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Only took a few photos around Clunes today, was too busy looking at old books. Such a lovely place, untouched by developers.
Booktown is on tomorrow, well worth the drive! I didn't buy all the books, there's still plenty there to choose from.
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New at my Patreon... Within the Tin Shed at the Clunes Booktown Festival, I interview well-known ABC TV presenter Heather Ewart about her new book based on the TV series Back Roads:
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That was an excellent visit to Clunes. Bought loads of old and new books, met some authors, also bought a couple little native plants to pop into pots. Lovely day for it, sunny and low twenties. Visited some garage sales as well!
Got home to relative harmony, still some hissing but minor stuff. Nothing broken or bleeding.
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We are at the Clunes Booktown Festival this weekend. I love the innovative book 'lucky dip' stalls each year. It is fun. (Internet is not great here so I couldn't attach the photo)
I am here in a bright red jacket with a bright brown material satchel on my shoulder for my books. Feel free to say hi!
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Today is a lovely day for a drive in the countryside to go to Booktown!
https://clunesbooktown.org.au/
The kittens and Supervisor have been told they're on their own and to behave. So far so good, only a bit of hissing happening.
#Reading #booktown #clunes #ClunesBookTown #books #author #writing #Australia #roadtrip
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Hey readers, Booktown in Clunes is on again this weekend! Well worth a nice drive in the countryside if you're in Vic/SA
https://clunesbooktown.org.au/
#Books #Reading #Roadtrip #Clunes #Booktown #ClunesBookTown #Book #Author #writing #writingcommunity #Australia #Melbourne #Victoria #SouthAustralia
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We have just returned home after a lovely weekend at the #ClunesBookTown festival. This morning I bought a book called 'Desert Anzacs the under-told story'. I cannot attest to the worth of the book but I really like the humility in the title. It is not 'untold' as so many authors claim for whatever they are writing, but 'undertold'.
I suppose that nearly all authors think that their history is undertold - that is the reason they feel compelled to write the book. But it is rare that a history is truly untold and often the 'untold' history book provides a lot of evidence that refutes the claim such as parliamentary debates, letters etc.
My complaint also applies to claims of the 'first', the 'biggest', etc. We suffer from the over-use of superlatives which diminishes the impact of these significant words.
'Amazing' deserves a special mention. Next time you feel tempted to use this word, perhaps stop and think about whether it is truly amazing. If you are using the word every day, that indicates that you may be either experiencing a life that no-one else has ever lived or you are diminishing the meaning of the word.
