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Post by amanda on Aug 17, 2024 11:13:58 GMT
Reading a local history book about two intrepid women from England in the 1800's who came to Australia with some sheep from the Saxon region of Germany. 'Saxon sheep' by Nancy Adams.
Both womens' husbands died and there is now a stone monument in farmland in country Victoria acknowledging their work.
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Post by bigmartin on Sept 7, 2024 19:53:26 GMT
Having finished listening to book 11 of the Campion series and book 11 of the Swallows and Amazons series, I'm on to the last of that series ("Great Northern?") interspersed with bits of J R R Tolkien's "Unfinished Tales" when I need a break from that. Still 2 weeks to go until my next Audible download - probably Campion book 12!
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Post by jenny on Sept 7, 2024 20:07:03 GMT
I am feeling a bit brain dead at the moment, so having picked up a bag full of books for $5 at a local library book sale, I have just whizzed through a Georgette Heyer Regency romance and a Preston & Child Pendergast thriller. I'm still feeling brain dead so I think I'll read the Terry Pratchett "Dodger" next, which I picked up to give to my twelve year old granddaughter when I see her at Christmas.
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Post by amanda on Sept 7, 2024 23:43:52 GMT
I've just finished 'Fish and chips' by Panikos Panayi, a history of the two different foods in the UK and how they weren't originally together, but sold by different vendors in different situations.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 8, 2024 8:59:57 GMT
jenny. I thoroughly enjoyed "Dodger" when I read it a few years ago. It's Victorian London, so it was onto a winner from the start...
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Post by jenny on Sept 9, 2024 16:27:30 GMT
Yes I can see it would be up your street! I've only just started it and I'm enjoying it myself, but I don't think my twelve year old American granddaughter would cope with it.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 17, 2024 22:58:28 GMT
"On the Origin of Time" by Robert Hertog. Stephen Hawking's last theory, described by his co-theorist. I'm sure Dr Bob of blessed memory would regard it as a bit of light reading, but I freely admit it is likely to be one of my slower reads. Lent to me by the lovely gentleman for whom I have been painting sheds, he is a VERY educated man, and we have some quite esoteric conversations while I am there. It is fairly heavy going, and presumes a knowledge of physics some way beyond anything I have any degree of confidence in, but I am (so far at least) following the argument...
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 18, 2024 10:35:02 GMT
I am about 4 chapters into one of Jodi Taylor's recent ones. 'Killing Time', the latest instalment of tge Time Police series, which crosses over with the St Mary's books. Delicious. And next will be 'The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal'. Time-travelling bounty hunters, who have cropped up in earlier books of both series. She is a prolific genius
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Post by jenny on Sept 18, 2024 20:51:23 GMT
I finally finished listening to Jung Chang's "Wild Swans", an audiobook which is over 31 hours long. I only tend to listen to maybe twenty minutes a day, so it's taken me a while. I appear to have about 130 audiobooks in my library so lots to choose from. One of them is by somebody I know (Jennifer Lunden's "American Breakdown") so I think I'll tackle that next. Sadly I think it is another long one so I'll have to have something lighter after that.
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Post by amanda on Sept 19, 2024 10:15:02 GMT
Half way through a hardback book from 1981 about Mediaeval gardens of the UK, by John Harvey, borrowed from the religious library where I volunteer, it would have come in a recent donation from someone.
Has several black and white photos of the various monastery gardens and town maps.
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Post by jenny on Sept 19, 2024 22:15:46 GMT
I've just started listening to George Stephanopoulos's book "The Situation Room", which seems pretty interesting. I've just finished reading Terry Pratchett's "Dodger", which I recommend to crissdee of this parish in particular.
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