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Our 2014 Oscar Predictions
With the Oscars due to be announced on Monday 3 March (Australian time) we’re making our predictions of who will take out this year’s top awards. You can view the full list of nominees
Nina Kenwood, Online Manager
Best Picture: 12 Years A Slave
Best Directing: Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
Best Actor: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Best Actress Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years A Slave
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Best…
March highlights
Well, it behoves me to mention, first of all, the latest work by one of Readings’ own , namely, children’s book buyer Emily Gale, who has penned two books for younger readers: Eliza Boom’s Diary: My Explosive Adventure and Eliza Boom’s Diary: My Fizz-tastic Investigation. Having witnessed firsthand her agony at having to order her own book for the shops, all I can say is that she ordered very conservatively for what will surely be an immensely popular new…
Mark's Say: The city of Melbourne and its booksellers
Melbourne is one of five UNESCO Cities of Literature, inducted in 2008. One of the pitches to obtain this status was the vibrancy of Melbourne’s bookselling landscape – since that time at least 10 bookshops have closed within the City of Melbourne, with many more closed in the suburbs and regional areas. Six years hence, the State Government and City of Melbourne are about to announce a jointly funded office for the City of Literature to manage and promote Melbourne’s…
Last week's top ten bestsellers
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Little Golden Book by Diane Muldrow
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Do You Dare?: Tough Times by Simon Mitchell
A Country Too Far: Writings on Asylum Seekers edited by Thomas Keneally & Rosie Scott
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Do You Dare?: The Bushranger’s Boys by Alison Lloyd
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
The Book Thief (film tie-in) by Markus Zusak
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The Readings Foundation supports Reading Out of Poverty
The Readings Foundation is supporting Reading Out of Poverty’s pilot project in Geelong through a grant of $15,000.
Reading Out of Poverty is a volunteer based organisation that is working with the community to improve the early-literacy skills of disadvantaged children aged 6 months to 8 years in Victoria.
The ability to read has a direct impact on educational success, employment and dependency and is key to overcoming poverty. With the financial support of The Readings Foundation, we will provide…
What we're reading
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on or the music we’re loving.
Kim is reading The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah late last year and absolutely adored it. Coincidentally, I had begun reading it days before Beyoncé released her surprise ‘visual album’ and was delighted to hear the author sampled on one of the album’s standout…
Come along to the Children’s Book Festival
The Children’s Book Festival returns to the State Library of Victoria on Sunday 23 March, a festival where authors are celebrities - and rightly so.
It’s a big day, no doubt about it. There are noises, kids, prams, balloons, fairy costumes, various attached ears, and plenty of face-painted princesses, spiders and ogres. There are also over-excited (or at times under-excited) parents, always over-excited children, mascots, giveaways, music - and that’s just at the Readings tent. The Children’s Book Festival is…
A beginner’s guide to reading graphic novels
If you’re interested in reading a graphic novel but not sure where to start, here are some recommendations depending on what kind of books you usually gravitate towards.
If you like short-story collections:
Lisa Hanawalt’s comics in her debut collection My Dirty Dumb Eyes are bizarre and colourful, and most importantly – very, very funny.
In Heads Or Tails, Lilli Carre gives us a collection of comics that are akin to the gothic narratives of Flannery O’Connor and Carson…
Last week's top ten bestsellers
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Little Golden Book by Diane Muldrow
The News: A User’s Manual by Alain de Botton
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
My Age of Anxiety by Scott Stossel
Stoner: A Novel by John Williams
Editor of the iconic Little Golden Books Diane…
What we're reading
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on or the music we’re loving.
Mark is reading In the Morning I’ll be Gone by Adrian McKinty
I’ve just finished Melbourne author Adrian McKinty’s In the Morning I’ll be Gone. The book follows Sean Duffy, a detective with the Royal Ulster Constabulary who’s brought back from disgrace by MI5 to help find an escaped IRA bomber
Duffy…
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