Topical reading

I have been very quiet over the last couple of weeks as I have been watching the Tour de France.  Here in Australia the broadcast starts at about 8.30 or 9.00pm and continues until 1.30 or 2.00am the following morning.  Needless to  say my sleeping pattern has been completely altered during this time and the…

Getting ready. . . .

Getting ready with my pre-race reading for the Tour de France.  We really are spoilt for choice with sport at the moment. Mitchelton-Scott, the Australian based team, have announced their team for the Tour and I am disappointed that Caleb Ewan is not included in the team for the Tour but there has been a…

Joan, Joanna and Jenny, they just all happened to start with J

I have been reading a few biographies recently and purely by chance they have all started with the letter J.  Joan is the one I have decided on for today. It wasn’t actually a biography it was a historical fiction novel. This Joan is Joan of Arc and she is the main character in The Maid…

A French affair

A recent read was An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris.  This book was bought by my husband as he is a keen reader of Robert Harris. He was not disappointed with this latest book and neither was I. From the cover: January 1895. On a freezing morning in the heart of Paris, an…

Paris then and now. . .a gift

This delightful book was given to me by my husband. I think he knows how much I want to spend a week in Paris. 🙂 Each double page spread gives two images of the same scene in Paris, one from the past and one from the present. Some of the places have changed very little…

Paris, I do so want to spend some time there.

This beautiful little book is another from the library and one that I am so glad I found. One of the comments on the book jacket was that this is a book you should read before going to Paris rather than after you have been. Well now I have read the book the next logical…