01. A brief post this week because there has been a lot happening on the home front… Continue reading
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Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. My last Birrarung Riverfest event – an eco-therapy session on Herring Island (the aerial pic of the Island is from here). It was stunning day for lying under the trees and connecting with nature. Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. A lovely morning for the start of Birrarung Riverfest, making ‘hotels’ for native bees (of which there are over 2000 native species). Australian native bees live alone and don’t make honey. Their preferred place to reside is in little holes (hence the bunch of sticks). Our hotel is now installed in our wattle tree, which is the equivalent of having a nice restaurant in the hotel. Continue reading
I’m waiting for… 2026 edition
Proving that I don’t actually care about my never-really-shrinking-TBR-list are these upcoming 2026 releases that I intend to add to my bookshelf. Continue reading
My Best Books for 2025
I did away with ‘top tens’ a few years ago, and instead I finish the reading year with a recap of the books that are still speaking to me (less about four and five-star ratings, more about what has stuck). Continue reading
2025: What I Read
Here’s my year in books – Continue reading
The Top 48 from the Best Books of 2025 List of Lists
Presenting the 2025 Commonly-Agreed-by-the-People-Who-Publish-Best-of-2025-Book-Lists-Before-December-31 top 48 books.
(This is my annual community service to book-bloggers – a list of the books that appear most frequently on the 54 lists that I listed on Best Books of 2025 – A List of Lists – enjoy!). Continue reading
Best Books of 2025 – A List of Lists
It’s that time of the year when newspapers and magazines publish their ‘Best of 2025’ lists. Lists usually begin appearing early November and keep going until the end of the year – I will keep adding as they are published.
The Best of 2025 According to #ALLTHELISTS will be coming very, very soon – stay tuned! (See previous lists here). Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. I’m not overstating when I say that Opera Australia’s Orpheus & Eurydice was the most incredible production I’ve seen in thirty years (the previous benchmark being Barrie Kosky’s 1995 production of Nabucco). (image) Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. Yay! MTC’s 2026 season launch. I was thrilled to hear Joanna Murray-Smith speak about her new play, an adaption of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. And cannot wait for the stage production of Forster’s A Room With a View. Continue reading