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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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- Australian reading habits
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- Banjo Patterson
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- bookstore closures
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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
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- Mae West
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- Mark Twain
- Mother's Day
- NSW Premier's Reading Challenge
- Orange Prize
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- Pears' Cyclopaedia
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- Sam Lipsyte
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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
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- Thomas McGuane
- Tinkerbell
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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Holidays, Cows, the Sea and Books
Well it’s Sunday again, which means it’s time to pen some thoughts on living life through books. I must confess that this week has been relatively book free for me. The family jumped in the station wagon and racked off … Continue reading
Virginity Lost and Found
This week I was lucky enough to interview the lovely Kate Munro for The Hoopla on her book The First Time. Grab a cup of coffee and read all about it and then check out her fascinating blog, The Virginity … Continue reading
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It’s Like Having a Fling Vs Getting Married
This week a package arrived in the post. Inside the cardboard carton was another cardboard carton and inside that was a Kindle. I had imagined it would be smaller, more the size of an i-phone, although my aging eyes are … Continue reading
They Kill Horses, Don’t They?
In the news again is the culling of brumbies in the Snowy Mountains: there are too many, it is unsustainable, they are feral. On the television are images of the wild horses being corralled into crushes and frightened into skittering … Continue reading
Your taste in books SUCKS!!!!!
It’s been a big week for writing here at Life Lived Through Books. In case you’ve been in bed with the flu or stuck at an airport terminal stuffing yourself with Krispy Kremes waiting for a plane that is NEVER … Continue reading
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