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Saturday, October 31, 2015

Left On My Doormat!

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Look what I got!  It was left for me on my doormat by a wonderful postie who knew I wouldn't want to wait a week and go to the PO on Sat...
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ASIM Needs YOU - To Read Slush

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I posted about ASIM's need for slush readers in August last year. I believe we got some, but the need goes ever on. Especially sin...
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Friday, October 30, 2015

October 31, Not A Halloween Post - Happy Birthday, Dezzy!

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I'm not going to go into Halloween here, as I did a post on it this time last year. In the Northern hemisphere it's the start of win...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

What I'm Reading Now...

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Plenty, actually, but these few will do for now. Crash , the second Twinmaker novel by Sean Williams. I've been sent that for revie...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Rich And Rare - The Launch!

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Friday is not a night I usually go anywhere, it's family night, but my family understood that this was a special event that I shouldn...
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Just Finished Reading... Jump By Sean Williams(Twinmaker 1)

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I've known a bit about this book since some of my students read it in manuscript form before it was published by Allen and Unwin b...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Back To The Future 2! October 21, 2015!

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Just a short post tonight. This has been discussed on the radio and elsewhere. To be honest, I've only seen the movie once or twice, th...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Finishing My Reread... The Secret Adversary By Agatha Christie

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This is the first Tommy and Tuppence novel. Tommy and Tuppence are a couple who have adventures and solve mysteries together. In this fi...
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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Finally Reading... Blood Queen by Rhiannon Hart and Jump by Sean Williams

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My friend Rhiannon Hart, whose first two books in the Lharmell series were published by Random House Australia, kindly offered me a copy of...
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Friday, October 09, 2015

Books I Had To Read

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Reading a blog post in which the blogger complained bitterly about Walt Whitman's Leaves Of Grass, one of those national classics kids h...
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Thursday, October 08, 2015

Just Finished Reading... The Rest Of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

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I bought this from iBooks only Wednesday and had it finished yesterday. I'd read a review on Tsana's Reads blog and it sounded like ...
Monday, October 05, 2015

Special Nepotistic Promo Post!

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I've just had an email from my brother, who is a member of a terrific a capella group called the Ice Haloes. You can find them easily e...
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Saturday, October 03, 2015

New Book I'm Reading...

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I read a post on The History Girls blog, by my friend Gillian Polack, in which she mentioned a fascinating book she had read recently, A Dr...

Guest Post - Aleah Taylor

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Today I would like to welcome to The Great Raven debut Aussie children's author Aleah Taylor who, like me, took a while to find he...
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Monday, September 28, 2015

Just Finished Reading... The Man In The High Castle by Philip K Dick

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I admit this is my first Philip K Dick novel, though I do have a collection of his short stories. There's a little introduction at the ...
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Saturday, September 26, 2015

On This Day: September 27

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Events: tonight a supermoon/harvest moon/lunar eclipse...Anyway, be outdoors between around 9.00 and 10.00 pm and the moon will be up there,...

Theophilus Grey And The Demon Thief by Catherine Jinks. Sydney: Allen And Unwin, 2015.

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Twelve year old Theophilus Grey(generally known as Philo) is the leader of a team of link boys. In eighteenth century London, theirs is a ne...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Finally Finished Reading... Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson

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I bought this at the Reading Matters conference earlier this year. Laurie Halse Anderson is new to me, but she spoke very well at the confe...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Finally Got Around To Reading... The Fuller Memorandum By Charles Stross

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I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who buys a book that looks good and then puts it on the shelf for who knows how long before ge...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

New Goodies On My Cyber Bookshelves

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Yesterday I stumbled across Philip K Dick's classic AU novel The Man In The High Castle , on the short-time $4.99 or less shelf in iBoo...
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