Are you a fan of crime reads, fictional or other wise? Well, the following titles longlisted (and shortlisted) on this year’s Ned Kelly Awards are the best productions by Australian crime writers. You can click the links to see availability at Parramatta City Library.
Sitting under the sun now, but feel the chill. Continue reading
This year’s National Biography Award shortlist has been announced. They are all interesting books. Our library has some titles available for loan and will order other titles soon.
Speechless: a year in my father’s business by James Button
The 1st Wednesday Group discussed
Eureka: the unfinished revolution by Peter Fitzimmons
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The Last Thursday Group read M. L. Stedman’s The Light Between Oceans
Warning some comments may contain a plot spoiler!
By reading these comments some elements of the story may given away. Continue reading
Title: The Book Thief
Author: Markus Zusak
Publisher: Pan McMillan, Australia, 2005
Staff Pick: Thanh
Read from the blurb of the book: “It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.”
Ah well, I said to myself, another Jewish story, in the line of The Schindler’s List, The Pianist etc… Which reminds me of my good German friend Manfred. He’s a gentleman, in the usual sense we understand, and in the literal meaning of a gentle, soft speaking, and decent soul. Once, he said to me: “Yes, during that time, Germany under Hitler did unspeakable evil, but the country never lacks of decent people, and ever since we try our damnedest that nothing of the sort ever happens again. Why even now, a book, a movie crop up to point a finger at us again and again?” Continue reading