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gnewt58

gnewt58@outside.ofa.dog

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He/him. Living and working in Melbourne Australia. Aging, with a lifelong interest in reading but not many books actually consumed these days. Would love to recapture the voraciousness of my youth.

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33% complete! gnewt58 has read 4 of 12 books.

Hours Before Dawn (2014, Faber & Faber, Limited) No rating

The Hours Before Dawn (1958) was Celia Fremlin's debut fiction, and won the Edgar Award …

For she wasn’t happy exactly, not just now; she was too sleepy most of the time. It was more that she possessed happiness, as one might possess an evening dress tucked away in the back of a wardrobe. Even though one might find no time to wear it, it was still there; it wasn’t like not having an evening dress at all….

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Force and Fraud (Paperback, 2017, Grattan Street Press, University of Melbourne) 3 stars

Melodrama

3 stars

First published in 1865, and billed as "Australia's first murder mystery", Force and Fraud is a well paced 19th century melodrama. The characters are fairly thinly drawn, but the social observations seem (from this temporal distance) accurate to time and place. To the reader the outcome seems obvious from early in the book, and the mystery is only in the minds of the characters themselves. Not a bad read at all, and the biographical notes on the author are a great read in themselves.

The Woodlanders of Walden Hut (Paperback, 2023, Mount Evelyn History Group Inc.) No rating

The Woodlanders of Walden Hut begins with the story of three young nature writers who, …

What follows is a rationale for recognition of the importance of nature; of the beginnings of an environmental movement and of the blend of the professional and amateur, science, art and emotion within that movement. It embraces special spiritual or transcendent connections to space, gendered responses, and the place of the Woodlanders, friends and followers in this story.

The Woodlanders of Walden Hut by , , (Page 2)

From "Acknowledgements"