Title: Wicked Appetite
Author: Janet Evanovich
Suzanne’s pick
This book marks the start of a new series for Janet Evanovich featuring a new heroine Elizabeth Tucker and the reappearance of the mysterious supernatural Diesel (first seen in Plum Spooky the 4th Stephanie Plum between the numbers novel). 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
Author: Kerry Greenwood
Title: Dead man’s chest
Have you ever read any books by Kerry Greenwood? If not, well, I would strongly recommend you to start with Phryne Fisher. Continue reading
The 1st Wed Reading Group discussed ‘The slap‘ by Australian writer Christos Tsiolkas. The book won 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, shortlisted for 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Awards and longlisted for Man Booker 2010. It was a good discussion about it. Val sent me the group notes to share with others. Continue reading