(courtesy Fourth Estate) After watching far too many books sit trapped in my To Be Read (TBR) pile for years and years, I decided it was high time a month was devoted to rescuing them from the reading void and diving into their promising stories. So, for October, each book Continue Reading
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Rebellion in the offing … Silo season 2 drops its first portentous trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn a toxic dystopian future where a community lives in a giant silo hundreds of stories deep underground, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Silo, formerly known as Wool, is a mini-series created and written by Canadian TV Continue Reading
Deep TBR book review: The Geography of Friendship by Sally Piper
(courtesy UQP) After watching far too many books sit trapped in my To Be Read (TBR) pile for years and years, I decided it was high time a month was devoted to rescuing them from the reading void and diving into their promising stories. So, for October, each book review Continue Reading
Celebrating the very happiest of my happy places: Love Your Bookshop Day 2024
(courtesy The Book People) An initiative of The Book People, Love Your Bookshop Day was started as a means of “celebrat[ing] bookshops across the country and highlight[ing] what makes local bookshops great”. This year’s theme, “Giving the gift of imagination”, celebrates “the crucial role bookshops play in inspiring our imagination” Continue Reading
Deep TBR book review: Ninth Metal (The Comet Cycle #1) by Benjamin Percy
(courtesy Hachette Australia) After watching far too many books sit trapped in my To Be Read (TBR) pile for years and years, I decided it was high time a month was devoted to rescuing them from the reading void and diving into their promising stories. So, for October, each book Continue Reading
Festive book review: Christmas Actually by Lisa Darcy
(courtesy Bloodhound Books) Of all the seasons about which we section off and mark the calendar year, Christmas is supposed to be the one where all the good and perfect things happen, where all the drab and challenging realities of life are pushed happily aside by roasting chestnuts, peace & Continue Reading
Book review: The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
(courtesy Allen & Unwin Book Publishers) As you gaze upon the twisted vista of the current world, it’s all too easy to feel that there is nothing good or magical left anywhere for us to discover. Driven out by neoliberalism and the ceaseless quest for more, more, more, whether it’s Continue Reading
Book review: Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Something superlatively wonderful happens when truly beautiful writing comes together with an arrestingly clever narrative. In an ideal world, this would happen in every single book you read, but it’s not always the case and so, when masterfully executed writing and a beguiling storyline rich in Continue Reading
Book review: Would You Rather by Maggie Alderson
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) Reinvention is usually seen as something good, an exercise of personal agency that sees the old cast aside in favour of something hoped or believed to be new and different. But what happens with reinvention is forced upon you, usually by some kind of trauma Continue Reading
Book review: The Book Swap By Tessa Bickers
(courtesy Hachette Australia) We are in love with the road to love being quick, instant and one hundred percent assured. That’s why most romantic comedies strike a chord with us because they say you can have love, it will be immediately recognisable and there will be no guesswork at all Continue Reading