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Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Two Evenings With Harry Potter And His Friends!

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Princess Theatre 1920. From Wikipedia. Fair use. For the last two nights I have been in a magical world. Firstly, the magic...
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Monday, January 28, 2019

Good Omens: The Radio Play!

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I have no idea when I will get to see the brand new Good Omens TV show, with all those amazing actors in it, but I found that the ra...
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Booktopia: Australia’s Favourite Author 2019 - The Finalists!

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A bit of a disappointment this year. Last year there was a delightful month worth of voting and cutting down the list from fifty to t...
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Saturday, January 26, 2019

Just Arrived From Booktopia! We Spoke Out: Comic Books And The Holocaust

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Yesterday was a blazing hot day - 44’ Celsius(that’s 111’ Fahrenheit). I knew I had a book coming from Booktopia and looked forward to turn...
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Friday, January 25, 2019

Of Fan Fiction Based On Books - A Whinge!

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There’s a lot of fan fiction around these days. Some of it is published professionally- not only official Star Trek novels and such, but ...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Book Blogger Hop: What Drives You Bonkers About Authors?

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This week's Book Blogger Hop asks you to talk about what drives you nuts when authors do it and makes you want to tell them a thing or ...
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Monday, January 14, 2019

Katrina Nannestad: An Interview

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Recently, I received a copy of this book, which is available here . It's an anthology of short, humorous stories for children, ...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2019

In Which I See Lots of Escher’s Work And Get Ideas...

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Yesterday I went with my friend Jasna to see the exhibition of work by Dutch artist M.C Escher, Escher x nendo: Between Two Worlds at the N...
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Sunday, January 06, 2019

Just Finished Reading... Natural Born Loser by Oliver Phommavanh

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Raymond is a Year Six student at a primary school which has a poor reputation. There are bullies. The place is shabby. The last few ...
Saturday, January 05, 2019

Australia’s Favourite Author 2019 - Nominating Now!

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Each year, the Booktopia website runs a competition to see who is the most popular writer in Australia. I have posted about this before , d...
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Thursday, January 03, 2019

Happy Birthday, Tolkien!

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On this day in 1892, a very talented boy was born to an English family in South Africa. Most of his childhood, though, was spent back in En...
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Wednesday, January 02, 2019

Harry Potter And The Cursed Child - Tickets Bought!

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I did it, only yesterday- I bought my tickets for Part 1 and 2 of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child! It’s something I’ve been promising mys...
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Saturday, December 29, 2018

The Joy Of Talking Books

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My first experience with books that talked was when I was the teacher librarian at a disadvantaged western suburbs school in Melbourne many...
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Friday, December 28, 2018

Book Blogger Hop: Did You Get Any Books For Christmas?

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This week’s theme asks what books you got for Christmas. Last Christmas the answer was Hidden  Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly, about the ...
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Thursday, December 27, 2018

Books I Enjoyed This Year

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Everyone seems to be doing a “best of 2018” so I thought I’d do a few - not all of them published this year, but books I’ve read this year ...
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Monday, December 24, 2018

Apollo 8 And Christmas Day

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Fifty years ago today, three astronauts - Jim Lovell, Bill Anders and Frank Borman -  were orbiting the moon and reading the first few line...
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Thursday, December 20, 2018

Look What I Bought!

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Today I went to Dymock’s Bookshop in the city to spend some of my $70 gift voucher given to me by my friends Gaye and Robin. These da...
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Puddle Hunters by Kirsty Murray and Karen Blair. Melbourne: Allen and Unwin, 2018

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When the rain stops, it's time to go puddle hunting. Ruby and Banjo go up the street, through the park, over the bridge and down ...