Six Degrees of Separation – from Margaret to The Mussel Feast

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Adrienne Brodeur, Birgit Vanderbeke, Jess Hill, Judy Blume, Maggie O'Farrell, Six Degrees of Separation, Stella Prize, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Vicki Laveau-Harvie December 5, 2020

It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up.

This month we begin with Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume. Continue reading →

Nonfiction November – Be the Expert

Posted by Kate W in Non-fiction and tagged with bibliotherapy, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Debra Adelaide, Ella Berthoud, Laura Freeman, memoir, Susan Elderkin, Tegan Bennett Daylight November 16, 2020

Put your ‘expert’ hat on, it’s Week 3 of Nonfiction November. Continue reading →

Sample Saturday – a couple, a murder, and a dog

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Halle Butler, Joan Silber, Nicola Maye Goldberg, Sample Saturday, Tegan Bennett Daylight October 10, 2020

Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. Continue reading →

Things that are making me happy this week

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Charlotte Wood, COVID-19, Elizabeth Strout, gin, Melbourne, Melbourne Writers Festival, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Tegan Bennett Daylight, television August 21, 2020

01. My baby turned 18. Continue reading →

The Details by Tegan Bennett Daylight

Posted by Kate W in Non-fiction and tagged with 2020, Australian, AWW, AWW2020, book review, essays, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Georgia Blain, grief-lit, Helen Garner, memoir, nonfiction, review, Tegan Bennett Daylight August 17, 2020

I think Tegan Bennett Daylight added the subtitle ‘Reading, Love and Death’ to her memoir/essay collection, The Details, just so that I’d buy it. Obviously I did. Immediately. What’s better than reading about reading, love and death? Nothing!

And this book delivered. Continue reading →

Six Degrees of Separation – from How to do Nothing to The Memory Pool

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Curtis Sittenfeld, Helen Garner, Jenny Odell, Julia Baird, Leanne Shapton, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melbourne Writers Festival, Six Degrees of Separation, swimming, swimming pool, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Therese Spruhan August 1, 2020

It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up. Continue reading →

20 Books of Summer (except that it’s Winter)

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Andrew Ridgeley, Ann Napolitano, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀̀, Chanel Miller, Craig Brown, Curtis Sittenfeld, Delia Owens, Elizabeth Strout, Evie Wyld, Faith Harper, Jenny Odell, Jess Hill, Kamila Shamsie, Kate Atkinson, Laura Freeman, Liz Moore, Maria Semple, Meg Mason, Naomi Wood, Pip Williams, reading challenge, Sigrid Nunez, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Victoria Hannan May 31, 2020

Cathy at 746 Books is hosting the 20 Books of Summer reading challenge again this year. As Cathy states, it’s the most relaxed reading challenge you’ll participate in (swap books out, change your target, do whatever). Continue reading →

Reading the Stella Prize Shortlist – Six Bedrooms by Tegan Bennett Daylight

Posted by Kate W in Fiction and tagged with 2016, Australian, AWW, AWW2016, book review, fiction, review, short story, Stella Prize, Tegan Bennett Daylight March 15, 2016

Well. Tegan Bennett Daylight’s Six Bedrooms is very, very good. If all short story collections were this satisfying, I might very well be a convert to the world of short stories. Continue reading →

The 2016 Stella Prize Shortlist

Posted by Kate W in Fiction, Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2016, Charlotte Wood, Elizabeth Harrower, Fiona Wright, Mireille Juchau, Peggy Frew, Stella Prize, Tegan Bennett Daylight March 10, 2016

Ta da! The 2016 Stella Prize shortlist has been announced. Continue reading →

Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts, Charlotte Wood, Fiona Wright, Gail Jones, Mireille Juchau, music, Stella Prize, Stephanie Bishop, Tegan Bennett Daylight, television March 10, 2016

1. Eclipses are ace, aren’t they?

2. Looking for a new meme to get involved in? I was reminded of the Meme Directory that Bookshelf Fantasies curates this week (and submitted 6 Degrees of Separation, naturally). Continue reading →