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A playlist of all episodes in the Bite-sized Book Chat series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-61cZp1pQdBH5V0Zb9q-2ujl4PY8nhf

Chat #1: with Bill from Nairobi

The Performance by Claire Thomas

Chat #2: with Ashwin from Kerala State

Collected Works by Lydia Sandgren
Agnes Broomé (Translator)

Chat #3: with Hunter from Florida

Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

Salvos scores last year after work. The skirt has pockets! My aim these holidays is to get some craft in. Perhaps whilst camping?

This book should have worked for me. Three women lost in their thoughts while attending a play with wildfires raging nearby? Right up my alley. However, it was a bit of a slog to get through. I didn't find the 20- or 70-something characters interesting. I did like Ivy's (40+) storyline particularly her career in philanthropy.

I listened to the audiobook. The narration was great!

This novel centers around three women watching a performance of Happy Days, a Beckett play (no Fonz 😉). I found the book much easier to follow after watching highlights of the play on YouTube. It‘s an interesting window into how we each interpret art based on what‘s going on in our lives. A good follow up book to The Museum of Modern Love.

I got a new spooky Halloween booksleeve from https://www.etsy.com/shop/StoryTimeSleeve 💜🕸🦉🦇

Thankyou Carolyn ! I‘m looking forward to the tagged book. Love the book for my granddaughter 🥰💕
The handcream is gorgeous ( already using it ) and I love soap .. all lovely.
You see The Daughter of Time is there on the left , still waiting for its big day ! Thankyou 😘

@TheAromaofBooks I read the #bookspin book for Feburary...in the first week of the month! Loved this very introspective novel. We get the interior life of three diffrent women watching a Becket play while wild fires rage outside the theater. Loved that we had women of various ages and diffrent concerns. Highly recommend. Reads like a much longer book 4 🌟

#12booksof2021 #6thbookof2021 #June

A snapshot of the lives of 3 women at a particular point in time. It's deceptive simplicity made it stand out.
@Andrew65

#midyearfaves #Day4 of 10
An intimate study of 3 women, as a their lives intersect. A philanthropist, drama student working as an usher, and a Lit professor facing retirement are watching a Beckett play as wildfires close in on their city. As the performance goes on, their minds wander, as they contemplate their hopes, traumas, anxieties and struggles, reflecting the themes of the play. The women felt so real, I felt such empathy for each of them.

Describes the thoughts of three very different women as they watch a performance of Samuel Beckett's play Happy Days while a bushfire burns in the mountains on the edge of their city, giving just a snapshot of this particular point in each woman's life. It doesn't sound very promising, but I couldn't put it down. #ozfiction
Also #CuriousCovers #Pink

I really enjoyed this story of three women at the theatre. Sharply observed, engaging writing and interesting structure with the play as backdrop as bushfires rage outside. It‘s rich white people‘s problems but their traumas are deeply felt, & it‘s also a climate change novel with the symbolism in the play of humans‘ inertia, complacency and the risk of slowly becoming extinct. Clever writing, Charlotte Wood fans will love.

I ❤️this kind of book, a beautiful character study of 3 women, their lives intersecting. A philanthropist, a drama student and a Lit professor are watching the Beckett play ‘Happy Days‘, as wildfires rage close to their city. As the performance plays out, their minds wander, contemplating their hopes and anxieties, their inner struggles reflect the themes of the play, the actress literally becoming buried deeper into a mound of dirt and trash.⬇️