I'm reading....
After at least eighteen months of thinking I should read this book everytime I saw it mentioned, I finally started reading The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. At this point, I am wondering why I waited so long! I am really enjoying italot.
I finished listening to Working Class Boy by Jimmy Barnes. Our read on a theme bookclub theme this month is autobiography or biography. I had this already in my Audible library so this was a good chance to listen to it.
Jimmy Barnes is an Aussie rock legend. I did know that his childhood was brutal as I had heard him speak at the stage show of this book. For me, it was interesting because I spent my formative years in a suburb maybe 15km closer to the city than Elizabeth where Jimmy misspent his youth. Elizabeth was a place that we usually avoided because it was known to be rough, but there were plenty of other places that were mentioned during this book that I was familiar with. My goodness his childhood was more than brutal. It was all about the fights and the drinking and in later years, the girls and the drugs.
I'm watching...
We started watching Andor, the latest series set in the Star Wars universe. My husband is a big Star Wars fan so we do tend to watch all of these series. The first couple of episodes were a bit slow but the third episode was good so we will keep watching!
We also finished watching Around the World in 80 Days and we are still watching episodes of Welcome to Wrexham which is a lot of fun and One Piece with my son.There's more than a thousand episodes of One Piece and we are up to about 53 so I guess we are going to be watching it for a while.
We also watched a new documentary called documentary about the 1983 America's Cup win by Australia II. It was fascinating to watch. I was also surprised at how involved I felt given that it happened so long ago and I knew who won!
Life
We had two public holidays last week. The first was on Thursday for the National Day of Mourning in respect of Queen Elizabeth II. The second was on Friday which is for Grand Final Eve for the AFL Grand Final. So we had a 4 day weekend and yet I still wasn't ready for today to be Monday.
We spent Thursday afternoon at the National Gallery of Victoria seeing their current major exhibition which is called The Picasso Century. Obviously this features plenty of Picasso works, but it also features a lot of his friends and colleagues. It was a really interesting exhibition.
After that we went to another art exhibition featuring the works of Bruce Monroe. We had seen the amazing Field of Lights when we went to Uluru last years so it was good to see more of his work.
Other than that, we are getting ready for the house sale of the old house, so we needed to get going on cleaning out the shed which is all that is left to do. I say all that is left to do. We filled one skip already and we still need another one I think!
Busy times.
I loved Cold Chisel - lived in Oz in 1981 and played East constantly. I need to read this bio. Wow. Thanks for posting. My update is here: http://www.lyndonperrywriter.com/2022/09/book-date-monday-7.html
ReplyDeleteThis part is his childhood. There is also a follow up book called Working Class Man which talks about the Cold Chisel years.
DeleteSounds like you are keeping very busy. Enjoy this week too. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteWay too busy! Will settle down soon I am sure
DeleteEnjoy your books!
ReplyDeleteI hope I do!
DeleteCrumbs I am terrified about moving when we finally do it in a few years. We have so much stuff! And books and books ... Would love to see the field of lights one day.
ReplyDeleteThe Field of Lights was good Sherry! As was the whole Uluru experience.
DeleteI still need to read House in Cerulean Sea, too! We're watching all the new Star Trek shows -- into Strange New Worlds now after finishing both ST Discovery and Picard over the summer. I'm a little tired of ST, actually. Thank goodness I don't have to watch all the Star Wars series, too! :D
ReplyDelete(Oops, didn't mean to be anonymous!) I still need to read House in Cerulean Sea, too! We're watching all the new Star Trek shows -- into Strange New Worlds now after finishing both ST Discovery and Picard over the summer. I'm a little tired of ST, actually. Thank goodness I don't have to watch all the Star Wars series, too! :D
ReplyDeleteWe've watched Picard but I haven't watched ST Discovery or Strange New Worlds. Maybe after Andor.
DeleteThis book sounds good. I've tagged at the library.
ReplyDeleteHope you get to read it Jackie!
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