Brittany Higgins’s $2.4m Commonwealth payout at risk after Linda Reynolds wins court ruling

Seriously?

I am currently reading a book on a serial killer.. I don’t suppose that is any surprise to any of you..

Todays serial killer is on Charles Severance. and this book is written by the state prosecutor in the case. (so it is, at times, quite egotistical in tone)

Arts said:

I am currently reading a book on a serial killer.. I don’t suppose that is any surprise to any of you..

Todays serial killer is on Charles Severance. and this book is written by the state prosecutor in the case. (so it is, at times, quite egotistical in tone)

Did he make Severance pay?

Neophyte said:

Arts said:

I am currently reading a book on a serial killer.. I don’t suppose that is any surprise to any of you..

Todays serial killer is on Charles Severance. and this book is written by the state prosecutor in the case. (so it is, at times, quite egotistical in tone)

Did he make Severance pay?

WELL DONE, THAT MAN!

captain_spalding said:

Neophyte said:

Arts said:

I am currently reading a book on a serial killer.. I don’t suppose that is any surprise to any of you..

Todays serial killer is on Charles Severance. and this book is written by the state prosecutor in the case. (so it is, at times, quite egotistical in tone)

Did he make Severance pay?

WELL DONE, THAT MAN!

+1

Neophyte said:

Arts said:

I am currently reading a book on a serial killer.. I don’t suppose that is any surprise to any of you..

Todays serial killer is on Charles Severance. and this book is written by the state prosecutor in the case. (so it is, at times, quite egotistical in tone)

Did he make Severance pay?

Good

Arts said:

I am currently reading a book on a serial killer.. I don’t suppose that is any surprise to any of you..

Todays serial killer is on Charles Severance. and this book is written by the state prosecutor in the case. (so it is, at times, quite egotistical in tone)

Last night I watched the first two episodes of Catch Me a Killer, based on Micki Pistorius. The two episodes covered serial child killer Norman Afzal Simons. I found it interesting, and to my untrained eye it seemed well done. When I looked up Micki Pistorius, she had quite a varied career.

Neophyte said:

Arts said:

I am currently reading a book on a serial killer.. I don’t suppose that is any surprise to any of you..

Todays serial killer is on Charles Severance. and this book is written by the state prosecutor in the case. (so it is, at times, quite egotistical in tone)

Did he make Severance pay?

He should really have named the book that…

It’s a Long Story: My Life

Willie Hugh Nelson is an American singer-songwriter and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the most beloved and notorious country music singers. He reached his greatest fame during the so-called “outlaw country” movement of the 1970s, but remains iconic, especially in American popular culture. In recent years he has continued to tour, record, and perform, and this, combined with activities in advocacy of cannabis, as well as a well-publicized 2006 arrest for cannabis possession, have made him the subject of renewed media attention.

Ogmog said:

It’s a Long Story: My Life

Willie Hugh Nelson is an American singer-songwriter and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the most beloved and notorious country music singers. He reached his greatest fame during the so-called “outlaw country” movement of the 1970s, but remains iconic, especially in American popular culture. In recent years he has continued to tour, record, and perform, and this, combined with activities in advocacy of cannabis, as well as a well-publicized 2006 arrest for cannabis possession, have made him the subject of renewed media attention.

Maybe I need to read how he got all that aged hippie look. :)

roughbarked said:

Ogmog said:

It’s a Long Story: My Life

Willie Hugh Nelson is an American singer-songwriter and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the most beloved and notorious country music singers. He reached his greatest fame during the so-called “outlaw country” movement of the 1970s, but remains iconic, especially in American popular culture. In recent years he has continued to tour, record, and perform, and this, combined with activities in advocacy of cannabis, as well as a well-publicized 2006 arrest for cannabis possession, have made him the subject of renewed media attention.

Maybe I need to read how he got all that aged hippie look. :)

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/482025966339655075/

Who? Hugh?
well l’m glad to say
I’m glad to have read the book
since it reveals that it’s all The Real Deal
from the leathery sun tanned face to the long braids
when he’s not getting stoned while On the Road Again with
his tribe of musical kids and his band of outlaws he really lives
on a working horse ranch and became famous for his annual Concerts

Willie Nelson’s Wall
I’ll Never Smoke Weed w/Willie Again

roughbarked said:

Maybe I need to read how he got all that aged hippie look. :)

II reckon hugh
start in in highschool
then jest fast forward from there

Looks like he’s written a few books including;

Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die
Musings from the Road
By Willie Nelson, Kinky Friedman

Believe it or not, I’m currently reading for the first time;
The Curious Incident of the DOG in the Night-Time.

