Leanne Hermosilla

Leanne Hermosilla is from Readings Carlton

Review — 22 Oct 2018

Evening in Paradise by Lucia Berlin

I read Evening in Paradise in a single sitting, mesmerised by the places and characters, and what they revealed about the cultures of the times. Names recur but are intermingled…

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Review — 25 Mar 2019

Kusama: Infinity by Heather Lenz

Within weeks of the release of this documentary to DVD, Yayoi Kusama will have turned 90. Widely recognised as one of the most important, influential, and commercially successful living artists…

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Review — 23 Sep 2018

Diving For Seahorses by Hilde Østby & Ylva Østby

The enticing introduction to Diving for Seahorses poses the question, if our cells constantly turn over, what are we? Our physical matter being temporary, maybe ‘we are our memories’. Diving…

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Review — 29 Jan 2017

Confabulations by John Berger

Between water safety advisory bodies, there has recently been great dissention about what best to do when caught in a rip. The two most supported polemics assert that one should…

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Review — 22 Aug 2016

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

My favourite childhood books were The Faraway Tree series by Enid Blyton. It was wondrous to imagine the lives of trees being full of feelings, thoughts and relationships. I would…

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