by Mel | Dec 19, 2008 | Bookworm, Life
I just got back from a two year old birthday dinner. In the spirit of get ’em while they’re young and you’ll have ’em for life, I tend to give my friend’s kids books as presents. Last year, for his first birthday, I gave the birthday boy...
by Mel | Nov 9, 2008 | Bookworm
I don’t buy many authors in hardback. For one thing, hardbacks are pretty ridiculously expensive here ($45 upwards). An author had to be in the I-absolutely-cannot-wait-even-to-get-it-at-the-library category for me to shell that out. At the moment, that category...
by Mel | Jan 14, 2008 | Bookworm
What Be Your Nerd Type? Your Result: Literature Nerd Does sitting by a nice cozy fire, with a cup of hot tea/chocolate, and a book you can read for hours even when your eyes grow red and dry and you look sort of scary sitting there with your insomniac appearance? Then...
by Mel | Jan 1, 2008 | Bookworm
Okay, I’m going to do this in a post this year…so the link will be in the sidebar after this disappears off the main page. And I guess the first book is half 2007 and half 2008 given I started it in one year and finished it this morning. Most recent at...
by Mel | Dec 31, 2007 | Bookworm
It’s going to be 42 here in Melbourne for the last day of the year. That is what is officially known as hot, hot, hot, hotty, hot. Not the weather for doing anything much other than floating in a well shaded pool or staying inside with the aircon on and reading....
by Mel | Oct 7, 2007 | Bookworm, Friends who rock
Everyone in Australia who loves great romance should dash out and buy Kelly Hunter’s latest book Sleeping Partner. Because it rocks. Much like Kelly herself!
