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A(nother) book review blog, from Melbourne, Australia.
Recent Posts
Shopgirl by Steve Martin (2000)
I zipped through Steve Martin’s – yes, that very same Steve Martin you’re thinking of – novella Shopgirl over the quiet afternoons of a weekend in December. A melancholic story set in Los Angeles of a lonely shopgirl in her la...
Book Loot: Week Ending December 13th, 2009
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin A Passage to India by E.M. Forster A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh Scoop by Evelyn Waugh The Day of the Locust and The Dream Life of Balso Snell by ...
The White Album by Joan Didion (1979)
As we hurtle toward the end of this decade, every media outlet in the world is attempting to pinpoint the defining moments, events, cultural and consumer products, celebrities, etc., of the past ten years. Though I understand that such lists and arti...
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946)
(A brief note: I do talk about some details which are essential to the plot, so be aware. This is your official spoiler warning.) Before beginning to read All the King’s Men, I was under the impression – one of those pesky groundless preconce...
Book Loot: Week Ending December 6th, 2009
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck Consider the Lobster and Other Essa...
84 Charing Cross Road and The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff (1970/73)
On a recent trip to the library I picked up 84 Charing Cross Road on something of a whim. It’s one of those books that I’d heard good things about but never really considered going out of my way to read. The edition that I picked up conta...
