I Miss You When I Blink is basically a couple of dozen hilarious and insightful anecdotes about ‘relatively ordinary life’ all strung together in roughly chronological order. Mary Laura Philpott is your typical high-achieving Type A personality who grew up in the U.S. expecting that if she followed all the rules she would win at […]
light reads
Review: A Beginner’s Guide to Running, by Lisa Shearon
A Beginner’s Guide to Running is a novel of fabulous contradictions. It’s a light-hearted, hilarious story about the aftermath of domestic violence and bereavement. It’s a sweary, alcohol-fuelled romp about finding yourself in the relentlessness of single parenting. It made me laugh until I couldn’t breathe, cry until my head hurt and indulge in more […]
Review: The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers, by Kerri Turner
The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers, by Kerri Turner, is a wonderful and thoroughly enjoyable story to read. I’m a sucker for anything set in Russia. I devoured Paullina Simons’ The Bronze Horseman series, with Tatiana and Alexander and have read my way through plenty of Russian literature, including Anna Karenina and Crime and […]
Review: The Helpline, by Katherine Collette
The Helpline, by Katherine Collette is plain good fun. Set in a local council in one of Melbourne’s bayside surbubs, Geraldine is the unwilling newest employee on the Senior Citizen’s Helpline. It irritates her that some of the local residents seem to be calling just for a chat. It’s so… inefficient. The Helpline is somewhere […]
Book review: How To Be Perfect, by Holly Wainwright
Holly Wainwright is a natural storyteller and she’s back with another rollicking good read, How To Be Perfect. Just like her first novel, The Mummy Bloggers, it’s packed with perceptive insights into parenting, hilarious observations on modern life and more than a few heart-in-mouth moments. It’s the perfect book to read when you want something light, familiar […]
Book review: Ghosted, by Rosie Walsh
Ghosted, by Rosie Walsh, is one of those rare gems of a book that is set in the modern world, involves a love story about two people over the age of 30 and is brilliantly written. It also comes with a killer twist. ‘Ghosted’ is a term that has been coined in recent years for […]