In her touching young adult fantasy novel, ‘Finnikin of the Rock’, Melina Marchetta tells the story of a spirited young man as he strives to return home to a kingdom sealed by a curse.
Finnikin, son of Trevanion the Captain of the King’s Guard, is under the tutelage of Sir Topher the King’s First Man, a [...]
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Recently, Ruth at Skerricks posted about culling. This has been an ongoing mission of mine for the past 18 months. Not a week goes by that I do not put some books into a weeding pile for the staff to duly process. Many of the books get shipped off to some Pacific Island by the [...]
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Having read an excerpt including the prologue and part of the first chapter of ‘Once Bitten, Twice Shy’ in the back of ‘Beyond the Shadows’, third book in the ‘Night Angel Trilogy’, by Brent Weeks, I completely enjoyed it, and I did not hesitate to purchase this book. Although not a thick book, it delivered a sufficiently enthralling storyline. [...]
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There was some discussion about this book recently on OZTL_NET, with some people questioning (I thought) the book’s placement in a primary school library. I guess that is their call but thought I had better read it to make sure I knew what the fuss was about.
It is a fantastic book. I read it [...]
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This is another of my favourite genres. What is it? I consider historical fiction to be novels which have some grounding in real events or people or places. Examples would include some of my faves:
Byzantium, by Stephen Lawhead which is a complete, stand alone novel set around the Middle Ages
The Winter King, by Bernard [...]
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What are they? What makes one book better than another, or at least considered to be part of the canon, while others sit around? What is the canon? All this and more to be discussed…maybe not right now but certainly as part of the ongoing debate within our English faculty.
Our Year 12 English classes ahve [...]
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Looking at what I have done with this so far, I am thinking that I will move long reviews to my own blog page. I will keep an ongoing record here but they will be shorter snippets of reviews.
Why?
Mainly to keep the focus on what we are doing in the library and it is far [...]
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