Tag: books
member name: Magdalena Ball
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September 12, 2007 10:39 PM EDT --
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
The Road
By Cormac McCarthy
Picador
ISBN: 9780330447546 , June 2007, 256 pages, paperback, A$22.95
It’s probably fair to call The Road a perfect novel. . . .
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August 19, 2009 08:59 PM EDT --
Hancock's Half Hour - The Very Best Episodes: Vol. 3 2 Audio CD Set $30.95, Released May 2007, ISBN / Catalogue Number: 9780563504139
Some things don’t date. This isn’t often the case . . .
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December 08, 2009 04:03 PM EST --
The Infinities by John Banville Picador ISBN: 9780330513210, Trade Paperback, October 2009, 256 page/s, $32.99 AUD
On the surface of it, The Infinities is a simple story, set, like Joyce’s . . .
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December 08, 2009 03:59 PM EST --
The Infinities by John Banville Picador ISBN: 9780330513210, Trade Paperback, October 2009, 256 page/s, $32.99 AUD
On the surface of it, The Infinities is a simple story, set, like Joyce’s . . .
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October 22, 2007 08:45 PM EDT --
10 Steps to Creating Memorable Characters
A Writer’s Workbook
by Sue Viders, Lucynda Storey, Cher Gorman, Becky Martinez
Lone Eagle
Paperback: 176 pages, November . . .
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January 24, 2008 04:37 PM EST --
The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book:
Your Complete Guide to Successful Authorship (Revised Edition)
By Patricia L. Fry
Matilija Press
2007, ISBN: 9780977357628, $19.95
The . . .
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October 20, 2009 12:11 AM EDT --
It’s Useful to Have a Duck It's useful to have a boy Isol Allen & Unwin ISBN 978-1-74237-2211, 32pages, November 2009, AUD $14.99
This gorgeous little double sided board book . . .
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August 09, 2007 01:49 AM EDT --
Don’t get me wrong. There’s nothing wrong with polemics in literature. Some of the best, most important books are inherently political, and overtly polemical. I’m thinking . . .
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August 28, 2007 09:19 PM EDT --
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
Another
by Joel Deane
Interactive Press
www.ipoz.biz/titles/another.htm
ISBN 1876819251, 2006 (second printing), 224pages, paperback, AU$27
Like its striking cover, . . .
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January 31, 2008 10:38 PM EST --
His Illegal Self
by Peter Carey
Random House
ISBN: 9781741665352, Hardcover, Feb 2008, $45
Che Selkirk is a boy whose parents, members of the increasingly violent Students . . .
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May 22, 2008 09:06 PM EDT --
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
Tumbuktu
By Paul Auster
Faber
978-0-571-22909-3, Paperback, March 2008, 181pgs
For those used to the almost psychedelic complexity of Auster's novels, . . .
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June 12, 2009 02:48 AM EDT --
The Book of Grandparents: A Celebration of a Very Special Kind of Love ABC Books Paperback, 176 pages, AUD $27.95, ISBN: 9780733324673, March 2009
The Book of Grandparents: A Celebration of . . .
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August 15, 2007 04:12 AM EDT --
The Book Thief
By Markus Zusak
Picador, $32.95
ISBN: 033036426X, September 2005, paperback, 492pgs
Markus Zusak's The Book Thief has one of the most original and striking narrators . . .
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January 16, 2008 05:00 PM EST --
Some of my earliest defining experiences involved the planetarium. Iwill never forget sitting in that big round auditorium and suddenlyexperiencing a sense of the universe as a whole in all its beautiful,magical . . .
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February 10, 2009 12:45 AM EST --
Little Dorrit
By Charles Dickens
BBC Audio CD (Full Cast Dramatisation)
March 2009, ISBN-13: 978-1602835610, 5 hours (Abridged), 49.95(aud),
Though I’ve purchased a number of CD audios for . . .
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August 27, 2007 02:24 AM EDT --
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
American Youth
By Phil LaMarche
Random House, 224 pages, $21.95
American Youth is one of those novels that seems to touch a chord with its readers—summing up all that . . .
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June 09, 2008 10:05 PM EDT --
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
Sunny Side Up
By Marion Roberts
Allen & Unwin
Paperback, 252pages, ISBN: 9781741752366, $15.95aud
I tend not to read books that fall into genre categories, . . .
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November 22, 2005 11:58 PM EST --
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
By Carrie Tiffany
Picador
August 2005
ISBN 0-330-42191-3, RRP $A22.00, jacketed pbk with b&w photos
It's 1934, Australia is following the rest of . . .
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April 17, 2007 06:30 PM EDT --
Every Move You Make
By David Malouf
Chatto & Windus (Random House)
October 2006, ISBN 9780701180485, $39.95(aud), hardcover, 244pages
David Malouf is a writer who is able to skip past the . . .
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May 29, 2007 08:03 PM EDT --
A review of El Dorado by Dorothy Porter Once again, Porter succeeds in that impossible juggling act of narrative and poetry. Even for the most casual of reader, El Dorado reads easily as a fast paced, . . .
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