This week....

 I'm reading

After finishing reading The Italian Island Secret by Victoria Springfield (my review here) I then moved onto The Paris Chapter by Victoria Walters. I reviewed that book last week too which you can read here.

I am now reading Paris Bookshop for the Brokenhearted by Victoria, I mean Rebecca Raisin.

Do you see the themes here? I have already read three books this year by authors whose first name is Victoria, and the book I am reading now is my third book with the Paris in the title. I have started to do a visual count for all the books I read this year set in Paris. We will see where I end up!

Here's the current count of completed books:

I'm watching

I went and visited a friend of mine who spent a couple of years living in Japan. We started watching a Japanese show called The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House which is about a young woman who wants to become a geisha, but she doesn't make the grade and ends up becoming the cook for the geishas instead. I will finish the series in due course.

Robert and I watched the new Cunk on Life. It's very silly, but it is a lot of fun!

Here's the trailer

Life

I have so much to talk about this week! So many photos!

I mentioned above that I went and visited a friend who lives in a small town called Yarrawonga which is about 3.5 hours from Melbourne. She moved up there to retire around 3 years ago and we have been up a couple of times, but this time I went up there by myself as Robert had to work. 

We spent most of the time just chilling, chatting and taking dips in the pool, particularly on the really hot day. We did go for a truly delicious lunch at a winery in a town about 45 minutes away.

I caught the train back to Melbourne but she drove me to the station and along the we stopped at a few silos and this gorgeous mural in a tiny church. Most of them were ones that I have seen previously, but there were two that were new to me, and a couple of other interesting stops as well.

On Friday night we went to the Yayoi Kusama exhibition which is on at the National Gallery of Victoria. The exhibition was in two parts. We weren't blown away by the first part, but the second half was fantastic! We loved the immersion rooms and the pumpkins and polka dots. I might even go and see the second half again!

And then we visited down to Geelong for the Festival of Sails. It was a lovely way to spend the day! And we got to see the Roulettes which was pretty cool too!

And there was a bonus silo as well!

Posts from the last week

Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Most Recent Additions to my Kindle

Blog Tour: Something in the Air by Helen Rolfe
Blog Tour: An Italian Island Secret by Victoria Springfield

Blog Tour: The Paris Chapter by Victoria Walters

Cook the Books: A Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

Sunday Salon: Spell the Month in Books - January


I've linked this post to It's Monday, what are you reading? as hosted by Book Date and Sunday Salon hosted at Readerbuzz