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Cumberwatch: Parade’s End
Parade’s End is Benedict Cumberbatch’s latest televisual outing, and is being described all over as “the thinking person’s Downton Abbey“.
Children’s Book Council of Australia Book Week: Books which shaped me
Here’s the brief: “Write some posts about my childhood reading, not only favourite books, but how I read them and why I still remember them.” (Seems I’ve missed the deadline already. Blogging Occupational hazard – sorry!) When I think of… Read More ›
Book Week: Looking For Alibrandi
In response to Tansy Rayner Roberts’s Blog Book Week challenge, I remember how I read Melina Marchetta’s Looking For Alibrandi when I was in high school.
Book Week: Playing Beatie Bow
In response to Tansy Rayner Roberts’s Blog Book Week challenge, I remember how Ruth Park’s Playing Beatie Bow affected me as a young teenage reader.
Book Week
Book Week 2012 #bookweek
2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge Review: The Sisters Antipodes by Jane Alison
An extra review for the 2012 Australian Women Writer’s Challenge – The Sisters Antipodes by Jane Alison
De Botton on sex – even odder than you might have expected
Apparently Alain de Botton knows exactly how everybody feels about sex (just like he does! how convenient!) while being blithely unaware of the sheer TMI factor. This review of his latest book How To Think More About Sex at sexandthe405.com is long, comprehensive and unfavourable.
Pushback Awesome: another community having the anti-harassment policy debate
This time it’s the science fiction writing community undergoing Deep Rifts over a disputed implementation of an existing anti-harassment policy at Readercon following a verified harassment incident, complete with yet another round of but-we-don’t-need-no-stinkin-policy-anyway backlash. [nb: updates 1 & 2]
6 Books: Dava Sobel
Her list of six books that ignited her passion for space, scientific exploration and adventure from Radio National’s Top Shelf segment. What books were ignition points for you? Most of mine had something to do with histories.
Hoyden About Town 