I absolutely fell in love with this book’s beautiful cover before realising it was by Anne Tyler, an author I love. Woop Woop. Baby, you are coming home with me….. Well, thank goodness I loved the cover Readheads, because – and I’m heartbroken to say it – the cover is the only thing I liked about this damn […]
Author Archives: Ms K
July
22
Hope Farm by Peggy Frew
posted by Ms K
While I don’t want to get too ahead of myself, I am pretty sure this is going to be my Book of 2016. Whoa there, I hear you saying. Hold those horses – it’s only July. Well perhaps. But if I judge a book purely on its ability to keep me reading past midnight completely enthralled, well […]
July
07
The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau
posted by Ms K
Hold the phone Joan because I had an epiphany reading this book. It was this. I mostly read Australian stories. If anyone had said this to me a month ago I would have guffawed, strongly believing I was a true global citizen of the reading kind. Nope. Having had a good look through my reviews […]
June
09
People Who Knew Me by Kim Hooper
posted by Ms K
This is such a clever book I found it hard to put down which, I must say, was a little surprising. I did not expect to like it as much as I did but I happily ripped through it in a weekend and for those of us who love to read, you know what a […]
May
24
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
posted by Ms K
The Secret Chord is my golden trifecta of books. First up, it’s a historical novel which is my absolute undoing – the older the better and it doesn’t get too much older than the tale of David and Goliath, right? (Well, maybe – but then I’d be reviewing The Bible). It is a grandiose tale that sweeps you along […]
May
02
Between a Wolf and A Dog by Georgia Blain
posted by Ms K
Bitter experience has proven to me never judge a book by the reviews – especially those squeezed onto every spare bit of book real-estate, each one screaming ‘read this’. More than once I answered those siren calls, and after some pretty big disappointments I had decided – once and for all – my ego simply couldn’t take picking up these kinds of best sellers […]
April
21
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
posted by Ms K
If there was an award handed out to someone taking the longest time to finish a book, I’d win it hands-down. I have been beavering away at this one for m.o.n.t.hs! Poor Ms A has been galloping through her books while I could only reply to her inquisitive emails about my progress with ‘nope, still going’. I don’t know who’ll […]
March
22
The Women’s Pages by Deborah Adelaide
posted by Ms K
There is a particular walk I get when I leave a shop with a newly purchased book I can’t wait to read…..it’s part jaunt, part quickstep with an occasional sashay – and it must look very odd to passersby I grant you. But when I picked up acclaimed author Deborah Adelaide’s new offering, my ‘new-book walk’ […]
March
15
The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida
posted by Ms K
Like a pig that can sniff out a truffle, I reckon we, Ms A and Ms K, can sniff out a book that is ripe to be made into a movie. Big call I know but we do have a track record, Readheads. Lots of those book-to-movie titles that pop up at your local Hoyts, yep, we sniffed those […]
February
16
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
posted by Ms K
If you have been wanting to read Go Set a Watchman but have hesitated because you have not read To Kill A Mockingbird, please don’t panic. It doesn’t matter. I confess to being one of a handful of people on the planet who hasn’t read To Kill a Mockingbird (I’m a fool I know and not […]
