Joan Lindsay – Cannonball Read 17

“Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.”

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

December 12, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

On St. Valentine’s Day in 1900, three Australian schoolgirls and their teacher vanish while on a school outing at Hanging Rock. Though they have disappeared from view like a rock dropped into water, the consequences of what happened will ripple outward until they touch the stories of even those who had been on the periphery of their lives. I’ve had my eye on the book for a few months now, so when I opened my Cannonball Book Exchange package from ElCiccio to find she’d send […]

Australian spookiness. Just add panpipes and a didgeridoo.

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

May 21, 2020 by elderberrywine 10 Comments

In 1975, I saw an Australian movie, Picnic at Hanging Rock, one of the most perfect and perfectly weird films I have ever seen. The impact of this film still resonates with me, and when I was looking for another book at Powells, and noticed this, I HAD to have it. I had no idea the film was based on a book, and yet here we are. And it is every bit as freakily good as the movie as. It begins as a […]

Far and Away

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

July 27, 2019 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr11bingo Far and Away I checked the antipodes map to see what the opposite end of the world from Pennsylvania would be. Turns out, it’s in the Indian Ocean, with the closest land mass being Australia. Picnic at Hanging Rock is a classic of Australian literature. Published in 1967, the novel tells the story of three teenaged girls and a teacher who go missing while on a picnic in 1900. This fictional story is famous for being an unsolved mystery, but it is so much more […]

Gone Girls, 1900 Edition

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsey

January 24, 2019 by Moonlight Reader 2 Comments

Picnic at Hanging Rock is a small book, only 224 pages, that packs an outsize punch. I can’t remember where I stumbled on it – if it was through blogging or goodreads, or just by following one of the bookish rabbit trails that I find myself chasing when I start looking at books. The book description on Goodreads likens it to “Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, and Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides as a masterpiece of intrigue.” […]

The best thing about this book is its title.

September 1, 2018 by TheShitWizard 2 Comments

I’ve never seen the film adaptation of Picnic At Hanging Rock, but the trailers for the new BBC series piqued my interest and so I thought it high time I read this classic tale of mystery….I don’t know what I was expecting, but whatever it was, it wasn’t this. Back in 1900, most of the pupils of a stuffy Australian girl’s boarding school are going on a picnic to a local beauty spot, Hanging Rock. While there, a small group of girls decides to go […]

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