Category: Books
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January 2025 Books
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen From Goodreads: We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did this simple invention come from? How did they revolutionise our lives, and why are they such powerful tools for creativity? And how can using a notebook help you change the way you think?…
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September to December 2024 Books
I’ve got quite behind with my book posts, but October (due to travel) and November (due to NaBloPoMo) were low-reading months for me, so I’m going to do one post for the last four months of the year. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley From Goodreads: In the near future, a civil servant is…
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August 2024 Books
It’s nearly the end of November, and I’m just getting around to reviewing the books I read in August. Time Shelter – Georgo Gosdopinov From Goodreads: In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a ‘clinic for the past’ that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute…
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July 2024 Books
In August I posted about some of my renewal adjacent reading in July. It’s now almost the end of September, and I’m just now getting round to posting about the rest of July’s books. Better late than never I guess? Fourth Wing – Rebecca Yarros This is a fantasy romance. It’s not that original—love triangle…
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Renewal Adjacent Reading in July
This post includes a lot of prayer and God talk. If that’s not your thing, you might want to skip this. I’m a fair way into my year of renewal and am keen to get more forward movement in the spiritual area of my life. With this in mind, I picked up several books on…
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June 2024 Books
The Paris Apartment – Lucy Foley I’m getting in some Paris-themed reading before I head there in September. Lucy travels to Paris to stay with her brother in a fancy apartment block, but when she arrives, he is nowhere to be found. The apartments are occupied by an collection of pretty awful people who all…
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May 2024 Books
So it is almost July and I’m just getting round to reviewing the books I read in May. Too Much Lip – Melissa Lucashenko Winner of the 2019 Miles Franklin Award. Kerry Salter, an aboriginal woman, comes home from Queensland to her family in northern NSW on a stolen motorbike, thinking it will be a…
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Living the sabbath: discovering the rhythms of rest and delight by norman wirzba
I normally just do a quick review of the books I read at the end of each month but “Living the Sabbath” had many points of intersection with some of the emphases I wanted my year of renewal to have. So, for my own benefit, I’ve decided to do a more in-depth summary. In this…
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Good Things Friday
This week, I had a laze around and eat weekend at Noosa, with lots of good food and good views. G had a solid run in the Noosa half-marathon in preparation for the Gold Coast Marathon in July. He’s nursing an Achilles injury, and we’re hoping it holds up until then so he can get…
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April 2024 Books
King: The Life of Martin Luther King – Jonathan Eig This was an excellent biography. Admittedly, not being American, I only knew the bare bones about MLK, but this certainly gave me a better picture of him and his radical gospel-centred vision. His understanding of the captivity and diminishment of the oppressed and the oppressors…