Some catching up.

As things have been a bit hectic here I have a bit of catching up to do. First things first. My December reading.  One of the books I read would have to be one of my favourite reads for 2019. Dirt Music by Tim Winton which was a Miles Franklin Award Winner in 2002. “Georgie…

Three that have a link

I have had a sudden burst of reading and these are three of the books I have read. This one certainly provided a bit of humour to the complexities of growing old. It was a light read and thoroughly enjoyable. The second book was also linked to old age but with the added twist of…

You must read this book.

The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna was the Miles Franklin Winner in 2015. Wow! This book left me moved. Initially I thought it was just another book about a child with Asperger’s Syndrome but it was so much more. It was heart breaking. I felt so deeply for the young boy I just…

Latest reading update

Not so many books in the last while as I was reading a couple of books at the same time. The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff was a book of some 514 pages so it took me a while.  It is a fiction but incorporates many historical facts re the Church of the Latter Day…

A return to reading, the weather has been hot!

Here in Victoria we have had ten consecutive days with the temperature over 30 degrees. It is really too hot to do sewing or knitting or gardening so I have been to the movies and also done a bit of reading for a change. This delightful story was read very quickly and I thoroughly enjoyed…

Mateship with birds

My latest A-Z Book challenge book is Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany.  Way back in February I listened to a podcast on Radio National and decided I needed to buy the book.  I had read Carrie Tiffany’s previous book, Everyman’s rules for Scientific Living, as it had been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award….