I admit to keeping every book I buy, especially in recent years, and there are books I regret giving away like my Enid Blyton books because finding them in their true form these days is impossible, and there are some that I cannot find anywhere like Poppy and the Outdoors Cat, I cannot recall the… Continue reading Revisiting Books
Reviews
Common or Uncommon Ground: writing your own or different cultures and ethnicities through time.
To follow on from my discussions of age and gendered writing, I got to thinking about how writers of different races, cultures and ethnicities write, how they represent their cultures, races and ethnicities and how they are thought to do this or what they are supposedly expected to be able to do in terms of… Continue reading Common or Uncommon Ground: writing your own or different cultures and ethnicities through time.
The Puzzle Ring by Kate Forsyth
Title: The Puzzle Ring Author: Kate Forsyth Publisher: Scholastic/Pan Macmillan Category: Historical Fiction/Children's Fiction Published: 1st June 2009 Pages: 409 Price: $16.99 Synopsis: An ancient curse. A ruined castle. A journey back in time. Hannah Rose was not quite 13 years old when she discovered her family was cursed. . . . The arrival of a mysterious letter… Continue reading The Puzzle Ring by Kate Forsyth
Time Slip Novels
Time Slip Novels A time slip novel, according to the UrbanDictionary.com, a novel that transports the main character and therefore the reader from one time to another, such as from the twenty-first century into the sixteenth century. Time slip novels, by my understanding, can combine this element of time travel and historical fiction, and fantasy. It… Continue reading Time Slip Novels
History, Mystery and Magic at the Sydney Writer’s Centre with Kate Forsyth
Two weeks ago I had the privilege to attend a very intimate writing course with Kate Forsyth and about sixteen other people. I enrolled in the course to gain a better understanding of writing, and research for writing, and an added bonus was meeting one of my favourite authors. The course covered conventions of writing… Continue reading History, Mystery and Magic at the Sydney Writer’s Centre with Kate Forsyth
How my hobbies came into my writing…my thoughts.
Originally I intended for this blog to be about reading, books and writing. Primarily it still is, but I have since developed other hobbies, and these are cross-stitch, beading and sewing. I am working my way up to using a sewing machine and making a quilt, and have been practising my hand sewing and cross… Continue reading How my hobbies came into my writing…my thoughts.
Don’t Fence Me In: Gendered Writing. Is there a case for it?
This is a kind of follow up to my post on gendered reading a several weeks ago. It is quite apparent that there are societal assumptions and expectations even today about what boys and girls should read and should enjoy reading. Just briefly, I, like others whom commented and other blogs I have read, indicated… Continue reading Don’t Fence Me In: Gendered Writing. Is there a case for it?
Writing
Apart from reading, one of my favourite things to do and something I hope can make me some money in the future is writing. I dabble in articles, short stories, reviews, crime, fantasy and whatever else I can set my mind to. I find it is an escape and a release, I can put any… Continue reading Writing
Poisoned Waters by Ermisenda Alvarez
I was lucky enough to read this book as an Advanced Reader’s Copy to help out the author, a fellow Goodreads member. It is the first ARC book I have had the privilege to read and review for the author as part of the blog tour for the book. Poisoned Waters begins innocently enough… Continue reading Poisoned Waters by Ermisenda Alvarez
Book Clubs
The idea behind book clubs has been something of intrigue and interest to me for a long time. I like the idea of chatting about something I have enjoyed reading with a group of friends who also read the book, and I think that they have a place in reading society. Yet there is something… Continue reading Book Clubs
The Book Muse 