What a great tale it is too.

The tough guys book club book for july is
The Chase

roughbarked said:

Looks like he’s written a few books including;

Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die
Musings from the Road
By Willie Nelson, Kinky Friedman

Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die

GOOGLE BOOKS Preview

way ahead of ya’
reading that one was lead me to reading this one

Breakfast: lightly spiced mushrooms in rich, thick butter sauce on toasted sourdough.

Michael V said:

Breakfast: lightly spiced mushrooms in rich, thick butter sauce on toasted sourdough.

Is it illustrated?

Michael V said:

Breakfast: lightly spiced mushrooms in rich, thick butter sauce on toasted sourdough.

I had aspargus from the garden, mushrooms from Aldi with cheese on top of my homemade mix of rye and wholemeal.

The forum, apparently. I only popped in this morning to see if anyone correctly predicted a death. SM wins!

I am reading, as usual, several books at once.

When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman. A fictional account of Anne Frank’s life before the diary era. I find it quite repetitive; Anne’s Oma tells her she’s beautiful, and Anne & Margot go for a walk. Rinse and repeat.

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. I’ve seen several people commenting about it over on Bluesky, so I thought I’d give it a try. As with all Barbara Kingsolver novels, takes a while to get into it.

Under Alien Skies by Phil Plait (Bad Astronomer). So far I’ve just read the first chapter, about the view from the Moon, but I like it. I am using it as the inspiration for visualisation as I’m trying to get to sleep.

And I’ve just downloaded The Mother of all Degrassi by Linda Schuyler, who co-created the Degrassi franchise. I freaking love Degrassi, to the point where I dreamed about the Degrassi High cast last night despite not having watched the show for some time.

Divine Angel said:

The forum, apparently. I only popped in this morning to see if anyone correctly predicted a death. SM wins!

I am reading, as usual, several books at once.

When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman. A fictional account of Anne Frank’s life before the diary era. I find it quite repetitive; Anne’s Oma tells her she’s beautiful, and Anne & Margot go for a walk. Rinse and repeat.

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. I’ve seen several people commenting about it over on Bluesky, so I thought I’d give it a try. As with all Barbara Kingsolver novels, takes a while to get into it.

Under Alien Skies by Phil Plait (Bad Astronomer). So far I’ve just read the first chapter, about the view from the Moon, but I like it. I am using it as the inspiration for visualisation as I’m trying to get to sleep.

And I’ve just downloaded The Mother of all Degrassi by Linda Schuyler, who co-created the Degrassi franchise. I freaking love Degrassi, to the point where I dreamed about the Degrassi High cast last night despite not having watched the show for some time.

Sadly I did not read a single book all year..

Oh, and this morning I scored Honey, Baby, Mine by Diane Ladd and Laura Dern from the street library near my house. In 2018, Diane Ladd was given a prognosis of six months after contracting lung disease from glysophosphate (sp?) spraying near her house. The dr recommended walking at least 15 minutes a day to strengthen her lungs. She and her daughter Laura Dern went for a walk every day and talked about life, death, and the universe. Those conversations were recorded and put into this book.

Divine Angel said:

Oh, and this morning I scored Honey, Baby, Mine by Diane Ladd and Laura Dern from the street library near my house. In 2018, Diane Ladd was given a prognosis of six months after contracting lung disease from glysophosphate (sp?) spraying near her house. The dr recommended walking at least 15 minutes a day to strengthen her lungs. She and her daughter Laura Dern went for a walk every day and talked about life, death, and the universe. Those conversations were recorded and put into this book.

I was given this for Chrissie

This year, I read The Dictionary of Lost Words, The Bookbinder of Jericho and Lessons in Chemistry.

All fabulous books. I await Williams’ and Garmus’ next novels with bated breath.

dv said:

Sadly I did not read a single book all year..

