Qbc-melbourne - Thought Bubbles
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Rode parts of Ireland recently, had to write it down to make sure I remember it.
Pt.1 getting there
Buses, the lovelorn, and a bit of hangover.
Ferney
Ferney, by James Long Jo suggested this one. She said it was a story with a bit of time travel. Fab! I love science fiction. Only, it wasn’t. It was more fantasy. What is the difference I hear you ask? Well, Science fiction usually involves a scientific idea, and/or an amazing technical feat or at least some sort of semi coherent explanation for the weird stuff that happens. In fantasy, weird…
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The Good People
Oh boy – months since my last. Oh well – not like anyone is waiting for them, or reading them. Kent, Hannah, The Good People Set in the late 19th century rural Ireland – where people lived a simple, yet harsh existence. Their labour was arduous, their earnings meagre, the climate mostly frigid. The country at that time is at the cusp of losing their traditional superstitions (Fairies) and…
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well, what can I say?
The clock is ticking, the cat is snoring - I should be in bed....but here I am. Just started this up so I could check out some nice little library posts...will probably delete this account in under a month. We'll see.
Where was I?
Been reading a cute little number that has had me in fits of giggles on my commute each morning. Sometimes I’ve had to snap the book shut just as a guffaw was about to erupt. Very frustrating, reading in public and having to contain myself like that.
Eats shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation. Truss, London : Profile Books, 2003.
2003! Where the hell was I when this was…
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Ithaka
How could I resist a title like that? So this is a side story to the Odyssey – it is set in Ithaca during the period Odysseus is trying to make his way home. The protagonist in this story is a young girl, who along with her twin brother, grows up as playmates with Telemachus, son of Odysseus and Penelope. As they reach adolescence their close bond is strained due mainly to the introduction into…
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Comparative Government
No! Do not panic. I’m not reviewing a book on government systems from my Year 11 Politics class.
I came across this little beauty today, as I was cataloguing my book collection. I opened it up for a quick look see, and found something quite telling about why I have not been here over the last three and a half years.
Get this. ‘The Façade democracy’
This is where “liberal democratic…
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Another month, another thought....(just the one)
Time seems to fly - it really does - we wonder where the days went, try to grasp what has happened? - but really, in actual fact it is not passing that quickly at all...I mean, it's only been a month since my last note..... about the time it took this moss to grow on the picnic table (took this pic a week ago...)
I swear it feels like its been at least three months
Hey babe, call for you ..
Hey babe, call for you ..
Today you had a call from a recruitment company. I was a little curt with the poor fellow . I felt bad about it. But not so bad that I would be endlessly kicking myself, the way I normally do when I feel I’ve been unkind.. But he got me by surprise. It was the last thing I expected. The first time they called (yesterday) I saw the 02 area code, and ignored it thinking it was another…
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