I was given Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines by David Unaipon as a gift from one of my granddaughters. Fascinating stories and worth reading, only about 280 pages and I could not put it down.
I was never taught any of this history when I was at school, especially the so-called Black War in Tasmania.
it is interesting that he, in and of his own work, is popular enough to hold his on convention and get good turnouts. Mistborn does read like it was placed to be a movie one day, and his prose is kinda weak so if people struggle with that, the other writers will have to do a lot of heavy lifting.
Plus so much is written and hes not apparently the type to not finish a book/series unlike (GRRM) so there will be a good skeleton for the production company and director to roll with
Whilst I did enjoy the first 2/3 of the book, I felt it dragged a bit in places. The last 1/3 certainly picked up the pace and I loved it even though it was extremely grim. I’m looking forward to starting the second instalment of this trilogy.
Finished the prequel to Hot Ground by Lisa Ellory, Private Prosecution.
Matthew Deacon is a prosecutor in Perth who hooks up with Lil Constantine, who’s found murdered the next morning. He’s quickly cleared by the 2 cops investigating, one of whom is Jessy Parkin. Because of something Lil said to him, he’s very suspicious of this one guy, Sam, who turns out to be her brother-in-law, Sam, a prominent defence barrister. He investigates, and then gets accused of having kiddie ■■■■ on his computer and then gets badly beaten up and becomes addicted to Endone.
Rattling good yarn. A good 9/10 and one to follow.
Started King Tide, a debut by Luke Johnson, who was a physio at Geelong FC. A girl’s body is found, buried in the sand at the beach of Leganes Bay in SW Victoria. She went missing 2 or 3 years ago and was assumed to have run away. It’s pretty clear it’s all based in Port Fairy, which names a few key Port Fairy things except that PF doesn’t have a high school.
The boys who were involved with the girl are connected via the daughter of the Anglican vicar who’s just returned to the town.
Looking forward to the rest of the book.
I was a little excited to read that one of my all-time favourite writers Bill Bryson (self-proclaimed “retired author”) has a new book coming out.
However, it’s just an updated version of his tome ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’ which I already have, so I don’t think I’ll bother.
Finished book #2 in the Poppy War trilogy. I am enjoying this series very much. The character development of the secondary characters has been fantastic. I have trouble liking the main character (Rin) at times, but that’s okay, I can understand why she us like she is. On to the third!
The author’s note at the beginning of The Burning God males me feel like everyone is going to die. I’m expecting Rin to go, but Kitay would be hard to take. Even though they’re joined spiritually, I hope he somehow makes it.
I though this series got better the deeper it went. I especially loved the magic system. The world building wasn’t anything spectacular, but it didn’t need to be imo. I thought the ending was excellent. I always feel a bit sad when I finish a series and say goodbye to the characters, even in this case when they weren’t especially likable (except Kitay).
Amazing to think that R.F Kuang started these books when she was 19. What a talent! I will need to get my hands on Babel fairly soon, I hear good things about this book.
This is the only book of hers I have read. I really wanted to like it more, and the characters were well developed, but ultimately the plot and style - history and fantasy intertwined - just wasn’t convincing enough for me.
Coincidentally, the book I’d read previous to that was also set around Oxford - Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams. This was more my cup of tea and I thought it was excellent.
I absolutely loved this book. It did take a whilento get going but when it did, oh boy! How fantastic I still have 4 (possibly 9?) to go. I went to pick up the second book (Words of Radiance) today, but none on the shelf and will have to wait a week before I can get my hands on it at my local bookstore. I saw The Blade Itself on the shelf, so will get stuck into that in the meantime.
Just finished Kate Horan’s second book, On the Edge. Nel Foley is a Sydney GP who gets a phone call telling her that her doctor father has just died of a heart attack in their home town on the southern coast of NSW, 5 hours from Sydney.
Nel goes home and reluctantly offers to run the practice till they can find a replacement. She’s reluctant because half the town believes that she was instrumental in the death of the local MP’s daughter, 16 years before. She believes that it was the girl’s ex, who’s now participating in some heavy-duty DV.
Damn good read and a good follow up to her first book, Inheritance.
