I am not a trendsetter. I don’t own an i-phone, I don’t live in a funky suburb, I’m not sure what the hip kids are up to these days, and wearing cartoon-character T-shirts to the gym seems to be something only I find pleasing. And yet in the last few months I have had a taste of what [...]
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Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Posted in Books, Child Narrators, dystopia, Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Suzanne Collins, young adult, tagged adventure tales, being compelled to keep reading, following a series, postaweek2011 on 4 April, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Book 25: Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
Posted in Australian fiction, Books, Child Narrators, Craig Silvey, Reading on 15 October, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is one of those books I almost didn’t read because the gushing had become close to overbearing (I tend to the Public Enemy way of responding to this sort of thing: don’t believe the hype). I mean really, how good can a book be? … Well, of course, we all know the answer to [...]
Book Five: Mr Pip, Lloyd Jones
Posted in Books, Charles Dickens, Child Narrators, classics, Lloyd Jones, Reading on 21 February, 2009 | 5 Comments »
People who like books and reading like to read books about books and reading. And as you would assume that novelists are included in that bunch of ‘people’ there are a lot of novels out there with books, reading, libraries and authors as their theme. Mr Pip is a novel about how one novel in [...]
