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What's on your summer reading list?
We want to know what you're reading this summer 📖 What's top of your list over the holidays?
I am usually an avid reader of fiction but I have an interest in life writing so am reading lot of memoir at the moment. I just finished Gardens of Fire: An Investigative Memoir by Victorian poet and historian, Robert Kenny. A very affecting read, analytical and a great deal of insight into his own experience of fighting the Black Saturday fires and his house being burnt to the ground. On the bedside I've got Sian Prior's memoir called Shy and on audio I'm listening to Tim Winton's first memoir, Island Home. In the pile of the desk there;s Flying With Paper Wings by another Victorian write, Sandy Jeffs and then The Orchard by Drusilla Modjeska. There's lots of fabulous stories about Australian lives.
I am usually an avid reader of fiction but I have an interest in life writing so am reading lot of memoir at the moment. I just finished Gardens of Fire: An Investigative Memoir by Victorian poet and historian, Robert Kenny. A very affecting read, analytical and a great deal of insight into his own experience of fighting the Black Saturday fires and his house being burnt to the ground. On the bedside I've got Sian Prior's memoir called Shy and on audio I'm listening to Tim Winton's first memoir, Island Home. In the pile of the desk there;s Flying With Paper Wings by another Victorian write, Sandy Jeffs and then The Orchard by Drusilla Modjeska. There's lots of fabulous stories about Australian lives.