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.
