Emu with a Clue Vox 2008-04-07T19:30:15Z Emu with a Clue http://catandv.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00e3989f7c4d0005/tags/books/ well, sort of ... The Terror Dream tag:vox.com,2008-04-07:asset-6a00e3989f7c4d000500e398edb7290005 2008-04-07T05:25:47Z 2008-04-07T19:30:15Z Emu with a Clue http://catandv.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America

I read about this book in the weekend newspaper and thought it sounded like something I really have to read. I still remember the experience of reading 'Backlash' in the nineties when I was first exploring feminism and thinking how much sense ...

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Snakes and Earrings (Vintage) Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics) Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1) Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories (Young Puffin Books)

Here is what I bought: This is quite a thin little book from Japan and is described as 'A picture of an eccentric world that clearly passes on what goes on in the minds of young women today: a radical depiction of our time' (Ryu Murakami). P...

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Black Girl/White Girl: A Novel (P.S.) So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

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A Thousand Splendid Suns The Kite Runner

and still gathering my thoughts. I actually watched a discussion of it on the ABC's First Tuesday Book Club where Jennifer Byrne talked about Afghanistan itself being the main character in this book which I thought was pretty apt. For me, this ...

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Lost Property

I loved this book by Australian writer, James Moloney: Like a lot of what I read, it is ostensibly for 'young adult' readers but I found it very moving myself. The main character is Josh who is spending part of his holidays working in the Lo...

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