by NRB | 4 May 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I first read Anna Karenina in 1960. It was a set text in English I at the University of Melbourne. Like the swot I was, I read as many of the set texts as I could before embarking on the course, so I must have been a few months short of 18 at the time. I found the...
by NRB | 4 Dec 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
To date this year I’ve read 16 books and listened to 28 audio books. Because I keep a record with a note on each book and assign each a mark out of 10 to assist me in this exercise, I’m easily able to list the five I ranked most highly. They appear here in the order I...
by NRB | 1 Dec 2015 | Non-fiction |
An encyclopaedic history of sport, this book should have wide appeal in Victoria and beyond. In his 1873 travel memoir Australia and New Zealand, English novelist Anthony Trollope described Australians as boastful. He called this practice ‘blowing’ and accused the...
by NRB | 2 Oct 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I first read Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) at school when it was a set text. I was very impressed by it, answered a question on it in the exams and got a good mark, although I’ve long forgotten what I wrote. At university, Hardy’s poems were set for...