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Black silhouette of an apparently female figure in a top hat on a green background (with some faint writing in the top and bottom thirds), with the words in white: 2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge

2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge Review – MumShirl: an autobiography with the assistance of Bobbi Sykes

By Jo Tamar on 2015-01-26

My review of MumShirl: an autobiography with the assistance of Bobbi Sykes

Black silhouette of an apparently female figure in a top hat on a green background (with some faint writing in the top and bottom thirds), with the words in white: 2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge

2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge Review – Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth

By Jo Tamar on 2015-01-25

My review of Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth

Black silhouette of an apparently female figure in a top hat on a green background (with some faint writing in the top and bottom thirds), with the words in white: 2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge

2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge Review – In Her Blood by Annie Hauxwell

By Jo Tamar on 2015-01-22

My review of In Her Blood by Annie Hauxwell

Black silhouette of an apparently female figure in a top hat on a green background (with some faint writing in the top and bottom thirds), with the words in white: 2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge

2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge Review – Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke

By Jo Tamar on 2015-01-18 • ( 2 )

My review of Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke

Black silhouette of an apparently female figure in a top hat on a green background (with some faint writing in the top and bottom thirds), with the words in white: 2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge

2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge Review – Maralinga: The Anangu Story

By Jo Tamar on 2015-01-14

My review of Maralinga: The Anangu Story

Alan Rickman photoshopped with an H on his forehead like the holograms in Red Dwarf

Today in Mind Blown, IMDB Division

By tigtog on 2015-01-14 • ( 7 )

[Alan Rickman] auditioned for Chris Barrie’s character Rimmer in Red Dwarf (1988).

1988 was the same year that Die Hard, where Rickman played the villainous Hans Gruber, came out.

Black silhouette of an apparently female figure in a top hat on a green background (with some faint writing in the top and bottom thirds), with the words in white: 2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge

My books for the 2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge

By Jo Tamar on 2015-01-09 • ( 9 )

Annnnd here are the books I plan to read for #AWW2015

Black silhouette of an apparently female figure in a top hat on a green background (with some faint writing in the top and bottom thirds), with the words in white: 2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge

2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge

By Jo Tamar on 2015-01-08

Getting back on the reading challenge horse 3 years after the Australian Women Writers challenge started!

Text readng 'All About Women'

Sydney’s All About Women festival + Hoyden meetup

By Mary on 2015-01-05 • ( 3 )

The All About Women festival will be held at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday 8th March 2015, with speakers including Anita Sarkeesian and Rosie Batty. I suggest we also have a Hoyden meetup that day.

The Hobbit movie poster, showing Bilbo with a drawn blade

The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies (SPOILERS)

By Mary on 2014-12-28 • ( 4 )

In which I claim to have enjoyed the film and then list many things I didn’t like. But seriously, it was fun.

Warning: spoilers present in post and welcome in comments!