Good Reads
Good Reads is a page full of ideas and suggestions to help you find your next book.
Do you need inspiration to try a new author, find a new hobby or be thrilled down to your toes?
Have a look at the following suggestions…
They’ll help you open a whole new page!
On The Shelf
On my bedside table
Author websites and blogs
Books2Movies
What’s New?
Book lists
Web resources to help you find your next book
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On The Shelf |
On my bedside table
What books are Wingecarribee identities reading?
Jane Lemann has lived in this area with her husband Martin for over 50 years. Her busy life includes working at King Ranch Australia at Milton Park, then running Outdoor World and Bookshop in Bowral and now growing proteas for the flower market and caring for a conservation block at Glenquarry. Jane is a pre-school teacher, horticulturalist and bush regenerator involved in the restoration of Mount Gibraltar Reserve.
Jane usually has a huge pile of books on her bedside table and this month she shares a few of them with us:
The Gib: Mount Gibraltar Southern Highlands being carefully re-read prior to reprint arriving.
New Selected Poems by Robert Gray. I have just discovered these wonderful, evocative poems having read his autobiography, 'The Land I Came Through Last'.
Trees of History and Romance by Michael Pembroke. Essays on exotic trees in a delightful bedside book.
A Million Wild Acres by Eric C. Rolls, Classic beautifully written history of the Pilliga area following a visit
A Young Person's Guide to Philosophy by Jeremy Weate. 'I think therefore I am", very good brief summary of human thinking recommended by our librarian.
Fishing for Stars, by Bryce Courtney. I found the world of the Japanese mafia fascinating.
Tree Hollows and Wildlife Conservation in Australia by Philip Gibbons and David Lindenmayer. CSIRO report.
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. Inimitable and heroic description of hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Author websites and blogs
See what books authors read
www.authorsontheweb.com
www.tchevalier.com/guides
Here are two fun sites for all the Kerry Greenwood fans out there
www.earthlydelights.net.au
www.phrynefisher.com
www.annewhitfield.com
Books2Movies
Seen the movie and now you want to read the book?
www.bookreporter.com/features/books2movies.asp
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What’s New?
Get the latest in print we have purchased- October New Book List 2009
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Some web resources to help you find your next book..
www.allreaders.com – choose from many plot, style character and setting options to find your perfect book.
www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow -ABC Radio National’s daily book program featuring interviews with Australian and overseas authors
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk – Bibliographies for over 10,000 authors. Use the browse menu to find an author by surname, search for a book by title or find the sequence in a series.
www.theromancereader.com – The very latest news and views of romance novels.
www.candycoveredbooks.com – Your one stop shop for chick lit reviews
www.overbooked.com - A resource for ravenous readers. Provides information about new and notable fiction and non-fiction
www.whichbook.net – A completely new way of choosing what to read. Choose your plot, search for your story.
www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/whatdo/reading - find out who writes like your favourite author
www.chicklitclub.com/ozmade.html -Love Chick Lit but not sure which authors are Australian? You’ll find plenty on this webpage. Try Maggie Alderson, Melanie La’Brooy or Monica McInerney.
www.lovereading.co.uk
www.thebigbookclub.com.au
www.penguin.com.au -What's new, what's hot, read an extract, find authors, books and lots, lots more