September/October 2012 Readings

August was my most productive month yet! I raced through the Eyre Affair, dusted off Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy brought back some hazy memories of my early childhood in a communist country.

What a bizarre life that seems like now. And I’m heading back for a quick visit in a week. 

Meanwhile, I’ve given up on Alex Ross’ The Rest is Noise for now. Love his blog, love his writing, love the New Yorker, but the chapter on Schoenburg is turning out to be just as hard to get through as Schoenburg’s music.

The rest is noise indeed. 

Since I never seem to write my reading list at the start of the month, here’s one for September/October. 

Reading List September/October 2012

1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Staffer and Annie Barrows


2. Conditions of Faith, by Alex Miller


3. Anne of Green Gables, by LM Montgomery (re-reading the entire series) 


4. Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer

For any Canberrans out there - Lifeline Canberra Bookfair and the Canberra Readers’ Festival are both on this weekend. I’m wiping my reading glasses in anticipation. 

xx doots

An Australian winter

Spring is here. I can smell it, I can feel it, I can’t fight the the pollen slowly beginning to clog up my nostrils and making my tear ducts dysfunctional. And with that, I’ve survived my first winter in Canberra. 

Life has taken on a hectic pace, with new work, all the requirements of my legal admissions, French classes, salsa classes, planning a trip to China to visit some relatives before they forget what I look like.

No time for tennis. No time to blog.

:( doots

P.S. All photos taken during the past winter in and around Crapberra. It was really a lot colder than it looks.