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39 reviews
Bryce Courtenay

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1997

A challenge
APRIL FOOL'S DAY was the hardest book Bryce Courtenay ever wrote, and it's also one of the hardest books I ever read. I started it (the first time) on a Friday evening and did nothing but read (and occasionally try to sleep) until I had finished it -- I couldn't imagine stepping out of the middle of the story into my own life. I've read this book, given it away, bought it again, several times: ...

The Art of Annemieke Mein

13 reviews
Annemieke Mein

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1992

A most beautiful gift for yourself or someone else
What inspired me most in this book was the fact that the artist works with a very old and simple sewing machine, and she manages to create some of the most unique quilts I have seen. I could spend hours and hours just looking at the photos. The subject matter is highly realistic, and has a lot of butterflies, moths, birds, and other wildlife. I would recommend this book as an excellent gift for ...

Holding the Man

50 reviews
Tim Conigrave

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2007

Beautifully Painful
Conigrave, Timothy. "Holding the Man", Cuttyhunk Books, 2007. Beautifully Painful Amos Lassen As most of you can tell from my reviews, I love to read and I read a lot. I love the feeling that a good book places within and every once in a while I find a book that deeply affects me and stays with me for a long, long time Timothy Conigrave's "Holding the Man" is a book that I am not likely ...

The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery (Viking Kestrel Picture Books)

58 reviews
Graeme Base

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1989

Amazing graphics, imaginative rhymes, compelling overall --
-- And it's a "kids book"!!! I'm 26 now, but I remember the astonishment and awe I first felt borrowing this book from my 5th grade class's "library" when I was 10 years old. Back then, I gave up after 4 hours of not being able to figure anything at all out and had to look in the Sooper Sikret Section, but this time around, I got a few more of the clues on my own before having to look up the ...

Mr Happy

8 reviews
Roger Hargreaves

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000

This is Life.
call me heathen, or anything. But you don't need the Bible. This book makes me tear, it makes my cry of joy because I feel proud to be human. Proud to be Happy. I am glad that we as a race made a piece with so much hope and jo. This, in my humble opinion, is the single best piece of literature ever made. It really is just Life. Joy, just plain, simple, happy joy. I will always keep this book ...

In the Place of Fallen Leaves

7 reviews
Tim Pears

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1993

A beautifully written book
This book tells the story of the hottest summer of the 20th Century from the point of view of a family living in rural Devon. It is quite simply a stunning book that is written so that the characters seem so real and touching. It is sensitive and is almost dreamlike in its narrative. The heat of that summer is conveyed so well that you feel as though you are living it. As one other ...

God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (The Penguin Poets)

16 reviews
James Weldon Johnson

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1976

Just Wonderful
My dad teaches Sunday School and was looking for this book to incorporate into his lesson plans. I found it here at Amazon and fell in love with this book. Absolutely wonderful to read and very profound. Exceptional!

Is That It?

8 reviews
Bob Geldof

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1986

Banana Republication
It's severly dated by today's standards, but what an excellent read, all the same. I look at it as the music industry version of Julia Phillips "You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again". Biting with sardonic wit, lots of muck-raking (most of it spot-on), and just a wee bit 'o' honesty. How much of it is true, we'll never know. But the essential bits (the inception of the Boomtown Rats, their ...

Mr Messy

10 reviews
Roger Hargreaves

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000

Great for classroom use
I am an elementary teacher and I use these books in my class to supplement our Character Ed program (which isn't the greatest). My students love the Little Miss and Mr. Men books. I have to keep them behind my desk and let them "check them out" like library books or they fight over them. The are excellent to use in a pinch if you have a book that pertains to a problem that has developed in ...

Mr Tickle

8 reviews
Roger Hargreaves

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000

Thought Provoking
Back in college I got a job as a summer janitor at the local elementary school. One of the things I had to do was clean up in the library. I took this time as an opportunity to catch up on some reading... in the form of the Mr. Men series. Mr. Tickle is a great book about a man who likes to tickle. If you like to laugh, this book is for you. If you like to tickle, this book is for you. If you are ...

