Firstly, my fave : A beautiful friend from the other side of the country sent me through the post a May Gibbs Gumnut Babies cardboard book, Goodnight Gumnuts to share with Harrison Miles ( born on October 7th) when he visits his Meemaw. You are one of the world’s sweethearts, Tenielle.
Peter Corris, Australian crime writer’s Lugarno. My home town and birth place of both daughters. Ok, not one of Corris’ best efforts and just 103 pages in length. Only one decent description of the suburb I felt with “ it was elevated and leafy, without any through traffic. Nice place if you had a good car and a swimming pool and didn’t mind being that far from the CBD. It looked like everyone living there would be much the same – comfortable and conservative -but I knew that wasn’t true ; there’d be secret drinkers and crossdressers and One Nation voters”.
Cecila Ahern’s sequel to PS I Love You. Hated the original – loved the movie. Gerard Butler, Harry Connick Jnr and Jeffrey Dean Morgan – what’s not to love? Enjoyed this novel about adjusting to loss but not sure if it was because of the author’s story telling ability or more that my thoughts kept returning to the previously mentioned boyos. Probably the latter……
Had wanted to read Where The Crawdads Sing for months if only to learn more about crawdads. Imagined them to be like a yabbie. Bzzzzzzz. Wrong. I enjoyed this novel though the American colloquialisms, especially about food, had me baffled. A good read.
Another good week for the Little Community Library with one of the local mummas painting and hiding rocks around the park for the Little People.
And great news! Further easing of COVID restrictions mean that Author Talks at my local library are recommencing. These are fantastic opportunities to learn what motivates writers and what makes them tick. Haven’t been disappointed yet.
Yee Haa!
Brizzy Mays Books and Bruschetta 
I’m the only person who didn’t like Crawdads…
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I often find all the hype puts me off.
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Me too
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Sounds like things are getting back to normal! I have no idea what a yabbie is but crawdads are like little lobsters… and tasty too!
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Yabbies are similar though fresh water. Ugly as a hatful. I just couldn’t consider eating one though people do.
Yes, on the whole, a semblance of normality is returning though summer at the beach may prove interesting and Melbourne remains in lockdown, though that is a loooooong story.
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Found recently that May Gibbs gifted the rights to her works to a charity – what a cool thing to do. Happy reading 🙂
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I love her illustrations. To this day I’m still scared of the big, bad Banksia Men. Her bushland cottage on Sydney’s north shore is well worth a visit too:)
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