From over 800 entries, Aurealis has announced its 2013 awards finalists. The Aurealis Awards are Australia’s premier speculative fiction awards. Continue reading
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Stella Prize Longlist 2014 & Shortlist
We are thrilled to know the 2014 Stella Prize longlist has been announced:
Letter to George Clooney by Debra Adelaide
Moving Among Strangers by Gabrielle Carey
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (shortlisted)
Night Games by Anna Krien (shortlisted)
Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane (shortlisted)
Boy, Lost by Kristina Olsson (shortlisted)
The Misogyny Factor by Anne Summers
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright (shortlisted)
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright (shortlisted)
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
For more details you can look up
http://thestellaprize.com.au/the-stella-prize/2014-2/longlist-2014/
A Year of Reading 2013
It’s summer time and it’s always my reading time – I could have a break during the festive season and a lot time to read.
At the end of 2013, as usual, I’ve borrowed a lot books from Parramatta City Library and a big chuck of them are crime fiction. Continue reading
Jody’s 2013 a YEAR in BOOKS
As 2013 comes to an end now is the perfect time to share with everyone some of the great books I have read this year.
This year I discovered some really fantastic authors, like Liane Moriarty, Maria V. Snyder, Hannah Kent, Decorah O’Brien and Robin LaFevers. Some of these authors were recommended and others, I was lucky enough to pick up browsing the library’s shelves.
Some of my favourite books this year were written by Australian writers, they were: Continue reading
2nd Tuesday Evening Book Group
The group discussed the FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.
Group Comments
One member re-read ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ which was writeen by a German soldier after the first world war.
It is a novel based on the author’s experiences even though it is not biographical.
It is a poignant account of the horror and futility of war and remains a classic anit-war novel.
As such, it was banned by the Nazis, and the author was stripped of his German citizenship.
Our small group discussed how human history has always had groups of people who operate in an oppressive manner and want to use the media and publications as a vehicle of control.
Freedom of the press and literature is vital to an open and tolerant society.