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I'm tired of cancer eating my friends and family. I'm not a scientist, but I'm stubborn and I love books - so I'll be fundraising the sad and powerless right outta my hair.

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Local Booksellers Know Best (Part Two)

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

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This was recommended to me by a local bookseller, when I asked her “What’s the best book you’ve read this month?”  I consider it a solid strategy; I was introduced to Christopher Brookmyre this way back in the mid 90s, and have never had cause to regret it. The bookseller who recommended this said it got her out of a reading slump, and since I’d not long since read Beach Read, I was keen to give it a go. Its another winner from Emily Henry […]

I was worried about this “most ambitious novel yet”

The Tilt by Chris Hammer

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I really enjoy Chris Hammer novels, which surprised me.  I have that pesky Cultural Cringe factor around Aussie books in general, and I feel like Hammer specifically just throws every single thing he thinks of into each book.  At a certain point, all 273.802 plot threads being miraculously interconnected starts to beggar belief, you know? So this new one, being described as his “most ambitious yet” was a bit concerning – what was he going to do, have Scarsden find evidence that put Trump away […]

Penny Reid’s Three Kings Series – Books One & Two

Homecoming King by Penny Reid

Drama King by Penny Reid

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I’m just going to admit up front that I find Penny Reid’s books totally delightful.  I started out in the Knitting in the City series, and have read everything I could get my hands on since.  So perhaps I’m not entirely objective when reviewing this latest series, but again, they’ve really worked for me. There’s a big focus on Found Family (as opposed to blood family) in her novels, and the Three Kings series (book three still pending) focuses on three friends from a small […]

Stephen King’s Latest is Quite Enchanting, Actually

Fairy Tale by Stephen King

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I actually haven’t read any other reviews of this, so I don’t know if I am in a minority if I say I found this quite charming.  It meandered quite a bit, and was perhaps a little slow in places, but overall nailed the old-school fairy tale vibe it was going for, IMO.  Maybe I just loved it because of the dog? Charlie, son of an insurance salesman and a mother gone too soon, is a pretty good kid (this seems like damning with faint […]

Jane Harper Remains a Must-Buy

The Exiles by Jane Harper

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It’s been a while since I read The Dry, Jane Harper’s first Aaron Falk novel.  I feel like he is a kinder, gentler Falk in this novel – although my memory could be faulty, and his circumstances are certainly a lot less.. button-pushy this time round.   In the past, I have struggled with cultural cringe when reading Australian fiction.  Turns out, I just wasn’t reading GOOD Australian fiction – Jane Harper, Chris Hammer and a few others are certainly overcoming The Cringe with really compelling […]

Local Booksellers Know Best (Part One)

These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan

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A few months ago I started asking the teams at my two nearest bookstores, “what’s the best thing you’ve read this month?”  I have come home with a variety of genres (only one of which I’ve never really been into), and a 100% strike rate. These Hollow Vows is the first book in a YA fantasy series by Lexi Ryan, who I was quite sure rang a bell when the bookseller mentioned her (as it turns out, I’ve read about 8 of her adult romances).  […]



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