@catherinesnell.bsky.social
Books. Writing. Thoughts.
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AuDhd, psych honours (‘25), English and Literature teacher.
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AuDhd, psych honours (‘25), English and Literature teacher.
Me too! It’s a very pleasant ‘make-a-cuppa-read-a-chapter’ sort of book :)
January 18, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Me too! It’s a very pleasant ‘make-a-cuppa-read-a-chapter’ sort of book :)
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A new code of conduct for for Australian psychologists provides updated guidance that it's almost never OK to date someone who is or has been a client, even if that was years ago.
It's almost never OK for psychologists to date their clients
A new code of conduct for for Australian psychologists provides updated guidance that it's almost never OK to date someone who is or has been a client, even if that was years ago.
www.abc.net.au
December 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
A new code of conduct for for Australian psychologists provides updated guidance that it's almost never OK to date someone who is or has been a client, even if that was years ago.
@alanbaxter.bsky.social hey Alan thanks for posting The Gulp (signed) to me from your website shop! I have just finished, and loved it. Super unsettling and loads of fun. Will be avoiding Woollies parking bays for a while….!
July 31, 2025 at 3:26 AM
@alanbaxter.bsky.social hey Alan thanks for posting The Gulp (signed) to me from your website shop! I have just finished, and loved it. Super unsettling and loads of fun. Will be avoiding Woollies parking bays for a while….!
And Bahn Mi
July 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
And Bahn Mi
Adding to the list
- Hashbrown
- Squid
- Hashbrown
- Squid
July 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Adding to the list
- Hashbrown
- Squid
- Hashbrown
- Squid
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Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth are the hottest Lizzy and Darcy - Fight Me.
April 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth are the hottest Lizzy and Darcy - Fight Me.
List of dogs in Brunswick with food names (that I’ve met so far):
- Toastie
- Beans
- Muffin
- Noodle
- Coffee
- Sushi
- Basil
- Mochi
- Toastie
- Beans
- Muffin
- Noodle
- Coffee
- Sushi
- Basil
- Mochi
April 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
List of dogs in Brunswick with food names (that I’ve met so far):
- Toastie
- Beans
- Muffin
- Noodle
- Coffee
- Sushi
- Basil
- Mochi
- Toastie
- Beans
- Muffin
- Noodle
- Coffee
- Sushi
- Basil
- Mochi
April 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Finished Christian Kracht’s novella “Eurotrash” - a hilarious story & somehow imbues awful rich people with some humanity.
Busting his octogenarian mother out of a psych ward, the narrator attempts to help her spend her ill-gained wealth as fast as possible on a road trip around Switzerland
Busting his octogenarian mother out of a psych ward, the narrator attempts to help her spend her ill-gained wealth as fast as possible on a road trip around Switzerland
April 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Finished Christian Kracht’s novella “Eurotrash” - a hilarious story & somehow imbues awful rich people with some humanity.
Busting his octogenarian mother out of a psych ward, the narrator attempts to help her spend her ill-gained wealth as fast as possible on a road trip around Switzerland
Busting his octogenarian mother out of a psych ward, the narrator attempts to help her spend her ill-gained wealth as fast as possible on a road trip around Switzerland
Sometimes you just gotta roll in dirt, then wet grass, then tanbark. Then rinse and repeat.
April 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Sometimes you just gotta roll in dirt, then wet grass, then tanbark. Then rinse and repeat.
I’m exhausted, so I’ve gone to my TBR shelf and taken all the books <200 pages out to read.
Time to settle into some novellas and short stories. Cat is laying between the piles of books. Dog is asleep at my feet. Hoping short bursts of reading is the dopamine I need.
Time to settle into some novellas and short stories. Cat is laying between the piles of books. Dog is asleep at my feet. Hoping short bursts of reading is the dopamine I need.
April 12, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I’m exhausted, so I’ve gone to my TBR shelf and taken all the books <200 pages out to read.
Time to settle into some novellas and short stories. Cat is laying between the piles of books. Dog is asleep at my feet. Hoping short bursts of reading is the dopamine I need.
Time to settle into some novellas and short stories. Cat is laying between the piles of books. Dog is asleep at my feet. Hoping short bursts of reading is the dopamine I need.
Nearly got run over on my ebike by an unhelmeted woman on a e-scooter playing music on a speaker ffs
April 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Nearly got run over on my ebike by an unhelmeted woman on a e-scooter playing music on a speaker ffs
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Incredibly humbled and grateful to be included on the shortlist for this year’s Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Huge congrats to all of the other writers on the list, and even huger thanks to the judges and the wonderful folks @overlandjournal.bsky.social
overland.org.au/2025/03/anno...
overland.org.au/2025/03/anno...
Announcing the 2024 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize shortlist - Overland literary journal
Congratulations to these ten writers who form the shortlist for the 2024 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize!
overland.org.au
March 29, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Incredibly humbled and grateful to be included on the shortlist for this year’s Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Huge congrats to all of the other writers on the list, and even huger thanks to the judges and the wonderful folks @overlandjournal.bsky.social
overland.org.au/2025/03/anno...
overland.org.au/2025/03/anno...
Congratulations and well deserved!!
March 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Congratulations and well deserved!!
What a joy to read László Krasznahorkai’s “Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming” - deliberately ridiculous characters who somehow maintain their humanity in a running frantic commentary of thoughts, wading through their consciousness as the Baron returns. Ottilie Mulzert’s translation is superb.
March 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
What a joy to read László Krasznahorkai’s “Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming” - deliberately ridiculous characters who somehow maintain their humanity in a running frantic commentary of thoughts, wading through their consciousness as the Baron returns. Ottilie Mulzert’s translation is superb.
