The Pink Hotel
The Pink Hotel by Anna Stothard A 17 year old flys from England to LA for her mothers funeral. Doesn’t sound overly odd or out of the realms of normality, right? At first I thought I was crazy reading...
View ArticleBloodlines
The Golden Lily, book 2 in the Bloodlines series is out and a bestseller in the Young Adult category, so I’ve gone into the pre-blog archives and found what I wrote about Bloodlines, the first book...
View ArticleThe Housemaid’s Daughter
The Housemaid’s Daughter by Barbara Mutch is not a book I would have normally picked up and read of my own accord but I enjoyed it. Most of the reviews I’ve read since reading this are based on the...
View ArticleEverybody Loves Our Town
Everybody Loves Our Town- by Mark Yarm. Oh grunge, how I miss thee. And now that we are facing down the (yikes!) 20 year anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death, the media’s nostalgia machine is going into...
View ArticleWestern Australian Premier’s Book Awards
The winner of the 2011 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced on 17 September. The Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards is an award for books and scripts written by Western...
View ArticleTwo Thieves and a Fishing Trip
The Chicken Thief The Fishing Trip The Treasure Thief Okay I will admit it – I have a soft spot for kids’ books. I don’t just mean Young Adult reading , I mean picture books. No , I don’t actually...
View ArticleThe Sense of an Ending
At first bat, when attempting to explain The Sense of an Ending, I can’t recall a whole lot actually happening. It’s mostly about an average guy (Tony Webster) meandering through an average life with...
View ArticleThat Woman
That Woman: The Life Of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor is essentially a biography of Wallis Simpson written by historian Anne Sebba. I’d generally prefer to read an auto-biography, however the...
View ArticleDelirium
Love is a many splendid thing (William Shakespeare)! Love is blindness (U2)! Love is… a disease? This is the startling dystopia of Lauren Oliver’s Delirium Series, a fantastic trilogy for young adults....
View ArticleBefore I Go To Sleep | Book Review
I have a thing about books where if it is gripping, well-written and thrilling, I can get into the zone faster than an Olympic swimmer and before I know it I am through 150 pages and about to miss my...
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