What we're reading
What we're reading: Johnson, Jameson, Gooch and Oh
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
George Delaney is reading The Breakaways by Cathy G. Johnson
I’m really excited about The Breakaways by Cathy G. Johnson, a graphic novel for tween readers about a motley crew of very un-sporty kids in a C-Grade American High School soccer team. It’s a sweet story about friendship and not fitting in, and has a…
What we're reading: Boochani, Winn and some new music
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Marie Matteson is listening to Better Oblivion Community Centre
I seldom come across new music. I am definitely out of all the loops. This week though, while listening to one of my favourite podcasts I heard the name Better Oblivion Community Center. A name that long and concrete (in all senses) stuck, and I’m so…
What we're reading: Ali Smith, Philip Pullman and the classics
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Paul Goodman is catching up on the French classics
This year I’m aiming to catch up on a fistful of classics I should have read by age 30. Now that I’m two years late, I should really begin in earnest.
Having once attempted Proust on an e-reader while travelling, and finding it akin to listening…
What we’re reading: Nunez, Marchetta and parenting books
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Gabrielle Williams is reading The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Sigrid Nunez won the National Book Award for fiction last year for this story about a woman whose friend commits suicide and leaves her to care for his ageing harlequin Great Dane. The book is written almost like the narrator is composing a series of letters…
What we’re reading: Sylvia Plath, Adam Gidwitz and a crop of YA thrillers
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Paul Goodman is reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
It’s unnerving reading The Bell Jar. Not just because of its content: the trajectory of protagonist Esther Greenwood’s depression is marked by remarkable prose and a dry wit that makes this hard-to-read book really, really readable. And actually very funny. It’s a classic for…
What we’re reading: Jennifer Spence, Jonathan Haidt and M.J. Tija
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Mark Rubbo is reading The Lost Girls by Jennifer Spence
I’ve been reading The Lost Girls by Sydney author Jennifer Spence. It’s an intriguing concept. Returning from a trip to the city Stella finds her suburb familiar yet changed. Her warehouse apartment building is just that, a warehouse. The home that she raised her family…
What we’re reading: Lang Leav, Andy Miller and Naomi Novik
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Tracy Hwang is reading Sea of Strangers by Lang Leav
This was my first dive into Lang Leav’s poetry. Leav’s poems are simply expressed, but extremely heartfelt and poignant, making Sea of Strangers a good collection for first readers of poetry. What surprised me is her ability to capture so many of the emotions that…
What we're reading: Nicola Redhouse, Fonda Lee & Marissa Meyer
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Mark Rubbo has been immersed in French history
Over summer I read Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks and watched the DVD series of Un Villages Francais. Both crossover to some extent. Faulks’s novel is set in contemporary Paris where the French treatment of Algerians during their fight for independence and their complicity in the…
What we're reading: Richard Ayoade, Melina Marchetta & April Genevieve Tucholke
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Paul Goodman is reading by Ayoade on Ayoade by Richard Ayoade
After making a name for himself co-writing and directing the cult UK series Garth Merenghi’s Dark Place, giving an award-winning performance as Moss in The IT Crowd and then going on to make two excellent films in Submarine and The Double, Richard…
What we're reading: Alice Nelson, Jenny Hval & J.P. Pomare
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Bronte Coates is reading The Children’s House by Alice Nelson
The Children’s House is the first book I read in the new year, and I found it incredibly moving. This is a generous story about trauma and displacement, family and finding home. Alice Nelson’s prose is beautifully crafted and contains that same quiet, yet intensely…
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