I Started Reading 'Bright Objects' the Day/Night You Are Supposed to Look for Bright Objects? 🌠🔭👀😜

National days on Monday June 30th, 2025

The Laws of Synchronicity?

I wrote a post about buying the book 'Bright Objects' by Ruby Todd after listening to a podcast I found by putting in the search term "synchronicity" and finding an Adelaide Writers Festival talk featuring Ruby Todd talking about how she came to write such a book -

Picking a Book for World Book Night During International Dark Sky Week and Bright Objects? 🪔📕🌠

I finished reading the book last night, but I started reading the book on June 30th when I saw it was 'International Asteroid Day' as well as 'National Meteor Watch Day'.

From pages 132 and 133 of 'Bright Objects'

Which turned out to be perfect timing for me personally, as I would keep having these synchronicities while reading the book.

For instance, I was in my local supermarket buying some groceries one afternoon not long after I started reading the book and was looking through the bakery section where there were trifles for sale and I was thinking of buying one to try as I have never had trifle before that I'm aware of, but I looked down and saw a pack of freshly baked pumpkin scones and settled for those instead.

I get home and start reading the book from where I had left off and there is a section about how Joesph's late mother had won awards for her pumpkin scones and then there was a discussion about the word trifle, but not so much about the bakery item.

And while the pumpkin scones I bought looked good, they tasted like crap to me, and so after eating one I binned them the next day.

They tasted dry and overloaded with bicarb soda to me ... yuck!
Little syncs like that kept happening and then I would read about them in the novel, which I found rather mind blowing.

And the book ends on page 424 (if you count the acknowledgements), and I've written about that number before on this blog - 

Last page (424) of 'Bright Objects

My Observations of Time and Space in Port Macquarie

The Mystery Experience

I did find it amusing how Ruby ends the book with acknowledgements to " ... the Indigenous Australians who were the first astronomers." and then in the Adelaide Writers Festival talk an Indigenous Australian (by the sound of him) interrupts her talk about 40 minutes in with a nonsensical rant about the letter G:-)

When searching for You Tubes on Ruby Todd, I found this one above of a little girl named Ruby Todd singing the song from 'Annie', which I thought belonged in this post on many levels;-)

I actually haven't read this book yet:-)

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