Read / December 15th, 2016
When we went away recently, I brought along Creative Intelligence: How to Build Creative Confidence, Capacity, and Capitalism by Bruce Nussbaum thinking that I wouldn’t get through it. Turns out it was the only book I finished. (I’ve done much better this year for non-fiction than fiction and I’m not sure why.) Business books which delve…
Read / December 5th, 2016
The Good People by Hannah Kent ($22.95) Kent’s second novel has already shot to the top of the best-seller lists and I think this is a good testament to her talents as a writer and her significant fan base. Here is the synopsis: Nóra Leahy has lost her daughter and her husband in the same…
Read / November 30th, 2016
Ottolenghi: The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi ($37.95) It wouldn’t be Christmas without a glut of gorgeous cookbooks on offer and if that’s your kind of thing then you’ll already know about Ottolenghi’s brand of iconic, gorgeous fare. This is a reprint of the classic 2008 cookbook and recovers those 140 recipes along with a…
Read / November 28th, 2016
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J K Rowling ($27.95) Now the theatrical release of the movie is out, it’s no surprise to see the screenplay as well. Written by Rowling herself, adapted from her own text. Like Harry Potter and the Cursed Child earlier this year, which I have written…
Read / November 24th, 2016
Double Down (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 11) by Jeff Kinney ($10.50) This first title will come as no surprise to parents or carers of children who are fans of the phenomenally successful series – they probably put their requests in months ago. It’s priced very reasonably, too. A great stocking filler. Wormwood Mire by Judith Rossell…
Read / November 21st, 2016
The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke and Van T Rudd ($18.80) Here is the synopsis for The Patchwork Bike: When you live in a village at the edge of the No-Go Desert, you need to make your own fun. That’s when you and your brothers get inventive and build a bike from scratch, using…
Read / November 15th, 2016
This hasn’t been a great month for reading. I’ve been preoccupied with keynote writing (keep your eyes peeled for this coming Thursday’s post), among other things. When I’ve found myself with some time to pick up a title, I soon put it back down again. This doesn’t reflect on their quality, more on the lack of…
Read / October 18th, 2016
I bought Fight Like a Girl by Clementine Ford when I was in the city a week or two ago and consumed it overnight. Online reactions have been similar: ‘I couldn’t put it down’; ‘two days and I was done’ etc. Fight Like a Girl is the perfect book coming at just the right time, as the…
Read / September 26th, 2016
There are months I feel confident I’ll be able to talk about my reading with some level of intelligence and (I hope) insight; then there are times when I almost want to skip this post completely because I’m still wrestling with what I want to say. This isn’t to suggest that what I have to…
