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
On Tuesday 9 July 2013 the 2nd Tuesday Group discussed:
My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Comments:
We found this an important book which raised significant ethical issues. The group was divided as to whether we liked the writing style, with some describing it as formulaic. 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
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
The Read Watch Play blog is the home of a monthly reading group that celebrates all kinds of reading possibilities. It encourages everyone to read and tweet about what they reading.
Each month the group will be reading around a particular theme. As well as discussing what you are reading in book groups, at your local library and with friends and family, some readers will also be tweeting about their reading. Continue reading