I love reading books. Losing myself in books, long and short, big and small, has been a passion of time since I can remember but even I have to admit it’s well near impossible to read everything (not that I don’t give it a red hot go!). Riding to Continue Reading
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Book review: The Lonely Hearts Cinema Club by David M. Barnett
Jenny Ebert is not even remotely comfortable in her own skin. That much is apparent from the get-go in The Lonely Hearts Cinema Club, the latest book from David M. Barnett (Calling Major Tom) in which the film nerd who won’t accept she’s a film nerd – she loves Continue Reading
Book review: LIFEL1K3 by Jay Kristoff
When the cover of a book proclaims it’s Romeo & Juliet meets Mad Max meets X-Men with a little bit of Blade Runner cheering from the headlines” it’s either got a healthy sense of what makes it work so well or its hopelessly derivative and is hoping that bringing Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: People, books and the seamless matching of the two
The Librairie Mollat is an independent bookstore in Bordeaux, France that has had a great deal of fun, so notes Laughing Squid, matching customers and books together in fantastically creative ways. So seamless and imaginative are their efforts that it looks as if book and customer belong perfectly together, Continue Reading
Book review: The Hoarder by Jess Kidd
One of the first things that strikes you within a few words of diving into the wonders of The Hoarder is how exquisitely well Jess Kidd writes. She is that rare talent who can spin the most lusciously poetic of phrases and yet never once lose the kind of Continue Reading
Book review: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
(cover image courtesy Harper Collins) One of life’s great delights is having your expectations of something completely and utterly challenged and subverted, in the best possible way. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal is such the latest example of assumptions being made, in this case based on Continue Reading
Book review: Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon
Time brings both blessings and curses for mortal creatures such as ourselves. While the ticking of the clock brings a host of wonderful friendships, precious family moments and memories and experiences we often treasure for a lifetime, it can also bring a sizable amount of loss, regret and grief. Continue Reading
Book review: Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
Unfettered modern capitalism, whatever your view of it, and for most people, billionaires and power brokers aside, it’s not a favourable one, is having quite the heyday of late. Governments regularly spruik its multitudinous benefits, throwing around words like “efficiency” and “market-driven” like their confetti at a neverending, privately-funded Continue Reading
Book review: Caraval by Stephanie Garber
Just like life itself, Caraval is equal parts enchanting magic, and devious darkness, a journey into the very heart of humanity wrapped in a thousand colours of the rainbow. Colour features strongly indeed in Stephanie Garber’s debut novel, which pivots on the idea that magic abounds around us if Continue Reading
Reading in public places: Why I love libraries #LIW2018
SNAPSHOT Library and Information Week, held from 21-27 May 2018 with the theme “Find yourself in a Library” aims to raise the profile of libraries and information service professionals in Australia. It gives libraries and information services the opportunity to showcase their resources, facilities, events, contacts and services through different Continue Reading