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Welcome to the ANZ LitLovers blog. It started out as a blog for an online reading group, and while it still retains its role as a portal to the group, its primary function now is as Lisa Hill's ANZ LitLovers LitBlog where you can find reviews and commentary about literary fiction, classics and non-fiction from Australia and New Zealand. There are also regular blog posts about contemporary..
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16h ago
Greetings from Sorrento, where I have had a lovely day listening to some very interesting sessions! This has to be quick, we are booked in for an early dinner at The Baths, and I am starving because there was no time for lunch… so these are just quick summaries, sorry! (I will fix up misspellings ..read more
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16h ago
The titular Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books is one of nine short pieces in a Perec collection in the Penguin Books Great Ideas series. There are 94 titles altogether: I’ve previously read The Narrative of Trajan’s Column (2020), by Italo Calvino, translated by Martin McLaughlin (see my review); on ..read more
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2d ago
Historian and biographer Ross McMullen, won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award in 2013, for this multi-biography Farewell, Dear People, Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation. It’s a book I chose to dip into, for a commemorative post on Anzac Day. For Australia, a new nation with a relatively small population, the death of 60,000 soldiers during World ..read more
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4d ago
The Postcard was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize, and a bestseller in France. And that’s interesting, because everybody’s favourite tourist destination doesn’t come out of it very well in this story that is a mystery, a portrait of Parisian intellectual and artistic life in the 20th century, and a devastating portrayal of how antisemitism ..read more
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4d ago
The Age Book of the Year shortlists have been announced. The judges for the fiction prize were bookseller Mark Rubbo and writer and publisher Louise Swinn. The shortlisted titles are: Women & Children, by Tony Birch, on my TBR Anniversary, by Stephanie Bishop One Day We’re All Going to Die, by Elise Hearst, see my review ..read more
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6d ago
If you read my previous review of Donna Coates’ Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend, Australian Women’s War Fictions you will know that I had only read Part 1, about women’s war fiction about WW1, and found it very interesting indeed. Coates’ thesis is, from the blurb at AmazonAU: War is traditionally considered a male ..read more
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6d ago
I owe my discovery of this short novel ideal for the 1937 Club — hosted at Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings and Stuck in a Book… …to Dorian from Eiger Mönch & Jungfrau when he wrote an enticing review for German Lit Week back in 2016. But I am very late to the party… I bought the ..read more
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1w ago
I owe my discovery of this short novel ideal for the 1937 Club — hosted at Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings and Stuck in a Book… …to Dorian from Eiger Mönch & Jungfrau when he wrote an enticing review for German Lit Week back in 2016. But I am very late to the party… I bought the ..read more
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1w ago
Fiona Farrell ONZM is a New Zealand novelist, poet and playwright, and she writes non-fiction too, notably about the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. I discovered her writing last year when I read (and reviewed) The Deck (2023), and promptly ordered Decline and Fall on Savage Street and (mistakenly thinking it was a novel) its companion NF title ..read more
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1w ago
Spell the Month in Books is a linkup hosted on Reviews From the Stacks on the first Saturday of each month, but that’s the day for #6Degrees, so here we are, a week later instead. Thanks to a heads-up from Jennifer at Tasmanian Bibliophile at Large, I know that this month the theme is Poisson d’Avril ..read more