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View this post on Instagram #booksnapsunday #bookstagram My quick book snap for this week. The Shallows by Nicholas Carr, a book about how the internet is changing how… Read More

View this post on Instagram #booksnapsunday #bookstagram A bit late with posting #booksnapsunday, today's books are actually from G's collection and my maybe pile, books… Read More

View this post on Instagram #booksnapsunday #bookstagram who are your heroes? William Morris is one of mine, this week's book snap is News from Nowhere, Morris ' utopian… Read More

View this post on Instagram "Tell me, Muse, the story of that resourceful man who was driven to wander far and wide…" I think I have found paradise here at Seal ro… Read More

View this post on Instagram #BookSnapSunday #bookstagram This week's book snap is an old favourite, since I have been promoting the virtues of keeping journals on the bl… Read More

View this post on Instagram #BookSnapSunday #bookstagram Just getting in early with this week's book snap, since hallowen is fast approaching went with a bit of a dark… Read More

View this post on Instagram #BookSnapSunday #bookstagram Join me in #BookSnapSunday and leave me a comment and a link, either here or on the blog; gumtreesandgalaxies.co… Read More

I missed last weeks booksnap but back on track now, this week a steampunk theme and two books that feature the remarkable Ada Lovelace as a character. I have been really surprised to encoun… Read More

View this post on Instagram #BookSnapSunday #bookstagram This week's book snap, Adventure Caravaning with dogs: Dogs 'n' Dracula Jacqueline Lambert's excellent account o… Read More

View this post on Instagram #BookSnapSunday #bookstagram This week's post The Deep by Alex Rogers, taken on our weekend at Red Rock A post shared by Sharon Geitz (@shar… Read More

View this post on Instagram #BookSnapSunday , #bookstagram Another quick book snap this week, the beautiful The Boy the mole, the fox, the Horse by Charlie Mackesy… Read More

View this post on Instagram #BookSnapSunday #bookstagram #booksanddogs I had intended to post this last week but seeing the country burn made it hard to think about the… Read More

View this post on Instagram This week's book snap is dinosaur themed: The Dinosaur Artist by Paige Williams, a fascinating account of fossil smuggling informative, thril… Read More

View this post on Instagram For Australia Day it could only be this title for #BookSnapSunday, Stan Grant's extended essay on national identity and the controversy over o… Read More

View this post on Instagram This week's book snap is Terry Pratchett's Equal Rites. I am joining in Annemieke's readalong as part of the turtle recall discworld challenge… Read More

View this post on Instagram This week's #BookSnapSunday is something from my TBR seemed appropriate; Rain four walks in English weather, also the reason I did not get t… Read More

View this post on Instagram Today's #BookSnapSunday My current read: BeWildered Laura waters account of trekking the Te Araroa trail in New Zealand, a walk I think I c… Read More

A bit of a slow blogging week but here is a quick #BookSnapSunday will be back to normally blogging and posting this week. View this post on Instagram A quick book sn… Read More

View this post on Instagram #BookSnapSunday Finding sisu in the forest at Queen Mary falls this weekend, where do you find sisu? Sisu my new favorite word, courage, st… Read More

This weeks Book snap is a classic of nature fiction Mary Webb’s Gone to Earth. A novel loved by my daughter, who first read it in the most romantic of settings; sitting in the upstair… Read More

View this post on Instagram #BookSnapSunday I picked up the Bercow biog from my favourite bookshop and grabbed a couple of postcards promoting the #DymocksReadingChallen… Read More

View this post on Instagram #BookSnapSunday I grabbed a copy of Daniel Defoe's A journal of the plague year, from the uni library, might make for interesting reading i… Read More

View this post on Instagram #BookSnapSunday #bookstagram Just a quick book snap this week; John Lewis-Stempel is my favourite British nature writer loved Meadoland so muc… Read More

View this post on Instagram #BookSnapSunday #bookstagram This week's book snap is Qing Li's Into the Forest. Li is one of the world's leading researchers into the benef… Read More

View this post on Instagram Some magic for this week's #BookSnapSunday and while there is a book; Arthur Conan Doyle's The coming of the fairies, mostly I just wanted to… Read More

View this post on Instagram #booksanddogs #BookSnapSunday #bookstagram this week's booksnapsunday is Bleak House with my book buddy Ada. Dipping back into an old classi… Read More

It has been an absolutely appalling week in regards to blogging, not only have I been failing to post, I have been really slack about checking in and reading other blogs, something I normall… Read More

#BookSnapSunday is a weekly bookish Instagram meme hosted here at Gum trees and Galaxies.com, if you would like to join in please feel free to leave a link to your post in the comments below… Read More

View this post on Instagram Lazy #BookSnapSunday Common Ground by Rob Cowen a stunningly beautiful read, a lyrical exploration of a piece of common ground in Yorkshire… Read More

