Book Review: Sea People
I can’t even begin to tell you how good this book is, but let’s see how I go. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia is, as author Christina Thompson admits in the prologue, as “much a story about what happened as a story about what we know.” In charting the story of Polynesian settlement in…
What I read in 2020 – Part 2: Fiction
The discomforts of 2020 were, for me and my family, relatively minor in the scheme of things. Living in regional Victoria as we do, yes we were partially locked down and working and schooling from home, but apart from that we were safe and well (and employed – no small thing right now). Yet for…
What I read in 2020 – Part 1, the non-fiction episode
2020 has been, for me, a year of comfort reading. Lots of books were tossed aside by page 6 or 7, if they couldn’t hold my interest. And for a while there, during the deepest part of the COVID-19 lockdown, it seemed like very little could hold my interest. Miles Franklin prize-winners: tossed. New York Times best-sellers: tossed….
Summer Fiction – my top three so far
In the approach to Christmas I was in something of a reading slump but these three novels picked me up and had me reading late into the night. Yes, of course I read more than three books over the summer, and of course I read non-fiction too (and I’ll tell you about those another time)…