Michelle McSweeney OK Bloomsbury Academic, January 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Object Lessons is a fun series – and more. Items, and in this case a word, gain a different dimension under the writers who lead us into the history, the political ramifications, and social dimensions ofContinue reading “Week beginning 25 January 2023”
Tag Archives: Anthony Albanese
Week beginning August 31 2022
In this week’s blog: Eurostar to Amsterdam; book reviews; Amsterdam – hotel, food tour, Rijksmuseum, Cindy Lou reviews; Maggie O’Farrell; Well behaved women…; brief news from Australia. On our way back to London, after a short, but fulfilling visit to Amsterdam. We stayed in the Museum Quarter, which has excellent public transport – trams andContinue reading “Week beginning August 31 2022”
Week beginning 10 August 2022
Two fiction books are reviewed this week, Murder on Sea, by Jane Adams, and Why She Left, by Leah Mercer. Both were sent to me by NetGalley as uncorrected proofs for review. Jane Adams Murder On Sea Joffe Books 2021 (First published by Severn House Publishers 2007). This is Book 1 of the Rina MartinContinue reading “Week beginning 10 August 2022”
Week beginning 19 July 2021
Both books reviewed this week were provided to me by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Daniel Talbot In Love With Movies Columbia University Press 2022 Daniel Talbot’s In Love With Movies is a delight, from the first chapters about the early years in independent theatres; though Those Who Made Me Laugh in PartContinue reading “Week beginning 19 July 2021”
Week beginning 6 July 2022
Ruth Ware The It Girl Simon & Schuster (Australia) 2022. Thank you, NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for this uncorrected proof in exchange for an honest review. Ruth Ware is a writer whose books I enjoy. They are smart, with characters who develop over the period of the plot, which, by the way is usuallyContinue reading “Week beginning 6 July 2022”
Week beginning 8 June 2022
Carlene Bauer Girls They Write Songs About Farrer, Strauss and Giroux 2022. Thank you NetGalley for providing me with this uncorrected proof in exchange for an honest review. Carlene Bauer’s novel is a modern approach to women’s friendship. However, where I think of women’s friendship novels as underpinned by a notion of sisterhood that includesContinue reading “Week beginning 8 June 2022”
Week beginning 25 May 2022
“I want Australia to continue to be a country that no matter where you live, who you worship, who you love or what your last name is, that places no restrictions on your journey in life.” Anthony Albanese spoke in Sydney with Labor on the cusp of returning to power for the first time sinceContinue reading “Week beginning 25 May 2022”
Week beginning 18 May 2022
The books reviewed this week are one non-fiction – Marc Schapiro’s Beatle Wives: The Women the Men We Loved Fell in Love With and a novel by Joan Long, The Finalist. Both were provided to me by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Marc Shapiro, Beatle Wives The Women the Men We Loved FellContinue reading “Week beginning 18 May 2022”
Week beginning 6 April 2022
This week, the review of a book about spinsterhood in which it is claimed that there are few positive images of spinsters in fiction, moved me to write about the spinsters that are an important part of Barbara Pym’s fiction. Pym gave a positive, often comic, and sometimes trenchant, voice to the spinsters in herContinue reading “Week beginning 6 April 2022”
Week beginning 16 March 2022
The books reviewed this week are both fiction. They were sent to me by NetGalley for review. Lisa Unger’s Last Girl Ghosted and the inspiring story of the women’s march to Washington by thousands of women after the election of former President Trump have feminist themes. On the March by Trudy Krisher is a particularlyContinue reading “Week beginning 16 March 2022”
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