Taking Leaps and Finding Ghosts by Janet DeLee Everyone has dreams, mine include being totally organised and publishing book reviews at the appropriate time, this time it’s just a dream. Here’s a few words about a book I should have reviewed months ago. Dreams aren’t just for the young, and ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
This is part of my loot from Nullus Anxietas V, I was a little apprehensive when I saw it in my bag and I really only warmed to it in the last few pages. I suspect it’s out of print so if you like what I have to say I wish ...
Sea of Many Returns by Arnold Zable As with all of Zable’s books I was moved, not moved to the point of tears but still moved. Sea of Many Returns is a great book about immigration and return from and to Melbourne and Ithaca. This book looks at Xanthe as she ...
My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara This is a powerful story about a boy growing up due to his love for a horse. He goes from being a dreamer who gets lost for an hour at a time looking at a painting to someone who can look after his sick horse and ...
Loyal Creatures by Morris Gleitzman For me this book is one of those love/hate ones. I loved the writing style, the people within its pages but I hated them going to war and I hated their treatment of the horses afterwards. Let me go back to the beginning and tell ...
I adorn artwork, this artwork is much treasured and has been sold well through the Bakaara Market. My artist intends her artwork be for the people and left for the people to see and be inspired, Keinan had other ideas. He took one of my artwork to sell in the ...
My tiles! My tiles! They’re ripping them off and throwing them into the Loch. Oh, my tiles! The indignity of it all. My roof has been subjected to so many repairs recently and finally the family have abandoned me to stay in that new upstart of a hotel. I was carefully ...
Looking for Bear by Holly Webb I borrowed this book hoping to be able to use it for a Mondayitis, it certainly has possibilities with a greenhouse or the missing pane of glass from the greenhouse or I could be really silly and use the hole from the missing pane ...
Burned by Persephone Nicholas One tragic event connects four lives in this haunting story of loss, love and renewal. Noah Daniels is an innocent young boy who treasures the telescope his father bought him and who daydreams of one day travelling through space… His mother, Kate, nurses bittersweet memories of ...
Elianne was built with the sweat and blood of ‘Kanakas’. In 1881, ‘Big Jim’ Durham, an English soldier of fortune and profiteer, ruthlessly creates for Elianne Desmarais, his young French wife, the finest of the great sugar mills of the Southern Queensland cane fields, and names it in her honour. The ...
Things had been changing for some time, the children were growing up, Cooper was getting old and slow, I tried to keep him moving but as the seasons went by it got harder and harder…then he was bitten by the snake. Stan the Man found him, then came that big sound ...
I was put down out of Fort Hold, they always take care of their runners and so I had to be put down well. They took great care to ensure my moss was both wide enough and good for the runners feet. Sometimes things go wrong but I’ve always been taken ...
“Bonny Bernard” he called me in that first phone call and “Bonny Bernard” I remain. Despite being very clever Mr Rumpole was at a bit of a loss when it came to Miss Hilda Wystan, he never quite understood what she had in mind from the first time they met. ...
My Dearest Leslie, I make it a policy never to tell my students how good they really are so I write to you wishing I could somehow let you know how I feel. You walked into my classroom very different to those students already seated there, I couldn’t see how ...
It is indeed idle to get between a fool and his folly, and I could have done nothing else to convince those fools to save their own lives. I watched them plunge, sled, man and dog through the rotten ice to their deaths, while Buck gazed on, almost impassively. He ...