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[Jan]

Just finished Utopian Man by Lisa Lang. Interesting history about the founder of Coles Arcade in Melbourne. Some insights into early Melbourne and its development. Started a bit slowly with too much focus on his children but the second half made it worthwhile. I'd recommend it.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Jan wrote: "Just finished Utopian Man by Lisa Lang. Interesting history about the founder of Coles Arcade in Melbourne. Some insights into early Melbourne and its development. Started a bit slowly with too muc..."

Utopian Man by Lisa Lang

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I finished last night Hana's suitcase by Karen Levine and highly recommend it! A book everyone should read in my opinion.

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Sharon]

Great review Brenda. I'm adding it to my TBR :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Brenda wrote: "I finished last night Hana's suitcase by Karen Levine and highly recommend it! A book everyone should read in my opinion.

Review..."

I have just discovered this website about Hana's Story - http://www.hanassuitcase.ca/

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Sharon wrote: "Great review Brenda. I'm adding it to my TBR :)"

Thanks Sharon, I'm going to try to get myself a copy - I borrowed this from the library, my husband read it then I did:)

[Sharon]

Book Depository has a copy Brenda :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Sharon:) I just ordered it from Booktopia, $9.90 with free delivery:) http://www.booktopia.com.au/hana-s-su... for anyone else who would like a copy.

[Sharon]

No free delivery for me :(

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Why not, you're in Australia??

[Sharon]

Don't know but when I go to checkout it comes up with $6.95 for postage :(

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Have you purchased from there recently? I'm just wondering as I didn't have to put a code in or anything, it just said I qualified for free delivery. I bought about 3 weeks ago, so maybe that's why??? Bad luck!

[Vicki]

I thought it was free delivery worldwide. I'll go and see what happens when I do it. Back in a sec...

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Not with Booktopia Vicki, that's Book Depository:)

[Vicki]

Booko.com.au shows it as free delivery from Booktopia, too:

http://booko.com.au/9780807531471/Han...

You could always buy it from Book Depository if Booktopia isn't going to come to the party. :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Yes you're right Vicki - that's how I found it in the first place! Forgot about that...

[Sally]

Michael wrote: "Just finished The Book Thief and was totally blown by it.

Review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Will be reading Perfect North by Jenny ..."</i>

[book:The Book Thief blew me away, too - and made it into my top five favourite books of all time. My review is coming soon!

[B the BookAddict]

Hana's suitcaseBrenda wrote: "I finished last night Hana's suitcase by Karen Levine and highly recommend it! A book everyone should read in my opinion.

Review..."

Added to my tbr. Thanks for bringing this book to our notice. After reading The Street Sweeper, Hana's suitcase is a definite for moi.

Brenda, this edition has no details about the novel. Is it possible to add them from other editions? Just a thought.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Good idea Bette, I hadn't realized, but I've fixed it now:)

PS It's a true story I guess you realize (you wrote "novel" but I suspect that was just a slip of the tongue!)

[Sally]

Sharon wrote: "Great review Brenda. I'm adding it to my TBR :)"

I second that! Added to my TBR, too.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Sally! I'd love for everyone to read it:)

[Sally]

Michael wrote: "Look forward to reading your review Sally. Thanks for the like for the review. :)"

You're very welcome :-) I'm itching to write my own review but my sister, brother-in-law and nieces are coming tomorrow to stay for a few days and have our early Christmas on Sunday, so will probably have to wait until after that.

If I happen to post a review or anything else on Christmas Day, don't think I'm weird! Like I said, we are having Christmas early, LOL.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Our "time out" is with our books on GR Sally;)

[Liam || Books 'n Beards]

Reading The Black Lung Captain as well as the 20th Century Boys, Band 1 manga - there's 22 volumes of 20CB, working my way through em :P

[Belinda]

I'm reading Long Walk to Freedom. Loving it! It's interesting to learn more about his background and how he became the great man he was. Incredibly easy to read - I feel like he is sitting in the room with me and just chatting!

[Joanne]

Just finish The Queen of The Road by Tricia Stringer. 5* book. review soon.

[Patricia]

I just finished Eleanor & Park and really liked it - even though it was much more intense & sadder than I expected.
I gave it 4 stars, review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Today I started The Rose Garden.

[Dale]

Currently reading The Beach Treeshttps://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net... The cover was what attracted me. After all it's summer and I live bear the beach how could I resist?

[Kathryn]

I've recently finished Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher and A Darcy Christmas.

At 698 pages, Winter Solstice was a bit longer than my usual read, but it was an easy and entertaining read about 2 recently bereaved friends who move up to Scotland a couple of months before Christmas and don't plan on celebrating Christmas that year however they end up with unexpected guests... I enjoyed - lots of snow and Christmassy food and drink!

A Darcy Christmas was good - a collection of 3 short stories. The first was A Christmas Carol retold, with Darcy as the Scrooge character, the second was by Amanda Grange and I've noticed before (I've read one of hers that recreates Jane Austen's characters previously) that she tends to dwell on events from Austen's novels too heavily for my liking. I enjoyed the third story in this collection the most - it described a number of Darcy Christmases over the period of Darcy and Elizabeth's marriage.

