Read / October 18th, 2016
I bought Fight Like a Girl by Clementine Ford when I was in the city a week or two ago and consumed it overnight. Online reactions have been similar: ‘I couldn’t put it down’; ‘two days and I was done’ etc. Fight Like a Girl is the perfect book coming at just the right time, as the…
Read / September 26th, 2016
There are months I feel confident I’ll be able to talk about my reading with some level of intelligence and (I hope) insight; then there are times when I almost want to skip this post completely because I’m still wrestling with what I want to say. This isn’t to suggest that what I have to…
I’ll be honest – this hasn’t been a great month for reading. I was so focused on the crowdfunding launch last week – Already over 1/3 of the way there! Please pledge! – that I’ve been left a bit tired. Okay, so, like the rest of the world I raced through Harry Potter and the…
Another month, more books. Not with the easiest subject matter this time around, as you’ll see! Let’s discuss. Before I did a little background reading, I believed I’d heard about Still Alice by Lisa Genova when it was first released. But I don’t think that’s the case – otherwise, I’m sure I would’ve remembered its extraordinary success…
It’s been a great month for books, so I’m going to get straight into matters. It’s not often I can tally how long a book will take me to complete but I can in this case: I read This House of Grief by Helen Garner cover to cover in the nine-and-a-bit hour car journey from…
Quite to my surprise, I discovered My Booky Wook was first published in 2007. This was when Russell Brand was very popular in England, but just before he became a true international star. Not that that matters – by thirty years of age had certainly accumulated enough life experience to fully justify this first memoir. He has…
Everywhere I Look is a collection of Helen Garner’s non-fiction from the last twenty-or-so years – although some pieces from the 90s have also been included. Even if you’ve read these before, it’s a treat to revisit them again, even more so when they’re all together. My bookcase is getting a nice area that’s purely…
As we approach Mother’s Day in Australia, it’s not uncommon for me to open up shopping catalogues and make this face. Why? It’s usually because I’m not interested in most of the products on sale, but also due to the pandering nature of advertising copy. So I thought I would write a post…
I have to say, I was a little uncertain about picking up The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer. She is a rather polarising personality in creative and musical circles, but I really love her TED talk on this subject – in fact, this book’s genesis can be traced back to it. Well, I’m happy to…