pickThis was such a beautiful soft tale about community, nature and the small & big joys of working together in the garden. It‘s mostly vibes, but those vibes are gorgeous.
Loved the pastel art nouveau style - so lush. So many beautiful little details.
Really looking forward to reading some of those books I purchased in 2017… any day now 😅😅🤣
I got bored - so ended up finishing taking things off in the morning… I guess the real question is - will things go back on today? 🤭
Pa is currently replacing the fly screen on my security door and then - it‘ll be morning tea and then cutting this wood to size to go under the bookshelf.
Just uncovered one of my dragons from my HK trip!
This one I bought at the ten thousand Buddha monastery because that was a lot of stairs and I felt like I deserved a little treat ☺️ It was amazing - I recommend it if you find yourself in Hong Kong.
I was born in the year of the dragon plus they are just cool (do I tease my mum for being born in the year of the rat? Yes, yes I do)
Everything is coming off - as tomorrow my grandpa is coming over to help me put a little piece of wood under the shelf to tip it backwards so it‘s flush against the wall.
And then I can finally sort this shelf out and finish unpacking the last of my book boxes (hopefully)
The first of my Diana Wynne Jones eBay spree books arrived - and the cover is just as atmospherically moody as I was hoping!
Fresh stack of new graphic novels from the library and two weeks off to read them… it‘s a struggle but I‘ll try and get through it 🤣
This being on the library catalogues home page is just so funny to me. There is no other news.
(If you are not from Victoria, 🇦🇺- our Premier, Dan Andrews announced his resignation yesterday, which was unexpected but I‘m a bit excited for our new Premier - Jacinta Allan - the first female Premier in over 30 years - I thought she was the first but my grandpa set me straight 🙄 turns out I was not a politically aware toddler)
Me : I want to wear more black. I need to find some dresses in a single, dark colour.
Also me : what I buy on an unplanned shopping spree 🎨 (always dresses with pockets)
ANYWAY! I also went into a bookstore and was rather tempted by a few books but it wasn‘t the bookstore that I had the voucher for so I kept it together and just got one book which was basically free as I had enough points for the whole thing.
Went to the Friends experience at the Docklands
It was mostly queuing to take silly little photos like this one - it was a lot of fun!
Pulley said:”Writing is a lonely process, & it‘s easy to feel like no one wants your book, even if you already have a publishing history, & even when you have an amazing agent telling you they definitely will & just to be patient: you only have to hear ‘no‘ four or five times to think you should retrain as an accountant.
https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/pulley-moves-to-gollancz-in-two-book-pre-em...
OUT MARCH 2024 😱🥳
I just watched Practical Magic for the second time and I get why my younger self didn‘t love it - it honestly would have been too scary for me as a kid - I noped out of watching The Little Mermaid, Snow White and the second Aladdin movie where Jafar turns into a snake. I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT this time round, totally get why it‘s beloved and why you‘d want to watch it every year.
And now I‘m wondering how different the book is?
Cackling at this cover 🤣
and they‘re throwing in a Dark Lord for free 🫨
I need this edition, will see if eBay comes up with something more in my price range.
Crush ignoring you? Throw his piano up a tree.
Flawless logic as always from Lucy van Pelt 😳
Was a but disappointed with today‘s chatterbooks turnout - only 2 🥺 and I was so excited that Unnatural Ends had finally come in.
The chat part went really well tho - sometimes it‘s hard to get the conversation flowing.
Do we blame the ☀️ or the school holidays?
1. Usually lunch - especially when I‘ve actually remembered to pack it for work - I‘m very excited to have tonight‘s leftovers for lunch tomorrow
2. Gunpowder & Cinnamon - a French trained chef gets kidnapped by a pirate and is one bad meal away from walking the plank (this is a very bad summary of a brilliant book)
Last time I was at my grandparents - my Nana pressed a packet of AAA batteries into my hand and said with great seriousness - “these are for your candlestick, in case of a blackout”
It really helps having a memory for book cover colours when people decide to use the alphabet as a suggestion only while shelving…
It was only 3 shelves off where it was meant to be 🙄
It‘s so hard to find anything about B & N Parker other than that they were sisters - Bessie & Nancy & that they collaborated on a number of picture books. I could find traces of their work in online auction houses but nothing about them.
I also found a little article on Trove from the Western Mail, a Perth newspaper dated 6th December 1912 - that thinks it‘ll be a popular Christmas book - as it‘s for sale for the very reasonable price of 3s 6d.
