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Ring for "Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove" by Christopher Moore
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Yes please!
Just finished and loved 'Lamb' so I'd really like to read more of his work.
Promise I'll stick to your rules, too!
Count me in - I'll pm you straight away
This book is a little like an Australian version of Mike Moore's 'Dude, Where's My Country'. Written by a well respected political journalist, this book examines John Howard as a prime minister and finds him sadly lacki…
Have read this thread and went to the ALA site and am open-mouthed with horror at the thought of people challenging and banning at least some of these books.
I have heard of some of our more fundamentalist religious sc…
Half-way through "Lamb: The Gospel according to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore, and am loving it! Made me laugh out loud in inappropriate public places and I'll probably burn in hell - oh well!
Half-way through "Lamb: The Gospel according to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore, and am loving it! Made me laugh out loud in inappropriate public places and I'll probably burn in hell - oh well!
Book Talk
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List of 50 modern "essential" reads, as reported in The Guardian
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I've read 24 of these
Loved some, tolerated others and few I couldn't stand! I generally don't like 'must read' lists like this, but have copied it off for my book club to have a look at.
Thanks for starting this thread ahimsa.
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What do you do (for a living, to keep body and soul together . . . )?
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Refugee from the classroom
I was a high school English and Drama teacher (Australia) but realised I enjoyed hanging out and talking with the kids more than I did teaching them... so now I'm a school psychologist!!
I'm reading Sideshow by Sheri Tepper. Recommended her books to a friend and then rediscovered them myself!!
I'm SUPPOSED to be reading lots of weighty psychological tomes for work - but these just keep getting added …
Who has time for a partner when there's books to read out there?????
Just checked your bookshelf and saw you live in Williamstown. That's where I spent my early childhood and school up until Grade 3. Used to live on Koroit Creek Road across from the Tech. Block of flats there now. S…
Some of my favourites are......
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey
Tomorrow When the War Began series by John Marsden
Bliss by Peter…
