#37-41
#37 Bryce Courtenay: Four Fires (narrated by Humphrey Bower)
Since moving to NZ, I am making an effort to read up a bit on the history and culture of this part of the world, and Bryce Courtenay is a very Australian author. It took me a long time to get through the book. I left it and picked it up again, but now that I have listened it to the end (it was an audio book), I am quite happy. It is not an easy book, the tales of the POW camps in Borneo are plain horrifying even though I am familiar with the European history and the atrocities of the WWII, but it is rich and interesting and full of complex and real people. And it is wonderfully narrated too.
#38 Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen: "The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day"
The fourth book in the series is about cosmology, cosmogony, science and religion. Although, I would not call the book boring, to me most of the topics were familiar and most of the jabs fairly predictable.
#39 Kerry Greenwood: Ruddy Gore: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
The 7th in the series. I liked it much better than the previous one about Phryne joining the circus and I'll have to continue reading those. And it is about Australia too.
# 40-41: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles: Dynasty 10: The Tangled Thread and Dynasty 11: The Emperor
The Morland saga continues with the French revolution and Napoleon's coming to power. It's still good and still has a lot of likeable and strong characters (who are mostly women though).
Since moving to NZ, I am making an effort to read up a bit on the history and culture of this part of the world, and Bryce Courtenay is a very Australian author. It took me a long time to get through the book. I left it and picked it up again, but now that I have listened it to the end (it was an audio book), I am quite happy. It is not an easy book, the tales of the POW camps in Borneo are plain horrifying even though I am familiar with the European history and the atrocities of the WWII, but it is rich and interesting and full of complex and real people. And it is wonderfully narrated too.
#38 Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen: "The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day"
The fourth book in the series is about cosmology, cosmogony, science and religion. Although, I would not call the book boring, to me most of the topics were familiar and most of the jabs fairly predictable.
#39 Kerry Greenwood: Ruddy Gore: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
The 7th in the series. I liked it much better than the previous one about Phryne joining the circus and I'll have to continue reading those. And it is about Australia too.
# 40-41: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles: Dynasty 10: The Tangled Thread and Dynasty 11: The Emperor
The Morland saga continues with the French revolution and Napoleon's coming to power. It's still good and still has a lot of likeable and strong characters (who are mostly women though).