There are so many different directions I could take with this subject and I’ve mostly chosen to direct you to webcams. My favourite are in Africa so here are two photos I took directly from the Africam webcams last night and strangely enough I’ve linked them with books. They’re followed ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
Letters from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi This book is a series of letters Aung San Suu Kyi wrote from her home in Burma (now Myanmar) during 1996. It is both a beautiful and worrying read. The author has a lovely turn of phrase using words I’ve never used. ...
I was listening to some radio last night and they were talking about Peter Greste, a journalist who has been jailed in Egypt on charges of spreading false information. I didn’t hear much more as I was instantly thinking about what his conditions might be like and promptly transported back ...
Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson Richard Branson, you must have heard of him. If I throw some businesses at you I’m sure you’ll remember. Virgin Money, Virgin Records, Virgin Australia, Virgin Mobile and if you’re in the UK I could name many, many more companies he’s started. Branson is ...
I was very excited when I first saw this book, it’s by David Attenborough, the well-known broadcaster and naturalist and the younger brother of actor, Richard Attenborough star of Jurassic Park, so I thought the title of this book fitting and delightful. It’s actually two books in one: Zoo ...
Back in July I scribbled a few words about Wandering Girl by Glenyse Ward and mentioned My Place by Sally Morgan as being an important book to read and now I know why I said that, it’s not that I’m prophetic or anything but because I was echoing other people. ...
Call Me Anna by Patty Duke and Kenneth Turan I’ve been struggling with Mondayitis while reading this book, it’s so engrossing it’s been really hard to turn off and read something else so I’ve been forced to finish reading Call Me Anna before picking up anything else. Reading another book ...
Soon as I opened the door all the chatter and laughter stopped. You could hear a pin drop as all eyes were on me… “Tracey dear, is this your little dark servant?” I just stood there smiling. I thought it was wonderful that at last people were taking notice ...
I’ve had this book sitting on my shelf wiggling its eyebrows at me telling me to read it already so last week I complied and have enjoyed it tremendously. Groucho Marx was apparently born at an early age and was an undereducated boy having left school around his Bar ...
This is the first book of Tony Martin’s memoirs, it precedes A Nest of Occasionals and there’s one more book to follow called Scarcely Relevant which I plan to buy in ebook next month after I get paid. I could say all the same things about Martin’s background but I won’t ...
It is fitting I should read this book of all books about Doctor Who in this 50th year of Doctor Who. A wonderful book, I laughed, I cried and then I finished the foreword by David Tennant. This book is written in a very laid back style, Sladen is always ...
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie Yes, that’s right, Hugh Laurie the brilliant man who played the totally flawed man Doctor House. Reasonably well written but I’m struggling to remember anything special about it. It’s about a man who’s hired to kill someone but renegs on the deal, naturally this ...
I’m fond of a good autobiography or three, I generally read about people who I’ve seen in the public and I feel some connection with or some interest in their story, there is the odd one I’ll read when the description on the back looks interesting. Semi-Detached is in the ...
I seem to have lost Squid Ink, he went to the library and is possible still wandering the book stacks. Whether he’s lost by accident or on purpose is something I don’t know. I do hope when he’s finished adventuring among the books he will return and show us what ...
Tom O’Toole is the founder of The Beechworth Bakery and this is his story. It’s part autobiographical and part inspirational…about three quarters of each and I loved it. Tom was born and grew up in Tocumwal, undisciplined, in a financially poor but loving family with an attitude problem, he was ...