Read / November 23rd, 2017
As I’m writing this particular post, I’m preparing for a quick pre-Christmas getaway to the beach and I cannot wait. Maybe that’s because I can easily visualise myself lying on a towel (under some sun-smart shade, of course) and reading any one of these books. Ah, bliss. Anyway, before I get too distracted, let me talk…
Read / November 21st, 2017
If I was to draw a list and divide that into two columns, one being fiction and the other nonfiction, and then write down all the books I’ve read this year (finished and abandoned), I confidently predict that the nonfiction list would be longer. There are various contributing factors, but one of these is the…
Read / November 16th, 2017
I’m just going to get stuck into these recommendations today because there’s so much to be excited about with young adult fiction at the moment! What happens when three of Australia’s most popular and critically-acclaimed authors come together to write a book? Take Three Girls by Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell and Fiona Wood ($13.95) is…
Read / November 14th, 2017
The middle/tween years are difficult ages to buy for – I’ve been living this predicament for a while! The spectrum of taste and capability really comes into play on an individual level. For example, one child of mine almost exclusively reads nonfiction, the other is very… shall we say… selective… about choice. Sometimes they…
Read / November 8th, 2017
Welcome to my annual Christmas book gift guide! Over the coming weeks, I will be posting suggestions according to different areas and age recommendations – these are fluid (especially for the younger readers) and even if they might not be personally relevant (i.e you wouldn’t ask for them), they might help when it comes…
Read / October 30th, 2017
I am a nervous flyer. Some flights are better than others, and that usually correlates to how I’m doing on the anxiety front at that particular time. I’ve often wondered what I could do to help alleviate some of that anxiety and have come up with some ideas like going in a real flight simulator…
A flying in-and-out post today, but I really wanted to bring attention to a fantastic event that I will be a part of very soon – the Eltham Festival of Stories. For the cost of a gold coin donation which will go to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, there is an entire day of programming and…
Read / September 26th, 2017
When I was perusing the bookshop at last month’s Melbourne Writers Festival, I was excited to see The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc by Ali Alizadeh on the shelf. I admire his poetry – ‘Marco Polo‘ is one of my favourite poems – and was curious to explore his prose, which I hadn’t read, while learning more about…
Let’s start with the terrific Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli, given to Keira for her 13th birthday and what a gift to take into those teenage years. I borrowed it and read it cover to cover, discovering extraordinary stories of legendary women I’m sad I didn’t know about until now – names…
