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THE LOVERS by Vendela Vida GREAT HOUSE by Nicole Krauss FATHER OF THE RAIN by Lily King IN THE SKIN OF A LION by Michael Ondaatje THE COLD EYE OF HEAVEN by Christine Dwyer Hickey FOAL'S BREAD by Gillian Mears SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY by Gary Shteyngart LOVE IN THE YEARS OF LUNACY by Mandy Sayer CALEB'S CROSSING by Geraldine Brooks THIS LIFE by Malcolm Knox THE PICTURE BOOK by Jo Baker THE TIGER'S WIFE by Tea Obrecht ANNABEL by Kathleen Winter THE BOOK THIEF by Marcus Zusack ROOM by Emma Donoghue THE STEEP APPROACH TO GARBADALE by Iain Banks ON WRITING by Stephen King ABOUT A BOY by Nick Hornby THE AGE OF GRIEF by Jane Smiley BEATRICE and VIRGIL by Yann Martel KRAKATOA by Simon Winchester CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORIES by Murray Bail THE FIRST STONE by Helen Garner HAVING A LOVELY TIME by Jenny EclairThought Bubble
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- Charles Dickens
- children's literacy
- children's picture books
- culling brumbies
- Dorothy Owston-Booth
- Dr Kay Scarpetta
- e-books
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- Elyne Mitchell
- Enid Blyton
- Ernest Hemingway
- F.Scott Fitzgerald
- Flags of the Empire
- Gustauve Flaubert
- Henry James
- holiday houses
- independent book sellers
- Kate Munro
- Kerry Argent
- Kindle
- Kurt Vonnegut
- libraries
- Lionel Shriver
- literary criticism
- literary fiction
- Mae West
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- Mark Twain
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- Pears' Cyclopaedia
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- Sofie Laguna
- South Coast NSW
- Stella Prize
- story telling
- The First Time
- The Hoopla
- The Man From Snowy River
- The More it Snows
- The New Yorker
- The Portrait of a Lady
- The Silver Brumby
- The Snowy Mountains
- The Sydney Writers Festival
- The Virginity Project
- Thomas McGuane
- Tinkerbell
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- Too Loud Lily
- Truman Capote
- Vanity Fair
- We Need to Talk About Kevin
- William Thackeray
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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Literary Genius or Popularist Rubbish?
Mum popped in for a coffee the other day and returned a couple of books I had lent her. “Did you like them?” I asked. A simple enough question but her answer sucked the breath from my lungs. “No.” she … Continue reading
Posted in On Reading
Tagged Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, literary fiction, Vanity Fair, William Thackeray
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It’s the Mother of All Days
It’s ten o’clock in the morning on Mother’s Day. I’ve been up since 6.13am, awoken by my three year old flat footing it into the bedroom. “Can I get up yet?” he says. “Sure.” Mumbles me from under the doona. … Continue reading
More on listening to stories…
Zena’s comment made me remember one of my favourites as a child. I had a 45rpm single of Winnie the Pooh singing the song The More It Snows. The record had a bright red cover and I played it on … Continue reading
Fellow Readers, Lend Me Your Ears!
There is something about being read to that goes to a place deep in our psyche. Back to childhood memories of snuggling under the covers already in the alpha state between wakefulness and sleep, curled in the crook of my … Continue reading
Posted in On Reading
Tagged Gustauve Flaubert, Sam Lipsyte, story telling, The New Yorker, Thomas McGuane
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