01. Sunset, taken on my lovely weekend with my lovely mothers group at Phillip Island (our ‘babies’ are 16 now!).
02. Clearly my friend at the Queenscliff Bookshop voted!
03. Bibliomemoirs.
04. I see articles like this and my travel wish-list EXPLODES.
05. I’ve just finished listening to S2 of In the Dark – if you like true crime podcasts, this is a ripper.
06. I’m all for scruffy hospitality.
07. Reading is always a good idea but couldn’t you just go to a park any old time and STFU and read? I guess it doesn’t feel all that radical to me…
08. This tee. And all of these.
09. Is Netflix’s (gripping) Fyre doco a scam?
10. I saw the movie If Beale Street Could Talk – apparently it’s going to win a bunch of awards but honestly, I didn’t love it.
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The Mangan bibliomemoir is terrific. I can’t believe I hadn’t even heard of two of the others! (Read the Miller and it was alright.)
I enjoyed Andy Miller’s bibliomemoir, perhaps because I’m an ex-bookseller as is he.
3. I want to read them all.
4. Mine too.
5. I need to add this one to my list.
I don’t get No7 at all, but I’ve been doing No6 for years – smart hospitality is beyond me 😀
7. is just weird. Do they feel the need to read in public to demonstrate their betterness?, as a protest against non-readers? as a demonstration to public mobile phone users – half of whom are reading e-books or news anyway.
In defence of point 7. My kids, when they were in their late teens/early twenties and seeking partners, would bemoan that their ideal person was probably at home reading a book! I see these occasions as opportunities for reading people to meet other readers – I gather they have a break between two reading stints during which they can get a cuppa, have a chat etc. Secondly, it could have a promotional effect – it might make more people see reading as a cool thing to do AND that’s never a bad thing.
Oh, how I wish I could embrace scruffy hospitality. I’m more relaxed now – particularly about not dusting – but my house being in an untidy mess is my biggest deterrent to doing more entertaining (that, an the time, of which I seem to have too little, taken away from reading!)
I don’t get the point of the silent reading group either. Why not just read where they want to and when they want to without having to set a time to meet.
Hehehe, the go-to-a-park-and-read party is so 19th Century 🤣 I do this All. The. Time. How / why do they think it’s so radical?