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Up in the Air
In Up in the Air, George Clooney plays a professional traveller. He’s got negotiating airports down to a fine art as he closes in on his key goal in life: to be one of the elite travellers to clock 10...
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The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow, the director who gave us splendid vampire movie Near Dark (one of my favourites) and equally enjoyable SF flick Strange Days, really hits the mark with The Hurt Locker. I finally...
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Monsters – a thoughtful alien ‘invasion’
If you’re looking for a bug hunt, you should probably head over to the aisle with Alien vs Predators or Aliens or somesuch. Gareth Edwards’ Monsters is not about the critters from outer space, but our...
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Evelyn Evelyn at the Evelyn, with friends
A late start to the morning, now listening to Kim Boekbinder’s The Impossible Girl album hot off the merch stand at last night’s gig at The Evelyn Hotel in Melbourne’s Fitzroy, and again feeling...
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Power and Majesty: a right royal success
Power and Majesty (HarperCollins Voyager) came out last year. It’s the first volume of the Creature Court series by Tasmanian writer Tansy Rayner Roberts — the second volume, The Shattered City, is...
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Design Desire: Abbe May hits all the right notes
Greatly enjoying Abbe May’s latest album, Design Desire. It’s one of those long-players that demands the attention of your ears and, while it offers some killer tracks, it provides a complete journey...
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AWWNYRC Review #1: Frantic, by Katherine Howell
I joined up with the Australian Women Writers 2012 National Year of Reading Challenge and have started on my list of 10 books by, you guessed it, Australian women writers to read this year, the...
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AWWNYRC #2: The Shattered City, by Tansy Rayner Roberts
This is the second book I’m reading as part of my list of 10 for the Australian Women Writers 2012 National Year of Reading Challenge. The Shattered City Book 2 of the Creature Court trilogy by Tansy...
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Salvage on the media tide
The Herald Sun‘s ‘Weekend’ section ran a review of Salvage on 25 August by Corinna Hente. Grand to see a novella published by a small press getting a run!The lovely Sonja at Joy 94.9 FM‘s Sci-fi and...
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Steeplechase, by Krissy Kneen — that’s quite a ride
Brisbane writer Krissy Kneen has a deft touch with prose; her character’s voice in Steeplechase (Text, 2013) flows off the page, captivating and intriguing and thoroughly believable. And what a tale...
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Dust, by Christine Bongers: easy to take a shine to
It’s not hard to see why Dust (Woolshed Press, 2009) was named a Children’s Book Council of Australia notable book, among its many accolades. It’s a simple, powerful coming-of-age story, the sort of...
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