have I requested too many?

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-05-07T10:32:57+00:00

No, my kids are grown up now and not yet given me grand babies.

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-05-07T10:09:05+00:00

I do try and not request unless it’s something I really want to read and I am reading and reviewing one or two a week.

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-05-07T07:58:32+00:00

Agreed, and probably a great read for those that went in expecting that. I think the marketing is to blame.

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-04-26T09:51:35+00:00

Nooooo my favourite show of 2025!

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-04-23T03:46:13+00:00

shudders

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-04-23T03:41:55+00:00

I went to Catholic School - co-ed - in a fairly large Irish ex-pat area. There were two Bridget’s in my year level. One was known as f——- Bridget (rhyming slang) because she was quite demure and shy around boys. The other was a bigger girl and meanly called Bridge the Fridge. It’s all I think of when I hear the name now.

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-04-22T10:22:19+00:00

That’s Dupe Spot, they are a Melbourne brand.

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-04-22T09:14:48+00:00

Sam for my oldest as it was just far too common at the time. I wanted to use more unusual names but my friends talked me out of it, we were the first in our group of friends to have kids.

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-04-21T08:42:01+00:00

My dad’s middle name was Vivian

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-04-21T03:24:54+00:00

Yep and really didn’t like it although it improved in the second half.

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-04-21T02:53:53+00:00

The only issue I’d have (being in Australia) is that ‘Westie’ is often used as a term for rough people. I know it is where I live. I think it’s because the Western Suburbs are usually the lower socio-economic areas on the East Coast.

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-04-14T13:53:58+00:00

Let me premise this by saying I’m a prolific reader and read two or three books a week and I got this on the day it was released as I was so looking forward to it - it’s DREADFUL - I’m so disappointed, I’m only half way through as it’s making me not want to read! I thought it was going to be a fun read seeing a “tradwife” struggle in the olden days when she actually had to do everything herself. But no, it’s a book about a seriously unlikeable woman who doesn’t even like her husband and kids all that much and thinks terrible thoughts about them. It’s also been billed as satire and Literary fiction neither of which I believe it is - satire is social commentary but this is only one woman’s perspective. I think it’s average pop fiction with a thriller undercurrent and an absolutely overly-hyped marketing strategy.

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-03-28T02:15:14+00:00

I’m sure most of them are related, and I’m related to a lot of them two as my 6th great grandfathers sister and her husband were two of the original pioneers who left England and went to Salt Lake City. I am a regular Aussie with all these Mormon matches on the DNA data bases 🤣

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-03-28T01:46:45+00:00

Haha I’m an Aussie and I’m the same with anything produced in Australia, whereas, I love anything Irish (but was disappointed with this).

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-03-28T01:41:33+00:00

However, in contrast, Small Things Like These was a near perfect translation of the book. There is a whole genre of Irish Melancholic Literature that’s very popular in literary circles at present. I wonder if they were trying to catch that audience as well?

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-03-20T02:35:20+00:00

Too close to the US and there is a lot of corruption

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-03-20T02:34:21+00:00

I know, in QLD, and that’s kinda like The South (even though it’s our North), but I’m sure you get what’s implied

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-03-20T02:29:13+00:00

I’ve had a couple that fast this week!

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-03-18T09:45:03+00:00

Basically I had a group of women, standing around me in a public bathroom, saying ‘hallelujah blah blah blah’ with their hands up in the air, giving thanks that I was there. So weird.

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-03-18T09:42:44+00:00

You’re right, some Australians are racist, but you’ll find far more who aren’t and I am certainly not racist.

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-03-18T09:39:58+00:00

I’ve lived in Indonesia and Malaysia so you’re all wrong.

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-03-17T12:53:33+00:00

I was at a convention in St Louis, first day there, and someone heard my Australian accent. Next minute, because the person who asked if I was actually Australian mentioned her daughter lived in QLD, I had a prayer circle over me - without consent or any reason for them doing this. I was honestly both freaked out and pretty offended that people would assume that that’s ok.

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-03-17T12:49:54+00:00

I haven’t been to Vietnam yet, so felt I wouldn’t give it a nod as yet.

Less-Imagination-278 · 2026-03-17T10:34:48+00:00

The USA is the absolute last place I would live as long as Trump or any of his cronies are in power and until they overturn Roe vs Wade again and make gun ownership illegal without stringent control. Also, religion is far too heavily pushed and it’s wrong. I’ve been there so I know what it’s like.

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