A Fresh Outlook

Hey blog friends,

Look time since I have been on here. Things have been a bit too busy to keep up with it all. However with summer here and longer days life it feeling great.

I have been catching up on a it of holiday reading and listening with my new favourite albums being Best Coast - brilliant fun summer tunes.

The other new band that I discovered on The Active Listener music blog which I really love are Kontiki Suite- beautiful vocals and big spacious guitar sounds.

I have also been reading Grace Coddington's autobiogaphy.

What are you listening to and reading this holiday?
xxxx The Bricoleur

Reading

I have been reading this lovely autobiography of the New Zealand dancer, Douglas Wright. When I saw studying dance at university he dance work Gloria was one of my first inspirations. I really like that there are some very well written autobiographies coming out recently such as the Keith Richards and Patti Smith ones.

Book stores and fireplaces

 

I spent a lovely morning browsing the local independent book store Page and Blackmore with my partner. My favourite was the collection of love stories edited by Jeffrey Eugenides 'My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro'.

It turned into a grey afternoon so we read in front of the fire all afternoon. Heavenly.

What is your favourite book store?