Category Archives: Book reviews
The Best of James Herriot
Lots of gentle reminiscing about the days of old, farming in Yorkshire. It’s about a vet in the 1940s (there was a TV series, All Creatures Great and Small.) When big draught horses were used before tractors, and it was … Continue reading
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Concentration camps – book review
Due to the neo Nazis being in Chippendale, I refreshed my mind yesterday on concentration camps by reading Viktor Frankl’s account of his time in Auschwitz and Dachau and others in Man’s Search For Meaning. It was completely dire. He … Continue reading
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Australian Style book review
It’s a beautiful book. I bought it because I like interiors and was interested in a vision of “Australian” style. I couldn’t find many references to Australia, though. I used to work with Penfold, sub-editing her Source column, and, after … Continue reading
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Pooh, a bear of Very Little Brain returns
A new book has been written by David Benedictus. I read an extract on Sunday. It doesn’t quite match the same tone and whimsiness of the A.A. Milne classical stories. It has the basic character traits right (which would be … Continue reading
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Brigid Delaney’s This Restless Life book launch
It was packed out. $10 each at Gleebooks and Annabel Crabb did a great interviewing job. Brigid chatted about how the high-fliers with top jobs but on short-term contracts are portrayed in the media as having everything but really feel … Continue reading
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The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
Finished it last night. So depressing*. I hadn’t read anything about it before except knew John Hinckley and Mark Chapman were fans. My summary written at 3am: “Am amazing study of someone who feels crap all the time.” While checking … Continue reading
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Breath – Tim Winton
Finished reading it today. It’s about a bloke trying to feel extraordinary and special and hanging out with the cool crowd and a cool chick but ultimately being thrown back as being too “ordinary”. And his guilty boredom with the … Continue reading
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Brigid Delaney: This Restless Life
Am reading Brigid Delaney’s new book, This Restless Life. Chapter on Work is excellent. Details the downfalls of contracts/temping, which is what employers want. Crap if you want decent pay, superannuation, holiday pay and sick leave and ability to build … Continue reading
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Book reviews: Sun-Herald
Creating Magic Lee Cockerell (Random House, $32.95) Cockerell worked at Disney for more than a decade, eventually as an executive vice-president of operations. Anyone who has visited a Disney theme park will be amazed at how they keep the level … Continue reading
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