Here’s my latest book review by Anita Heiss. Its a timely book as it’s NAIDOC Week and later this year, Australia will have the Referendum for the recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Given the amount of nasty comments I’ve been getting on my YouTube channel (most of it unrelated to books), and […]
Book Review of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Here’s my latest book review that has gone live on YouTube. My god, what bleakness. If you can’t be bothered watching, I wrote about it in this post. Long and short of it was that I thought Cathy was a cow and I couldn’t wait for Heathcliff to hurry up and die already. I schedule […]
Oh the Sarcasm in Pride & Prejudice
I’ve just finished reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I was never interested in these period novels as I mistakenly thought they’d only be about young women wanting to marry a rich bloke. The tediousness of reading gossip, how much the son of each family makes and who was to marry whom would have reminded […]
“If This Isn’t Nice, I Don’t Know What Is”
Today, I did nothing. Nothing but sit back in my husband’s recliner, watching YouTube the entire day. The cat dozing in my chair while I allowed myself to have an entire day devoted to watching Kurt Vonnegut documentaries. Something about today just made me make it all about this brilliant humanist writer. While I sat […]
Book Review: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Here’s my new book review up on YouTube. I enjoyed this short spooky book.
My Female Crush: Anita Brookner
This week I read Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac. I bought the book from a local second hand book store for $3 and at the time, I was deliberating whether or not to buy it because it won the Booker Prize in 1984. I’m not a fan of Booker Prize winning books. Every time I […]
Bits and Bobs For The Week
I finally finished my seamless jumper! This one was designed using a tutorial on “how to design your own sweater” using any yarn and using some basic mathematics to determine how much yarn I had to use and stitches to cast on. Knitting a square and then determining its tension and with a measuring tape […]
How to Read
Continuing onto the second skill highlighted in Robin Good’s article “What We Really Need to Learn to Be Successful in Life – Part 1″ is How to Read. Reading is my most favourite activity. Reading is critical thinking for me. However, it’s also HOW we read that is the most important skill and I believe […]
Book Review & Life Lessons from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
How have I NOT ever read this brilliant book before?! Jane Eyre fast became one of the BEST books I have ever read in my life. There’s a handful of books that I LOVE and adore and have somehow made an impact on my life. The first 10 are the ones I would throw into […]
New Book Review: Lessons in Chemistry
Here’s a new book review of a book that many people are reading at the moment. Highly enjoyable and immersive story.
New Video Book Review: Man-Made by Tracey Spicer
If you haven’t already heard about artificial intelligence then you may have been living under a rock but trust me, if you could move over a bit, I’d like to come in there under with you too. This book is a collection of chapters based of research and interviews on how technology today is using […]
Competition Frenzy
About once every couple of months (or thereabouts), I sit down at my computer and spend a few hours submitting for competitions. Usually I do random searches of local or national competitions and they could be anything. Health and beauty products, cash, home accessories, fashion, garden, cars, travel, anything really. As I don’t play lotto, […]
New Video Book Review: Seeing Other People By Diana Reid
Here’s my new book review that was published on YouTube yesterday.
Book Review of Creative Differences & Other Stories by Graeme Simsion
Here’s my new book review of this book of short stories. I really enjoyed this one!
New Second Hand Book Haul
Needed a convenient excuse to get out of the house so I just said I was going to the supermarket. I HÂTE going to the supermarket. I went to my local second hand book store. A little tiny shop filled with stacks of dusty books that are precariously placed on top of each other creating […]
How To Read Fiction: A Video Book Review
The latest book review is up on my YouTube channel, Life Lessons From Books. It’s by James Wood on How Fiction Works. I have some books “dropping” (as they say) over the next four weeks. (I read about 1-2 books per week) What to expect in the coming weeks:
Life As A Met Gala Parade or….The Hunger Games 🤣
I’m always amused when life imitates art. A couple of days ago, I watched the bizarre parade of those invited to the Met Gala. Usually this event showcases the most creative outfit sensations for those who can afford the $50,000 ticket price. Last night, I had another weird dream that I was living in a […]
Book Review: A Companion Piece by Ali Smith
Here’s my latest book review now on YouTube.
Reading All Day
Now that I’m not working anymore, I have so much time in the day that is spent doing pretty much nothing at all. I have days where I plan for golfing, French studies, going for long walks, house work and helping my parents with their errands too. However there are other days where nothing is […]
