It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Richard Fidler
Nonfiction November – Book Pairings
It’s Nonfiction November, this week hosted by Doing Dewey. The task? Pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title.
Relationships that play out at the local swimming pool – The Memory Pool by Therese Spruhan and Monkey Grip by Helen Garner.
The Golden Maze by Richard Fidler
Wars and alchemy and people dying because they didn’t do a wee at a feast… I’d forgotten about all the excellent gruesome detail of Medieval times until I plunged into Richard Fidler’s ‘biography of Prague’, The Golden Maze.
There were other reasons I picked up this tome –
- Back in the eighties, I loved the Doug Anthony Allstars (although was in constant fear I’d be roped into audience participation).
- My brief visit to Prague whetted the appetite, and I certainly wished for more time there.
Things that are making me happy this week
01. The Go-Go’s documentary (it was an ace end to the Melbourne International Film Festival). Continue reading
I’m waiting for… 2020 edition
Proving that I don’t actually care about my never-really-shrinking-TBR-list is this list of new releases that are on my radar for 2020.
There’s nothing new on my list (other bloggers have posted curated lists of 2020 releases and there are loads of comprehensive lists floating around, such as SMH) – I’m posting it simply to have a record of books to follow-up during the year.