Reading list

Recently I encountered something I haven't had to deal with in quite some time.   It's called FREE TIME.  As in not having to work, not having to travel, not having to be somewhere and I love it.  Justin's work roster has changed so that he is working four days on/four days off and so inevitably some of those days he is working will be days that I have off.  A work colleague asked me today how I was finding it and I had to admit that I have a guilty pleasure in being able wedge myself into the couch and read for hours at a time.  Don't get me wrong, of course I love Justin being there more than being alone (if I didn't then we would have a problem here) but the thought of hours stretching out in front of me and a good book (and quite possibly multiple cups of tea) is quite a solitary but favourite pastime of mine.
The book I have just finished: A Fortunate Life - A.B. Facey.  A fantastic book (and a third time read for me) about a young man growing up in Australia in the early 1900s.  This book talks about places I know and is a very good example of the Aussie battler spirit. 
The book I am halfway through: Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden.  Another book I have already read once before but rediscovered it on my bookshelf and thought it was so good it deserved another round.  I am not disappointed.  Fabulous story telling and use of language.
The book I will read next: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson - because my cousin Lily reminded me how cool this book is. A classic.  I can't believe this book was written in the seventies, it could have been a new release, it just doesn't seem to date.
And while I am on my soapbox I would like to make it know that i am vehemently against books being turned into movies and am yet to find one that comes even close to living up to the print version!

Unrelated but seeing as I haven't added a photo of us to this blog recently - here is one of us taken at the wedding we recently went to... the height difference between us isn't really that great! He was standing on a higher step! :-)