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Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. They’ve planted a meadow at the Convent. It’s small but lovely. Continue reading
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn
It’s been a while since I’ve had a reading experience as visceral as what I had when I read Olga Ravn’s The Wax Child. Continue reading
Three quick reviews
I still have a bunch of reviews to complete from last year… Continue reading
The Happiest Things from Things That Are Making Me Happy
It’s hard to pick out the happiest of happy things but this is my list of 2025 highlights (excluding books – more on those later – and holidays, and I had some amazing ones this year, notably Hobart, Cambodia, New Zealand, and my sinkholes tour). Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. A fabulous night at the Westwood | Kawakubo exhibition at the NGV. The breadth of the work over many decades was astounding. The detail in all of the pieces, but particularly Kawakub’s was incredible (and my daughter who is planning on studying textiles next year was in heaven). Continue reading
A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike
A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike was the latest pick for my book group. Have I mentioned my new book group? I love it. It’s hosted by a local independent book shop and we’ve had enough meetings now that faces are familiar. The format for the evening is basically – mingle; break into chat groups (light and casual at one end of the shop, deep-divers at the other – I hang with the deep-divers); then another little mingle and browse at the end of the evening.
In the mingling bit, one of the other deep-divers asked if I had liked the book (she hadn’t). I said I loved the chapter headings and this was greeted by shrieks of laughter. Yes, that sounds like a harsh review, but I genuinely liked the chapter headings – they were a great snapshot of Pike’s style of humour. Some favourites: Continue reading
I Want Everything by Dominic Amerena
To be honest, I was still dining on details of The Salt Path scandal, when I began I Want Everything by Dominic Amerena. I Want Everything is more a story about a literary mystery rather than a scandal per se, but either way, it’s all in the juicy details (and because of that, I’m loathe to say too much about the plot for fear of giving anything away). Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. The Mourning After is a project that invites people to explore grief in all its forms. It’s focused on grief as a social practice and aims to improve ‘grief literacy’. The project currently includes an exhibition – it’s really wonderful. Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. So I probably haven’t shared the long and sad story of the demise of my book group… and I won’t now because of the title of this post. I also won’t go on about attempts to get a new group started… Instead, I was thrilled to be a part of Ramona Books inaugural book group this week. Such fun to have a really meaty discussion with people invested in talking about the book! (the book was Dominic Amerena’s I Want Everything). Continue reading