Got these 📚 from the Royal Exchange Theatre‘s 📕 swap last night on my way home from a trivia night to raise funds for my ballet school. It was at the pub where my dead husband & I had our first date & looks very different nowadays as it‘s become the new gay bar so from dark and gloomy to rainbow bright. I didn‘t win anything unfortunately but spent lots of money trying. The margarita was delicious as was the potato, cauliflower & bacon soup.
pickThis is Australian author Hayley Scrivenor‘s 2nd book (her first: Dirt Town in the UK / Dirt Creek in the USA was an international best seller & worthy winner of the CWA New Blood Award for debut novels). Set in Australia‘s Blue Mountains, it spans several time lines in the life of the narrator Finn - the most immediate being before & after a horrific climbing accident. A definite page turner
pickReally enjoyed this book. Very different from what I normally read. The gators are in Savannah.
pickKate Morton is one of my favourite authors and I was delighted that my f2f book group chose to read Homecoming. We all very much enjoyed it. I loved the twists and turns, the setting and the way the story was put together. It‘s a beautifully written tale and a page turner. It‘s quite a tome but didn‘t really take long to read as I was gripped from beginning to end.
Monday night after my extra ballet exam private lesson (despite being off work sick as the show must go on and I only work to fund my expensive ballet habit so I know what I‘d rather save my energy for), I stopped by the book swap on my walk home. I can‘t help myself. Yes I have a serious problem. I fear I will never get through all my books in this lifetime. What a lovely problem to have.
pickOh my this book was hilarious! Benjamin reflects on life as a Chinese Australian. Ben‘s Mum had me in stitches. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickAfter @MrsMalaprop review I listened to this. What a fascinating family. The writer Suzanne Chick finds out in her 40‘s that her mother is a famous Australian author. This is the story of that journey. I then watched her daughter Gina Chick find out who her grandfather was on the Australian series Who do you think you are. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #oznonfiction
pickWhat the most haunting reads that gives off a true crime fiction. During the 1900's, a group of Australian schoolgirls from affluent families head off on a coastal field trip to a place called Hanging Rock. Three of the girls go off to explore the caverns and vanish without a trace. What happens next is a deterioration of the community, the staff, and faculty as the mystery is explored. An atmospheric read of speculative fiction
pickPaul Biga,an Australian taxi driver who picks up young women and men,then kills them is at the center of each story without ever being the main character.Yet the characters in each story are somehow affected by the murders.There‘s Eva,principal of the school Biga attended&his former neighbor,Simon whose sister is one of his victims or Grace who fought back&got away.
