Hello! Happy September and welcome to spring! I do love winter, but I can’t deny that I’m looking forward to the days getting longer and just a bit warmer. We had the most glorious weather today – a top of about 23 and sunny – and we spent most of the day in the backyard. […]
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Hello bookish friends! The past week or so have been a bit wild – as many of my fellow Aussies will know, with all kinds of new lock downs and restrictions on travel popping up right as we head into school holidays. Despite the chaos we managed to get away for a little stay with […]
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I’ve been thinking a bit over the past few weeks about the sorts of things I’d like to share on my blog, and one thing I haven’t done much of so far this year is general bookish chatty life stuff. To help get back in the habit of logging on for a chat I thought […]
Read MoreOne of the things I’ve found about reviewing books is that I am generally either good at reading or reviewing, but rarely both at once. Lately I’ve been reading loads (well, until this whole staying home with everyone all the time killed my reading routing! Most of my reading is usually done either on my […]
Read MoreHello and happy Monday! It’s a long weekend here this week, and I’ve had a wonderfully lazy few days full of coffee, kitties, books, and brunch! With the New Year starting I’ve been thinking quite a bit about reading goals, but here we are almost in February already and I’m still not really sure where […]
Read MoreOk, nobody panic – I havn’t taken up reading the classics (though, honestly, I would love to read more classics, but I just seem to never get to them!). Rather, I’ve been thinking about the way we sometimes go into a book with particular expectations, and the impact this can have on our reading experiences. […]
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