Time is short tonight as my downsizing move has hit a little roadblock. In a nutshell, our furniture and some of our goods are sitting on a truck awaiting transfer to our new apartment where the lift went out of service the same time that the truck was being loaded. That was last Thursday. We … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (4), Impatient readers

My second post in this Trove Treasures subseries shared some arguments against novel reading. I do have a pro-novel-reading post, but today I thought I'd go a bit lighter - I think it's lighter! - and some of the ideas I came across discussing the impact of novel reading on health. Novel-reading disease I found … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (3), Novel reading and health

Recently, I started a new Monday Musings sub-series, Trove Treasures. That first post concluded on a rear-admiral reading novels while waiting for a court martial, and I said that my next post "might be one on novel reading and men". I still plan to do that, but I've decided to first share some of the … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (2), Anti novel reading

During my Trove searches for specific topics, I come across - serendipitously - other articles that are interesting and worth sharing. So, I have decided to create an occasional sub-series called Trove Treasures. My first group comprises some random little pieces, particularly jokes, that I've come across about reading novels. Humorous snippets The interesting thing … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (1), Reading novels