Makes You Think at Bendigo Writers’ Festival
This weekend I'm heading to the Bendigo Writers' Festival to attend the Makes You Think session. While the panelists might…
Beyond Harry Potter – books for 10 to 13-year-olds
My 11-year-old son loved reading Harry Potter and Harry, Hermione and Ron kept him enthralled for almost a year as…
Book Review: The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku I listened to The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku and…
Book review: Animal by Lisa Taddeo
The title of Lisa Taddeo’s book speaks volumes about what lies within. Animal is a book of trauma and its…
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire attracted a lot of attention when it was published, which was unsurprising, given its…
Do harrowing books prepare you for the worst or make you fear it?
I heard an interesting TED Talk on resilience recently, delivered by a mother who had lost her 12-year-old daughter in…
Book review: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
There are many books that I forget almost as soon as I finish reading them. Even those that I love…
Book review: The Leavers by Lisa Ko
The Leavers centres on the story of a young boy, Deming, who is seemingly abandoned by his Chinese mother in…
The best book characters I’ve encountered recently
As an introvert, I find that book characters can be better company than real people. Rather than exhausting me as…
Book review: Phosphorescence by Julia Baird
I usually steer well clear of self-help or emotional wellbeing-type books, but this one was given to me by a…
