I have been quiet for a few days as I have been busy reading, along with my other usual activities. The book I have been engrossed in is Omamori by Richard McGill. This book was written in 1987, the copy I read was lent to me by a neighbour. Set in Japan, this saga is…
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The school of essential ingredients
From the cover: Every Monday night eight strangers gather for a cooking class taught by a chef whose alchemy in the kitchen is legendary. However, it soon becomes clear that they have all come seeking a recipe for something beyond the kitchen and Lillian is no ordinary teacher. One by one, her charges are transformed…
A thriller I thoroughly enjoyed.
My most recent reading is the book Bleed for Me by Michael Robotham I have read several Robotham books and have enjoyed each one of them. I have written posts on Bombproof and The Night Ferry. This particular novel was pertinent as it involved a trial and jury members so the link to my recent…
Moscow 1980 not 2013 can you remember anything significant happening?
I have just finished a book by Lisa Forrest called Boycott which tells of Australia’s controversial road to the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Certainly it was worth the read. I had only a vague idea of the politics behind the boycott but this book gives the background and the political manoeuvring that went on behind the…
The iPhone’s missing manual. . . the things I didn’t know.
Why didn’t I find this manual before now? I have discovered that my iPhone can do a myriad of things that I never knew it could do. I’m surprised that it can’t cook dinner for me! But it can find a recipe. 🙂This book was picked up at the library, again one from the “new…
The Paris Wife for Paris in July
Before I decided to participate in Paris in July I happened to be reading The Paris Wife, how opportune was that! This was another book that I bought at the Metung Book Fair for fifty cents. From the blurb: Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love…
Gippsland Granny 