What have you been reading lately? On Thursday 11 October between 10:30 – 11:30am Parramatta City Library held a reading forum. From prize winning Australian novels to historical fictions set during the Great Wars, romances, true crime, biographies and adult non-fiction were shared. In addition, there was an online demonstration on how to discover more reading resources online via the library eresources webpage under the “reading” subject.
Books mentioned and discussed include:
Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears
Piece of Blue by Kerry McGinnis – an Australian autobiography about drovers
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Task Force ‘J’ by Richard Ansoul
The Independence of Miss Mary Bennett by Colleen McCullough
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Home of the Blizzard by Douglas Mawson
The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
My Dear I Want To Tell You by Louisa Young
The Room by Emma Donoghue
Stasiland by Anna Funder
All That I Am by Anna Funder
We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Summer Lies: Stories by Bernhard Schlink & Carol Janeway
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
The Timekeeper: a novel by Mitch Albom
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruz Zafan
I Curse the Ruler of Time by Per Patterson
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
Animals in War by Jilly Cooper
Royal Flying Doctor Service
War Dog
Obama
Highly Recommended Authors:
Pat Barker
Elizabeth Lord
Phillip Adams – Biographies
Patricia Cornwell – Crime fiction
Kelly Armstrong
Janet Chapman
A. B. Patterson
Andy McNab
Not Recommended:
Religion for Atheists: a Non-believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton – “too superficial” and “lacked critic”.