Current Reading CANCER WARD by SOLZHENITSYN

 He won the Nobel Prize in1970

 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Cancer Ward is a great book, giving so much insight into the times in which he lived. Also the hardships they underwent through the power of the police state.

A Choir of Singing Feijoas

 

One of our Wonky Box photos (we help save vegetable wastage)

              Helping save the planet, one carrot at a time...
 

Photo Taken on a Visit to Taupo recently.

                                           There was something about this photo ..... 

FOR MURDER PRESS 3 (First Book in Series to be followed by 3 more - watch this space)

Author: P.M.A. Hayes

Publisher: Cranthorpe Millner Publishers

No of Pages: 252

Book Type: eBook/paper back

Genre: Crime Fiction

Sub-Genres:Private Investigator

Series Name: Benedict Aberthorp Mystery

No in Series: 1

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood (Comments)

 An inspiring story about a woman, atheist, at bedrock in her life, who goes to live in an abbey with a group of nuns. It is situated in a barren place, in Australia. Themes of forgiveness, grief and survival, thread their way through this amazing story.

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante (a brief review)

My thoughts on The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante. The story of a young woman growing into adulthood, describes how she discovered the way her parents lied all the time. Her meeting with Aunt Vittoria, (the hated aunt) and the knowledge of "the bracelet" her aunt had left her as a baby, seemed to symbolise how she discovered the layers of lies behind it. "The bracelet" became the object, sought after, but for the wrong reasons. It embodied the lies of the adults in her life and gradually became the epitome of lies, as if it was cursed and those who wore it were also cursed, because of the way it came into the hands of her aunt in the first place. A great story for in-depth character portrayal and how the Lying Life of Adults also became part of her own psyche, although at least she was aware of what was happening.