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Lian Tanner
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Museum of Thieves (The Keepers, #1)
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2010
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City of Lies (The Keepers, #2)
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2011
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Path of Beasts (The Keepers, #3)
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Ice Breaker (The Hidden, #1)
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Sunker's Deep (The Hidden, #2)
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Battlesong (The Hidden, #3)
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2016
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Accidental Heroes (The Rogues, #1)
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A Clue for Clara (A Clue for Clara, #1)
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Spellhound (Dragons of Hallow #1)
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Secret Guardians (The Rogues, #2)
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Reading aloud
I recently read an article by David Cain on reading aloud. He talks about how he used it to find his way through long, tricky sentences, and again when he was reading a book that was written in dialect. So I thought I’d give it a try.
I’m a very fast reader, which has its advantages, but also means that I skip bits, and don’t always absorb as much as I could. Right now I’m reading a couple of books
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"I disagree with the blurb: I do not think this is a story told by an unreliable narrator. This narrator has a limited point of view, but she’s telling the story as honestly as she can, to the full extent of her understanding.
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"Imagine Harry Potter wasn’t English and left in the care of his relatives - The Dursleys.
Imagine instead, a girl named Tulsi, here in Australia. Living with her parents, as part of a circus. But, only females can do magic and, it has to come down yo" Read more of this review » |
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The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy (Hart and Mercy, #1):
"The whole thing was too wordy and pretentious, riddled with sexism. I'm honestly baffled how a woman wrote this novel when it's so focused on Mercy's looks, and includes phrases like Mercy "loved chocolate cake and had the full breasts to show for it"
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| Crusie and Mayer are a hilarious and wonderful writing team, exemplified by the little logo in the front of their books, which includes both a cherry and a bomb. I laughed so much reading this, and love the characters, especially Max, Rose and Poppy. ...more | |
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| AJ Demas writes the slow, shy growth of love so beautifully. She is also wonderfully good at the intricacies of politics and household intrigue. This is a sweet, gentle story of community and found family, and if you loved Honey and Pepper, you'll lo ...more | |
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| If I could give this a hundred stars, I would. The writing is idiosyncratic and intriguing, and the gradual changes in Starling as she comes back to who she really is, are painfully exquisite. It's definitely a book for kids who are curious, confiden ...more | |
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| A nuanced, thoughtful look at the relationships between men and women that also looks at the differences between second and third wave feminism. I thought it was a really impressive book, and reinforces my opinion that we can't fix violence against w ...more | |
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Australians certainly wouldn't have said 'ass' back in the 1950s. And yeah, 'bum' was very common, as was 'arse'. I'm enjoying the book more than you
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Hi James, no, we never found him, though we spent three days searching, along with a special team from Japan and a large contingent of PNG police officers. Personally, I doubt that he existed, because that part of the Gazelle Peninsula is quite heavi
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“But there are some things, child, that you should steal. That you must steal, if you have enough love and courage in your heart. You must snatch freedom from the hands of the tyrant. You must spirit away innocent lives before they are destroyed. You must hide secret and sacred places.”
― Museum of Thieves
― Museum of Thieves
“Don't try to push [fear] away,' he said. 'If you fight it, you make it stronger. You gotta great it politely, like an unwanted cousin. You can't make it leave you alone, but you can do what you have to do, in spite of it.”
― Museum of Thieves
― Museum of Thieves
“Goldie closed her eyes and tried not to think about how she had nearly died, waiting for someone to come along and save her. She shivered. 'I'll never do that again,' she thought. 'Next time I'll save myself.”
― Museum of Thieves
― Museum of Thieves
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“The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say.
About anything.”
― The Knife of Never Letting Go
About anything.”
― The Knife of Never Letting Go
“It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.”
― Mortal Engines
― Mortal Engines
“No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.”
― The Midnight Zoo
― The Midnight Zoo
“But there are some things, child, that you should steal. That you must steal, if you have enough love and courage in your heart. You must snatch freedom from the hands of the tyrant. You must spirit away innocent lives before they are destroyed. You must hide secret and sacred places.”
― Museum of Thieves
― Museum of Thieves
“Marry me, he says. I got all my own teeth, I wash twice a year an I'll cut you in fer half the business here.”
― Blood Red Road
― Blood Red Road
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You're very welcome, Rotuma!
I hope you can find a copy quickly! It's a pretty exciting ride for Goldie and her friends. :)
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