Jen
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Usually somewhere else, reading a book.
Morning Womble! I’m getting stuck into How To End A Story by Helen Garner and it is simply incredible. Her collected diaries from 1978 to 1998. Each entry a perfect wee story in some way. Navigating creativity, art, family life, friendships, keen observation of the world around her and of herself.
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Morning Womble! I’m getting stuck into How To End A Story by Helen Garner and it is simply incredible. Her collected diaries from 1978 to 1998. Each entry a perfect wee story in some way. Navigating creativity, art, family life, friendships, keen observation of the world around her and of herself.
Then you’re in for a fabulous time 😊 Enjoy!
November 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Then you’re in for a fabulous time 😊 Enjoy!
You’d think we (the kids in the car) would grow to resent the repetition but it was just that good and you heard new things in it each time.
November 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
You’d think we (the kids in the car) would grow to resent the repetition but it was just that good and you heard new things in it each time.
This is what we listened to on long family car journeys every year, for years. A beautiful production, with so many standout moments. That version of ‘drums from the deep’ is something else. You are in the room with them as the horror of the trap dawns. And the theme tune… Phenomenal.
November 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This is what we listened to on long family car journeys every year, for years. A beautiful production, with so many standout moments. That version of ‘drums from the deep’ is something else. You are in the room with them as the horror of the trap dawns. And the theme tune… Phenomenal.
I had this poster, back in the teen years. Lovely to see it again (wouldn’t say the same about much else from the teen years tbh!)
November 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I had this poster, back in the teen years. Lovely to see it again (wouldn’t say the same about much else from the teen years tbh!)
Ooh - Bright, I Burn by Molly Aitken was brilliant too.
November 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Ooh - Bright, I Burn by Molly Aitken was brilliant too.
Doppleganger by Naomi Klein is very good. Bernardine Evaristo’s Manifesto is also a great read. Fiction wise, how about Elizabeth Taylor? Angel or The Soul of Kindness are both witty and observant character studies. Home, Sweet Home is an excellent short story collection by Wendy Erskine.
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Doppleganger by Naomi Klein is very good. Bernardine Evaristo’s Manifesto is also a great read. Fiction wise, how about Elizabeth Taylor? Angel or The Soul of Kindness are both witty and observant character studies. Home, Sweet Home is an excellent short story collection by Wendy Erskine.
It really lingers, doesn’t it? Absolute masterclass in storytelling. The audiobook narrator has the right voice too, so it’s adding extra texture this time around.
November 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
It really lingers, doesn’t it? Absolute masterclass in storytelling. The audiobook narrator has the right voice too, so it’s adding extra texture this time around.
Morning Womble. Getting started on Sky Full Of Elephants by Cebo Campbell. Going to be listening to The Fisherman by John Langan on my wanderings. Read it a couple of years ago and it is calling to me again (tho hopefully the Fisherman isn’t - I will cross streams with extreme caution).
November 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Morning Womble. Getting started on Sky Full Of Elephants by Cebo Campbell. Going to be listening to The Fisherman by John Langan on my wanderings. Read it a couple of years ago and it is calling to me again (tho hopefully the Fisherman isn’t - I will cross streams with extreme caution).
Morning Womble! Hope you’re wrapped up cosy and warm on this drizzly day. I’m reading The Thousand And One Ghosts by Alexandre Dumas.
October 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Morning Womble! Hope you’re wrapped up cosy and warm on this drizzly day. I’m reading The Thousand And One Ghosts by Alexandre Dumas.
Life is honestly too short and your next enjoyable read is out there.
October 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Life is honestly too short and your next enjoyable read is out there.
Morning Womble! Reading The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor (not that one, the other one) and listening to It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest.
September 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Morning Womble! Reading The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor (not that one, the other one) and listening to It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest.
I do not think that ‘lock in’ means what they think it means.
September 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I do not think that ‘lock in’ means what they think it means.
Morning Womble! Getting stuck into Hemlock and Silver by T Kingfisher and still enjoying the audio of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones.
August 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Morning Womble! Getting stuck into Hemlock and Silver by T Kingfisher and still enjoying the audio of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones.
Good question. I think it must have been absorbed into the flats built there after the school closed. But couldn’t tell you for sure. (Chapel sounds a bit grand. It was a just another room, really.)
August 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Good question. I think it must have been absorbed into the flats built there after the school closed. But couldn’t tell you for sure. (Chapel sounds a bit grand. It was a just another room, really.)
I went to that school and remember the window well. It was in the chapel, which wasn’t in the building that became the restaurant but was elsewhere in the complex of buildings that made up the school.
August 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I went to that school and remember the window well. It was in the chapel, which wasn’t in the building that became the restaurant but was elsewhere in the complex of buildings that made up the school.
Congratulations on all those lovely milestones. Hope you have some fab celebrations x
August 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Congratulations on all those lovely milestones. Hope you have some fab celebrations x
Morning Womble! Enjoying a re-read of The Wood Wife by Terri Windling. Listening to The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones.
August 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Morning Womble! Enjoying a re-read of The Wood Wife by Terri Windling. Listening to The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones.
Entirely. And it’s the same pattern as previously.
August 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Entirely. And it’s the same pattern as previously.
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Very enjoyable but then he alway hits the mark. Still thinking about the spiders from The Children Of Time series.
August 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Very enjoyable but then he alway hits the mark. Still thinking about the spiders from The Children Of Time series.
Morning Womble! Hope you have a lovely holiday.
About to start Untold Lessons by Maddalena Vaglio Tanet. Listening to The Names by Florence Knapp.
About to start Untold Lessons by Maddalena Vaglio Tanet. Listening to The Names by Florence Knapp.
August 3, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Morning Womble! Hope you have a lovely holiday.
About to start Untold Lessons by Maddalena Vaglio Tanet. Listening to The Names by Florence Knapp.
About to start Untold Lessons by Maddalena Vaglio Tanet. Listening to The Names by Florence Knapp.
Congrats Greg! Much deserved. ‘Be undeniable’ is great advice too.
July 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Congrats Greg! Much deserved. ‘Be undeniable’ is great advice too.
Good morning, Womble! Reading Human Rites by Juno Dawson and listening to The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce on my travels. Nibbling away at The Count of Monte Cristo over the summer. All enjoyable for different reasons 😊
July 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Good morning, Womble! Reading Human Rites by Juno Dawson and listening to The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce on my travels. Nibbling away at The Count of Monte Cristo over the summer. All enjoyable for different reasons 😊
Morning Womble! Reading From Here To The Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keogh. Going to be listening to The Incandescent by Emily Tesh.
July 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Morning Womble! Reading From Here To The Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keogh. Going to be listening to The Incandescent by Emily Tesh.