I have an overactive imagination. I am inclined to spend a reasonable amount of time in my head, and if left to my own devices the head stuff can start to dominate. It is difficult to explain. My mind doesn’t easily brake once a story is let loose, whether it is someone else’s tale or just a [...]
Archive for the ‘Australian fiction’ Category
Books that made me: Playing Beatie Bow
Posted in Australian fiction, Books, Books and Television, books that made me, Reading, Ruth Park, young adult, tagged books that made me, postaweek2011, the balloon-shaped swell of reading joy on 20 February, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Here: Torn Apart by Peter Corris
Posted in Australian fiction, Books, Cliff Hardy, crime, Peter Corris, tagged crime novels tell me most things I need to know about life, here and home, postaweek2011, speaking to your reading gut, Sydney books, writing about place on 6 February, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The city of Sydney, Australia, is many things. Sitting on one of the most beautiful harbours, edged by stunning beaches on one side and breathtaking mountains on the other, it is brash, sparkling, fast-paced, expensive, sprawled, traffic-choked, obsessed with real estate and restaurants, and full of workaholics who play hard and live hard. It is exciting, [...]
O is for the Ocean
Posted in Australian fiction, Books, Tim Winton, tagged an ear for language, books and men, the pull of reading on 13 December, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I live on a large island that is mostly desert and thus the vast majority of humanity cling to the coast. Cling, not only because we desire to live on somewhat arable land, but because many of us have a deep-felt emotional and cultural connection to the sea and those golden strips of beach. I [...]
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 [...]
