A bit of a slow blogging week but here is a quick #BookSnapSunday will be back to normally blogging and posting this week. https://www.instagram.com/p/B85xB8jAerU/ It has been a really chaotic week this week, but back to normal hopefully this week. Just a quick Instagram #BookSnapSunday I picked an old comfort read Dodie Smith's lovely coming … Continue reading “I Write this sitting in the kitchen sink”. – #BookSnapSunday
Dreaming of walking – #BookSnapSunday
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8nf5KhA2fU/ Just a quick BookSnap this week, my current read, Laura Waters great account of running away to the wilds of New Zealand and trekking the Te Araroa trail, loving reading about Laura's amazing and challenging journey. I have a bit of thing for memoirs about long distance treks, the wilder the landscape the better … Continue reading Dreaming of walking – #BookSnapSunday
Rain – #BookSnapSunday
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8VXddGAP5k/ It has not been a great week for reading and I have failed to finish anything, almost but not quite finished, so decided to just grab the most appropriate title from the TBR: Rain : four walks in the English weather by Melissa Harrison, it is a title I picked up a while back … Continue reading Rain – #BookSnapSunday
Equal Rites on #BookSnapSunday
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8C4123gPd1/ This week's book snap is Terry Pratchett's Equal Rites, the third discworld novel and the first novel in the witches arc. I am participating in Annemieke's read along for this title. Love Pratchett's work, wit and wisdom, books to amuse while sometimes making you think. You don't have to start at the beginning with … Continue reading Equal Rites on #BookSnapSunday
January reading and challenge summary
with links to other challenge participants. Just posting a quick summary of January reading and link to Karen's post for the Gaia Reading challenge; Watership Down. And welcome J.G. from Hotchpot Cafe to the Gaia challenge and Jamie from Whatever I think of `Can't wait to see what everyone reads. If anyone else would like … Continue reading January reading and challenge summary
Scandal in Roman Bath and the cult of Sulis Minerva
Memento Mori by Ruth Downie I seem to be slipping back into blogging about books, summer does tend to be peak reading time. By getting back involved with challenges I have found myself directed towards great books I might not have found otherwise and that is the thing I really like about reading challenges, they … Continue reading Scandal in Roman Bath and the cult of Sulis Minerva
Hidden life of trees – Gaia reading challenge
Just finished another book that satisfies my Gaia/nature reading challenge; The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben. Wohlleben certainly makes accessible the incredibly complex world of the natural environment, he makes visible the normally unseen connections that allow forests to function as complex organisms, explaining notions like the "wood wide web", a complex system that sees fungi … Continue reading Hidden life of trees – Gaia reading challenge
Australia Day or Invasion Day or Survival Day
Just want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land upon which I currently live and walk, here in Toowoomba Queensland, the lands of the Jagera, Giabal and Jarowair people and pay my deep felt respect to elders, past, present and emerging. The land on which I currently live has a … Continue reading Australia Day or Invasion Day or Survival Day
Australia Day and #BookSnapSunday
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7w44MIAEuS/ This weeks book snap is Stan Grant's important reflection on our Australian nation identity and the tensions that exist therein. Grant is an eloquent and powerful writer on a topic that is crucial to modern Australia and how we choose to move forward in the contested space of national identity. For more Australia day … Continue reading Australia Day and #BookSnapSunday
A dinosaur themed #BookSnapSunday
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7e6jeOALvF/ Just another quick Sunday Booksnap I actually read The Dinosaur Artist around this time last year, an expose into smuggling and fraud in the paleontology world, an entertaining and informative read especially in regards to Mongolia and the trove of fossils that country has generated in recent years. Happy reading and if you would … Continue reading A dinosaur themed #BookSnapSunday
