Helena Opperman
Those Neglected Books
No income, no new books. I had to turn to my own bookcase and tackle those books I always wanted to read, but never did.
Helena Opperman
31st August 2020
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No income, no new books. I had to turn to my own bookcase and tackle those books I always wanted to read, but never did.
Author: Sante Montefiore Short excerpt: “At seventeen she was more independent and obnoxious than ever. She was doing badly in her schoolwork, failing everything, coming
Named Book of the Year at the 2014 Australian Book Industry Awards, this is the reason we read to escape. A book review on The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion)
Sex and Vanity is the classic story of a girl from a highly traditional background, now growing up in modern mainstream society. She meets the intriguing and scrumptious-sounding George Zao while she is still in the process of figuring out who she is. A tale as old as time – great connection, bad timing.
Part military history, part memoir, part exorcism… Norman McFarlane’s book is about his time as a ‘troopie’ during conscription, the war in Angola, and the
The Natural History Heist of the Century The human impulse to possess beautiful things often plays out in not-so-pretty ways. For example, we gouge out
Author: Khaled Hosseini I bought this book for my book club and decided to dive into it while I was self-isolating due to Covid. It