I'm now reading A Bush Christmas by Margareta Osborn and Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome and struggling with both :-( A Bush Christmas is a bit too contradictory, for my liking (Jaime wants to be taken seriously by this macho station manager, but she makes a big deal about "girly" things like breaking a nail...) and there's too much electricity zinging around the place between them and rippling muscles etc etc for me - I almost feel like I'm reading a Mills and Boon! Three Men in a Boat is disappointing because it feels a bit tedious - did these books get have editors back in the 1800's? Because some of them can feel like they were lacking one! It's a shame, because I think it's a good idea...

[Sharon]

Started reading Fractured by Dawn Barker Enjoying it so far :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Joanne wrote: "Just finish The Queen of The Road by Tricia Stringer. 5* book. review soon."

Queen Of The Road by Tricia Stringer

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Sharon wrote: "Started reading Fractured by Dawn Barker Enjoying it so far :)"

Loved this book Sharon:)

[Sharon]

Brenda wrote: "Sharon wrote: "Started reading Fractured by Dawn Barker Enjoying it so far :)"

Loved this book Sharon:)"


I can see why you loved it Brenda. I'm about 100 pages in and I can't put it down. Going to be a late night for me tonight :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Sharon wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Sharon wrote: "Started reading Fractured by Dawn Barker Enjoying it so far :)"

Loved this book Sharon:)"


I can see why you loved it Brenda. I'm ..."

Good to hear:)

[B the BookAddict]

Kathryn wrote: "I've recently finished Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher and A Darcy Christmas.

At 698 pages, Winter Solstice was a bit longer than my usual read, b..."

Good comments, Kathryn.

[Mish]

I'm currently reading The Last Winter of Dani Lancing. Wow it's amazing and hard to put down. It's a psychological thriller that slowly draws you in bit by bit.

And I'm also reading The Last Man. It okay. A little heavy on politics and military issues for my taste.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Mish wrote: "I'm currently reading The Last Winter of Dani Lancing. Wow it's amazing and hard to put down. It's a psychological thriller that slowly draws you in bit by bit.

And I'm also readin..."

Glad you're liking it Mish:)

[Mish]

Brenda wrote: "Mish wrote: "I'm currently reading The Last Winter of Dani Lancing. Wow it's amazing and hard to put down. It's a psychological thriller that slowly draws you in bit by bit.

And I'..."

thank Brenda. It's so good :)

[Vicki]

Brenda wrote: "Sharon wrote: "Started reading Fractured by Dawn Barker Enjoying it so far :)"

Loved this book Sharon:)"

I have this on my watchlist. At US$15.23 for a Kindle book it's way too pricey. :(

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

That's a shame Vicki, but yes, way too expensive!

[Joanne]

Currently reading Looking For Alaska by John Green. Again, appologize for not putting up the link. I'm about 65% through the book, i think i start to understand why Liam cried on the book. :) :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Joanne wrote: "Currently reading Looking For Alaska by John Green. Again, appologize for not putting up the link. I'm about 65% through the book, i think i start to understand why Liam cried on the book. :) :)"

Looking for Alaska by John Green :)

[Liam || Books 'n Beards]

Joanne wrote: "Currently reading Looking For Alaska by John Green. Again, appologize for not putting up the link. I'm about 65% through the book, i think i start to understand why Liam cried on the book. :) :)"

Oh I didn't cry I just wanted to kill myself afterwards :P It's good, though.

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Michael wrote: "Just finished Perfect North by Jenny Bond and found it to be a really good read.

Review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

I'm looking forward to reading this one too Michael

[[deleted user]]

Am really enjoying The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

[Marianne]

just finished and very much enjoyed (review soon) as I have enjoyed all Arthur Upfield's work, but I couldn't get over the comment someone made on GR
"I had higher expectations for this book. Not only was it sexist and racist, I had rather hoped if you named your lead character Napoleon Bonaparte in 1950's Austraila that he would at least be interesting, which he certainly wasn't."
Whether or not Bony was interesting is a matter of opinion, but as to the racism and sexism, well, it was written in 1950 by a man brought up in the Edwardian era, and it reflects the attitudes of the times. My 1994 Hinkler Books edition actually has an editorial note: "Part of the appeal of Arthur Upfield’s stories lies in their authentic portrayal of many aspects of outback Australian life in the 1930s and through into the 1950s. The dialogue, especially, is a faithful evocation of how people spoke. Hence, these books reflect and depict the attitudes and ways of speech, particularly with regard to Aborigines and to women which were then commonplace. In reprinting these books the publisher does not endorse the attitudes or opinions they express."
I have to say part of the charm of these books, for me, is the total political incorrectness, the fact that people smoke like chimneys, drink like fish etc, is something to be able to remark upon. It's like a little time capsule.....

[Vicki]

I have two books lined up to read -- Killing Mum by Allan Guthrie and Dead by Friday by Adelaide true crime author Derek Pedley.



I just haven't decided which one to read first. :)

[Dale]

Currently readingA Daughter's Journey

[B the BookAddict]

I'm nearly finished Three Dollars by Elliot Perlman.

I can honestly say that had I read this first, I would never have picked up The Street Sweeper (Perlman's latest book). Such is my disinterest in what is contained in Three Dollars; it also lacks few displays of Perlman's beautiful turn-of-phrase that I found in TSS. Disappointed because so many readers that I admire loved this novel:(

[Vicki]

That is disappointing, Bette. But aren't you glad you picked up The Street Sweeper first?