Reflection on BWF – do books make us think?
It was wonderful to listen to Lucy Treloar, Charlotte Wood and Jane Rawson discuss whether books can change a reader…
It was wonderful to listen to Lucy Treloar, Charlotte Wood and Jane Rawson discuss whether books can change a reader…
This weekend I'm heading to the Bendigo Writers' Festival to attend the Makes You Think session. While the panelists might…
My 11-year-old son loved reading Harry Potter and Harry, Hermione and Ron kept him enthralled for almost a year as…
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku I listened to The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku and…
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 attracted a lot of attention when it was published, which was unsurprising, given its…
I heard an interesting TED Talk on resilience recently, delivered by a mother who had lost her 12-year-old daughter in…
There are many books that I forget almost as soon as I finish reading them. Even those that I love…
The Leavers centres on the story of a young boy, Deming, who is seemingly abandoned by his Chinese mother in…
As an introvert, I find that book characters can be better company than real people. Rather than exhausting me as…