One Woolly Wombat (Picture Puffin Books)

5 reviews
Rod Trinca, Kerry Argent

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1987

Modern Australian classic
one woolly wombat sunning by the sea two cuddly koalas sipping gumnut tea and so on to fourteen A now-classic Australian counting book, featuring native animals and other features of the Australian landscape and lifestyle (bush, lamingtons, and some flora) A good choice for a counting book (also going beyond the traditional 10) for Aussie and non-Aussie kids alike.

Beyond the Devil's Teeth

4 reviews
Tahir Shah

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1999

Warm, Witty and Compassionate !! Not to be missed !!
Tahir Shah devises a get rich quick scheme which brings him to India to seek his fortune. He also has other interests namely the mysterious Gond people who may have walked the earth when the earth was one joined land mass. However this book is so much more than that. India \ Africa \ South America are all experienced and observed from a most interesting angle. The author roughs it al the ...

World of Wonders

5 reviews
Robertson Davies

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1996

The greatest novel of the twentieth century
This is the best novel of the century's best English language novelist. The plot is sure-fire (kid runs away with the carnival), the characters memorable (sideshow freaks, revealed to be--human beings! theater people, great and small, revealed to be--human beings!), the sins enormous (pederasty, pride, perhaps even murder), the virtues marvelous (love, devotion to love). The theme of this ...

Last of the Crazy People

5 reviews
Timothy Findley

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1995

This Canadian author should be read by more Americans
Timothy Findley's first novel is a powerfully shocking read full of characters who reach out to the reader. Set in Ontario in 1964, the main character is an 11 year old boy, Hooker Winslow, living within a dysfunctional family. Findley holds your attention while you identify with this young man trying to learn about the problems in his family--but no one will tell him the truth. Not his ...

The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

5 reviews
Dorothy Parker

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1999

Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye
Excellent - a must have volume of Dorothy Parker's work (as well as her "Complete Stories") - she was truly years ahead of her time. As was prevously stated, her style of writing poetry seems more an attack on the type of poetry that had come to be accepted in her day as "artistic" (for example, Dickinson - seeing life as beautiful, beauty in the everyday, etc.). I identify immediately with ...

All That Matters

5 reviews
Wayson Choy

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2005

A brilliant, compelling sequel to The Jade Peony
I finished All That Matters by Wayson Choy in the wee hours of the early morning. It was so beautiful and compelling that I could hardly bear to put it down to finish the next day. All That Matters is the long and eagerly awaited sequel to Choy's first book, the award-winning and national best-selling The Jade Peony. Expectedly, it is a continuation of Jade Peony, this time written in First Son ...

Unholy Orders

5 reviews
Michael Harris

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1992

In 2002, A Very Important Book
As the Catholic Church is again rocked by priest sexual abuse scandal in 2002 and the situation has now become explosive as a result of the absolutely intolerable (yet not surprising) arrogance of some members of the clerical hierarchy, this is an excellent book to gain perspective by. Michael Harris documents the story of the Newfoundland Orphanage, Mount Cashel, and the Irish Catholic ...

The Bride Wore Black

5 reviews
Cornell Woolrich

Penguin Books Australia Ltd

A Tale Of Revenge
If anyone ever wanted to cite a story that would best illustrate the observation that revenge is a dish best served cold, then I think this one would fill the bill. As a story of revenge, it's a classic with the big mystery being, what on earth could have happened to prompt such violence. The person who is seeking revenge is Julie Killeen. She is a beautiful woman, but she's also a careful, ...

Baby No Eyes

5 reviews
Patricia Grace

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1998

Baby No-Eyes
Baby No-Eyes is a novel beautiful in both language and content. Patricia Grace weaves this complex yet very comprehensible novel through the use of four narrators, each of whom serves as a different lens for understanding the events which take place. Although I do not wish to over-simplify the book by saying it is a story of the Maori struggle in a Pakeha-run environment, this is certainly one ...

Mr Mischief

6 reviews
Roger Hargreaves

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000

The best Mr. Men book- my personal favorite.
Mr. Mischief loves to play pranks on the other Mr. Men characters. In this book, he does sneaky things to Mr. Happy, Mr. Greedy, and Mr. Funny. But of course, Mr. Mischief gets a taste of his own medicine! A hilarious story! I had this book as a child and rebought it as an adult. I still laugh when reading it today at age 27. All of the Mr. Men books are superb, and Mr. Mischief is one of Roger ...

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