One of those books I picked up, without the song, at Continuum last year. I also used it for the Dymocks Reading Challenge 2020 for the Book with a colour in the title category. ‘Continuum is Melbourne’s annual fan run speculative fiction and pop culture convention’, I reckon it’s aimed ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
Another book for the Dymocks Reading Challenge 2020 I read it ages ago but never got around to writing anything about it, until today. I read this for the ‘A book by an Indigenous Author’ category. It had been on my To Be Read Pile for a while so I ...
Another book in the Dymocks Reading Challenge 2020. This book ticked off the ‘book with a red cover’ category for me. I’m loving this challenge, some of categories are rather vague and can be interpreted in a number of ways making it easy enough to find books to fit. I ...
When I found this book I almost cheered. It’s a different book to what I thought it would be and I’m still trying to decide if that’s a good thing or not. It has some of my family stories in it and I kind of got the impression it would ...
I think I won this a few years ago when I thought I’d have more time for reading. I probably won it on Twitter. I’ve stopped entering book competitions as I’d really like to get through my To Be Read Pile. I’ve put off reading it due to the subject ...
One of the reasons I love going to conventions such as Continuum is because you can browse the stalls and talk to authors directly. I try to still my inner fangirl and talk as if I’m not freaking out by talking to an author…sometimes this works. Wandering the stalls at ...
This autobiography is one I was exceedingly pleased to find. I have read and enjoyed Mitchell’s Brumby books for years and I wanted to know more about her life. I also wanted to know more about the area where the books were set, what better way to see the world ...
Last week I was slightly distracted and completely forgot to write anything. I pulled out a book from my stack today only to find it’s one I read many weeks ago during winter, when it was rather cold. Winter? Cold? How strange… I feel I should have read it in ...
Jeremy Standford is guilty. Totally guilty of writing a book I had trouble putting down. Actually, I wish to thank him for this book. It was truly wonderful. To be able to have a behind-the-scenes peak at a piece of musical theatre history is such a precious moment and I ...
I have this book for ‘free’ as I am a Patron of Karen Carlisle on Patreon. I love this website. It gives me the opportunity to support a local artist and have the money go directly to them. There are varying levels including the very basic costing $US1 per month ...
This is a small book, only 104 pages. Margo Lanagan’s writing is so good that the length of the book is totally irrelevant. The stories in this book are well selected with an eye towards saying so much so concisely. Although, when I say ‘selected’, that might be a misnomer ...
As I often am, I’m a little late to this reading party. It was in some boxes of books I was given from a deceased estate, although I suspect the person giving them to me had emptied their house of books as well and this one came from their children. ...
This book is brilliant. It explains what Parallel Importation Rules are and details why need to keep them as they are. It also talks about the copyright rules and why we need to have copyright extend beyond the author’s death. I scribbled a few words about Parallel Importation Rules (PIR) ...
I’ve been a little slack with writing over the last few months. I’m part of a writing group and we meet online every two weeks to catch up and discuss each other’s writing. When I say ‘discuss’ I really mean ‘pull it apart and give each other ideas on how ...
This is one of those incredibly important books my kids read in school. I wish I’d read it then. Actually, I wish it had been written decades ago so I could have read it way back when and been totally inspired by their courage, their tenacity and their skills. A ...