The list of Radio National’s Top 100 Australian Authored Books, as voted by listeners, is shown below. I voted in the poll. You could vote for ten books. Four of the books I voted for are in the top 100
Finally, I have gotten around to reviewing Time Travel for Beginners by Jaclyn Moriarty. I finished reading it about six weeks ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is a more light-hearted time-travel story than I usually read. The novel is
So sad and upset about the attack on Dr Helen Haines, my local MP. I live in Wangaratta and walk past Helen’s office on my way to the Ovens River nearly every day. I have voted for her in the
Radio National is running a vote on the top 100 Australian books until October 1. You can vote for up to 10 books. My votes are below. Science fiction is not as dominant in my votes as I thought it
I have just updated my original review of The Slap on Goodreads. I wanted to read The Slap after reading that it was written with eight distinctive voices. The novel also won a boatload of awards. It is split into
Shroud is the second novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky that I have read. The other was Children of Time. Both had humans battling a non-human collective. Both made me think about how humans might interact with sentient non-humans. Both novels are
I’ve quit Facebook due to its utter enshittification. My feed was full of scams, AI slop and ads. Facebook has no morals, as it pays far-right groups for rage-bait. I could no longer link to my blog posts, etc., because
I am still correcting the formatting of many of my old blog posts, created before August 2014, on this blog. When I transferred the posts from Blogger, they didn’t format correctly, with many false sentence breaks. Any links in these
ABC Radio National ran a survey in October of the top 100 books of this century, as voted by listeners. You could vote for up to 10 books. My votes are shown in the image. Five of them are definitely
I have been quiet on this blog because my mum died on the 23rd of December. It was unexpected. A fall, which seemed to do no damage, then a week later she died. With help from my sister, I organised
Books by Martha Wells are consistently mentioned in social media science fiction groups as favourite reads, so I decided to read one of her novels to see what her imagination and writing are like. I chose All Systems Red as it
After some thought, I have decided to continue blogging as I enjoy reading, researching, and writing for each post. Just one post a week once I settle back down (you can sign up to receive notification of a post using
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