Although one of the two books provided to me by NetGalley for review, is fiction, both are valuable social commentary. Lisa Jewell, The Night She Disappeared, Century (Penguin Random House), 2021. In her latest novel, Lisa Jewell uses a device that is new to me in her work – a detective story writer who becomesContinue reading “Week beginning 1 September 2021”
Tag Archives: Bob McMullan
Week beginning 28 July 2021
The books reviewed this week include one that is pertinent to the debate about democracy and voting rights in America today. Included this week is also Heather Cox Richardson’s commentary on these events. The book is Democracy, Race and Justice The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T.M. Alexander, edited by Nina Banks and published byContinue reading “Week beginning 28 July 2021”
Week beginning 7 July 2021
Books reviewed this week are: Kelly Heyman’s Build Back Better. The First Hundred Days of the Biden Administration, and Beyond and From Women to the World Letters for a New Century, edited by Elizabeth Filippouli. NetGalley provided me with the following uncorrected proofs for review. Kelly Heyman Build Back Better. The First 100 Days ofContinue reading “Week beginning 7 July 2021”
Week beginning 9 June 2021
Book Reviews this week are the non fiction, Superman’s Not Coming, and a novel that features some of the same issues, Patricia Hunt Holmes’ Crude Ambition. Erin Brockovich with Suzanne Boothby, Superman’s Not Coming Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It, Pantheon Books 2021 I saw the film, ErinContinue reading “Week beginning 9 June 2021”
Week beginning 27th April 2021
This week’s book reviews: Scott Ryan’s Moonlighting An Oral History is an absolute delight. The first point to be made is pedestrian, but so important in a book that is, in Ryan’s words ‘a scholarly look’. I would also like to suggest that this book is so much fun (while scholarly) that it is notContinue reading “Week beginning 27th April 2021”
Week beginning 24th March 2021
Book Reviews: Catherine McCormack, Women In the Picture Women, Art and the Power of Looking, Icon Books Ltd, London, 2021. McCormack provides a well researched and powerful analysis of revered paintings and sculptures that highlights the anti- woman approach of so much art in galleries around the world. Her feminist approach is a valuable contributionContinue reading “Week beginning 24th March 2021”
Week beginning 30 December, 2020
American Elections Twenty three days before Joe Biden and Kamala Harris become President and Vice President. Important dates before this momentous occasion are the Georgia runoffs on January 5th and on January 6th the House and Senate meet to count the Electoral College Votes. It seems a long time ago that the electoral college votesContinue reading “Week beginning 30 December, 2020”
Posts week beginning 18 November 2020
Book reviews: The Agatha Christie indulgence continues, with another train related mystery, The ABC Murders. I began these as I was indulging a long held aspiration to travel on The Ghan from Adelaide to Alice Springs, and was thinking about the romance and joy associated with such travel. Of course, Christie does not dwell onContinue reading “Posts week beginning 18 November 2020”
Posts week beginning November 2
This week part of the blog will begin a day early, so as to include Bob McMullan’s prediction for the 2020 American Presidential Election before the vote is counted in America. After the prediction post I have also added some of the material from his weekly reports on the election. Brilliant & Bold! Bold &Continue reading “Posts week beginning November 2”
Posts week beginning 28 October
Books reviewed this week: Patricia Highsmith, People Who Knock On The Door; Wendy Clarke What She Saw; Louise Doughty, Appletree Yard and Nicholas Coleridge, The Glossy Years: Magazines, Museums, and Selective Memoirs. Television Comments this week: following Margaret Morgan’s contribution to A Country Podcast about being a script writer on A Country Practice, I relateContinue reading “Posts week beginning 28 October”
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