With Rayna Green's short story, "High cotton", we pass the halfway mark in that anthology I've been posting on over the last few months, Great short stories by contemporary Native American writers. We are also getting closer to the anthology's publication date of 2014, so these chronologically listed stories are starting to bunch up in … Continue reading Rayna Green, High cotton (#Review)
Women writers
Debra Dank, We come with this place (#BookReview)
First Nations people are advised that this post contains the names of deceased people. It has been my reading group's tradition for some years now to read a book by a First Nations writer in July, the month in which NAIDOC Week occurs. Coincidentally, NAIDOC Week’s 2023 theme was “For our elders”, which worked beautifully with our … Continue reading Debra Dank, We come with this place (#BookReview)
Joseph Bruchac III, Turtle meat (#Review)
I'm continuing to work through the stories in Great short stories by contemporary Native American writers. With this post, we jump from 1968 to 1983, which mens we are getting close to contemporary territory. The story is "Turtle meat" by Jospeh Bruchac III. Joseph Bruchac III As before, I'm using anthology editor Bob Blaisdell's intro … Continue reading Joseph Bruchac III, Turtle meat (#Review)
Tuesday Atzinger, The River (#Review)
Back in January I reviewed two stories from Ellen van Neerven and Rafeif Ismail's anthology Unlimited futures: Speculative, visionary Blak+Black fiction for Bill's (The Australian Legend) Australian Women Writers Gen 5 Week. The stories I reviewed were the second and third in the anthology because they were the first two by Australians in it. The … Continue reading Tuesday Atzinger, The River (#Review)
Leslie Marmon Silko, The man to send rain clouds (#Review)
After a two-month hiatus, I return to my reading from Great short stories by contemporary Native American writers with a three-decade jump from D'Arcy McNickle's 1936-published "Train time" to Leslie Marmon Silko's "The man to send rain clouds", which was published in 1968 . Leslie Marmon Silko Again, I'm using anthology editor Bob Blaisdell's brief … Continue reading Leslie Marmon Silko, The man to send rain clouds (#Review)
Slow reading: Jane Austen’s Pride and prejudice
Some of the editions of Pride and Prejudice owned by my JA group Back in the early to mid-2010s, my local Jane Austen group undertook a program of slow reading Jane Austen's novels, coinciding with those books' 200th anniversaries. Given that began around a decade ago, we decided last year that it was time to … Continue reading Slow reading: Jane Austen’s Pride and prejudice
Jane Austen on travel
It's been some time since I posted on Jane Austen, but currently my local Jane Austen group is repeating the slow reads we did a decade or so ago when her novels had their 200th anniversaries. Last year, we did Sense and sensibility, and right now we are doing Pride and prejudice. There are different … Continue reading Jane Austen on travel
Maggie O’Farrell, The marriage portrait (#BookReview)
I have mentioned Author's Notes a few times recently, because I have read a few works of historical fiction. Maggie O'Farrell's latest novel, The marriage portrait, is another historical novel and so here I am again talking Author's Notes. The marriage portrait, as you probably already know, is based on the life of Lucrezia de' Medici, … Continue reading Maggie O’Farrell, The marriage portrait (#BookReview)
Stella Prize 2023 Winner announced
The 2023 Stella Prize winner was announced tonight and, for the second year in a row, it's a poetry collection ... Sarah Holland-Batt's The jaguar Darn it! I nearly bought it last weekend when I was at the National Library but with my move and having stuff everywhere, I put it back down again and … Continue reading Stella Prize 2023 Winner announced
Eleanor Limprecht, The Coast (#BookReview)
I love to read Author's Notes, Afterwords, or whatever they are called, at the end of novels, and particularly so when the novel is historical fiction. This is because these notes will often explain the author's thought process, the line they have drawn between fiction and fact, the sources used, the level and type of … Continue reading Eleanor Limprecht, The Coast (#BookReview)
Whispering Gums 