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Saturday, October 25, 2008

LOATHING LOLA By William Kostakis

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Sydney, Pan Macmillan, 2008. I didn’t get this book for reviewing. I bought it after hearing the author speak and, having read it, decided...
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Saturday, October 18, 2008

NAOMI AND ELY’S NO-KISS LIST By Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 22008

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Naomi and Ely, two university students in New York city, have known each other since early childhood. They live in the same huge apartment b...
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THE CHAOS CODE By Justin Richards. London: Faber and Faber, 2007

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Computers that can create monsters in the real world, using the elements of water, fire, air and earth, ancient jungle ruins, a millionaire ...
Saturday, October 11, 2008

Anonymous Comment on Alison Croggon

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I got a comment from Anonymous, not on the book I have reviewed but on Alison Croggon. Sorry. I don't do personal. If I want to do polit...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The Gift. First Book of Pellinor. By Alison Croggon

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Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin, 2002 Alison Croggon is a poet. It shows, in the style of her writing and in the verses used as ballads and prophe...
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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Melbourne Writers' Festival 2008

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Good news. Melbourne has been declared a UNESCO "City of Literature." Nice to hear, if we can live up to it. I have been going to ...
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008

CROSSING THE LINE By Dianne Bates. Ford Street Publishing

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CROSSING THE LINE By Dianne Bates Seventeen-year-old Sophie is intelligent, good at her studies and a fine poet. She’s also a self-harmer, w...
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Thursday, July 03, 2008

THE DETACHABLE BOY By Scot Gardner

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John Johnson keeps losing his head - literally. And his feet (especially the small one, which doesn’t seem to fit and keeps falling off) and...
Saturday, June 28, 2008

Comment on Stride's Summer Review

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Dear 12 and a 1/2 year-old who commented on my Stride's Summer review, Yes, Stride's Summer is a great book, isn't it? Why don...
Thursday, May 29, 2008

The Book and Me

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When I took long service leave, I'd hoped to get a book to write while I was away from work. I had taken an extravagant twelve weeks, on...
Saturday, April 05, 2008

Trust Me! Published by Ford Street Publishing

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Okay, I can't review this book, because I have a story in it. Still, I can't resist giving it a plug. It started life as an antholog...
Monday, March 31, 2008

New YA fiction series begins!

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GIRLFRIEND FICTION 1 and 2: MY LIFE AND OTHER CATASTROPHES By Rowena Mohr and THE INDIGO GIRLS By Penni Russon When I began my first job as...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

Books and Writing: SCBWI conference, Sydney (1)

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Books and Writing: SCBWI conference, Sydney (1) This is a link to Sherryl Clark's con report, a lot tighter-written than mine! Both type...

Sydney SCBWI Conference, February 23-24, 2008

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This was the second conference in Australia of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Like last time, it was held at t...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

STRIDE’S SUMMER By Jenni Overend

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Allen and Unwin, Crow’s Nest, NSW, 2007. 163 p. It starts with a funeral - Stride’s father’s - and pouring rain. Stride’s father Frank, a f...
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Monday, January 07, 2008

Review: Teeth Marks By Rose Moxham

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It starts with a bicycle crash. Nick, the crash victim, ends up on his back in the local hospital, remembering how it all happened, in flash...
Saturday, December 15, 2007

Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony By Eoin Colfer. Published by Penguin Books.

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ARTEMIS FOWL AND THE LOST COLONY By Eoin Colfer When Artemis Fowl first came out, it was, as usual for children’s books at the time, acclaim...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Technorati Claim

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This is for my Technorati claim, to give this site more prominence. Technorati Profile
Saturday, October 27, 2007

Before The Storm By Sean McMullen

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BEFORE THE STORM By Sean McMullen This is one of the first two books to be published by Ford St Publishing, a new company formed by Australi...
Friday, October 05, 2007

On seeing a movie of a beloved book

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All I can say, after watching the movie supposedly based on Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising is - thank goodness J.K. Rowling had contr...
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