This is one of those must have books. I saw it at Continuum 15 in 2019, it became one of those books I absolutely must have. And I’m so glad I gave into temptation. The idea of New Ceres Night was the brainchild of Gillian Polack, and when she presented ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
One of those books I picked up for no particular reason, might have something to do with liking her writing…then again, maybe not. But seriously, I was buying a couple of things from Edwina Harvey and thought I’d get a couple more for the same postage. Bundling is a great ...
This is the third book in the Parasitology series. I read them out of order and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I know, you’re supposed to read all the books in a series in order, but it’s something I rarely do. And I certainly didn’t with this series. I read them ...
Letter to the author Dear Mira, I understand I should start a letter with some polite nothings but I’ve just finished this book and all I want to do is scream. How dare you write good characters, sucker me in to liking them and then leave them hanging at the ...
There is always a story. There are two stories I have with this book before I head into talking about the actual book. I did a very small favour for a friend. It was such a small favour and cost me nothing. Annie heads a blog about books, check it ...
I do not know why I picked up a book about the Rats of Tobruk during a pandemic. Especially as I finished it today in the knowledge that we’d be going into a much stricter lockdown than before. Why am I reading books about war at a time such as ...
I received this from Bionic Book Subscription. It’s the second of the three month subscription they’ve given me. I’ve been a bit slack in reading all three books. I still haven’t even opened the third parcel from them. It’s sitting on my desk and I’m wondering if I’ll do an ...
Another book for the Dymocks Reading Challenge 2020. I’m determined to finish this challenge so I did some research on Dymocks Top 51 Children’s Books and managed to borrow this book from someone in my local group. I’ve promised to return it within two weeks so I sat down on ...
This is the sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front. If you think I’ve read the first book you are very much mistaken. I rarely read books in order, why should I start being sensible now? From what I can gather All Quiet on the Western Front is about ...
This book was first published in 1959. It’s a fascinating look at life from the inside of a teenage boy’s head. Set in fictional Stradhoughton, Yorkshire this book shows us a flawed human being. Billy Fisher is full of himself. He’s a liar, a cheat and a thief. He’s seeing ...
We had to look at this book in our module talking about the pastoral or the antipastoral. Actually, we were talking about antipastoral with regard to this book. Let me help with a bit of context. Pastoral texts are those that are written with only the good things in mind. ...
This is one of the books we examined for our unit on Australian Literature at uni this past trimester. The unit was interesting. I started it thinking how excited I was by Australian literature and what I knew about it, I finished pondering how little I actually know. But that ...
This is a book that was given to me by a friend I’ve known for a long time, such a long time it never occurred to me to tell her about my aversion to romance. I’m here to tell you why you need to read this book and why I ...
Making Money – Terry Pratchett I’ve really put off reading this book as long as I possibly could, not because Pratchett died last year and there won’t be any more books and I want to put off reading the ones I haven’t read as it makes his death seem less ...
I made a decision, but you’ve figured that out by now. Yes, I’m going to do another Alphabet by Author but this one is all Australian, I may even narrow it down and do females first but you’ll find out in due course. Today I’m looking at Debra Adelaide. She’s ...