I’m catching up. This year I mostly read textbooks about behaviour management and classroom techniques and how to teach etc.

Funny-not funny-story: For placement, I was in a year 1 class. One day, we were doing reading groups which involves a small group of kids at the same reading level (I make a game out of it, but that’s another story). Anyhoo, my supervising teacher hands me their reading book and I started bawling. Completely took everyone, including me, by surprise. The poor teacher was completely taken aback, and took me out to her office to find out why she’s traumatised me. The title of the book was Stuck in a Rip, just a simple decoding book where kids learn the sounds letters make. I guess sibeen’s death is still affecting me. The teacher apologised profusely, saying she didn’t know, but how could she? It’s not like I have a Post-It note stuck to my forehead. Anyhoo, the entire class learned something that day about unexpected emotional responses.

Michael V said:

This year, I read The Dictionary of Lost Words, The Bookbinder of Jericho and Lessons in Chemistry.

All fabulous books. I await Williams’ and Garmus’ next novels with bated breath.

Lessons in Chemistry bored me to tears, but I loved Dictionary and Bookbinder.

Dictionary has been optioned into a mini series on one of the streaming services. I was lucky enough to meet the author at the local library, I think last year? She’s working on a follow-up tangentially linked to her previous two.

Divine Angel said:

dv said:

Sadly I did not read a single book all year..

I’m catching up. This year I mostly read textbooks about behaviour management and classroom techniques and how to teach etc.

Funny-not funny-story: For placement, I was in a year 1 class. One day, we were doing reading groups which involves a small group of kids at the same reading level (I make a game out of it, but that’s another story). Anyhoo, my supervising teacher hands me their reading book and I started bawling. Completely took everyone, including me, by surprise. The poor teacher was completely taken aback, and took me out to her office to find out why she’s traumatised me. The title of the book was Stuck in a Rip, just a simple decoding book where kids learn the sounds letters make. I guess sibeen’s death is still affecting me. The teacher apologised profusely, saying she didn’t know, but how could she? It’s not like I have a Post-It note stuck to my forehead. Anyhoo, the entire class learned something that day about unexpected emotional responses.

Nods.

Having finished reading Mother of all Degrassi by Linda Schuyler, I have started on another memoir, Life’s That Way by Jim Beaver.

He was married to the daughter of Don Adams (of Get Smart fame), Cecily Adams. The memoir details her final months as she, a non-smoker, died from lung cancer.

The Degrassi book was interesting enough for me to finish, however I would have liked more BTS about the original Degrassi. The show coincided with a troubling personal time for Linda, so she kind of breezes over it. I also thought it got a little too bogged in the financial aspects of producing TV eg having to secure funding and broadcasters etc. It’s also not always chronological, sticking to the chronology of her various TV shows, but linking it back to events in her life. So she might be talking about a D: TNG storyline, which links back to something that happened in 1956, so she tells the 1956 story before switching back to the storyline, after having dropped hints about the 1956 event throughout the narrative. I found that quite annoying.

Divine Angel said:

Having finished reading Mother of all Degrassi by Linda Schuyler, I have started on another memoir, Life’s That Way by Jim Beaver.

He was married to the daughter of Don Adams (of Get Smart fame), Cecily Adams. The memoir details her final months as she, a non-smoker, died from lung cancer.

The Degrassi book was interesting enough for me to finish, however I would have liked more BTS about the original Degrassi. The show coincided with a troubling personal time for Linda, so she kind of breezes over it. I also thought it got a little too bogged in the financial aspects of producing TV eg having to secure funding and broadcasters etc. It’s also not always chronological, sticking to the chronology of her various TV shows, but linking it back to events in her life. So she might be talking about a D: TNG storyline, which links back to something that happened in 1956, so she tells the 1956 story before switching back to the storyline, after having dropped hints about the 1956 event throughout the narrative. I found that quite annoying.

Did Drake do a foreword?

dv said:

Divine Angel said:

Having finished reading Mother of all Degrassi by Linda Schuyler, I have started on another memoir, Life’s That Way by Jim Beaver.

He was married to the daughter of Don Adams (of Get Smart fame), Cecily Adams. The memoir details her final months as she, a non-smoker, died from lung cancer.

