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
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
#BookSnapSunday – The Wild Remedy and a Black Gully Walk
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7M3IAwA_H3/ This is the post I meant to do last week, but the bushfire emergency seemed to overwhelm and posting about the healing power of nature just did not feel right at the time. I have blogged about Emma Mitchell's The Wild Remedy here. I love the idea of walking in nature to heal. I … Continue reading #BookSnapSunday – The Wild Remedy and a Black Gully Walk
#BookSnapSunday – the art of Charlie Mackesy
https://www.instagram.com/p/B6pqml5gVHA/ With the rush of Christmas and the holidays I almost forgot what day it was, so a very quick book snap this week, the beautiful: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse by Charlie Mackesy, this book is just so beautiful, a bit sweet but the art is just so wonderful. On the … Continue reading #BookSnapSunday – the art of Charlie Mackesy
A favourite Christmas book
#BookSnapSunday - Hogfather https://www.instagram.com/p/B6W8M-DAptm/ With Christmas fast approaching this weeks book snap could only be one book. My all time favourite Christmas read: Hogfather by Terry Pratchett, and my all time favourite Terry Pratchett novel. Pratchett's Discworld universe is a mirror of ours, on the disc they celebrate Hogswatch, the equivalent of Christmas and instead … Continue reading A favourite Christmas book
#BookSnapSunday – a natural history beach read.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B5y33ogA-st/ Just a quick post for BookSnapSunday, I actually took this one while we were at Red Rock a couple of weeks ago, it is a scientific memoir I am dipping into at the moment, very readable and informative, must confess I was seduced by the cover. If you join me in #BookSnapSunday please leave … Continue reading #BookSnapSunday – a natural history beach read.
Gum trees and Galaxies 