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The Godfather: Peter Corris on two at a time

The Godfather: Peter Corris on two at a time

by NRB | 16 Mar 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 2 comments

I recently heard a writer on a radio book program say that he or she (I’ve forgotten who the writer was) frequently read two books simultaneously. I reflected that this was something I’d rarely done in the past – occasionally when in the middle of a dense non-fiction...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on two at a time

The Godfather: Peter Corris on his best books of 2017

by NRB | 15 Dec 2017 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

This year I’ve listened to 70 audio books and read two on my Kindle – very slowly, at about 25 words per screen and mostly in doctors’ waiting rooms. Here is a list of the five books I’ve valued most highly, in no order than that in which I came to them. The Romanovs,...
Crime Scene: SARAH SCHMIDT See What I Have Done. Reviewed by Justine Hyde

Crime Scene: SARAH SCHMIDT See What I Have Done. Reviewed by Justine Hyde

by NRB | 25 May 2017 | Crime Scene | 0 comments

This fictional rendition of a true crime by Sarah Schmidt is full of brilliant and off-kilter imagery that reinforces the unsettling mood of the novel. Reading Sarah Schmidt’s debut novel See What I Have Done is like pressing down on a...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on reading

The Godfather: Peter Corris on reading

by NRB | 14 Oct 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 2 comments

I was a precocious reader. As I’ve written elsewhere, the family story is that I learned to read when I was four years old from having the roadside billboards spelled out to me on the long drive from Stawell, in the Wimmera district of Victoria, to Melbourne....
The Godfather: Peter Corris on reading

The Godfather: Peter Corris on hospitalisation

by NRB | 17 Jun 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 2 comments

Recently I spent a day in hospital for a minor procedure to correct an irregular heart rhythm. As a hospital experience, of which I’ve had several over the years, it had its ups and down. Check-in was at the fairly brutal hour of 7 am, which involved getting up an...

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