Jeremy Baker

Finished reading: Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker 📚

Interesting mix of natural history, history and mythological investigation.

Finished reading: On Savage Shores by Caroline Dodds Pennock 📚

Finished reading: Blackouts by Justin Torres 📚

Finished reading: Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend 📚

Finished reading: Annals of Native America by Camilla Townsend 📚

Finished reading: Annals of Native America by Camilla Townsend 📚

Finished reading: Bernardino de Sahagun by Miguel Leon-Portilla 📚

Finished reading: Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox 📚

Finished reading: The Florentine Codex by Jeanette Favrot Peterson 📚

Finished reading: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch 📚

Finished reading: How the World Made the West by Josephine Quinn 📚

Hōkio figs with Gorgonzola dolce and thyme honey.

Hōkio fresh fig festival

Sand Serif

Hōkio beach weekend antics

Extraordinary birthday dinner at Rita with Bill - briefly in Wellington between Florida and Vanuatu.

Bill is back. Teddy is pleased!

Finished reading: Ancient Cuzco by Brian S. Bauer 📚

Excellent preparation for our trip to Peru in July 2024.

Finished reading: Why the Bible Began by Jacob L. Wright 📚

Fascinating analysis of the underpinnings of the development of the Hebrew Bible.

Finished reading: Mona of the Manor by Armistead Maupin 📚

Family Easter at Eketāhuna country cottage

Thank you to my wonderful bestie Sam Mackay for helping me to buy my latest bookstack from Unity Books in Wellington:

• Lady Chatterley’s Lover (D.H. Lawrence 1928)
• Mona of the Manor (Amistead Maupin 2024)
• A History of Japan in Manga (Shunchiro Kanaya 2022)
• The Land Wars - the dispossession of the Khoisan and AmaXhosa in the Cape Colony (John Laband 2020)
• Normal Women- 900 years of making history (Philippa Gregory 2023)

#books #bookstack #history #friends

Ramses exhibition at the Australian Museum

Starting the year out right

New Year 2024 Hunter Valley NSW