What another great year of reading! The great books didn’t seem to stop this year. My favourite read of the year was nearly tipped out by a trilogy and my big discovery of the year was Ben Aaronovitch and the Peter Grant series. So here it is my top 5 reads of 2015 (plus 5 […]
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This is an incredible read. Mesmerizing, hypnotic, addictive it captures you from its opening lines and doesn’t let go long after you have put the book down. http://www.boomerangbooks.com.au/Life-and-Death-of-Sophie-Stark/Anna-North/book_9781474603072.htm FREE Shipping. Save $6.95 when you use the promo code bookbites at checkout
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August announced the arrival of a very special talent. Claire North maybe the pseudonym for Catherine Webb (and Kate Griffin), who has already published a number of books, but Harry August was something else entirely. It was bold, intelligent, gripping and mind-blowing. Before the real identity of the pseudonym […]
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What a bonus it is to have a new David Mitchell book only a year after the incredible The Bone Clocks. David Mitchell started this story on twitter but became obsessed with the story he had started and needed to see it through. The result is a ghost story in the hands and imagination of […]
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There is something about stories set in the American south, particularly those in and around the Mississippi. Whether they are classic American Southern Gothic, contemporary fiction, crime mystery or a combination the confluence of history, atmosphere and long-held beliefs makes for rich, dark, fertile storytelling. Jamie Kornegay digs into this tapestry with a debut about […]
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Rachel Caine is an expert on wolves. For the past ten years she has been working in Idaho studying wolf populations on the reservations. Keeping as far from home and her upbringing as she can manage. She is also distant from her colleagues, forging as little close relationships as possible. However she is drawn home […]
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On the surface this appears to be a cyber-thriller about hacking. But in the hands of Chuck Wendig it goes somewhere quite different. The book opens and we are introduced to five different hackers; an activist, a professional troller, an old-school hacker, a money skimmer and an amateur hacker completely out of his depth. They […]
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Sebastian Faulks’ new novel is quite simply superb. Tackling themes he has explored before Faulks delivers an original novel that is haunting, beautiful and profound that will resonate all the way through you. http://www.boomerangbooks.com.au/Where-My-Heart-Used-to-Beat/Sebastian-Faulks/book_9780091936846.htm FREE Shipping. Save $6.95 when you use the promo code bookbites at checkout
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Jane Smiley’s writing is fantastic. She eases you into the family she has created and before you know it you are completely sucked into the story. You will fall in love with each character in a different way and share in the highs and lows of their lives. The big historical events, that are so […]
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Patrick deWitt’s follow up to the brilliant The Sisters Brothers is just as described by the publisher on my advanced reading copy, “incredible”. Continuing on with the subversiveness that made The Sisters Brothers such a magnificent and unique take on The Western, deWitt turns his hand to another genre to create a darkly comic romp […]
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Following on from the phenomenally brilliant The Day The Crayons Quit comes the sequel. The crayons are back…and they are still not happy. This time around Duncan has to deal with the lost and forgotten crayons. The broken, chewed and melted crayons. And they are all, quite rightly, even more upset! http://www.boomerangbooks.com.au/Day-the-Crayons-Came-Home/Drew-Daywalt/book_9780008124434.htm FREE Shipping. Save […]
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I have been meaning to read Joe Lansdale for ages. Ever since The Bottoms came out in 2000, which my Dad begged me to read. Having finally gotten around to reading his latest book I am of course kicking myself for waiting so long. I am a sucker for a good Western and a massive […]
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Two years after the events of You Will Never Find Me Charlie Boxer’s life is nearing some normalcy. Normal for a kidnap consultant whose services offer a little bit extra revenge on the side. His relationships with his ex-wife Mercy and daughter Amy are back on track and his relationship with Isabel is blossoming. However […]
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I fell instantly in love with this book though. Having done a re-read of To Kill A Mockingbird in preparation I instantly fell into step with the voice of Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch. At 26 years old the character we already know is all there, which makes sense because this is the same character, at […]
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This novel is everything Laura Lippman has been doing so well in her standalone novels but this time with Tess Monaghan. Lippman takes a confronting but tragically all too familiar crime and explores the fallout, years later, for all those involved. Combined with the ups and downs of parenthood this is not only a page-turning […]
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This is one of those books that immediately after you start reading you know you are in the hands of a wonderful writer. Atticus Lish has delivered a delicately savage critique on post-9/11 America and the so-called American Dream in a beautiful love story of an illegal immigrant and an American soldier recently returned from […]
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Sara Novic’s writing is incredible and she completely shattered me a quarter of the way into the book. She also structures her story perfectly jumping backward and forward from the war in 1991 to ten years later and its lasting aftereffects. This is a coming-of-age story which happens far too early. It is about how […]
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Welcome to Boomerang Book Bites. A weekly review of books we think are awesome. One of the major differences between a physical bookshop and an online bookshop is that online you don’t have a person to tell you about the fantastic books available. But with Boomerang Books we are backed by one of Australia’s leading independent […]
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I hit 300 visitors on my personal blog in the last 10 days -- hurrah!
My milestone is kind of silly . . .
I have decided to join Toastmasters in February. And now that I’ve shared it here, it is written in stone. Gasp. I have realistic goals in that all I want to do is be able to introduce myself in a room full of strangers and deliver a somewhat enjoyable speech without passing out.
BLAH-HAH-HAH!
Good luck to them in achieving this . . .
Okay, I respect that introvert does not NECESSARILY equal shy, but, uh, really, it doesn't NEVER equal it either.... Um, I AM bad at personal connecting. I can't get the hang of small talk so avoid it, and people also have a tendency to completely forget they've ever seen me before in most cases. Curiously, there's lots of talk here about people hating to speak in front of a group. I have no trouble speaking in front of a group! It's the social niceties that scare me....
Hi, Tracy! Great blog-- I just took a visit.
Kimberly Lynn, eVeR so impressed with your Toastmasters plan for the new year. Good on you!
Hi, Rockin! Isn't it fascinating that we manifest our inner-ness in so many different ways? I'm with you. I can talk to groups without a hiccup these days. Answer the phone, though? OMIGOD! I would rather address the United Nations that pick up my land line.
:-)
Mary Hershey
I have semi-decided to have a book launch for my book that comes out next Feb. It's my first trade book, and I don't want a party. But I've been nudged about it, and I know I absolutely should. So I'm scared to death, but I've kinda realized that I just have to do it.
Next up, figuring out how to do it so the focus is on the book, not me:>)
Well, I DIDN'T wake up with woodpecker head or the spins--feel better, both of you!
Had a wonderful time at a conference last weekend. Both workshops were filled, and I ran out of handouts, which never happens! Just a serious feel-good weekend. And am getting to be included in a tiny, personalized workshop in Internet Marketing last week--yay!
Congratulations on all the milestones!
Loved Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse. Hopefully your head isn't spinning 'cause you're staying up too late reading :)
ALWAYS stay up too late reading! :-)
(Hi, Kim!)
Mary Hershey
Finally in a spin-free mode