Book Reviews
Review: DEAD HEAT by Bronwyn Parry
Originally posted on Fair Dinkum Crime:
I am not a fan of the relatively modern trend towards narrower and narrower ‘genrefication’ of fiction because I believe it repels more readers than it attracts (though I’ll admit this is based on anecdotal and experiential evidence rather than the scientific kind). For example, my expectations that something…
Book Review: What is the What by Dave Eggers
Originally posted on bookboodle:
What’s it about? What is the What is the story of a man, who, as a boy, was separated from his family in Sudan’s brutal civil war; who trekked across Africa’s punishing wilderness with thousands of other children; who survived arial bombardment and attacks by the militias and wild animals; who ate…
Book Review: Yoko Ono
Originally posted on booksandbassets:
My mother was born in 1931 and grew up poor & French-Canadian in a mining town. She ran away from home at 15 to escape the life she could foresee if she stayed. She was married, became a mother and was widowed before she was 20. She remarried and lived an…
French Parents Don’t Give In: 100 parenting tips from Paris. Written by Pamela Druckerman
Originally posted on perpetually loading…:
Recently I was given the opportunity to review a book for the Child Health Association Tasmania. Having a child with Autism, the title “French Parents Don’t Give In: 100 parenting tips from Paris” kind of appealed to me. So while I was waiting for my son at one of his…
Book Review: An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Originally posted on Blogaria:
“An Abundance of Katherines” is one of the few books in English language that I had finished reading for the shortest time, for about a month, I guess. I have this reading-the-first-page-of-a-book-then-goes-to-sleep syndrome that’s why to finish reading a book is some sort of a big deal for me. I got…
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