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From the monthly archives: March 2010

More than Idle Chit Chat

By Susan On March 18, 2010 · 2 Comments

As a follow on from my recent post about there being more to life than chit chat, I thought I would start a new feature where I post about some of the great people that I do chat with regularly, especially the authors that I have had the opportunity to talk with.

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Book Review: To A Distant Land by Julianne Jones

By Susan On March 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Title: To A Distant Land
Author: Julianne Jones
Publisher: Ark House Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-92158-914-0
Genre: Christian Historical Fiction

Summary (from author website)

Wrongly accused and sentenced to seven years transportation, Katie Donovan is not the only one leaving behind everything familiar to travel to a distant land …
On [...]

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Book Review: Let’s Talk About Sex by Robie H Harris

By Susan On March 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Title: Let’s Talk About Sex (15th Anniversary Edition)
Author: Robie H Harris
Illustrator: Michael Emberley
Publisher: Walker Books, 2010
Topic: Sex Education, Sexual Health, Physical Development

Summary (from publisher website)

An updated, 15th anniversary edition of the definitive book on kids’ sexual health brings this trusted resource into the twenty-first century.

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Book Review: Manhattan Dreaming by Anita Heiss

By Susan On March 14, 2010 · 1 Comment

Title: Manhattan Dreaming
Author: Anita Heiss
Publisher: Bantam, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-74166-892-6
Genre: Chick Lit

Summary (from author website)

Lauren is a curator at the National Aboriginal Gallery in Canberra. She’s good at her job, passionate about the Arts, and takes work seriously. It’s easy for Lauren to focus on work, that [...]

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More to Life than Chit Chat?

By Susan On March 6, 2010 · 5 Comments

Ever wish your life was Bigger! Greater! More Amazing!

I know how you feel.

After declaring 2009 “The Year Best Forgotten”, I am determined that 2010 is going to be a much better year – a time for new beginnings, achieving goals and aspiring to greater things.

The trouble is, I’m having some difficulty defining [...]

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Books I Bought – February 2010

By Susan On March 3, 2010 · 2 Comments

Thanks to Cindy at Cindy’s Love of Books for this Book Meme.

Keeping with my promise to limit my book purchases until I whittle down my TBR pile to a more respectable size, I didn’t buy many books in February. I side-stepped my self-imposed restriction by mostly buying books for my university studies [...]