Kate Forsyth's Blog, page 25

BOOK REVIEW: A Catalogue of Wonders by Stuart Kells

Libraries are filled with magic. From the Bodleian, the Folger and the Smithsonian to the fabled libraries of middle earth, Umberto Eco’s mediaeval library labyrinth and libraries dreamed up by John Donne, Jorge Luis Borges [...]

The post BOOK REVIEW: A Catalogue of Wonders by Stuart Kells appeared first on Kate Forsyth.

BOOK REVIEW: Staying by Jessie Cole

As children, Jessie Cole and her brother Jake ran wild, free to roam their rainforest home as they pleased. They had each other, parents who adored them, and two mysterious, beautiful, clever half-sisters, Billie and Zoe, who came to visit every holidays. But when Jessie was on the cusp of adolescence, tragedy struck [...]

The post BOOK REVIEW: Staying by Jessie Cole appeared first on Kate Forsyth.

BOOK REVIEW: A Catalogue Of Wonders by Stuart Kells

Libraries are filled with magic. From the Bodleian, the Folger and the Smithsonian to the fabled libraries of middle earth, Umberto Eco’s mediaeval library labyrinth and libraries dreamed up by John Donne, Jorge Luis Borges and Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Stuart Kells explores the bookish places, real and fictitious, that continue to capture our imaginations[...]

The post BOOK REVIEW: A Catalogue Of Wonders by Stuart Kells appeared first on Kate Forsyth.

VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: White Houses by Amy Bloom

You might also like to read my review of The Bright Edge Of The World by Eowyn Ivey: VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Bright Edge Of The […]

The post VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: White Houses by Amy Bloom appeared first on Kate Forsyth.

Walk the Great Wall of China

The post Walk the Great Wall of China appeared first on Kate Forsyth.

VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose

A mesmerising literary novel about a lost man in search of connection - a meditation on love, art and commitment, set against the backdrop of one of the greatest art events in modern history, Marina Abramovic's The Artist is Present. She watched as the final hours of The Artist is Present passed by, sitter after sitter in a gaze with the woman [...]

The post VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose appeared first on Kate Forsyth.

BOOK REVIEW: The English Wife by Lauren Willig

Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life: he’s the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor manor in England, they had a whirlwind romance in London, they have three year old twins on whom they dote, and he’s recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and renamed it Illyria. Yes, there are rumors that she’s having an affair [...]

The post BOOK REVIEW: The English Wife by Lauren Willig appeared first on Kate Forsyth.

VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Whole Bright Year by Debra Oswald

In the summer of 1976 it's picking season on an Australian stone-fruit orchard run by Celia, a hard-working woman in her early forties. Years ago, when her husband was killed as a bystander in an armed robbery [...]

The post VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Whole Bright Year by Debra Oswald appeared first on Kate Forsyth.

BOOK REVIEW: Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision [...]

The post BOOK REVIEW: Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed appeared first on Kate Forsyth.

VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Silent Invasion by James Bradley

It's a decade from now and the human race is dying. Plants, animals and humans have been infected by spores from space and become part of a vast alien intelligence. When 16-year-old Callie discovers her little sister Gracie has been infected [...]

The post VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Silent Invasion by James Bradley appeared first on Kate Forsyth.