Italy again! Another visit to Venice with Commissario Brunetti. Once again, it's a private rather than criminal quest. Echoes of my visit to Venice and Brunetti's ruminations on post-pandemic life in his city. Always enjoyable, an old friend.

Another book club read. Fascinating to have the Italian and English text side-by-side. Interesting exploration of her journey to write in Italian. Loved it, memories if my time in Rome in early 2020.

The next afternoon, I decide to explore the town on my own since my schedule is free.
#happysunday #litsybookgame

On my morning commute

My April wrap-up

When a book dates itself circa 2011

Such a great read, serious themes but also humour and love. Fabulous debut novel.

Scary reading given the current international situation. Eerily prescient.

The garden seat plays a role in the story.

Just wow. This book has sat on my shelf for years. I loved these 'jagged' short stories, every one was a gem. The title was last story was a pitch perfect Austen inspired piece.

Fascinating group readalong with the #tandemcollective.
Topical storyline, two friends with secrets - highly recommended.

Beautifully told Haenjo women divers' family story spanning generations. Set against backdrop WW2 and the Korean War.
Bookclub favourite.

Lieutenant-Commander Peter Holmes of the Royal Australian Navy woke soon after dawn.
#FirstLineFriday
@ShyBookOwl

Eloquently told, an exquisite coming of age tale. A mysterious stranger befriends a family of stranded children.
Highly recommended.

They arrive in court separately.
#firstlinefridays
@ShyBookOwl

Fanny Sloane rang Mabel Ince and Mabel Ince rang old Lady Benson to say that poor Dench was dead.
#firstlinefridays
@ShyBookOwl

More Christmas joy arrived. Thank you @Ash.on.the.line
#LitsyLove

On and off, all that hot French August, we made ourselves ill from eating the greengages.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

1. All the Light We Cannot See 531 pages
2. Tend to avoid them
@TheSpineView

Advice from long ago

More litsy happiness in my mailbox 📬
thanks @BookwormAHN
#litsylove

James McFadden died in March 1905 when he was forty-seven years old; he was riding in the Driffield Point-to-Point.
# firstlinefridays
@ShyBookOwl

1. No I only listen to audiobooks on my phone.
2. my iPad
@TheSpineView
#TwoForTuesday

Some more #litsylove in the mailbox today
Thanks @Crazeedi

Tonight's movie was filmed entirely Lord Howe Island 🏝
I think the character of Luce was modelled on that famous Tasmanian Errol Flynn

The gunman, is useless.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Happy birthday @wanderinglynn
#bdaygiveaway

‘In the mornings after breakfast I walk past a small marble plaque propped against the high wall flanking the road.‘
#firstlinefridays
@ShyBookOwl

Reading on the bus
#TGIF

Couldn't resist this. P&P in 13 words. Gorgeous illustrations.
Wonder what War and Peace is like?

#PemberLittens

Yay it's here! Lovely surprise on NewYears Eve! #jolabokaflodswap
Thanks Alison ( I don't know your @handle) - so sorry to hear you were stuck in lockdown.
Can't wait for the unwrap - your notes are so cute.
Thanks for hosting @MaleficentBookDragon

‘They stood before the great gateway, all around an empty and open countryside, ugly countryside, flat mud-ploughed field.‘

A Gothic tale of a prodigal daughter‘s homecoming to the family chateau.
#firstlineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Family have gone out to a movie, but I had to work late.

1. The Christmas Tree by Jennifer Johnson
2. Leading a domestic tour of students to visit WW1 and WW2 sites of commemoration
#twofortuesday
@TheSpineView @Eggs

Such lovely gifts 🎁
Thank you @CarolynM and thanks to @thegirlwiththelibrarybag for organising it. Looking forward to next year already.
#aussiesecretsanta

Once upon a time, Chloe Brown died.
#firstlinefridays
@ShyBookOwl

So lovely thank you @CarolynM
I haven't unwrapped all my treats yet but feeling spoilt. Going to stage my unwrapping!
@thegirlwiththelibrarybag @MrsMalaprop @Jhullie @Freespirit @LapReader @Flingogal @CathyJ

It's so lovely to get cards from my #litsylove friends.
Thanks so much for your friendship.
Warmest if Christmas wishes to all the wonderful litsylovers
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Tattooedteacher @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @AmyG @Kdgordon88 @Pogue @Librarybelle

1. That now we have opened our borders, we can keep our community healthy
2. Unlikely, but there may be snow on the mountain. We just passed the longest day!

#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView

Lovely to get some Christmas cheer on what has been a sad time for our island state 😢
Thanks so much @Librarybelle @Pogue
#litsylove

All through the day of Christmas Eve Dr Stahlbaum‘s children had not been allowed into the dining room, much less into the drawing room opening out of it.
#firstlineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Got mine too
@thegirlwiththelibrarybag
#AussieSecretSanta

It was always a great day when the Christmas tree was brought into the house.
#firstlinefriday
@ShyBookOwl

Finally finished, it was a bit of a marathon but so glad that I did. Beautiful, lyrical and such insight. It spans a single day, interspersed with her memories.

Just wow. A dystopian fable for our times.
For me, there were echoes of Marilynne Robinson's Lila and Emma Hooper's Our Homesick Songs.

And gift 🎁 #2 wrapped and despatched
#aussiesecretsanta
@thegirlwiththelibrarybag

Wrapped and despatched
#jolabokaflod #jolabokaflodswap
#litsylove
@MaleficentBookDragon

The story was told to me by my old tutor Theo Parmitter as we sat beside the fire in his college rooms one bitterly cold January night.
#firstlinefriday
@ShyBookOwl

Some Christmas joy on my front step early this morning 🎄 🎄
#aussiesecretsanta

A worthy winner of the Miles Franklin prize. Great bookclub pick. One woman's journey.

We're on a short holiday and both reading Grisham. Did not enjoy Winds as much as Camino Island. It still gets you in but there's less about the bookshop and the bookish crowd.
I visualise Bay Books as being like the Coronado Island bookshop which I visited in 2019. Is it still there? I recall it's lease was under threat?