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Thursday, December 22, 2022

What I’m Reading Right Now

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  I have done a lot of reading and listening this year. I just can’t stick to one book at a time. Here are a few things I am reading or li...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Just Been To See…The Nutcracker Ballet

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  It’s Christmas. Among other things that means The Nutcracker ballet, which I saw tonight. This performance was by the Australian Conserva...
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Monday, December 19, 2022

Just Been To See…Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever

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  I haven’t posted in a while, I admit, due to family issues, such as my mother being in and out of hospital. But I’m back, briefly, and I’d...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Just Finished Listening To… Norse Mythology BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatisation by Neil Gaiman!

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  I have just listened to the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology . I do have the book and was hoping to find the actual...
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Saturday, November 19, 2022

Just Finished Reading…Murder In Williamstown by Kerry Greenwood. Sydney: Allen And Unwin, 2022

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  This is the twenty-second Phryne Fisher novel by Melbourne author Kerry Greenwood, set in Melbourne in the 1920s. The year is 1929, the ...
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Monday, November 07, 2022

In Which I Go To The Opera!

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  Poster for Melbourne production- fair use Last Wednesday I went to see Opera Australia in Phantom Of The Opera . It was the first time sin...
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Thursday, November 03, 2022

The Power Of The Doctor - oh, wow!

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  So, the other night I watched The Power Of The Doctor , Jodie Whittaker’s last episode, in which she regenerated. I have to say I will mis...
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Thursday, September 29, 2022

Just Finished Reading…Peepshow by Leigh Readhead. Sydney: Allen And Unwin, 2004.

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  This is not a newly published book. I bought a copy from the bookseller table at a Sisters In Crime event at my local library the other ni...
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Sunday, September 25, 2022

Just Finished Reading… False Value by Ben Aaronovitch. Rivers Of London series. Penguin Putnam: New York, 2021

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  I have just read False Value and thoroughly enjoyed it, as I have all the Rivers Of London novels.   Hero Peter Grant, a member of the v...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Just Finished Reading - Three Miles Down: A Novel Of First Contact In The Tumultuous 1970s By Harry Turtledove. New York: Tom Doherty, 2022

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The year is 1974. The U.S President is Richard Nixon, who is soon to lose his job. Jerry Stieglitz, a young PhD candidate in marine biolog...
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Thursday, August 25, 2022

Book Week 2022 - And Complaints!

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  It’s the last day of Children’s Book Week 2022, and I confess I haven’t read any of the books this year. I can remember when I at least re...
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Sunday, August 21, 2022

Some Banned Books In Florida Schools!

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  There have been books banned in the US for quite some time. In fact, here is a link to a post I wrote ten years ago and that was the 30th...
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Thursday, August 18, 2022

Just Finished Reading … The Unbelieved by Vikki Petraitis. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2022

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  Vikki Petraitis is a Melbourne writer, best known for her true crime books, of which I own a few. This is her first novel. Antigone Poll...
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