Book Week all about dreaming with your eyes open
Schools across the Central Coast have been getting into the spirit of Book Week with dress-up parades and other activities to celebrate Australian authors and illustrators and the joy of…
Book Reviews
BOOK REVIEW
ROGUES: TRUE STORIES OF GRIFTERS, KILLER, REBELS AND CROOKSAuthor: Patrick Radden KeefePublisher: Picador I previously wrote a review for Patrick Radden Keefe’s book, Empire of Pain, about the Sakler family’s…
The Lost Apothecary
Author: Sarah PennerPublisher: Affirm Press Nella is an apothecary In London 1791, just as her mother was. Nella’s mother dispensed tonics, oils and elixirs to help women in all that…
Book Review: Davos Man – How the Billionaires Devoured the World
Author: Peter S Goodman – Publisher: Custom House – I heard about this book while listening to ABC radio. Peter S. Goodman is a global economics correspondent at the New…
A travel memoir with a difference
Central Coast author, Laura Maya, has spent 20 years wandering slowly through almost 60 countries after setting off from her Wyoming home at the age of 21. She has just…
Book Review – The Thursday Murder Club and The Man Who Died Twice
Author: Richard Osman – Publisher: Penguin – Special offer this week – a two for one review! I purchased these books as a pair (looks like a third one will…
Book Review – Bewilderment
Author: Richard Powers – Publisher: Penguin – From the author of Overstory (previously reviewed) comes a story about Theo, a widower who is raising his son Robin (Robbie). Theo is…
Book Review – Silverview
Author: John le Carre – Publisher: Peguin – Published posthumously, this is the 26th novel from John le Carre, a former British Intelligence officer who became a world renowned author….
Book Review – The Sentence
Author: Louise ErdrichPublisher: Corsair Tookie is an Ojibwe woman, living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a self-described “ugly woman”, inside and out who enjoyed lying. She has also just gotten…
Book Review – Oh William!
Author: Elizabeth Strout – Publisher: Penguin – I have read a couple books by Elizabeth Strout, namely Olive Kitteridge and Olive, Again, both of which I really liked. One book…
Book Review – The Book of Form and Emptiness
Author: Ruth Ozeki Publisher: Text Publishing This is a big book! And when I say big, I mean big because it is over 500 pages. I mean big in the…
Book Review – Apples Never Fall
Author: Liane Moriarty – Publisher: Macmillan Australia – Stan and Joy Delaney have been married for almost 50 years. They worked together running a tennis school and raising their four…
Book Review – A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century
Authors: Heather Heying and Bret WinsteinPublisher: Swift Press As you can tell from my reading list, fiction is my preferred genre, however there are times I like to dabble in…
Book Review – The Blue Line Down
Author: Maris LawyerPublisher: Hub City Press The Blue Line Down is a book I chose after seeing it pop up on Kirkus Reviews (one of the sites I look at…
Book Review – Beautiful World, Where are You
Author: Sally RooneyPublisher: Faber Sally Rooney wrote the very popular Normal People, which was less popular with me. I didn’t like how Marianne, the female protagonist, who was supposed to…
Book Review – Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys… and Baseball
Author: Robert Whiting – Publisher: Stone Bridge Press – I have never been to Japan, but it is the one place I would love to go. I find the culture…
Book Review – Malibu Rising
Author: Taylor Jenkins ReidPublisher: Hutchinson London Malibu Rising kept showing up on the list of books to read this summer. I kept putting it off because the last couple reviews…
Book Review – Not a Happy Family
Author: Shari LapenaPublisher: Bantam Press The Merton house is a mansion. Located in the Hudson Valley of New York, “on its vast expanse of lawn, presented like a cake on…
Book Review – Still Life
Author: Sarah Winman – Publisher: 4th Estate – Italy 1944. The Allied forces are waiting to enter Florence. Ulysses, a Private with the British Army is driving a jeep to…
Book Review – False Witness
Author: Karin Slaughter – Publisher: Harper Collins – Callie is fourteen and babysits for Trevor since Trevor’s parents, Buddy and Linda, are busy working. Callie’s older sister, Leigh, previously babysat…