The Degrassi book was interesting enough for me to finish, however I would have liked more BTS about the original Degrassi. The show coincided with a troubling personal time for Linda, so she kind of breezes over it. I also thought it got a little too bogged in the financial aspects of producing TV eg having to secure funding and broadcasters etc. It’s also not always chronological, sticking to the chronology of her various TV shows, but linking it back to events in her life. So she might be talking about a D: TNG storyline, which links back to something that happened in 1956, so she tells the 1956 story before switching back to the storyline, after having dropped hints about the 1956 event throughout the narrative. I found that quite annoying.

Did Drake do a foreword?

dv said:

Divine Angel said:

Having finished reading Mother of all Degrassi by Linda Schuyler, I have started on another memoir, Life’s That Way by Jim Beaver.

He was married to the daughter of Don Adams (of Get Smart fame), Cecily Adams. The memoir details her final months as she, a non-smoker, died from lung cancer.

The Degrassi book was interesting enough for me to finish, however I would have liked more BTS about the original Degrassi. The show coincided with a troubling personal time for Linda, so she kind of breezes over it. I also thought it got a little too bogged in the financial aspects of producing TV eg having to secure funding and broadcasters etc. It’s also not always chronological, sticking to the chronology of her various TV shows, but linking it back to events in her life. So she might be talking about a D: TNG storyline, which links back to something that happened in 1956, so she tells the 1956 story before switching back to the storyline, after having dropped hints about the 1956 event throughout the narrative. I found that quite annoying.

Did Drake do a foreword?

He did not, but she sure gushes about Aubrey.

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley.

It is the story of a group of individuals who have been transported from various times in the past to some time in the very near future, and the “bridges”, people who have been allocated to care for them and guide them into life in the 21st century.

The bridge who is the main feature of the book is of mixed Cambodian and English heritage, as is the author of the book. She develops a romantic relationship with the guy she is allocated to, who was a member of Franklin’s voyage to the Arctic.

Many interesting twists and turns to the story, and an excellent read.

Also one of the reasons I posted: Lord Franklin last night.

https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project

Link

a good read.

JudgeMental said:

https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project

Link

a good read.

Americans are sometimes described as a practical people, but in fact many of them are prone to mysticism and superstition, and “idealistic” libertarianism is just another strain of that.

Sarahs mum might like this book. Fine collection of Orkney folk tales, evocatively recounted. Lots of cosy details of the old Orkney way of life.

You have to register to “borrow” the book, but it’s all free.

The Hogboon of Hell and other strange Orkney tales

https://archive.org/details/hogboonofhelloth0000cutt/mode/2up?view=theater

There’s a doco series on Disney+ about Ruby Franke, who paraded her family on YouTube for likes. Their videos painted them as The Perfect Family; at their height the family were earning $100k+ per month from their YouTube videos.

When Ruby Franke started posting disciplinary actions against her kids, viewers became concerned. Turns out Ruby had become involved with some crackpot “psychologist” to post “parenting solutions” while neglecting her two youngest kids, whom she believed were possessed by demons.

Anyhoo Ruby was arrested, and her eldest daughter wrote a book, which I’ve just started reading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Franke

I just et a couple of buttered scones for lunch. I had a quiche (normal meat pie size) for breakfast. I’ll have a big glass of cold Milo shortly.

buffy said:

I just et a couple of buttered scones for lunch. I had a quiche (normal meat pie size) for breakfast. I’ll have a big glass of cold Milo shortly.

Sounds like interesting reading. ;)

https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Caitlin+Doughty

This’ll keep me busy for a while.

Decided to give this a try.

And this is the novel I strongly suspect was AI generated using some clever prompts. It’s a good plot though, liked it a lot. But yeah, the deeper I got, the more it read like AI.

Divine Angel said:

Decided to give this a try.

And this is the novel I strongly suspect was AI generated using some clever prompts. It’s a good plot though, liked it a lot. But yeah, the deeper I got, the more it read like AI.

Not sure that I’d be that interested in the life story of a model and convicted felon, as written by himself, but each to their own.

Just getting into “Sydney, a biography” by Louis Nowra.

A history of Sydney, starting from the first English settlers, interspersed with the authors experiences of the modern city.

Really enjoying it so far.