(courtesy Simon & Schuster) Passion projects are always a delight to read. There’s something about a novel that an author has long held close to their heart that reads with extra vivacity, reflecting a prevailing love of genre or storytelling style that has had to be put aside for other Continue Reading
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The world keeps spinning … the threat evolves on Invasion S3 trailer
(courtesy First Showing (c) AppleTV+) SNAPSHOTInvasion follows an alien invasion through different perspectives around the world. In season three, those perspectives collide for the first time, as all the main characters are brought together to work as a team on a critical mission to infiltrate the alien mothership. The ultimate Continue Reading
Book review: The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses (Mossa & Pleiti book #3) by Malka Older
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Arriving at the third book in any series is a thing of quiet and fulfilling joy. You have had two books to be introduced and get to know the main characters, to be come familiarised with the world in which they love and to understand the Continue Reading
The decline and the fall … Thoughts on Foundation S3 E1-3
(courtesy IMP Awards) The first two enthrallingly good seasons of Foundation, a lavish adaptation of Issac Asimov’s book series of the same overall name, were a portentous drumbeat march to the end of the world. Or in the case of this engrossingly intense story, the end of an empire which Continue Reading
Book review: Happiness Forever by Adelaide Faith
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) By and large we flee from honest expression of heart, mind and soul like it’s the plague. Oh, we talk a big game about living authentic lives and place the idea of unfiltered, soul-freeing truthfulness up on a pedestal, but in practice, we go to Continue Reading
#ChristmasInJuly book review: Christmas is All Around by Martha Waters
(courtesy Hachette Australia) When you’re diving into a festive rom-com read, you hope and pray that you’ll be served up lashings of magical romance and renewal and healing in bountiful measure. That’s precise you get in the magnificently heartwarming joy and wonder that is Christmas is All Around by Martha Continue Reading
#ChristmasInJuly book review: The Merriest Misters by Timothy Janovsky
(courtesy Hachette Australia) Who doesn’t adore a good love story? Even better, one set at Christmas when everything is at a peak of wonderfulness, magic is in the air and anything and everything seems possible (bar finding a parking spot at the locla mall but then, that’s a whole other Continue Reading
Book review: The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (Mossa & Pleiti book #2) by Malka Older
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) It’s such a delight to come across a sci-fi tale that completely delights and engrosses you with its originality, thoughtfulness, wit & verve and rich characterisation, that when you do stumble across it, it feels like all your reading Christmases have come at once. Such was Continue Reading
Book review: The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) All of us, to some extent or another, come to appreciate through the course of our lives just how the present owes to the past. It’s not simply that one leads to the other though that is very much a part of what takes place Continue Reading
Christmas in July book review: Snowed in for Christmas by Claire Sandy
(courtesy Pan Macmillan) Every year I read a lot of Christmas rom-coms and every year I’m mostly glad I did. There’s something comforting about reading about people’s lives taking a definitive turn for the better, especially when everything says there is no real hope of any kind of meaningful redemption, Continue Reading