by Marianne Perry | Nov 16, 2016 | My Reflections
What Do You See With Your Eyes Closed? Book Review: All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer. The recipient of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is set in France and Germany during World War Two. It recounts the...
by Marianne Perry | Oct 15, 2016 | My Reflections
Thomas (Tom) Sherbourne is the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock; a station built in 1889 on a remote island off the western Australian coast. He and his wife, Isabel Graysmark are the sole inhabitants; supplies are delivered by boat every few months and they have...
by Marianne Perry | Sep 9, 2016 | My Reflections
How Do You Celebrate Your Ancestors’ Stories? Book Review: The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor by Sally Armstrong The Nine Lives Of Charlotte Taylor is a blend of fact and fiction that tells the story of Sally Armstrong’s great-great-great grandmother. It chronicles...
by Marianne Perry | Jul 27, 2016 | My Reflections
Tracks by Robyn Davidson What is your camel trip? I read Tracks the winter of 2015 after purchasing it in Uluru at a camel farm while exploring Australia’s Northern Territory. When lending it to a friend, I noted a few lines I’d highlighted and thought...
by Marianne Perry | Jun 23, 2016 | My Reflections
The Waddi Tree by Kerry McGinnis What’s A Jackeroo? I purchased The Waddi Tree by Kerry McGinnis in 2015 in the Alice Springs Airport while awaiting a flight to Sydney, Australia. Alice Springs is a town of about 25,000 in central Australia situated in the Northern...
by Marianne Perry | May 12, 2016 | My Reflections
My initial step in deciding whether or not to spend time with an author and the book he/she has written is to study the front cover. I was intrigued by the image depicted on The Silent Wife; a shadowy female silhouette floating on a storm-gray haze over which the...