This is my favourite page in the collection - it reminds me of all the stories I‘ve heard about how naughty my twin uncles were as boys. I can just imagine them blowing bubbles and mucking around on the clothes line instead of actually being helpful 🤣
That 3 seconds of interest in unpacking a box also uncovered this bookmark that I think came from backing the Kickstarter for the Miss Fisher movie? It‘s signed by actor Nathan Page, who I feel so normal about 🤭
The screenwriters for this looked at book Jack and just said ABSOLUTELY NOT and normally I‘d be mad about it but they messed up book Phryne‘s main love interest (Lin Chung was maybe in 2 episodes?) so I just decided to enjoy it.
I was interested in unpacking a box for about 3 seconds - and those 3 seconds uncovered these cuties!
I‘ve only just noticed how different their eyelashes are - they look like they are having very different days.
pickI really need to stop picking audiobooks that make me 🥹 at work. I am not usually a magical realism girly but this one hooked me - I don‘t regret the impulse to find out what happens when your husband mutates into a great white shark.
Another day, another pub trivia that had a sports round and not a book round…
The music round was worth 20 points so one can come back from a dismal showing in the sports round.
Unsure how I feel about knowing what the song was in the question called “fresh shit” was.
Came third - after being tied for second for most of the night. I‘m so pleased with this, we were a little table of two - against much bigger tables.
What a week…
I‘m so glad it‘s the weekend
pickMy first laundromat read - and I loved it! This had me smiling and kicking my feet (and laughing - the window scene was so good)
⏰ 🥊
Sometimes violence is the answer 🤭
Wishing Kammy Grizzard the absolute worst
Today is bought to you by (authors with surnames starting with) the letter ‘W‘
When I tell you I dipped on my desk shift when the librarian in training didn‘t know the difference between a credit & eftpos transaction & failed at an extremely basic catalogue search while helping a patron 😳 I simply could not watch.
I did so much shelving! The fiction overflow trolley looked stunning, I spent so long with it.
pickI skimmed this because I was mostly just here for the illustrations but it looks to be a fairly sweet, if rather moralistic tale about a Fairy who wouldn‘t fly learning to not only spread her wings (!!!) but find her purpose in helping others.
“That was beautiful,” said the Fairy. “And I quite agree with you. Why should we do what we don‘t want to?” The Fairy looked around her. “Who is that beautiful bird sitting on the branch over there?” she asked.
“That,” answered the Frog, “is the Kookaburra-who-wouldn‘t-laugh. And why should he laugh day if he doesn‘t feel like it?”
“Why indeed,” said the Fairy.
“Well why don‘t you fly?” the road grumbled back at her. “You have wings. Why don‘t you use them?”
Up went her nose into the air and down came her feet as she stamped on it harder than ever.
pickI can‘t remember what rabbit hole landed me at this book - but I‘m glad it did! It‘s important to look at all the art! And in Australia it‘s entirely too easy to overlook 🇦🇺 talent in favour of big name European & American artists - so I extra enjoyed this for the local flavour!
Also, folio books have some of the lowest library circulation numbers which makes them vulnerable to weeding so if you like art books - make sure you check them out!
Margaret Coen, 1913-1993
Moon over Ku-ring-gai (1979)
Donald Friend, 1915-1989
Decorating Officers‘ Mess (1945)
Pen and coloured ink and wash
Thea Proctor, 1879-1966
The Bay (c. 1926)
Watercolour on silk
Norman Lindsay, 1879-1970
Garden of Felicity
Blamire Young, 1862-1935
Rats‘ Castle, Hobart
Watercolour
Bessie Gibson, 1882-1961
Woman in a mirror (c. 1913)
Julian Ashton, 1851-1942
Sunlight and shadow (1895)
Louisa Ann Meredith, 1812-95
A cool debate : Portraits from life, life size (Gold frog of Australia - Villarsia parnassiefoira), pencil and water colour with gold highlights.
Has the person writing the captions for collection containers been reading some baggenshield fanfic?
Bought to you by the letter L
Was stuck for display ideas and ended up settling on books with authors with surnames starting with L
So many overflowing book trolleys at the moment - school holidays are approaching which will hopefully translate to lots of books being borrowed!
Have I taken to choosing my next read simply by reading all the blurbs in the boxes of fiction I unpack and then checking out audiobook availability on the one that is the most intriguing to me personally?
Maybe.
(I mean - the man is going to turn into a shark, the doctor gives out this diagnosis like it‘s rare but just one of those things that happens)
