Living a quiet life
This week our thoughts turn to Christmas. I chat with Scottie about what I think are the best Christmas decorations. (Hint, it’s not about what the house looks like.)
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This week there is no chat with Scottie, but I chat with you about the importance of community. Yes, even for introverts like me.
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Song Space and Creative Space are two groups that run from St Luke’s Taroona.
National Novel Writing Month is over for this year but it is a whole lot of fun.
This podcast Scottie and I talk about beauty and then I have a chat about things I’ve found beautiful lately.
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‘Have nothing in your houses that you don’t know to be beautiful or believe to be useful,’ William Morris.
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEGOihjqO9w
This episode, Scottie and I talk about starting over in housework, writing, exercise and those sorts of things. And starting over in life – forgiveness.
I discussed Viktor Frankl (Man’s Search for Meaning) and his ‘Why’ and ‘How’, and Eve Rodsky and her Unicorn Space.
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In this episode, Scottie and I talk about household chores. We discuss doing the whole chore, not just the surface work and also being aware and grateful for the work that others do.
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This week, Scottie and I talk about reading. And I can’t believe how much I have to say about it.
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Spring Festival St Luke’s Taroona
Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival
My book suggestions
Mystery: Anything by Dorothy Sayers. Or my own Deadly Miss series available at rjamos.com. Or Donna Leon, her stuff is set in Venice and is great. And Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club. And Anne Cleaves. And I could go on …
Urban Fantasy: The City Between series by WR Gingell
Science Fiction: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (absurd but excellent), and if you like that, a new one called The Pitfalls of Being a Goddess by Eva Leppard.
Fantasy: The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien but for something lighter and easier, try the Greenwing and Dart series by Victoria Goddard.
Historical Romance: Anything by Georgette Heyer. Hilarious and light. And Jane Austen, of course: Pride and Prejudice, but also I love Sense and Sensibility and I think my favourite is Persuasion.
Romance: My Small Town Trouble is a romantic suspense – a bit of romance, a bit of mystery. I’m not a huge romance fan, but there are so many books out there. Romance is probably the biggest genre there is.
I love stunt memoir – books where the author tries things for a year and writes about it. The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs and A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans were both quite a lot of fun. And I love Deric Longden’s writing especially Lost for Words.
Comedy: Can’t go past The Theatrical Tapes of Leonard Thynn by Adrian Plass. I cry laughing every time I read it.
Literary fiction: I love the My Friend series by Jane Duncan. And the book I love most of all is The Rosemary Tree by Elizabeth Goudge.
