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Tag: Blue Mountains

In the Mist of the Mountains by Ethel Turner

January 14, 2019 ~ Brona ~ 8 Comments

Thanks to Bill @The Australian Legend's Australian Women Writer's Gen II Week I have read my very first ebook from start to finish.As with almost everything in my life at the last moment, I left it to the minute to prepare for Bill's Gen II week, even though I've known about it for months. I really … Continue reading In the Mist of the Mountains by Ethel Turner

The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough

November 19, 2017 ~ Brona ~ 5 Comments

Regular followers of my blog will already know how much I love The Ladies of Missalonghi. It's not only a deliciously light, confectionery offering of a book, it's also a murky story mired down in a controversy involving plagiarism and L. M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle. A recent readalong for The Blue Castle was all the convincing I … Continue reading The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough

The Last Days of Ava Langdon by Mark O’Flynn

August 10, 2017 ~ Brona ~ Leave a comment

The Last Days of Ava Langdon has been shortlisted for this year's Miles Franklin award, that fact, and it's striking cover, brought it into my life at this time.I have yet to read Eve Langley's The Pea-Pickers (1942) - it has been on my TBR pile for quite some time though. Reading O'Flynn's fictionalised account of … Continue reading The Last Days of Ava Langdon by Mark O’Flynn

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