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Redsultana is the personal blog of a working mum in Perth. Cellobella works in the mainstream media but amazingly has a life outside of it which she shares on her blog.
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Discomfort books
Jennifer Byrne from the First Tuesday Book Club on ABC1 says her comfort book is Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk. She read it when she was a teenager and it resonated. It’s the story of a Jewish teenager in the 1930s, living in New York...
Pata Negra Restaurant Review
See… now the logo makes sense! I don’t usually do restaurant reviews on this blog but Friday night we went to Pata Negra, the new Tapas bar open on Stirling Highway… opposite my fave Vietnamese restaurant TQR. It was fantastic. The...
Not scary enough
You know I liked the Twilight series, so it should come as no surprise to learn I went to the movie. In fact I went with three other mums in Dippity’s class - with the four girls who sat a few rows in front of us. Sit with their mothers? Yo...
Breath by Tim Winton
I think this is Tim Winton’s best novel. He has lost his earlier pretentiousness. His writing is spare, evocative and compelling. The tale is told by a paramedic in his 50s who attends an accidental hanging. He knows it’s accid...
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
I had no interest in picking up Helen Garner’s latest novel The Spare Room. Helen has always seemed a little worthy, a little hard core for me. I based this assessment on what I’d seen of her in the media and some vague memory of her w...
The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid
I like Val McDermid’s writing. I always have. From Wire in the Blood to her lighter novels, they never fail to entertain. Highly descriptive, great character profiles, a page-turning plot. In The Grave Tattoo the action centres around the d...
Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig
First of all, I LOVED Gone With the Wind. The sweeping saga, the feisty heroine, the dashing, rich, and rather butch hero… with a soft side. *Swoon* And I’ve not loved sequels written by random authors. It was there on the “new...
A dinner for clever people
Remember how we won that quiz nite way back in July? Well last night we used the prize - a $500 voucher at Lamonts in Cottesloe. Winners are grinners. This is another Kate Lamont restaurant to go with the East Perth posh dining and the more rustic ...
