Happiness and Love by Zoe Dubno

You’ll need to lock in early to Happiness and Love, in order to get with Zoe Dubno’s style. But it is absolutely worth your initial effort.

First to the style: It is pure stream-of-consciousness. There are no paragraphs and no chapter breaks – start reading at page one and keep going until you hit the end (page 267), at which point, you are well and truly feeling all the things the novel’s narrator if feeling (annoyed, aggrieved, exhausted, amused, enlightened, relieved). Continue reading

Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week

01. Victorian Opera’s performance of Eucalyptus (based on the glorious book by Murray Bail). It was wonderful and the set was absolutely outstanding – the canvas in the foreground was used to project various scenes, from a train arriving and forest to the lake where the main character swims. In the background were layered scrims, printed with trees, and behind them you could see the orchestra. Magical. (image). Continue reading

Reading Challenges 2023

It’s technically possible to squeeze in another couple of books before midnight on December 31, 2023 but unlikely, so I think I can safely draw a line under the reading challenges for the year.

I participated in six challenges this year – finished four; one is ongoing; and one I failed miserably. Continue reading

A Year of Sample Saturdays – 2021 Edition

I’ve read 99 Kindle samples this year – I reckon that downloading sample chapters is more prudent than impulse buying books that don’t quite pan out after the first few chapters. Continue reading

The Top 50 from the Best Books of 2020 List of Lists

Presenting the 2020 Commonly-Agreed-by-the-People-Who-Publish-Best-of-2020-Book-Lists-Before-December-31 top 50 books. Continue reading