ParraPods number 3!
Parramatta City Library – Podcasts
Listen to our third episode, Love in the Library. Listen to Amy Andrews, Shannon Curtis, Ansley Patton. 3 Mills & Boon writers in a special romance panel & hear about their writing & publishing experiences.
Click on the picture below to listen on Soundcloud.
Stay tuned for many more fun and interesting pod casts from ParraPods.
ParraPods number 2!
Parramatta City Library – Podcasts
Listen to our second episode, Dr Xanthe Mallett celebrating Internation Women’s Day Parramatta City Library.
Click on the picture below to listen on Soundcloud.
Stay tuned for many more fun and interesting pod casts from ParraPods.
To celebrate Library Lovers Day on the 14th February, Parramatta City Library is looking for the most kissable book character! Does Mr Darcy take your fancy? Or is Anastasia Steele more your style? Maybe you’re a fan of an otherworldly lover like Eric from True Blood? Maybe you’re a true romantic and adore Heathcliff.
Drop into the library to vote for your favourite, or visit us on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest.
Most Kissable character announced 3rd March!
Click on the link to have your vote.
Well the first book I read for 2014 was another Liane Moriarty book called ‘What Alice Forgot’ and it was great.
Book Summary
Alice is twenty-nine. She is whimsical, optimistic and adores sleep, chocolate, her ramshackle new house and her wonderful husband Nick. What’s more, she’s looking forward to the birth of the ‘Sultana’ – her first baby.
But now Alice has slipped and hit her head in her step-aerobics class and everyone’s telling her she’s misplaced the last ten years of her life.
In fact, it would seem that Alice is actually thirty-nine and now she loves schedules, expensive lingerie, caffeine and manicures. She has three children and the honeymoon is well and truly over for her and Nick. In fact, he looks at her like she’s his worst enemy. What’s more, her beloved sister Elisabeth isn’t speaking to her either. And who is this ‘Gina’ everyone is so carefully trying not to mention?
Alice isn’t sure that she likes life ten years on. Every photo is another memory she doesn’t have and nothing makes sense. Just how much can happen in a decade? Has she really lost her lovely husband forever? Continue reading
Thanh’s Recent Reads:
RU by KIM THUY , translated from the French by SHEILA FISCHMAN
Refugees are hot topics nowadays. RU, meaning “lullaby”, written in French by Vietnamese author Kim Thuy, is the story of Vietnamese refugees. Continue reading