What we're reading
What we're reading: Clements & Datta, Thapp, & King
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Jackie Tang is reading The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta
Never mind the view, this whole misbegotten year has been exhausting. I don’t know about you but lockdown after lockdown has scrambled my hidden wiring into a truly cursed tangle of nerves, anxiety and emotions, so I was relieved…
What we're reading: Winterson, McKay & Pippos
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Tye Cattanach is reading 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next. by Jeanette Winterson
There are quite a few books I am excited for this year (TBR groans audibly) However! Perhaps the one I was most excited for publishes next week and I was beyond delighted to get my…
What we're reading: Montgomery, Rooney & Caletti
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Tye Cattanach is reading Soul of An Octopus, The House in the Cerulean Sea, and Once There Were Wolves.
Friends, it has been an interesting (albeit slow) week of reading for me. I have been lucky enough to read not one, but three delightful books!
First up, Soul of An…
What we're reading: Jago, Pollan & Yee
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Gabrielle Williams is reading This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
I’m currently reading This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan, which explores the effects of opium, caffeine and mescaline on the human brain.
I’ve just finished the section on opium, and it follows Pollan’s surprising journey growing opium…
What we're reading: Stubbins, King & Nieman
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Lian Hingee is reading In My Defence, I Have No Defence by Sinead Stubbins
My toddler is going through some kind of dreadful sleep regression thing at the moment and I actually can’t remember the last time I slept through the night (2018?) so my usual bedtime routine of cuddling up with a…
What we're reading: Brandi, Chambers & Zisin
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Tye Cattanach is reading – surprise, surprise – a whole heaps of books!
It’s been a rich and varied week of reading for me, in which I read three books that could not be more different from one another. Let’s begin with Mark Brandi’s latest literary crime novel - The Others. Tense…
What we're reading: Winman, Stubbins & Moreno-Garcia
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Alexa Dretzke is reading Still Life by Sarah Winman.
Step away from a world of Covid and into the embrace of Sarah Winman’s new novel Still Life. Let it take you to Florence at the end of World War II and let its big-hearted storytelling keep you in its thrall. Ulysses, a…
What we're reading: Mas, Waal & McQuiston
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Tye Cattanach is reading The Mad Women’s Ball by Victoria Mas
Lockdowns always seem to result in me struggling to stay engaged with any book and this past one was no different. I picked up and put down no less than 12 titles (one I even got halfway through before abandoning all hope)…
What we're reading: Jackson, Taddeo & Myers
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Lian Hingee is reading Two-Week Wait written by Luke and Kelly Jackson, illustrated by Mara Wild
When I was first referred to a fertility specialist to start IVF, it was one of the most isolating moments of my life. I felt like a colossal failure and had no idea what the process entailed…
What we're reading: Ward, Crowley & Grant
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Pilgrim Hodgson is reading Rawblood by Catriona Ward.
To read a Catriona Ward book is to take her hand and trust, as she leads you on very dark, unpredictable path. Having recently read her bleak and bloody second novel Little Eve and her mind-bending and chilling latest work The Last House On Needless…
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