It's been a long time since I've found such delight in a story's every sentence. The telling is all fine wordsmithing and sharp phrase-turning and frank soul-searching, neither sentimental nor cynical nor pretentious, and thoroughly engaging.The story is also satisfying and among the best I've rea...
This book really is two books within one. The first part is an exploration of white Australian culture and its enduring motifs including cars, masculinity and yobbo culture. Carey interrogates how those who don't fit into this might navigate the Australian way of life.But these perceived struggles b...
A "literary novel" that really meets the definition! The premise is that the female editor of a British literary magazine tries tracking down an author who created a poetry hoax - and then the fictional poet appears in the flesh. The author in question is named Christopher Chubb, the literary edito...
I seem to be having a very Ned Kelly year, starting off with my daughters First Fleet assignment, in which Red Kelly, Ned's father, was the first Irish convict to be transported to the new colony. That was followed up with the musical Ned, in the fitting setting of the old Bendigo Gaol, which has be...
Got this from FirstReads, the giveaway program of GoodReads.Even a couple days after finishing this book, I'm not sure I can describe what it's about, because I'm not sure I know. Certainly the main character is a journalist who seems to overestimate his own abilities and importance. And he's surr...
This book is a great big crazy anarchic mess. But I enjoyed it. One of the things I enjoyed was the sense of place in the book. I grew up in Sydney, in Balmain/Rozelle and I now live in Victoria just outside of Melbourne, so I could connect with the story in terms of many of its locations. I loved t...
Słowem wstępu chciałabym napomknąć, że nie jestem fanką obyczajówek, a po książkę sięgnęłam, ponieważ moja rodzicielka stwierdziła, że czytam za dużo fantastyki. Pierwsza połowa książki dłużyła mi się niemiłosiernie. Kiedy ledwo przeczytałam jedną stronę odkładałam powieść na bok, bo po prostu była ...
bookshelves: spring-2014 Read from March 11 to 30, 2014 description: When Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator in London, falls into grief after her lover's sudden death, her boss gives her a special project. She will bring back to 'life' a nineteenth-century mechanical bird. As she begins to p...
An outstanding collection, inspiring me to read more of the work of many of the authors featured:Nadine Gordimer - The Ultimate SafariA tale of asylum-seeking in Mozambique from the point of view of a young child, whose unworldliness enables Gordimer to draw a painful contrast between the lives of A...
This is the story of Parrot and Olivier, a British servant and a French aristocrat, and their travels in America in about 1830 - the relatively early days of democracy. It's funny, in a heavily ironic way, and well-written, and clever, with some interesting observations on the Nature of Democracy as...
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