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Monthly Archive for July, 2009

To Be Read (TBR) Pile

I’m still plugging away at The children’s Book, but I thought I show you all the books in my soon to be read pile. There is The Brain That Changes ItselfNorman Doidge BreathTim Winton Through Black SpruceJoseph Boyden Mariana Monica Dickens The Making of a MarchionessFrances Hodgson Burnett SaplingsNoel Streatfield My mother-in-law lent me The [...]

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The Lost Life – Steven Carroll

This book was picked by another member of my book club based on a review in The Australian. Steven Carroll won the Miles Franklin award in 2008 for The Time We Have Taken. We all decided we should read something Australian – although this one is set entirely in England. Here’s the blurb … England, [...]

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There is something quite comforting about reading Janet Evanovich. The Stephanie Plum novels are all the same – there will be explosions, there will be sexual tension between Stephanie and Ranger or Stephanie and Morelli or maybe both, there will be incredibly incompetent bounty hunter episodes. Having said that, there also hilarious – definitely a [...]

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