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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
- Angela Meyer
- Australian reading habits
- Bad Sex in Fiction Award
- Banjo Patterson
- bestseller
- book blurbs
- book club
- book clubs
- bookstore closures
- borrowing
- borrowing books
- buying books
- Charles Dickens
- children's literacy
- children's picture books
- culling brumbies
- Dorothy Owston-Booth
- Dr Kay Scarpetta
- e-books
- e-readers
- 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
- Marian Keyes
- Mark Twain
- Mother's Day
- NSW Premier's Reading Challenge
- Orange Prize
- paperback books
- Pears' Cyclopaedia
- reading in bed
- Reading statistics
- reading weather
- running
- Sam Lipsyte
- sex in literature
- 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
- toilet reading
- Too Loud Lily
- Truman Capote
- Vanity Fair
- We Need to Talk About Kevin
- William Thackeray
- Winnie the Pooh
- writing in bed
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Monthly Archives: November 2011
The Chapter Book Milestone
Today was a milestone in the Jaffé family. Our latest reader has begun her first chapter book. Since yesterday, she has read seventy pages, which is a massive effort from a 5 ½ year old. To see her lying on … Continue reading
Posted in On Reading
Tagged chapter books, Charlotte Wood, Enid Blyton, Kate Forsyth, Kate Morton, The Wishing Chair
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Ssshh! It’s a Secret…
As soon as I write the word diary I can see it. A pink veleveteen cover, gold padlock, a tiny gold key with a tassel on it and the front cover embossed with the words Secret Diary. It demands to … Continue reading
The To Do List of Life aka Juggle or Die
Sometimes I wonder whether I will ever finish any task that I start. It’s all very well to say multi-tasking is inefficient but I ask you, how else would we get things done? Men don’t want to believe in … Continue reading
This week on The Hoopla I wrote about hair
I CUT MY OWN HAIR. TOO MUCH?.
Posted in On Life
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