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The Piper’s Son by Melina Marchetta The award-winning author of Finnikin of the Rock and Jellicoe Road pens a raw, compelling novel about a family’s hard-won healing on the other side of trauma. Award-winning author Melina Marchetta reopens the story of the group of friends from her acclaimed novel Saving Francesca – but five years [...]

Books read this week: Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta – Have I mentioned how I am in love with MM’s writing? :) Review here (Aussie Challenge, Melina Marchetta Challenge, Realistic Fiction) The Half-life of Planets by Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin – I am kind of torn on this book.  On one hand, I really [...]

Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta Description from Goodreads: Francesca is stuck at St. Sebastians, a boys’ school that’s pretends it’s coed by giving the girls their own bathroom.  Her only female companions are an ultra-feminist, a rumored slut, and an an impossibly dorky accordion player.  The boys are no better, from Thomas who specializes in [...]

So remember when I said I was going to do fewer challenges this year?  Clearly that is not true anymore! :)  I love challenges and can’t help but join, especially when it already fits well with my other reading plans for the year. The 2011 Aussie Challenge is hosted by Irresistible Reads.   As an [...]

Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta “What do you want from me?” he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More. Abandoned by her mother on Jellicoe Road when she was eleven, Taylor Markham, now seventeen, is finally being confronted with her past. But as the reluctant leader [...]