The Drowner by Robert Drewe (ISBN 0-7329-0858-2)Pan Macmillan, 1996The best books leave you gasping for air, drowning in jealousy that you did not write them. They fill you with the need to rer...
Im not the kind of girl (or blogger) who usually takes part in this kind of meme... but I have been tagged by Sabrina and it is Sunday night... and sometimes answering questions about yourself is a g...
Writing with a fluffy, anthropomorphised pen is never as productive as you think it will be.
First things first. I have decided that when I grow up, I would like to be Bernard Black.There are a few problems with this, besides the fact that the print industry appears to be well and trul...
Coondardoo by Katharine Susannah PrichardPrinted and bound by Halstead Press, Sydney (1956)First published by Jonathan Cape 1929In the early decades of the Twentieth Century, on a rural North West pr...
Source: Staples eReader DepartmentClick on the red button to take a timed test and find out how fast you read. I read 412 words a minute, which means I could finish Wuthering Heights in 3 hours...
Dear fellow student- I think of you.I know that these days, it is hard to get out of bed in the morning, and not just because it is so cold lately that there is condensation on my window when I draw ...
Book snobbery is not a new phenomena, but the fact that its been around for so long doesnt make it any less pointless.Traditionally, a lot of snobbery was levelled at the so called genre fiction- a r...
The lobby was crowded. There were bits of cheap smelling popcorn crushed into the floor. Waiting audience members ranged in age and style from twenty-something year old hipsters (the norm...
Does age entitle wisdom?And what is wisdom anyway? Is it being smart? Is it knowing things? Is it understanding things? Is it working hard to find the answer, and always looking in ...
In which we will think about UNIVERSE SHIFTING MOMENTS IN RESEARCH.... for Jo, the ever-helpful Murdoch University Twitterer. (Tweeter? Twitter-operator?)What does it take to shift the un...
This week, I asked readers on Twitter and Facebook suggest topics for my diary entry. I wanted to know what you wanted to know. I got two fabulous responses. Which means, (hopefully...
If reading this book is anything to go by, Tom Hungerford was a larrikin with a heart of gold. The Western Australian literary imagination (and the topic of my thesis) owes much to this man. &n...
Im a bit late to the party, seeing as I only started watching Joss Whedons Buffy the Vampire Slayer late last year. In the 1990s, when it was on, I was aware of it only because I was friends wi...
The Ethics of Skipping a Class.Lets think about it this way. We are all adults. We have adult lives. We have jobs, houses to clean, families to spend time with (or ignore, thats up ...
If you have ever enjoyed this blog.If you have ever read this blog and thought it wasnt all that lame.If you have ever read this blog because we are friends and you felt obliged to.If you have ever r...
I remember distinctly the first time I read Picnic at Hanging Rock. It was in year 10, Mrs. Griffiths class. In my mind, she is an amalgam of all my favourite teachers at once. Each term ...
We had some beautiful weather here in Perth to celebrate! I hope you got lots of reading done, and lots of chocolate from the Easter Bunny.
Sisters. The relationship between them can be so... complicated. Ive often tried and failed to describe that mixture of love, hurt, jealousy and idolatry that accompanies having a sister....
Today, I broke my bag.This is probably why:I had at least four more of those in my bag today. Plus a travel coffee mug. Plus a notebook. Plus a pencil case. Plus an elephant. ...
I made reference in an earlier blog post which I did about the first Hunger Games book to the fact that I like these books because of the comment that they make on the reality television phenomena. &...
This post could also be entitled: Things Get Real. Or, How To Plan The Greatest 21st Birthday Ever When a Thesis is Breathing Down Your Neck Like a Big Paper-cutty Dragon.For a start, my very f...
This review is about two things. It is first and foremost a review of the 2009 novel by Suzanne Collins- The Hunger Games, first in the YA dystopian trilogy. But it is also a lesson in re...
First things first... did you see me on All That Glitters this week? YOU DIDNT? We must remedy this at once. Amber-Rose from All That Glitters asked me to write a special guest post on my...
What can you do when doing a Higher Degree by Research really starts to get you down? If youre anything like me, this presents a special conundrum- reading, your usual pastime, is now a job. &n...
Lets get down to business.My mum says that there is a phenomenon experienced by new mothers in which the mother spends all day at home with the baby, and therefore is so starved for adult conversatio...
If you missed out on me explaining what my Honours Thesis is, click here.Well, folks, things are looking up. While the sun is still shining, its no longer sweltering out and I was even able to ...
(Its probably just me, but whenever I write "Writers Festival", I always feel I should be writing "Writers Festival." I mean, the rule for placement of apostrophes is "Whose...
I thought I would kick off a new round of reviews today and just give you a little taste of the kind of literature that I am trying to promote. Jon Dousts Boy on a Wire was published in 2009, a...
One of my long term goals is to be integral in generating a larger writing and publishing scene in Western Australia. Basically because I dont want to move.For those of you who dont live here, ...
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