The Good People
The Good People
Oh boy – months since my last. Oh well – not like anyone is waiting for them, or reading them. Kent, Hannah, The Good People Set in the late 19th century rural Ireland – where people lived a simple, yet harsh existence. Their labour was arduous, their earnings meagre, the climate mostly frigid. The country at that time is at the cusp of losing their traditional superstitions (Fairies) and…
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well, what can I say?
The clock is ticking, the cat is snoring - I should be in bed....but here I am. Just started this up so I could check out some nice little library posts...will probably delete this account in under a month. We'll see.
Home with Alice by S Fallon
Home with Alice by S Fallon
I came across this title when I was shelving books at work – as I was walking by the travel books and having a quick squiz for something to read. This book is more of a memoir than it is a travel book and that made it interesting for me. Full disclosure – I’ve been a little bit obsessed with Ireland since my first trip there in 2017, around the time of my last book “review”. A lot of what I’ve…
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Ithaka
How could I resist a title like that? So this is a side story to the Odyssey – it is set in Ithaca during the period Odysseus is trying to make his way home. The protagonist in this story is a young girl, who along with her twin brother, grows up as playmates with Telemachus, son of Odysseus and Penelope. As they reach adolescence their close bond is strained due mainly to the introduction into…
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Bloody Hell!
Bitten off more than I can chew?
I started a book club specifically so I would stop doing this … Four books on the go – that I’m listing here. This is not counting the ones I started and stopped reading last year. Made the mistake of updating my Goodreads account. There it was – the books listed as ‘currently reading’. And that is only the one I am willing to show you. A a sense of guilt, or is it defeat? whatever it is, it…
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Another month, another thought....(just the one)
Time seems to fly - it really does - we wonder where the days went, try to grasp what has happened? - but really, in actual fact it is not passing that quickly at all...I mean, it's only been a month since my last note..... about the time it took this moss to grow on the picnic table (took this pic a week ago...)
I swear it feels like its been at least three months
Euphony
euphony ˈjuːf(ə)ni/
noun
the quality of being pleasing to the ear. “the poet put euphony before mere factuality”
the tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation.
I will name my next cat Euphony.
When I was required to read poetry for school, it was not a pleasant experience. Chaucer, or anyone from the 18th century woulds’t doth mine own headeth in. But, spoken…
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The Dry
The Dry, by Jane Harper I forgot how much I love a whodunit until my book club buddies started suggesting them way back at the start of this caper – with Adrian McKinty’s and his Sean Duffy series. Jo’s pick for this month hit the sweet spot. This one is set in a rural township, drought stricken, tinder dry and unbearably hot. The locals are not necessarily welcoming. A gruesome murder suicide…
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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NxenCGfxEk)
This is so good - c'mon laugh with me
Comparative Government
No! Do not panic. I’m not reviewing a book on government systems from my Year 11 Politics class.
I came across this little beauty today, as I was cataloguing my book collection. I opened it up for a quick look see, and found something quite telling about why I have not been here over the last three and a half years.
Get this. ‘The Façade democracy’
This is where “liberal democratic…
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