THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway
I’m thankful that when I finished The Old Man and the Sea, I was sitting on the bank of the Brisbane River enjoying what was a truly magnificent spring day. The sun was shining, I…
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER by Stephen Chbosky
Sometimes you read a book that is surrounded by a great deal of hype and you love it–you completely understand what people are raving about. Other times you read a book that is surrounded…
XO by Jeffery Deaver
I’ve been indulging in some much-needed crime fiction lately–I realised midway through the year that not only was I embarrassingly behind in my goal to read 50 books by the end of the year, I…
GONE MISSING by Linda Castillo
Anyone who has been around for a while knows that I am a fan of Linda Castillo’s Kate Burkholder series (I wrote a glowing review of Breaking Silence late in 2011). For those of you…
GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn
I recently struggled to write my review of The Dark Knight Rises for fear that I would say too much and give away crucial plot points. I find myself in a similar situation trying to…
THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS by M.L. Stedman
In ancient Roman mythology, there is a god named Janus. The god of beginnings and endings, transitions and time. He looked into the future and the past, and symbolised the change undertaken when people grow up and…
MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND by Matthew Green
In 2004, Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. In 2005, Jonathan Safran Foer published his second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.…
THE LOVER’S DICTIONARY by David Levithan
love, n. I’m not going to even try. Earlier this week I read the most exquisite novel. David Levithan’s The Lover’s Dictionary is an ambitious and perfectly executed love story about a relationship gone awry. What makes…
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