Monthly Archive for: ‘December, 2014’

What are days for? — Reading Robert Dessaix of course!
By MLJ
on December 14, 2014

What are days for? — Reading Robert Dessaix of course!

Robert Dessaix’s voice is as distinctive as a fingerprint and his dazzling flights through fiction and memoir distinguish his writing in Australian letters. What Days Are For: A Memoir, published in November, is classic Dessaix and does not disappoint. Despite its clinical backdrop, it’s an intimate fireside chat, blazing and crackling — and I was

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Santa’s reindeers of my reading world
By MLJ
on December 7, 2014

Santa’s reindeers of my reading world

Santa’s reindeers do heavy lifting at Christmas but they don’t get much glory (or cake). I raise a glass to my reindeers of 2014. These are the books I meant to garland with fairy lights well before now … but the year jingled away. Dasher … Combining classical music and travel: Was this memoir written

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