Reviews & Recommendations
December 18, 2014
Summer Holiday Reading
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In my previous post, Five Faves: Writers from the West, I shared the names of five books (and their writers) that I enjoyed this year. But there are so many more on my To Read list, and I seem to be adding titles faster than I can finish them. Here are just a few of those I hope […]
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December 12, 2014
I’ve heard it said that Western Australia’s isolation disadvantages our writers and artists. Yet there is so much creative talent here that I believe I could spend 2015 reading writers from the West, and still not finish a long list of great books. For now, though, here are five books (and their writers) that I read in 2014 […]
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October 12, 2014
Recently a friend posted a Facebook challenge that requires nominees to list 10 books that have stayed with them in some way. I normally avoid the challenges doing the rounds of social media. They somehow remind me of the chain letters I used to receive during my childhood. And the introvert in me particularly resists those requiring video evidence. But […]
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August 18, 2014
This week (Saturday 16 August to Friday 22 August) is Children’s Book Week in Australia, and I love its theme of ‘Connect to Reading – Reading to Connect’. Some of my most cherished moments are of connecting to my children through fabulous books. But I also remember with fondness the nightly routine of my parents reading to me. So […]
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August 8, 2014
Earlier this year, I heard Australian author Claire Zorn speak about her YA novel The Sky so Heavy at the Perth Writers Festival. I bought a signed copy for my teenage son, only to discover he had already borrowed it from the library (‘But I’ll read it again. It’s good.’) – and wound up reading it […]
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