Weekend Reading Roundup (26 June 2017)

[nanila]

Bon Monday, all. How did your weekend reading go? If you planned on anything specifically, did you read it?

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[fred_mouse]

I started reading 'The Drums Go Bang' which is an autobiography of authors Ruth Park* and D'arcy Niland** in the first few years of their marriage and writing careers. I'm loving the small details about where some of the ideas that became some of their famous works came from.

* Playing Beatie Bow; The Muddle-headed Wombat; The harp in the south
** The Shiralee

[nanila]

This sounds very cool indeed, especially if you're familiar with their works.

[fred_mouse]

Indeed! Ruth Park wrote one of my all time favourite children's series, being The Muddle-Headed Wombat (if you ever come across the chapter books, they are a fabulous introduction to the Australian Bush; there are children's picture books as well, but I didn't like them as much). So learning about where Mouse (probably for whom I was named), who was one of the three main characters, came from was just wonderful.

I kinda hoped that bits of family history would show up, but the years covered are too early for that to be the case.