I’ll read anything – if it’s good enough. H is for Hawk is better than good.
A market researcher once asked me “What do you want to read about?” I can’t remember what I said but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t “I’d like to read about how an academic Englishwoman lived out her grief through raising and training a goshawk.” And that’s the thing, isn’t it? We read in order to…
Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey by The Countess of Carnarvon
My beloved gave me a book for Christmas. It was a book I’d never have chosen for myself because I am a hypocritical literary snob who believes that any 21st century writer called The Countess of Carnarvon couldn’t possibly write anything of interest to me. But you know how this story ends, don’t you? The…
The Bush by Don Watson
I can’t begin to give any sort of coherent overview of this rambling, sinuous, insightful journey into the bush. The book is as multifaceted and as full of flickering visions as the bush itself. Watson begins with his own rural family – Gippsland dairy farmers – but soon sets off in many different directions. Watson’s…
The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb
We’ve all seen the alarming stats about women in the workplace. The higher the workplace position, the fewer women. But why? And what to do about it? Annabel Crabb thinks she has the answer. And I think she’s right. I’ve read lots of feminist critiques of the workplace, and I’ve enjoyed most of them. I’ve…