Danielle’s Comments (group member since Aug 14, 2011)

Danielle’s comments from the Aussie Readers group.

Dee-Ann wrote: "Danielle wrote: "... I read all types of books, and am working my way through 1001 books, not very conscientiously though, because there are lots of them I just don't want to read, so far I have re..."

Thank you Dee-Ann, my list is the result of a life time of reading and you can get a lot read in 47 years. I spent a lot of my childhood with my head buried in an Enid Blyton, I think I read them all but I don't bother to list children's books. I was lucky enough to grow up in a house that had very good books on the shelves so I suppose that was an influence.

A real book has to be the obvious preference but I do read books on my iphone using iBooks and the Stanza app(I had Kindle but decided to boycott Amazon for their stance on Wikileaks). I thought that I would hate it but I don't, even though on such a tiny device it means you turn the page more often,lol. It is a bonus for reading in bed, no more of that dropping the big book on my face! What I love is the choice of font sizes and colours and even choice of page colour and the fact that I can have an entire library in my handbag. I have to say the freebies are great, it would have been practically impossible to source copies of Lafcadio Hearn's books in Australia but I could download them free on iBooks! Ditto for Natsume Soseki's Botchan from Stanza. And I have lots of free children's books to read to my granddaughter.

Katie wrote: "Carmel wrote: "I don't have torrent and I think I'll get the cd, I don't even have an ipod yet, sooo backward aren't I !!!"

Nah, I have an iphone that my hubby made me get, I still buy cd's and ..."

I use a program called Vuze, it's easy as. I just download the file from isoHunt which only takes a few seconds then open Vuze, click on the downloaded file on my browser's download page(which is still open from the download) and Vuze does the rest!
Once it is downloaded I move the file out of the Vuze download folder into my music folder then add it to iTunes.
I know I shouldn't pirate music but I just can't afford to buy CDs! I don't buy books either except ones I can't resist in charity stores, I use the library because I can't fit anymore bookshelves in my house!
Katie you could just buy the albums straight from the iTunes store! The Gotye album is available for pre order and iTunes would download on Friday when it's released.

Carmel wrote: "Thanks Danielle I think I will NEED to get this cd!!! I was listening to Hearts a Mess this morning & that's nearly as addictive!!! ha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnXFJO..."

"Hearts a Mess" is from an earlier album called Like Drawing Blood

Carmel wrote: "Thanks Danielle I think I will NEED to get this cd!!! I was listening to Hearts a Mess this morning & that's nearly as addictive!!! ha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnXFJO..."

Carmel if you have a bit torrent set up here's the link and you can download it now
http://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=gotye

Carmel wrote: "Did you hear it bumped off Adele's song from the top of the charts & he's Aussie, even better!!"

Thankfully, I did like "Someone Like You" when I first got the album but then it was on endless rotation on the radio and it made me hate it!! To the point were I deleted it from my iPod and if it came on I was likely to yell "stop wailing, Adele!" and turn the radio off,lol.
I can recommend the Gotye album, the more I play it the more I love it.

Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know", I love this song, and the rest of the album Making Mirrors is brilliant! It's not released till Friday but I found it on a bit torrent site two days ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4...

Can I suggest this book by a wonderful friend of mine who I went to school with. The book is about her experiences as an aid worker from 9/11 to Sri Lanka after the tsunami. She is currently working in Haiti, she has lived there in a tent since a few weeks after the quake. I'm afraid I haven't read the book myself, nor have I seen the award winning movie of the same name that she made, I intend to, but at the moment I get to see a lot about her work through her Facebook updates.

Carmel wrote: "Welcome Danielle!!!"
Thank you Carmel

Thank you Brenda, and Jess, it already is addicting! I don't believe I have added my collection the hard way,lol, my import didn't work!

Hello, I only joined the group today and only joined Goodreads yesterday. It all started when I downloaded the iphone app...I had been using spreadsheets to keep track of my reading, but a barcode scanner is so much easier,lol. I read an awful lot,my personal best was in 2009 when I read 118 books, but in 2010 I only managed 48. I read all types of books, and am working my way through 1001 books, not very conscientiously though, because there are lots of them I just don't want to read, so far I have read about 165 on the list.
I love to read food memoirs and foodie type books, and memoirs by people who have moved to another country-mostly France, Italy or Japan. Recently I discovered William Gibson(Neuromancer) and fell in love with his books so you can see I have wide ranging interests, with the exception of romance books(I loathed The Notebook!)and it would be a rare thing for me to read anything from a current best seller list.

DBC Pierre's Lights Out in Wonderland. I am really enjoying it but others must not have because I bought it in a second hand store and it had a price tag from another second hand store still on it, which means it has been discarded by at least two people before it came into my hands! It has a home for life now, poor unloved book that it was...

My favourite is Tim Winton, his books are beautiful. after I read Breath when it was first released I just had to go back and read the others again and I was surprised how much more I enjoyed them the second time around, even Dirt Music which I didn't like on the first read! I recently read Xavier Herbert's Capricornia and absolutely loved it too. I think Tim Winton writes in a similar style to Herbert and it made me wonder if he was one Winton's influences or inspirations. I must say too I really loved Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang, the first of his I loved so I may need to do some re-reading of his others.
This is the first group I have joined on Goodreads,which I only joined a few days ago, I figured Aussie Readers would be a good place to start!