✨Hump day treat✨ @pahendo’s away for work this week, and normally I’d take the opportunity to get some extra writing done once Frankie’s asleep. But this year has already served up multiple colds, travel, big life changes and The Terrible Twos on top of all the business-as-usual stuff, plus Frankie’s back to two-hour put downs, plus it’s only February, plus.. I TIRED. Bring on the chocolate, wine and reality TV please 🥰🙌🏻
Rare pic of me instead of a book because IT MY BIRFDAY!! 🥳🎉🥳
And if you can’t celebrate yourself on your b’day, when can you? @the_litedit tagged me in this bookish questionnaire that’s been doing the rounds and it looks fun! Feel free to play along 😁
📚FIRST BOOK (that you remember): Probably Grug or Meg and Mog 📚BEST BOOK: it’s a dead tie between The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and Circe by Madeline Miller
📚MOST-READ AUTHOR: R.L. Stine. as a kid I read Goosebumps, Fear Street, Fear Street Sagas and his stand-alones. As an adult, Patricia Highsmith
MOST SURPRISING BOOK: The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert. I didn’t know she wrote fiction and had no time for Eat, Pray, Love, but after reading TSOAT on a friend’s recommendation, she’s become one of my favourite authors
📚COMFORT BOOK: Anything murder-y
📚NEXT BOOK: Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar (which I have been meaning to read for AGES)
I took Kiley Reid’s SUCH A FUN AGE away with us to NSW a few weeks ago and sped through it during Frankie’s one nap of the trip and on the flight home. It’s a timely story of privilege, race and power... though perhaps not ideal escapist reading when travelling with a toddler as the two main characters are a little person’s babysitter and mum. It’s a sharp, pacey read and I enjoyed it, although I thought it maybe pulls its punches a little.
Thank you so much to @bloomsburypublishing for sending a copy my way 💙💗
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P.S. The biscuits are snickerdoodles, which I kept stumbling across on US baking blogs but had never seen here. Can confirm they are delish, like a cinnamon doughnut in a biscuit. Very easy to make too 😎
