate. My dad has since died and my mum has been diagnosed with dementia.

It was written in 2008 when the author was 89. She reflects on her life & the losses and the gains that old age brings.

When I finished it today I looked her up & discovered she died in January this year at the age of 101!

Gratuitous inclusion of a pistachio crumbed dark choc coated orange eaten while finishing this novel.

This was clever and depressing and funny and nothing. It‘s a ‘pick‘ and I‘m scratching my head. And now I just want to sleeeep 😴😴😴.

@Rissreads #buddyread

#20thingsaboutme
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

@Rissreads I‘m cheating a bit here. I knew I‘d done this challenge before. So I scrolled back through my posts & found it from about 2 years ago 😁.

Local fair: we only go for the bratwurst & second hand book stalls 🌞🌭😋📚👏. #bookhaul

@Rissreads @LapReader & anyone else who‘d care to join us on this #buddyread 🤗📚.

Starting this properly today. Finding myself lol in a cafe. Dr Tuttle #wtf!? 😂😭

You ready for this by any chance @Rissreads ? #currentlyreading #buddyread

Well, that was a long time between drinks. I read The Order Of The Phoenix at least 15 years ago and determined I was done with HP. I‘d enjoyed the first 5 but felt there were too many other books I wanted to read.

But now I have two kids who love HP: 1 has read them all & the other is currently working his way through. They‘ve both urged me to read the last 2.

It goes without saying I enjoyed it. Might take break before the last one though...

Saturday morning reads with my loves 😍📚💕😗. Happy weekend Littens.

10yo is reading Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire.

Husband is reading The Plague by Albert Camus.

It‘s Monday #booknlunch time. Everyone‘s back at work and school but me 😊.
Several loads of washing; the gym; a walk along the river; a trip to the supermarket & a batch of banana choc chip muffins baked. And now, here I sit with this delight before me.

#currentlyreading Am enjoying my trip back to Hogwarts (finally finishing off the series). And @Rissreads I think I know where you got your cat‘s name from 😂😁. #Crookshanks #catsoflitsy

Ok, so I read the Harry Potter series 1 - 5 many years ago as each came out. Then I stopped, thinking I‘d done enough Harry.
A few years ago my elder son got the Potter bug and read all 7 over the summer holidays. We had fun searching second hand book shops to find each book as he moved through them.
Now my youngest is reading them. He‘s half way through The Goblet Of Fire and is insisting I finish what I started. So here I go. #currentlyreading

I rushed to finish this today so I can return it to a book club buddy. Jane Harper is a bit of a sensation here in Australia. She has produced 3 best sellers 3 years. I read her 1st novel The Dry and liked (but didn‘t love) it. I subsequently passed on her second, but heard this, her 3rd, was the best.

I‘m pleased to say I really liked it. A bit of a #palatecleanser whodunnit and very good descriptions of Australia‘s harsh outback.

#ozfiction

Well, that was great. An accessible, brief history of feminism in #graphicnovel format. I would love to see this read by all young people, especially young women, so they have an understanding of what has been overcome in order for us to have the rights we (in the west anyway) take for granted today. 👊👊👏🙌❤️

#booknlunch #bookclubread

My 10yo son was whinging about being bored on this fine Sunday. He spotted the tagged book sitting by me, waiting to be read for book club tomorrow night.

Seeing it was in graphic format, he asked whether he could read it.

Watching him start to get engrossed in it & then tell me that it‘s all about women experiencing bad stuff was priceless.

If I had suggested he read it, he would probably have declined 😂👊🙌.

#booknlunch #currentlyreading #ozfiction
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Oh look, he‘s reading it!

My husband bought this for me a couple of years ago when it first came out. I absolutely loved it & quoted it endlessly to him at the time 😂.

And now he‘s finally reading it himself. Yaaayyy! 👊👊❤️😍

Ok, so my 10yo has been on my case to read this. He was introduced to the series by @MeganAnn & her son in a junior Christmas book swap. He is now up to book 8 and waiting with baited breath for book 9 & beyond.

I finally decided to give it a go because @Jeg has asked us to read graphic novels for book club.

This may be an awesome read for some, but given I‘m not a fan of fantasy or comics & I‘m not a 10yo, well it‘s just not for me.

I think I need an intervention 😳😂.
#bookhaul #bookaholic

Today I introduced a friend to Rabble, a new Indi bookstore in Perth, with no intention of purchasing a single book.

In my defense the tagged book is a birthday gift for a friend and the Astrophysics book is for my son.

But the other two....ALL MINE 🤗📚😁.

Holy Moly 😳! This novel is written by an Aboriginal woman about a contemporary Aboriginal family. It‘s modern, punchy, and confronting.

I feel like I‘ve peeked in through a window. Lucashenko has facilitated my access to the lives, language, trauma and triumphs of the Salter family. And I am so very grateful 🙏.

❤️🖤💛🇦🇺 #ozfiction

When you drive over a box of screws and have to spend a couple hours waiting for your punctured tyre to be repaired, you take advantage of the fact that you ALWAYS have your book with you👍📖🧁😋.

It‘s funny because I really wanted to ignore all my chores today so I could finish my book, then this happens ☺️. #silverlinings

I am having the most wonderful, decadent birthday long weekend with my husband and youngest son. We are staying in a boutique hotel in Northbridge, Perth, Western Australia.

Today we wandered to a local fair where there was a secondhand book stall. Hence the beautiful #bookhaul you see here 😍📚. We also went to an exhibition on children‘s book Cicada by Shaun Tan.

Fun fact: I gave birth to my son on my birthday 10 years ago 🎉🥂💕😙.

😩😢 Coffee spillage.

What a delightful #palatecleanser. I purchased this #blameitonlitsy for my book club this month as my friend @Jeg prescribed us a #graphicread (of our choice). This is the first of two I intend to read. #nextup Women In Battle 👊

#ozfiction #currentlyreading

Excited to be making a start on this one from Aboriginal author Lucashenko. I enjoyed her award winning novel Mullumbimby and have high hopes for this one.

The title is an Australian expression meaning a person who has too much to say or is being rude or cheeky. Looking forward to a female protagonist who‘s accused of that 👊😁.

I dare anyone to read this first hand account of the impact if Australia‘s “offshore processing” regime and not be moved; not be utterly convinced of how unjust and inhumane it is.

Boochani writes beautiful prose interspersed with poetry. He writes of his perilous journey from Indonesia by boat, his arrival on Australian land & then his time detained on Manus Island. He now lives in the community on Manus in terrible limbo. So so wrong. 😞

Monday #booknlunch 😋.

There have been times while reading this book and eating that I‘ve had to put the book aside as the subject matter is so distressing or disgusting.

Let‘s see how we go today...

#currentlyreading #currentlyeating