![]() The budget predicts tough economic conditions in the 2023-24 financial year, with real gross domestic product growth of just 1.5%, and unemployment rising to 4.25% due to higher interest rates and slowing household consumption. Business groups, including the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, praised Labor’s “fiscal restraint” but the shadow treasurer, Angus Taylor, argued that with “$2 of extra spending for every $1 extra of revenue” the budget was inflationary.Īfter 11 interest rate rises Chalmers said the budget aimed to “strike a considered, methodical balance … between spending restraint to keep the pressure off inflation, while doing what we can to help people struggling to make ends meet”. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I read this one as an audiobook, so I wanted to touch on the narrator, Imogen Church. With surprising twists, spine-tingling turns, and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it is eerily beautiful, Ruth Ware offers up another taut and intense read in The Woman in Cabin 10-one that will leave even the most sure-footed reader restlessly uneasy long after the last page is turned. ![]() The problem? All passengers remain accounted for-and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo’s desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong… But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. At first, Lo’s stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. ![]() The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. ![]() In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The main characters of Shadow Thief are Millipop Klompet and Ernest Perriclof, who live in Drabville – a town whose residents suffer from having their shadows stolen by Lord Aldor, who wants to use the shadows to become immortal, all-powerful and rule the world. Adornetto commented, "Childhood is just this amazing place and in my books I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded." The Shadow Thief This fantasy adventures series has a theme of threat to childhood and innocence. Her works include The Strangest Adventures series, the Halo trilogy and The Ghost House Saga.Īdornetto's completed books are The Shadow Thief (2007) and The Lampo Circus (2008), Von Gobstopper's Arcade (2009), Halo (2010), Hades (2011), Heaven (2012) and Ghost House (2014). ![]() Children's novels, Young adult novels, FantasyĪlexandra Adornetto is an Australian actress and author who writes for children and young adults. ![]() ![]() ![]() Promotional posts, comments & flairs, media-only posts, personalized recommendation requests incl. Please use a civil tone and assume good faith when entering a conversation. ![]() All posts must be directly book related, informative, and discussion focused. ![]() If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Suggested Reading page or ask in: /r/suggestmeabook Quick Rules:ĭo not post shallow content. It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki ![]() ![]() ![]() And ever the marketer, she wove in pitches for her flannel sheets from Macy’s and kitchen products from Home Depot. Stewart, 73, dished out some of her personal traditions and likes and dislikes. Laced through her answers were the sage advice and strong opinions we count on from the woman who practically invented the “lifestyle” category of books, magazines and branding. She’d prefer a homegrown plant or a dozen eggs, preferably from your chicken coop.ĭays before Christmas, Stewart joined my weekly Web chat to answer questions about the holidays and other topics. But please do not bring a scented candle as a hostess gift (Stewart calls them “injurious to your health”). And you’ll be tasting light, tender Kruschiki Polish cookies, made from a traditional recipe passed down by Big Martha, Stewart’s late mom. ![]() If you are lucky enough to be invited, you might find a small, decorated artificial tree in your guest room. Martha Stewart will be spending Christmas this year with family and friends and four new peacocks. ![]() ![]() In Hamlet, Fortinbras orders for the tragic spectacle of the dead bodies to be cleared. The most significant change was the ending. In 1967, 29-year-old Stoppard became the youngest playwright to have his work performed by the National Theatre the play opened later that year on Broadway.īetween the amateur Edinburgh production and the publication of the second edition in 1968, only a few changes were made to the script. Ronald Bryden's glowing review caught the attention of professional companies. ![]() The play was first produced by an amateur company in the Edinburgh festival on April 11, 1966. In Stoppard's revision, the characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who are not fully developed in the original play, fumble around bewildered about their mission and the reason for their existence. ![]() ![]() Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) imagines Shakespeare's Hamlet from the perspective of two minor courtiers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The fire began in the northeast stack of the fiction section and reached 2000 degrees Fahrenheit, so hot that the flames were pale blue in color. She describes her own childhood, going to the Bertram Woods Library in Shaker Heights, and the library near her Los Angeles home, followed by a tour of the Central Library where she learned about the fire of April 29, 1986. Orlean’s book on the Los Angeles Public Library reads like a love letter to libraries. I don’t allow political signs on my property–except for the library. In the course of my life, I’ve lived in two cities with great library systems, Cleveland (where the author of this work grew up) and Columbus. McMillan Library in Youngstown, Ohio, and later to the branch library near my home, losing myself in books. Summary: Centered around the fire that destroyed much of the collection of the Los Angeles Public Library in 1986, chronicles the history of the library, and why libraries are such important parts of our communities. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s a quotation that illustrates the clear, curmudgeonly style and underlying passion that has made this book a best seller with lovers of the language: Plenty of other writing guides exist that describe the use of punctuation symbols, but the Truss book livens the discussion by throwing in history, examples of offensive punctuation, and the cheeky attitude that any English speaker smart enough to achieve an elementary school education ought to be smart enough to use apostrophes correctly. ![]() I can’t guess how many copies are out there by now.Īt a bit more than 200 pages including the bibliography, this little book describes the rules that govern the use of: Who could have guessed that a book about punctuation would hit the top of the charts?įirst published in April of 2004, Eats, Shoots and Leaves spent 25 weeks on the NY Times bestseller list and by October of that year had gone back to press 22 times to bring the total of copies in print to a million. Write what you’re enthusiastic about and kindred spirits will find your book. Don’t try to produce another DaVinci Code or Harry Potter. Here’s a book that is not only useful and fun to read, its phenomenal popularity carries a moral for every writer:ĭon’t worry about following the market. ![]() I’ve finally got round to reading Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss. ![]() ![]() Her spare prose is rich in details that convey deep emotions and draw the reader in. Bernice McFadden.has created an amazing novel that speaks to lesser known aspects of the African-American experience and illuminates the human heart and spirit. " The Book of Harlan is an incredible read. The perspective of a black man in a concentration camp is unique and harrowing and this is a riveting, worthwhile read." "McFadden's writing breaks the heart-and then heals it again. This is a story about the triumph of the human spirit over bigotry, intolerance and cruelty, and at the center of The Book of Harlan is the restorative force that is music." "Simply miraculous.As her saga becomes ever more spellbinding, so does the reader's astonishment at the magic she creates. "McFadden uses the experiences of her own ancestors as loose inspiration for the life of Harlan, whom she portrays from his childhood in Harlem through imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp and his struggles afterward to put his life back together." ![]() ![]() WINNER of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction)Ģ017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee (Fiction)! McFadden has been named the Go On Girl! Book Club's 2018 Author of the Year ![]() ![]() ![]() "On Swift Horses is a marvel, a beautifully written novel that traces its raw, guarded characters from California to Las Vegas to Mexico with grace and inevitability. This book knocked me flat on my back.” -Justin Torres, author of We the Animals Her voice is muscular, awesome, and pure. ![]() Read this book for the adventure, for the keening lyricism of the lost and searching, but mostly read this book because no one writes like Shannon Pufahl. “ On Swift Horses is about both risk and the risqué, about daring to know, name, and act on our own desires. It is, simply put, a masterpiece.”- Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena As an exploration of life lived in the outer distances of plain sight, it is suffused with hazard and touched by grace, furnished with the longevity of a postwar classic and the immediacy of the present tense. On Swift Horses is, for me, one of those books. “Once in a rare while you come across a novel of such transfixing beauty that it enlarges your faith in the medium itself. ![]() Shannon Pufahl discusses hew new novel, On Swift Horses with Anthony Marra. ![]() |