I finally finished The Pea-Pickers a couple of days ago. I did enjoy it even though I made heavy weather of it. As the back cover blurb says, "What love of words, and skill with words, what love of Australian earth and Australian people ..."
However, since I have the attention span of a gnat and I am fatally attracted to lists, I have started along another path of literary meandering. This list was recently in The Australian, Best Books of 2011 as chosen by a variety of authors, critics and the like. And each has nominated a clutch of books. So it's going to add bulk and spice to my current reading. I've started "Be Near Me" as it was the first available book on the list, sitting on the shelves in the Maroochydore library. I guess I am more or less planning to alternate between the 2 lists.
The garden photos are for fun, taken today on New Year's Day 2012 in our garden.
I sat out here for a little while reading today.
The basil has been extraordinarily vigorous and we've have several batches of beautiful pesto from it.
Then there are the Bloodwood trees and the banana palms...