Making my dog love me
March 6, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Making my dog love me
Definitely indicative of the difficulties facing punishers in Australia. Will be interesting to see how this develops in the longer term.
Melbourne-based independent publisher Text Publishing, has been acquired by Penguin Random House Australia.
"Text has created an unparalleled space for itself in Australian publishing. Now it’s time for a new owner..."
www.textpublishing.com.au/blog/text-pu...
"Text has created an unparalleled space for itself in Australian publishing. Now it’s time for a new owner..."
www.textpublishing.com.au/blog/text-pu...
Text Publishing joins Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House Australia and The Text Publishing Company today announced that they have si...
www.textpublishing.com.au
January 22, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Definitely indicative of the difficulties facing punishers in Australia. Will be interesting to see how this develops in the longer term.
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Melbourne-based independent publisher Text Publishing, has been acquired by Penguin Random House Australia.
"Text has created an unparalleled space for itself in Australian publishing. Now it’s time for a new owner..."
www.textpublishing.com.au/blog/text-pu...
"Text has created an unparalleled space for itself in Australian publishing. Now it’s time for a new owner..."
www.textpublishing.com.au/blog/text-pu...
Text Publishing joins Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House Australia and The Text Publishing Company today announced that they have si...
www.textpublishing.com.au
January 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Melbourne-based independent publisher Text Publishing, has been acquired by Penguin Random House Australia.
"Text has created an unparalleled space for itself in Australian publishing. Now it’s time for a new owner..."
www.textpublishing.com.au/blog/text-pu...
"Text has created an unparalleled space for itself in Australian publishing. Now it’s time for a new owner..."
www.textpublishing.com.au/blog/text-pu...
Tee hee.
Apropos of nothing, use the discount code BASH for 40% off The US Antifascism Reader
The US Antifascism Reader
Since the birth of fascism in the 1920s, well before the global renaissance of “white nationalism,” the United States has been home to its own distinct fascist movements, some of which decisively infl...
www.versobooks.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Tee hee.
“Part fact part fiction is what life is.” - Jeanette Winterson on having the same name as her protagonist in Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, updated intro, 2014.
Delightfully revisiting this novel, haven’t read it in more than ten years since my beloved lit degree days. Bliss.
Delightfully revisiting this novel, haven’t read it in more than ten years since my beloved lit degree days. Bliss.
January 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
“Part fact part fiction is what life is.” - Jeanette Winterson on having the same name as her protagonist in Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, updated intro, 2014.
Delightfully revisiting this novel, haven’t read it in more than ten years since my beloved lit degree days. Bliss.
Delightfully revisiting this novel, haven’t read it in more than ten years since my beloved lit degree days. Bliss.
In Helen Garner’s new non-fiction account “The Season,” she openly describes the novel as “a nanna’s book about footy,” the octogenarian watching both bewildered and entranced from the sidelines.
There’s something so luxuriously nostalgic about the whole thing, perfect for a rainy day.
There’s something so luxuriously nostalgic about the whole thing, perfect for a rainy day.
January 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
In Helen Garner’s new non-fiction account “The Season,” she openly describes the novel as “a nanna’s book about footy,” the octogenarian watching both bewildered and entranced from the sidelines.
There’s something so luxuriously nostalgic about the whole thing, perfect for a rainy day.
There’s something so luxuriously nostalgic about the whole thing, perfect for a rainy day.
A really interesting discussion about the need for collective action and how the capitalist machine is made to simply replace people and move on when individuals act unilaterally rather than en masse.
Makes me excited to read Marx’s Capital this year as a challenging reading project.
Makes me excited to read Marx’s Capital this year as a challenging reading project.
January 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
A really interesting discussion about the need for collective action and how the capitalist machine is made to simply replace people and move on when individuals act unilaterally rather than en masse.
Makes me excited to read Marx’s Capital this year as a challenging reading project.
Makes me excited to read Marx’s Capital this year as a challenging reading project.
Finally finished Gabor Maté’s “The Myth of Normal” which takes readers through the biopsychosocialsocietal elements of how fucked our society is, namely due to capitalism and colonisation- resulting in toxic disconnection and illness, slowly killing us from within. Excited to move to Marx next.
December 30, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Finally finished Gabor Maté’s “The Myth of Normal” which takes readers through the biopsychosocialsocietal elements of how fucked our society is, namely due to capitalism and colonisation- resulting in toxic disconnection and illness, slowly killing us from within. Excited to move to Marx next.
Jumaana Abdu’s debut novel is a highly accomplished tale of a divorced mother finding herself, community, and setting down roots in rural NSW as a Muslim woman. Beautiful commentary on the importance of place, connection and people.
Now desperately trying to find anything else she’s written.
Now desperately trying to find anything else she’s written.
December 28, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Jumaana Abdu’s debut novel is a highly accomplished tale of a divorced mother finding herself, community, and setting down roots in rural NSW as a Muslim woman. Beautiful commentary on the importance of place, connection and people.
Now desperately trying to find anything else she’s written.
Now desperately trying to find anything else she’s written.
A group of diverse and impoverished teens are invited to do the Kokoda trail with local cops. Good commentary of how our education system fails kids, but the novel is undercooked and gives too much humanity to racist characters. @picadorbooks.bsky.social
December 25, 2024 at 2:37 AM
A group of diverse and impoverished teens are invited to do the Kokoda trail with local cops. Good commentary of how our education system fails kids, but the novel is undercooked and gives too much humanity to racist characters. @picadorbooks.bsky.social