I had no interest in picking up Helen Garner’s latest novel The Spare Room. Helen has always seemed a little worthy, a little hard core for me. I based this assessment on what I’d seen of her in the media and some vague memory of her writing something on sexual harassment… I haven’t actually read [...]
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This is the second Corinna Chapman novel of Kerry Greenwood’s that I’ve read. And, like the first, Earthly Delights, I was once again amused by this unlikely heroine. An overweight baker in downtown Melbourne. She’s a feisty chick this Corinna, not afraid to wear a corset nor have friends that perhaps the more conservative of [...]
This is the first book selected for the Blogger’s Book Club I’ve joined. (if you’re interested in joining just say!) This book is set in Scandinavia – in Sweden in fact – right on the border of Norway. I haven’t read much Scandinavian fiction before so was interested immediately – also because my friend James [...]
My girl reads a lot of fiction but not books. She reads fan fiction. Fiction written by fans of an author using the author’s world, and the author’s characters. In Dippity’s case it’s Harry Potter and Avatar and there is a lot of it. Fan fiction is not a new thing and I suspect some [...]
I got up this morning – bleary eyed – after a late night with friends at ours. We’d played Singstar (oh my poor neighbours), 500 and Visualeyes and it is possible that the Kahlua flowed a little too freely. Falling into the black leather computer chair, before even putting on the kettle or cleaning the [...]
