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#whartonbuddyread - how committed are you? 🙂 Here‘s the plan for Wharton‘s notoriously unrevealing autobiography. We‘ll learn what she wants us to learn about her parents and Henry James, etc - I think.

Are you in?

Plan:
Nov 22 chapter I-V Friendship and Travels
Nov 29 chapter VI-VIII Henry James
Dec 6 chapter IX-XI Paris
Dec 13 chapter XII-XIV And After

#WDNCW @dabbe
I do not care that this Saturday, the clock goes back one hour. I've been doing this for 69 years. I do not care that the media brings news stories of how dangerous it is after this fallback happens. Please, don't talk about it because the government will never change it. Maybe we should just live with it. It's not that bad, and I just don't care.

This is a very enjoyable account of what sounds like an absolute mad time in the writer's life. She describes, with charm and good humour, her attempts to build a new life in Prague; working for a eccentric (to put it politely) hotel owner; making friends in the expat and synagogue communities; briefly being something of a literary star....

Last Thursday I couldn‘t get to work as the trains were down. It‘s never happened in my 20 years at my current job. I made it a treat myself day. First stop was the local Little Free Library. I also visited St Paul‘s Thrift Shop Stockton and Starter Stories, the yummy sourdough bakery there where I spent $60 on treats! My tummy was sore the next day after dieting for so long for my showgirl performance. It was a shame it was windy and rainy.

Spotify would struggle to find an artist I was less interested in seeing tbh.

I‘m posting this here because my Mum has already endured my rant about How To Make Gravy coming 9th in the recent TripleJ Hottest Australian 100 of all time.

Next up

One of my favourites #musician
#charactercharm
@eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Autumn Comfort Swap is in the mail @thebacklistbook

Everytime I come across a mention of Chopper, I flash back to my most terrifying library enquiry which started with a man asking if we had Chopper on DVD and then, unprompted, while I was looking it up on the catalogue, added that he‘d been in Pentridge Prison at the same time as Chopper. Different cell block though.

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