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I went with a teachers theme for November. The end of the year always makes me thing of school and the good and great teachers I know. So important arent they? These are all such different books from one another and different types of teachers, but all fantastic and come with such high recommendations from […]

I get to review and recommend a book most months in the Lane Cove Village Observer. I always feel abit like Carrie Bradshaw doing it! I pull out my laptop, I stare wistfully out to space..I probably spend way too long on it! I think it’s a real honour! This month I went with the

Hahaha I took a snap on Friday for my socials of my last 3 reads and gosh I was so shocked at how different they all are from one another! You would think I was a gemini!!! A fun bio, a spicy rom com, a heartfelt literary novel…I’ve included the photo here so you can

I am the least swifty person I know and even I am intrigued by the Life of a Showgirl album. I am leaning right into that this month with my recommendations! Here are my life of a showgirl adjacent reads!!!!  I LOVED The One and Only Dolly Jamieson. I adore Lisa Ireland novels and this

Happy September friends and happy Spring! I love this time of year, you can feel the longer days and the warmth in the air! I’ve just spent the weekend sitting on the balcony reading and I just had the best time! No hat, no jumper..perfect reading conditions! Can you believe here we are in September

I  have just come back from holidays with a new found appreciation for Australia.  Not really, I love our country, I love spending time in nature, I love where we live, I love reading Australian books, eating Australian produce…I love Australia, it’s just I have fallen back in love with it. We went to Melbourne

I feel its time for my OMG halfway through 2025/ Where is this year going post…but honestly can you believe it?!? Winter solstice done? Kirrawaee Library open? These events all felt so far away…so of course that got me thinking about time and gosh from there it was only a hop and skip away from

Hasn’t it just been so cold! And the rain!!! I hope you have found the sleeping so easy, and the weather just making for more reading time! I know I have been reading lots and hot chocolate has never tasted so good!  I thought this month I would go with cold reads; it is so

Oh my goodness, how are we here in December 2024! What a year!  I hope you are just easing in to the festive season, that work is now winding down, that festive reading winding up..that regardless of the busyness you can take some time and roam the library aisles..I love that feeling!!! This month I

Village October  I knew I was looking forward to The Fallen Woman by Fiona McIntosh, but it superseded my expectations. I love this novel.  I’ve been a fan of Fiona McIntosh’s since 2013 when I happened upon The Lavender Keeper. I’ve always been a historical fiction reader, but the people! The romance! The locations!! She