Title: The romantic: Italian days and nights
Author: Kate Holden
Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2010
Katherine’s pick
This novel is the sequel to ‘In my skin: a memoir’, which was the first book that this talented Australian author wrote about her life as a student in Melbourne, and her subsequent battle with addiction. Continue reading
Whooooooooooooops………..I almost missed this one out.
This year, Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced a while ago but I don’t think it’s too late to let everyone know Continue reading
Title: Crazy like us: the globalisation of the American psyche
Author: Ethan Watters
Free Press: 2010
Yes, it’s a quite crazy book title. America globalises lots of things, its Hollywood culture, high tech goods, democracy, etc… But this book talks about illness, mental illness that America, along with other western countries, exports to other countries globally. Continue reading
This Wed the reading group has discussed ‘The age of the unthinkable‘ by Joshua Cooper Ramo. Here are some comments from the group. Continue reading
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Winter Reading at Parramatta City Library has come out. In this issue, we have new fiction titles, non fiction titles, and recent book awards titles. What I’m most interested in are the titles translated from other languages. Here is the list of translations. Continue reading