Category Archives: Felicity Young (Aus)

Books of the month: November 2016

Pick of the month I felt pretty wretched after watching the US election unfold at the beginning of the month, both because of what it might mean for the world and for the delayed grief over my mother’s death it … Continue reading

Posted in books of the month, Felicity Young (Aus), Margot Kinberg, Pat Flower (Aus), Robert Harris, Sulari Gentill (Aus) | 2 Comments

2015: A year in reading Australian Women Writers

For reasons I shan’t bore you with the last half of this year has been…difficult. So much so that I have read little, blogged less and almost entirely let down my fellow Australian Women Writers challenge co-hosts by dropping that … Continue reading

Posted in Anna Jaquiery, books of the year, Felicity Young (Aus), J.M. Peace (Aus), Lizzy Chandler, Malla Nunn (Aus), Patricia Carlon (Aus), Sulari Gentill (Aus), Tracy Ryan | Tagged | 3 Comments

Books of the month: July 2015

Pick of the month Almost all of the nine books I read during July were well worth my time but I’m going to give my pick of the month to J.M. Peace’s A TIME TO RUN because I was so … Continue reading

Posted in Alex Hammond, Ausma Zehanat Khan, books of the month, Elly Griffiths, Felicity Young (Aus), J.M. Peace (Aus), Jon Cleary, Nicci French, Patricia Abbott | 9 Comments

Aussie Authors Month

April has been designated by someone as Aussie Authors Month, a fact I have been neglectful of here at Reactions to Reading. But over at Fair Dinkum Crime, the blog I host with fellow Aussie crime fiction fan Kerrie to … Continue reading

Posted in blog spotlight, Brian Kavanagh (Aus), Felicity Young (Aus), Leah Giarratano (Aus), list, P M Newton (Aus), Sulari Gentill (Aus) | 7 Comments

Review: An Easeful Death by Felicity Young

Title:An Easeful Death Author: Felicity Young Publisher:Freemantle Arts Centre Press [2007] ISBN: 9781920731137 No. of Pages: 299 In Perth, Western Australia a young woman has been killed: her body shaved, spray-painted bronze and posed provocatively with the words easeful death written on her … Continue reading

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2008 a year in reading

Before I list my best books of the year a few statistics that sum up my reading year: I started 94 books this year and finished 82 of those. That’s a few more DNFs than I usually have but I did … Continue reading

Posted in Asa Larsson, books of the year, C J Box, Deon Meyer, Felicity Young (Aus), Kerry Greenwood (Aus), Leah Giarratano (Aus), list, Matt Beynon Rees, Nigel McCrery, Peter Temple (Aus), Stieg Larsson | 9 Comments