Member TonjaE

Real Name

Tonja

About My Library

Working on it, many more books to catalogue. I enjoy collecting Folio Society editions. Children's Fiction is a favourite, as is Fantasy and Science Fiction, the classics and history are prevalent and I enjoy a bit of poetry.

About Me

I read, a lot. I observe and I listen, I don't say much.

But if you really want to know, I'm relatively new to LT having joined August 2024. A lifelong bibliophile, I have had an eclectic working career. From waitress to company owner, I am now semi-retired, living in a rural area where I work with my husband installing and repairing solar water pumps, and in season, operating our charter boat on the river and islands out of Perth. My spare time is enjoyed reading of course, (I've started to dabble with the idea of writing something), and caring for our little zoo of animals which keep making their way to our 35 acres among the rolling hills, of a hidden gem of a place, just out of Toodyay, Western Australia.

"Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a little." 

- W.B. Yeats (The Celtic Twilight 1893)

"... for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

- George Eliot (Middlemarch 1871)

Location

Toodyay, Western Australia

Memberships

TinyCat

Also On

Goodreads, Instagram

Currently Reading

The Complete Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Favorite Authors

Richard Adams, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Jane Austen, Roald Dahl, E. M. Forster, John Irving, Stephen King, Rudyard Kipling, C. S. Lewis, A. A. Milne, E. Nesbit, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, Colin Thiele, J. R. R. Tolkien, Robert James Waller, J. R. Ward, H. G. Wells, E. B. White, Tim Winton, Hanya Yanagihara, William Butler Yeats

Favorite Lists

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Classics you know you should have read but probably haven't, Folio Society, Poetry volumes by single author, Things we wish were not catalog(u)ed on LT

Member Connections

Friends

AnishaInkspill, christyg08, Crypto-Willobie, DebiCates, elenchus, Fishinthewater, GraceCollection, GregM3, hamlet61, LolaWalser, PaulCranswick, richardderus, SandraArdnas, StaciaV, ThrillerReaderman1

Interesting Library

amanda4242, AnishaInkspill, antinous_in_london, C.S._Lewis, CampFirePets, Crypto-Willobie, DebiCates, elenchus, folio_books, GodsWayAU, GraceCollection, KiplingLibrary, Lewis_Carroll, LolaWalser, PaulCranswick, PresidentialStudy97, richardderus, SandraArdnas, timspalding, wcarter, WHLibrary1963

Contacts

antinous_in_london, Booksloth

It's A GoodThing Group Read

amanda4242, AydenJBolden, bhumorinzin, BlueRose1, CanonArc, craigspeakman, daveym65, DebiCates, elenchus, GregM3, HeatherTierney, Lisa2013, pagesturned, playinghookytoday, sbkl, StaciaV, Tulipan75

The Poetry Collective

amanda4242, AnishaInkspill, artzachary, Btodd3, CanonArc, charl08, christyg08, Crypto-Willobie, DAGray08, Daragh12, DebiCates, DemetriReads, dianeham, doctorofphysick, elenchus, Eroberts1958, GhassenGhediri, GraceCollection, GregM3, haikuproject14, hamlet61, Interstellar_Octopus, JanelleDV, LolaWalser, louisisaloafofbreb, LynnW, Moones, noseinabook58, Owltherian, PaulCranswick, Perseus28403, richardderus, SandraArdnas, saskia17, SayoriIsBestGirl, sirens_and_warnings, SplendorofDelight, Thevenor, ThomasLDintypig, timspalding, xkyzero