Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week

01. Ten hours of music fun at Laneway Festival. Highlights: on the ‘small’ stage, Bel Air Lip Bombs and Teen Jesus delivered. On the big stages, I loved seeing Lucy Dacus and Role Model but the highlights were Wet Leg and (of course) Chappell. Continue reading

The Top 60 from the Best Books of 2024 List of Lists

Presenting the 2024 Commonly-Agreed-by-the-People-Who-Publish-Best-of-2024-Book-Lists-Before-December-31 top 60 books.

(This is my annual community service to book-bloggers – a list of the books that appear most frequently on the 55 lists that I listed on Best Books of 2024 – A List of Lists – enjoy!). Continue reading

The Top 50 from the Best Books of 2018 List of Lists

This is my annual community service to book-bloggers – a list of the books that appear most frequently on all of the lists (37 of them) I listed on Best Books of 2018 – A List of Lists.

Here it is, the 2018 Commonly-Agreed-by-the-People-Who-Publish-Best-of-2018-Book-Lists-Before-December-31 top 50 books. Continue reading

The Top 47 from the Best Books of 2017 List of Lists

This is my community service to book-bloggers – a list of the books that appear most frequently on all of the lists (32 of them) I listed on Best Books of 2017 – A List of Lists.

So here it is, the 2017 Commonly-Agreed-by-the-People-Who-Publish-Best-of-2017-Book-Lists-Before-December-31 top 47 books. Continue reading