Paris Savages… About The Book: ‘This story has its genesis in fact, when three Fraser Island people were taken to Germany in 1882–83. The sole survivor was Bonangera (Boni/Bonny) whose life-size plaster cast remains at the Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France. The silencing that Badtjala people continue to endure in the localised historiography of place … Continue reading Book Review: Paris Savages by Katherine Johnson
Month: Sep 2019
#BookBingo – Round 20
This round gives me my second completed horizontal line - bingo! Romance: The Cinema at Starlight Creek by Alli Sinclair I don't read genre romance books at all, but I do read a lot of books that contain romance, particularly historical fiction. I've picked The Cinema at Starlight Creek for this category because it contained … Continue reading #BookBingo – Round 20
The Week That Was…
Holidays! I started off my weekend deeply immersed in a Little Women-a-thon, revelling in all of this luxurious time I had to read, and in keeping with my 'read at whim' goal, I was doing exactly that! Reading only what I felt like which turned out to be not only Little Women, but its follow-up, … Continue reading The Week That Was…
#TBT: What I was reading on this day five years ago…
According to Goodreads, on this day five years ago, I was reading Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. According to The American Library Association, Speak was one of the Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books between 2000 to 2009. It's a vitally important novel and one I highly recommend. Have you read it? In 2004 a film adaptation … Continue reading #TBT: What I was reading on this day five years ago…
The Classics Eight: Little Women
Little Women AND Good Wives – a reflection in words and images I first read Little Women when I was ten. I was gifted a copy and took it with me to Europe in that same year, carting it everywhere and reading it over and over. I never read it again, but still have that … Continue reading The Classics Eight: Little Women
Blog Tour: Where the Light Enters by Sara Donati
Where the Light Enters… About the Book: In this spellbinding historical epic, Sara Donati (bestselling author of the Wilderness series) combines romance and mystery to tell the story of two pioneering women in nineteenth-century Manhattan. Where the Light Enters is the sequel to The Gilded Hour. Obstetrician Dr Sophie Savard returns home to the achingly … Continue reading Blog Tour: Where the Light Enters by Sara Donati
The Week That Was…
It's here! The last day of term 3. School holidays are just hours away, I can almost touch them. ~~~~~ Joke of the week: ~~~~~ Things I one day want to do: ~~~~~ Just started watching: So far so good! ~~~~~ Book of the Week: ~~~~~ What I'm reading right now: ~~~~~ What I'll be … Continue reading The Week That Was…
Spring Break Reading Goals
So close! Spring break is just around the corner. Two weeks of loafing about in weather that is neither too hot nor too cold. I always like to set myself some reading goals for this particular set of holidays, mostly because I begin, always about this time of the year, to feel the loom of … Continue reading Spring Break Reading Goals
Book Review: The Truants by Kate Weinberg
The Truants... About the Book: People disappear when they most want to be seen. Jess Walker, middle child of a middle class family, has perfected the art of vanishing in plain sight. But when she arrives at a concrete university campus under flat, grey, East Anglian skies, her world flares with colour. Drawn into a … Continue reading Book Review: The Truants by Kate Weinberg
The Classics Eight: Macbeth by William Shakespeare
My daughter recently had to study Macbeth for year 12 senior English, as I had done twenty-five years ago. The assessment itself was essentially unchanged: a monologue presentation followed by an exam. Macbeth is my favourite of all Shakespeare's works so I was more than happy to revisit the play as a means of helping … Continue reading The Classics Eight: Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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