“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker&rsqu… Read More

View this post on Instagram This week's #BookSnapSunday is Lawrence Wright's prescient pandemic thriller The End of October, just started reading and loving it. #Booksan… Read More

Finally some quiet time. Time to catch up on reading blogs and books, writing posts if I am lucky. Even missed #BookSnapSunday last week. This week I am afraid it is a pretty unimaginativ… Read More

View this post on Instagram This week's #BookSnapSunday is The penguin book of mermaids, a book that sits on my bedside for dipping into when between more substantial re… Read More

Just a bit late posting book snap this Sunday, busy day. I got the picture up on Instagram early but I have had to wait until now to get it onto the blog. Book Snap Sunday is the one regul… Read More

Wow weekends get away from me, just quickly posting this weeks #BookSnapSunday. I really didn’t know what I would post today but Bronte came home with a copy of David Copperfield. Bro… Read More

#BookSnapSunday is a weekly bookish Instagram meme hosted here at Gum trees and Galaxies.com, if you would like to join in please feel free to leave a link to your post in the comments below… Read More

#BookSnapSunday is a weekly bookish Instagram meme hosted here at Gum trees and Galaxies.com, if you would like to join in please feel free to leave a link to your post in the comments below… Read More

#BookSnapSunday is a weekly bookish Instagram meme hosted here at Gum trees and Galaxies.com, if you would like to join in please feel free to leave a link to your post in the comments below… Read More

#BookSnapSunday is a weekly bookish Instagram meme hosted here at Gum trees and Galaxies.com, if you would like to join in please feel free to leave a link to your post in the comments below… Read More

#BookSnapSunday is a weekly bookish Instagram meme hosted here at Gum trees and Galaxies.com, if you would like to join in please feel free to leave a link to your post in the comments below… Read More

Echidna Knows: “The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity.” (p4) Tyson Yunkaporta – Sand Talk E… Read More

Afraid I have been a bit missing in action lately but I have really needed some down time to recharge and rejuvenate. I find I tend to absorb the stress and anxiety of others which can leav… Read More

View this post on Instagram This week's #BookSnapSunday is my current read, a book I have had on the shelf for awhile, Richard Mabey's Cabaret of plants: botany and the… Read More

So this weekend didn’t go quite as planned. Did an overnight camp at Flanagan Reserve, fair to say not one of our better camping weekends, but more of that to come, for now just the q… Read More

“If you brew your own cauldron, magic will surely happen.” – Dara McAnulty Diary of a young naturalist. View this post on Instagram This week's book… Read More

image source: Mike Bayly This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0The plant pictured above is the Australian yam daisy or murnong and it plays a… Read More

The animals are dying. Soon we will be alone here. – Charlotte McConaghy The Last Migration View this post on Instagram This week's #BookSnapSunday is Charlotte… Read More

View this post on Instagram The USQ library has some hidden gems and this is one of them; David Fleay's Paradoxical Platypus: Hobnobbing with duckbills, published in 1980… Read More

Just posting my usual book image post. #BookSnapSunday is a weekly bookish Instagram meme hosted here at Gum trees and Galaxies.com, if you would like to join in please feel free to… Read More

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sharon Geitz (@sharon.geitz) Just a quick booksnap, a pretty easy one this week; Bill Bailey’s new book Bill Bailey&rs… Read More

“… the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it. They had no means of consensus. They learnt to co-operate constructively in small units… Read More

Just a quick #BookSnapSunday. I joined in on the #wyndhamreadalong2021 on Instagram last week and just bolted through Day of the Triffids. Wyndham has a timeless, polished quality to his w… Read More

“Isn’t that a kind of prayer? The care and maintenance of the web of our noticing, the paying heed?” – Kathleen Jamie Findings View this post on Instagra… Read More

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sharon Geitz (@sharon.geitz) Our local museum, Cobb & Co is currently hosting an ancient rome exhibit, so decided to tak… Read More

https://gumtreesandgalaxies.com/2020/12/31/2021-gaia-nature-reading-challenge/We are almost at the end of the first month of 2021 and thought it was time I set up a page where people could l… Read More

This week’s book snap is Charles Massey’s impressive agricultural call to arms; Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture a new Earth. Currently learning more about sustainabl… Read More

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sharon Geitz (@sharon.geitz) Just catching up with my February reading and the third great read nature read I completed in F… Read More

I am hopefully emerging from a bit of down cycle at the moment, starting to feel motivated/inspired to post more, in the mean time #BookSnapSunday gives me something to post for the week no… Read More

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sharon Geitz (@sharon.geitz) Just a quick book snap post, I am participating in the Wyndham read along on insta hence this w… Read More

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sharon Geitz (@sharon.geitz) Just a quick Easter Sunday BookSnap. I have never really totally outgrown children’s boo… Read More