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  • Sister
    Sister Member Posts: 4,960 ✭
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    I would like to read the Sales one.  I've been reading the avocado book and while some of it is quite disturbing, other parts have had me crying with laughter - after all, I was there and remember it all!
  • Romla
    Romla Member Posts: 2,092 ✭
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    You might be able to get the Sales book from state library online . I’ve been readin Laura Tingle’s Quartrely Essay on 
    Leadership which is brilliant. Have been a bit of political junkie since 2016 when Trump was elected.
  • Sister
    Sister Member Posts: 4,960 ✭
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    I'm going to buy it for the school library, @Romla!
  • Sister
    Sister Member Posts: 4,960 ✭
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    I'm just about to start Marcus Zusak's new one, Bridge of Clay.  I wanted to go to hear him talk about it (now sold out) but it's a couple of hours after my 12 month review appointment with the surgeon.  Not that I'm thinking it will be anything bad but it seemed like tempting fate.  Anyone else that silly?
  • kmakm
    kmakm Member Posts: 7,974 ✭
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    @Sister Now when I have 'big' days like that I leave the time afterwards empty. I make a deliberate choice to then examine myself to see precisely what I want to do. Straight home, a bar, a café, a movie, a friend's place? The decision is always made in the moment and so is exactly what I need at that time. K xox
  • Annie C
    Annie C Member Posts: 849 ✭
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    @Sister
    The months of June (scans) and December (clinic checkups) are off limits for planning anything. If December checkup is fine then I will plan on going somewhere from January to May. If June scan is fine then August to November. Silly I know however I will not jinks anything. My cancer was found 6 weeks before we were due to go on an escorted 19 day tour of NZ.  I changed the trip dates 3 times from May, to November and finally September to suit others. That's what you get for being "too nice" and trying to please everyone. Never again!
  • Sister
    Sister Member Posts: 4,960 ✭
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    Yes, just couldn't do it 

    That sounds wonderful @Zoffiel...something to aspire to?
  • kmakm
    kmakm Member Posts: 7,974 ✭
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    I agree @Sister! I read what @Zoffiel wrote to check that she wasn't aspiring to that description!

    There's a lovely installation in a corner of Perth's CBD where on the site of the old lock-up, they've put down pavers with details from the charge sheets on them. Some are sad but many are very entertaining!








  • Annie C
    Annie C Member Posts: 849 ✭
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    @kmakm
    Oh to have such a notorious character to be inscribed in stone. I am just imagining what my mother would say "What would the neighbours think?"
  • Sister
    Sister Member Posts: 4,960 ✭
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    Beautiful - I wonder where Mr Haley got his trousers?
  • Romla
    Romla Member Posts: 2,092 ✭
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    If you are interested in Australian political history this is being published this week and undoubtedly will be a cracker of a read.


    https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/john-howard-and-the-politics-of-division-kerry-o-brien-looks-back-20181107-p50emt.html
  • Sweetpetal
    Sweetpetal Member Posts: 29 ✭
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    I know they are a little smutty but I'm reading Laurell K Hamilton Anita Blade Vampire Hunter Series.  I just wanted something easy and enjoyable for awhile.
  • ~Millie~
    ~Millie~ Member Posts: 61 ✭
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    I just finished "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens. Highly recommend it. Lovely, tender, unique story. xx
  • wendy55
    wendy55 Member Posts: 774 ✭
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    I am not reading an y books at present, however this morning whilst reading the online version of our newspaper here in sa, I found this article published in the Sydney Morning Herald, not computer savvy enough to put it up but if anyone wants to read it the  article is called Life on the medical front line:When there's only a last goodbye, its by a lady called Sandy Macken, she is a paramedic - I warn you though break out the tissues!, its the most beautiful thing I can honestly say I have read for a while, it reminded me of the last day I spent with my father -
    wendy55

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