Read Watch Play – Ego Read October 2013

Ego Read

Biographies and memoirs strike at our humanity. Understanding the motivations of another person’s life, empathising with their situation no matter how different it is from your own can create some powerful emotions that stay with you for many years.

From sporting lives, the lives of refugees, the life on the land or the life spent exploring the world, there is so much to experience. From the lives of celebrities to the lives of reality show stars to the little told story of a family member, their story written and handed down only through their family #egoreads can inspire us and help us with out future directions.  You can add to the discussion on Pinterest too.

So indulge yourself in #egoread and join us on 29 October for a live twitter discussion starting at 8.00pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time.   9.00pm New Zealand Summer  Time, 6.00pm Singapore Standard Time, 12.00 noon Central European Summer Time.  Note : this is a staggered start to the discussion.

Use the tags #egoread and #rwpchat as you discuss the reading, watching playing that is your experience of egoreads, so others can join in the conversation too.  You might like to use instagram to join the discussion – don’t forget the hashtags.

Last Thursday Book Group – Salvation Creek

 

salvation creekTitle – Salvation Creek

Author – Susan Duncan

Book Summary

Susan Duncan’s bestselling memoir about starting again and risking everything to find the only thing you need.

At 44 Susan Duncan appeared to have it all. Editor of two of Australia’s top selling women’s magazines, a happy marriage, a jetsetting lifestyle covering stories from New York to Greenland, rubbing shoulders with Hollywood royalty, the world was her oyster. But when her beloved husband and brother die within three days of each other, her glittering life shatters. Continue reading

Read Watch Play September 2013 – History Reads

Historyread

 History Reads movies non fictionHistory Reads FictionJoin the discussion this month about #historyread.  We will be focusing on all things historical in this discussion (and it will be great to see what ideas people sneak in).

 

 

 

 

 

 Do you like you #historyread to be real?  Do you like the stories around your #historyread or is it the people who make your #historyread come to life?

Is it local stories in your community, or even in your family, which make up your favourite #historyread?  Or do you like reading about other places and other times?

Does military history excite you?  Or is is social history with the stories of communities, and people living normal lives which are still exotic by being different to your life.  Is it recent history, or history from other places and other cultures?  Is it Indigenous history?

What is your favourite #historyread?  Does history have to be true, or do you enjoy imagined histories as well? Continue reading

Get Reading! 2013 is here

Australia’s largest celebration of books and reading, Get Reading! is back in 2013 with the ultimate guides to the best Australian reads. Along with the traditional Top 50 Books You Can’t Put Down, in 2013 Get Reading! has collated a list of Australia’s Top 100 Favourite Homegrown Reads, exclusively voted for by subscribers, fans and friends of Get Reading!
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2013 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award Shortlist

Information from http://asiasociety.org/about/awards/bernard-schwartz-book-award, Five books recognized for their outstanding contributions to the understanding of Asia have been chosen as finalists for the 2013 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award. The finalists were selected from over 100 nominations submitted by U.S. and Asia-based publishers for books published in 2012. The books are: Continue reading