Day Fifteen: Your favourite book dealing with foreign culture Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. I’m Australian. I really could have picked any book that deals with a non-Australian culture. I could have picked an English boarding school book or an American finishing school book. They’re both foreign cultures to me. But the firstContinue reading “30 Day Book Challenge: Day Fifteen”
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30 Day Book Challenge: Day Thirteen
Day Thirteen: Your favourite childhood book. On The Way Home by Jill Murphy. Contrary to what my family believes, I did NOT memorise this book when I read it out loud. I read it. I just read it so often, they thought I did. But at age 5 I really wasn’t smart enough to learnContinue reading “30 Day Book Challenge: Day Thirteen”
30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twelve
Day Twelve: A book so emotionally draining you couldn’t complete it or had to set aside for a bit. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. After watching the film adaptation on my long-haul flight from Australia to England in 2010, I told my partner that I thought the movie was great in concept but kindContinue reading “30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twelve”
30 Day Book Challenge: Day Eleven
Day Eleven: The book that made you fall in love with reading Brer Rabbit series by Enid Blyton (The Brer Rabbit Book, Brer Rabbit Again, and Brer Rabbit’s a Rascal) Brer Rabbit is an American folktale character (the contraction Br’oth’er Rabbit). He’s a typical trickster, able to use wit and wile to get what heContinue reading “30 Day Book Challenge: Day Eleven”
30 Day Book Challenge: Day Seven
Day Seven: A book that’s hard to read. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (author’s preferred text). It’s taken me two months to finally give up on this book. This book is in fact so hard to read, for me, that I’ve shelved it 385 pages into 640. I’ve decided to shelve it and maybe waitContinue reading “30 Day Book Challenge: Day Seven”
Lissa Bilyk 