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In Which I Finally Purchase An eReader
I am not what is termed an ‘early adopter’ of new technology. I don’t own a smart phone or an iPad or a digital radio, I don’t subscribe to any streaming services, and my entire music collection...
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Memoranda Turns Ten
Ten years ago today, I started this blog with a post about how I learned to hate poetry. Three hundred and twenty-one posts and about two hundred thousand words later, here I am, still blogging,...
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My Favourite Books of 2020
I didn’t read many new books this year. This was a year of re-reading old favourites from my bookshelves, partly because I was craving familiar, comforting reads, but mostly because my beloved local...
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What I’ve Been Watching: Studio Ghibli Films
I haven’t been reading anything much lately, except hospital COVID policy documents and a lot of gloomy newspaper articles. My library and local bookshops have been shut for months and Sydney’s latest...
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My Favourite Books of 2021
I usually post about my favourite books of the year by Christmas Eve, but this week, I was somewhat distracted due to a) the hospital where I work going into Red Alert and having to evacuate our floor...
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Local Authors at Glebe Summer Streets Festival This Saturday
As part of the Sydney Summer Streets Festival organised by the City of Sydney, Gleebooks will be hosting local authors and their books outside the famous Glebe Point Road bookshop. Author Ken Saunders...
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What I’ve Been Reading
How can we be a quarter of the way through 2022 already? Is it the multitude of terrible things happening throughout the world that is causing me this difficulty with time perception? I have at least...
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What I’ve Been Reading: #OzMG
I’ve been reading lots of interesting middle grade novels lately and by an Amazing Coincidence, they’re all by Australian authors. The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel is by Nicki Greenberg, best...
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Miscellaneous Memoranda
– I’m glad I deleted my Twitter account a few years ago. Perhaps the authors now leaving Twitter will turn to blogging? I’d like that. I like reading long, thoughtful, book-related posts, although of...
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‘Gideon the Ninth’ by Tamsyn Muir
Gideon the Ninth, the first in the bestselling speculative fiction series, The Locked Tomb, written by Tamsyn Muir, is not the sort of book I would usually pick up. It’s described as weird, dark,...
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My Favourite Books of 2022
What a year. At least it ended slightly better than it began, at least for me. However, 2022 was not a year when I read a lot of new novels. Looking at my book journal, I either didn’t read many new...
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What I Read On My Holidays
Yes, those holidays that ended last month. Better late than never. Here are the books I found the most interesting. I enjoyed The Guggenheim Mystery by Robin Stevens, an entertaining middle grade...
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What I’ve Been Doing Lately
Not writing, unfortunately, and not much book reading either, hence the lack of blog posts. What I have been doing is: – growing big, crunchy, delicious radishes. Apparently what you need to grow large...
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What I’ve Been Reading: Non-fiction about Mid-20th Century England
London’s Lost Department Stores: A Vanished World of Dazzle and Dreams by Tessa Boase was a short, engrossing history of the grand and not-quite-so-grand department stores of London. In the early...
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What I’ve Been Reading
The Deadly Daylight by Ash Harrier was an enjoyable middle grade mystery, the first in a series featuring Alice England. Alice is an unusual twelve-year-old who works in her father’s funeral parlour...
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