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30 Day Book Challenge Day 12:
A Book You Wanted to Read for a Long Time But Still Haven’t Wow. There are so many, many books I could use for today’s challenge. At the time of printing, I have 2,667 books on my wishlist, and over… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 11:
Favourite Classic Book I don’t seem to have read a lot of the classic books that others have, though many are on my wishlist. I think it may be because people often make it their mission to read as many… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 9:
Most Overrated Book Everybody has their own taste in books. One person’s favourite book is another’s most hated. Sometimes a book comes along that is almost universally loved or loathed and, like people, a book’s reputation is often entirely undeserved…. Read More ›
Hetty Johnstone
What’s your WebStory today?
My ever expanding wishlist
As of the date of this post, my wishlist is 2,628 books and it is constantly expanding. Every time I hear of a good book I might like to read, on to my wishlist it goes. Honestly, my wishlist is… Read More ›
Art
Trying to understand modern art is like trying to follow the plot in a bowl of alphabet soup. — Herbert V Prochnow & Herbert V Prochnow Jr. in Jokes, Quotes & One Liners Volume 2 Related articles Modern Art (beautifulifebysigal.wordpress.com)… Read More ›
Art appreciation
I know nothing about art, but I know what I like. It’s a cliché, but in my case it is true. I know next to nothing about art. I can tell the difference between abstract, portrait, still life and landscape,… Read More ›
My Really Pretty Rose by Annelise Waratah
My Really Pretty Rose by Annelise Waratah Annie drew this beautiful rose on paint. Related articles How To Transplant a Rose Bush Into a Pot (fullbloomhydroponics.net)
Don’t judge a book by its cover
“Don’t judge a book by its cover.” We are told this all the time. What it really means, of course, is “Get to know someone before you decide whether or not you like them.” Because, when it comes to books… Read More ›
Cats Creep the Fire to Art by Matthew Ward
Opening Sentence: Slit scars across your wrists must mean you tried. Synopsis: N/A Genre: Poetry Rating: @@@@ Pages: 132 BCID: xxx-6265782 ISBN: 978-1-934209-22-6 Year: 2008 Format: Paperback Comments: Cats Creep the Fire to Art is a collection of the works… Read More ›
Australia: A History in Photographs by Michael Cannon
Opening Sentence: The camera is like most human beings: it sometimes distorts reality, but it usually tries to tell the truth. Synopsis: Over two centuries a great nation has emerged from the most unlikely beginnings. Millions of incidents on that… Read More ›
Joe Queenan in ‘Balsamic Dreams’
“Rejecting the verdict of society at large – let’s face it, everybody else hates them – the 75 million Americans born between 1944 and 1960 persist in the delusion that they are really smart, really good, really cool people…” … Read More ›
The Henson Case by David Marr
Opening Sentence:Wednesday 21 May, 2008: Morning Synopsis:On Thursday 22 May 2008, Bill Henson was waiting to open his latest exhibition in Sydney. But that afternoon a ferocious media campaign led police to shut down the show. They raided the gallery,… Read More ›
Books I Read In June 2009
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Lockie Leonard: Human Torpedo by Tim Winton Christianity: An Ancient Egyptian Religion by Ahmed Osman An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma Splinter by Adam Roberts Related articles 10 of my Favourite Books (meetmeatthebookparade.wordpress.com) 2013 Reading… Read More ›
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
Opening Sentence:Before you fairly start this story I should like to give you just a word of warning. Synopsis:’Without doubt Judy was the worst of the seven, probably because she was the cleverest.’ Her father, Captain Woolcot, found his vivacious,… Read More ›
Books I Read in January 2009
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman He’ll Be OK: Growing Gorgeous Boys Into Good Men by Celia Lashlie Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World’s Most Seductive Sweet by Carol Off Never to be Released by Paul B…. Read More ›
The Taking by Dean Koontz
Opening Sentence:A few minutes past one o’clock in the morning, a hard rain fell without warning. Synopsis:On the morning that will mark the end of the world they have known… Molly and Neil Sloan wake to find an eerily luminous… Read More ›
Tithe by Holly Black
Synopsis:Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother’s rock band, until an ominous attack forces them back to her childhood home. To the place where she used to see Faeries…. Read More ›
My Story, The Great Plague, The Diary of Alice Paynton, London, 1665-1666 by Pamela Oldfield
Synopsis: July 3rd 1665 Aunt Nell came home from the market looking very pale. She overheard two men discussing the weekly Bills of Mortality. It seems that in the past week 700 people have died from the plague. So the… Read More ›
Hating Alison Ashley by Robin Klein
Synopsis: “There was on kid, Alison Ashley, and because no one was sitting next to me, Miss Belmont put Alison Ashley there. And from the first day I hated her.” So says Erica Yurken when the oh-so-perfect Alison Ashley turns… Read More ›
The Boy on the Lake: Stories of the Supernatural by Judith Clarke
Synopsis: “The boy was waiting at the end of the jetty, the boat held steady against the stumps. I took his hand; it was cold and moist to the touch and when I felt that chill I hesitated for a… Read More ›
