Wednesday, 6 September 2023
Super apple.
Monday, 4 September 2023
Sunday, 3 September 2023
Monday, 2 January 2023
2022 books
Canadian Authors in RED, British Authors in BLUE, American Authors in GREEN.
Books read in 2022, and some I didn't quite finish.
For previous years' reading lists go here: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010. That's a lot of books.... but I'm not going to count them.
January
Bone and Bread - Saleema Nawaz (good)
The Red Lotus - Chris Bohjalian (good)
The Rehearsal - Annette Christie (DNF got halfway through and pffft!)
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr (loved this book)
Bewilderment - Richard Power
February
The Fortune Men - Nadifa Mohamed (well worth reading!)
Trees in Canada - John Laird Farrar (super detailed)
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
March
The Queen's Secret - Karen Harper (DNF, boring)
The Vision of Emma Blau - Ursula Hegi (good)
Polar Vortex - Shani Mootoo
Here the Dark - David Bergen
Ridgerunner - Gil Adamson
April
We'll All be Burnt in Our Beds Some Day - Joel Thomas Hynes (brutal, savage and wonderful)
The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes - Bridget Canning
The Hush Sisters - Gerard Collins (DNF)
The Help Line - Katherine Collette
May
Dark Roads - Chevy Stevens
Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead (good book)
June
The Overstory - Richard Powers
Out of the Sun - Esi Edugyan
The Promise - Damon Galgut (enjoyed this book)
July
Moving Forward Sideways like a Crab - Shani Mootoo
Most Anything You Please - Trudy J Morgan-Cole
The Art Detectives - Philip Mould
Big Sky - Kate Atkinson
Leaving van Gogh - Carole Wallace
The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
The Teacher's Daughter - Richard B Wright
August
Mr. Shakespeare's Bastard - Richard B Wright
The Art of the Con - Anthony M Amore
The Lady of the Rivers - Phillipa Gregory
Arthur and Sherlock - Michael Sims
September
Clara Callan - Richard B Wright
Talking to a Portrait - Tales of an Art Curator - Rosalind M Pepall
Everyone Brave is Forgiven - Chris Cleave (loved this book)
Black Cake - Charmaine Wilkerson
October
The House of Wives - Simon Choa-Johnston
Incendiary - Chris Cleave (second time reading this, I had forgotten many details)
The High Mountains of Portugal - Yann Martel
The Last Train to London - Meg Waite Clayton
The Man Without a Shadow - Joyce Carol Oates
November
Utopia Avenue - David Mitchell (2nd time reading this)
The Ghost Keeper - Natalie Morrill (good book)
State of Terror - Louise Penny and Hilary Rodham Clinton (ho hum)
December
Nora Webster - Colm Toibin
The Parking Lot Attendant - Nafkote Tamirat
The Woman in the Window - A.J.Finn
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
Happy New Year to all readers, may you find lots and lots of good books to enjoy in 2023. I've already made a long list of books that I will be looking for at the Library.
Sunday, 15 May 2022
Sweet Violets...
Sweet Violets,
Sweeter than all the Roses.
Covered all over from head to toe,
Covered all over with Sweet Violets....
Anyone remember that old song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtnLvrmyh3E&t=39s
The chorus is taken from the song "Sweet Violets" by Joseph Emmet, from his 1882 play Fritz Among the Gypsies. The song was recorded by Dinah Shore with Henri René's Orchestra & Chorus in Hollywood on May 20, 1951. Sweet Violets was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-4174A (78 rpm record), 47-4174A (single) (in USA), by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalog number B 10115 in the UK, and EA 3997 in Australia.
Monday, 2 May 2022
Finished?
I haven't painted anything for ages.... pandemic pause. This was a 16"x20" canvas with a failed rubbish painting from 4 or 5 years ago, so a couple of coats of gesso covered the horrible mess, and I started painting, no actual intention in mind.
I think it's finished. Possibly. I don't know. Is it? ..... Update: I changed the sky colour to a shade of purple, made a few adjustments, and I sold it.
Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Tessa
She was called Tess, Tessie, Tessington, TessaDog, Doodle Treasure and The Dog. But her real name was Tessa.
Claims to fame: Therapy dog reject (too bouncy). Loved to wallow in the mud. Awesome swimmer. Relentless ball chaser, and always brought it back for another throw. Sandwich stealer. Cat chaser. Sock thief. Horsey poo lover. Rolled in stinky dead things no matter how miniscule. Cutest golden doodle ever. She loved us and we loved her. She is missed.
Tessa 1 September 2007 - 25 April 2022
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