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On Saturday the sun was shining (unlike now with dangerous, cold wind!) and I headed to the Botanic Garden‘s book fair. I exercised restraint with the books but the cds were free so I couldn‘t help myself. Mainly classical music. Some of the book covers are gorgeous and all in great condition. A bargain as they were mostly $2 each. I enjoyed a Devonshire tea afterwards. I will definitely be back.

Wonderful. Bit heavy to hold.😊 Realised the last section was actually the book of hers I had just read—-Everywhere I Look.
#joysbooks2021
@MrsMalaprop

Not sure if this counts toward a #Scarathlon point, however, “Horror Movies: Cursed or Coincidence?” is great. I had to immediately order one of Leslie Warren‘s books as a result 📖

#TeamSlaughter #Scarathlon #Horror

Repost for @LapReader (posted yesterday, so probably regarding today):

Don‘t forget tomorrow is #Australianreadinghour Feel free to read anything at anytime. I will be reading an Australian author in the evening and will post during that time. I will also be drinking some Australian tea from The Tea Collective ❤️. @LitsyHappenings Please tag a fellow Aussie. I will start @Rissreads Everyone is welcome. Can‘t wait to see what you all get up too.

Don‘t forget tomorrow is #Australianreadinghour Feel free to read anything at anytime. I will be reading an Australian author in the evening and will post during that time. I will also be drinking some Australian tea from The Tea Collective ❤️. @LitsyHappenings Please tag a fellow Aussie. I will start @Rissreads Everyone is welcome. Can‘t wait to see what you all get up too.

#QuotsyJune18 #Diary

Helen Garner is writing here about her first novel Monkey Grip, which was based on her diaries.

She has been criticised over the years for blurring fact and fiction.

There is no one else quite like her in the Australian writing scene. #fangirl 😍🇦🇺📚❤️

I‘m reading this slowly but loving it all. I see @MrsMalaprop that it really impressed you. Like you I‘m finding so many quotes that speak directly to me. I just love love love her writing. Off to read some more. 😍😍

@Jeg This quote is especially for you.

Garner, on reading and forgetting.
😂👌🙌 📚😊🤓📚

#QuotsyMarch18 #Moonlight

I am away for a long weekend with my family and am ploughing my way through this tome, the collected short non-fiction of one of my writing heroes, Helen Garner.

I think that if I tried hard enough I could do every photo challenge, every day from this book alone. There is so much in here and I‘m loving it.

📚😎☀️👍

P.S. And this 2017 publication has STILL not been added to the @Litsy database 😏.

Garner, reflecting on her seminal work of non fiction The First Stone.

#Riotgrams #Oversizedbook
This #oversized #currentread is not yet on the Litsy database. I asked for it to be added a couple of weeks ago. It was released for Garner‘s 75th birthday in 2017. #Yearofthechunkster
The tagged book is actually an older selection of her short non-fiction.
(Sorry I keep going on about Garner; I‘ve got a bit of fangirl going on 😍).

#QuotsyFeb2018 #Always

Garner is writing about being the eldest of 5 sisters. She finds it hard to fathom that her younger siblings weren‘t #always there, that there was a time when it was just her & her parents. At the same time she was #always looking forward.

Makes me wonder whether my eldest sister (of 5 siblings) feels the same 🤔. I think she would.

My sister has said of her childhood, “the babies just kept coming!” 😅

#FierceFeb #RebelGirl #currentlyreading

From a short non-fiction piece by Helen Garner, when she was an English teacher in Melbourne in the 1960s.

Go girls 👊👊 ❤️

Trigger warning: infanticide, murder.

The opening piece in this new collection of non-fiction is about the devastating 2015 case of a mother driving her 4 youngest children into a lake, on purpose.

“While men kill to control or punish their children or partner, women kill children because they cannot cope with the extreme difficulties that they encounter in trying to care for their children.”

(2017 publication, not yet in Litsy database)

Spotted under the dust jacket flap!

I love finding little things like this!

This is far from Garner's usual exquisitely simple and brilliant writing but it is an interesting look at the development of a writer and some of the stories offered glimpses at the brilliance that would come in their acerbic observations of life, death and the in between.

My company in the 40mins between work finishing and school pick up that I have to get the house clean. I adore Helen Garner's writing and the narration of her own work in her broad Australian accent makes the audio even better.

1. WV - happy West Virginia day!
2. A post on book riot.
3. Clueless - based on Emma
4. Nope
#welcomelitten

Helen Garner one of Australia's greatest non fiction writers.25 years of her observations.