Tirra Lirra by the River | 
Starting my last book to complete the #bookriot #readharderchallenge for this year. Accompanied by day 3 of a tea advent calendar (and there may or may not be holiday music playing in the background 😉)🥰📚🫖
pickLike you @BarbaraBB I loved this book!
It‘s a deceptively complex book - it seems quite simple on the surface but there‘s a lot going on underneath. I actually found it quite unsettling, but in a good way; I couldn‘t stop thinking about it.
I can see why this is an Australian ‘classic‘ @CarolynM - thank you so much for sending it to me. 😘
PS The campervan looks a right mess, but it‘s all Henry‘s towels, and his pet snake! 🤣
pickNora is an amazing person. She is very authentic and never afraid to make bold choices. That‘s why she leaves Australia for England and return in her golden years. She has led such an interesting life. Her memories are interesting as well, Nora has forgotten a lot of them but patiently awaits the confrontation with her past.
Such a great choice @CarolynM thank you for sending it. I hope you loved it too @squirrelbrain
Look what just arrived @CarolynM - thank you so much! 😘 Love the Christmas kangaroo, and how good of you to remember that we talked about this book all those months ago when we did our #buddyread of The Stone Angel - it sounds fab from the blurb.
I love the bookmark too - I am reading Tiddas at the moment from Lee‘s #nywd list ( @LeeRHarry ) and I‘m learning so much about Aboriginal art and culture / Reconciliation etc so this is perfect!
#PoetryMatters #song
The Lady of Shallot
From the bank and from the river
He flashed into the crystal mirror,
‘Tirra lirra ‘ by the river
Sang Sir Lancelot.
Reminded of this poem recently while reading the tagged book ✨✨✨✨✨
pick.. while the sun beat down & the she-oaks soughed, and I exchanged with Peter an occasional low remark, and the yabbie in the silent water drifted upwards to the suspended bait, I would experience the deep poignancy of a recapitulation of childhood sensations that one believes will be one‘s last “ Loved the beautiful writing & Nora‘s Story & her “ globe of memory “ ... & getting older myself I was very interested in her remembering. 👍🏻♥️
Started this one ... enjoying ♥️👍🏻 a lovely gift from @CarolynM
Thanks so much Carolyn! Both books look really good & Id never heard of either - so a lovely surprise... your very good 👍🏻♥️I‘ll drop you a line soon. X Cathy
#HeatOfJuly #URemindMe
In this wonderful short novel an elderly woman returns to her childhood home after a lifetime as an expat and the memories come flooding back. #ozfiction
pickRead/finished 10 books in January. These two rose above the rest. #bestofjanuary Please check out Tirra Lirra - an Australian Awakening, if I dare make that comparison!
Really enjoying this one! Is it weird that I get all melanchony and nostalgic thinking that this book has been around for almost my entire life and Im just now discovering it? I wonder what else is already out there just waiting for me . . . 🤔 #blameshawnmooney
pickI loved the very Australian flavour of this novel. Nora faces such oppression, and yet manages to forge her way through to an escape of sorts, unlike some other women of her small neighbourhood where Nora returns at the end of her life, to be cared for and to recount her life story. This has been rereleased this year, so hopefully more people will get to enjoy Nora. #happybirthday Jessica Anderson (for the 25th!)
A 2015 re-issue of a 1984 Australia novel I had never heard of. Sounds interesting.
A cup of tea, air conditioning, and THIS
