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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Melbourne Writers' Festival 2013

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This is the first year in a very long time I've not gone at all. I don't even know what was on this year, though I'm on their m...
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I Have Been Reading...

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This evening I finished reading Josephine Tey's first novel, The Man In The Queue , published in 1929. It's the first Inspector Gra...
Monday, August 26, 2013

All Our Yesterdays By Cristin Terrill. Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2013

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Em is in a cell next to Finn, a boy she cares about, but hasn't seen since they were locked up. The Doctor has been torturing ...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

Recently Downloaded Books

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I get these cravings. With stacks of unread books, I feel like rereading. I've recently reread Josephine Tey's Daughter Of Time , w...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

This Year's CBCA Awards Go To...

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And here they are. I only buy the Older and Younger Readers books for my library, and I confess I haven't read them all. Of the Older R...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Will Kostakis Rocks!

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I went out to the station with one of my colleagues, Janis, to pick up our guest with his box of books for sale. He had decided to come ...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Will Kostakis In The Western Suburbs!

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Today my school will be honoured by a visit from young writer Will Kostakis, who is in town launching his new book and offered to visit us....
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Saturday, August 10, 2013

Flora's War By Pamela Rushby, Melbourne: Ford Street Publishing, 2013

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" It's 1915 and sixteen-year-old Australian, Flora Wentworth, is visiting Cairo with her archaeologist father. She watches with gr...
Thursday, August 08, 2013

Of Writing And Rejection Slips

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Even big name writers still get rejection slips sometimes. I have just learned this about a writer I admire. Of course, they will almost c...
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Saturday, August 03, 2013

A Job Crossover(From My Other Blog)

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First posted on my other blog, Sue Bursztynski's Page. I'm a teacher-librarian, part of a dying species since some idiot in the ...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

July 31 Birthday Meme

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This time last year, I asked my class,"Who can tell me whose birthday it is today?" One of my students, the younger brother of my...
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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Happy Birthday, Rosalind Franklin!

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Rosalind Franklin, July 25, 1920-April 16, 1958 Here's another tribute to a woman of science mentioned in my second book, Rosalind Fr...
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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Things To Come On The Great Raven!

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What I have just finished reading, first: Meg Cabot's Avalon High. I've not read her Princess Diaries series, which are supposed t...
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Dear Internet Hackers

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Dear Hackers, Please get a life. You have no friends or you wouldn't waste your time and everybody else's trying to get into peop...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

Dolly Fiction

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This morning, Tehani Wessely was talking on Twitter about Dolly Fiction, a series of Australian YA teen romance novels published in the 19...
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Monday, July 08, 2013

Black Spring by Alison Croggon. Sydney: Walker Books Australia, 2012

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I've only read one of Alison Croggon's novels before, the first Pellinor book. I'm not a fan of the Fat Fantasy Novel ...
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Friday, July 05, 2013

Anticipating The Crucible!

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Today, my sister and I will be seeing Arthur Miller's McCarthy era play The Crucible , being performed by the Melbourne Theatre Company...
Tuesday, July 02, 2013

ASIM 60 And First Go At Editing

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Actually, I have edited before, apart from the individual stories I did for two multi-editor ASIMs. I've published a few lovingly-craf...
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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Sophie Masson's New Venture

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Hi lovely readers. This morning I got the following email from Sophie Masson, author of so many wonderful fairy tale books (some review...

Anniversary - Gone With The Wind

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On June 30 1936 the massive writing/publishing/cultural phenomenon Gone With the Wind  was first published. It sold 1,000,000 copies in six...
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