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Originally Posted by caleb72
You've actually done much better than I have issybird. Of that list of 50 must reads, I own quite a few of the books but haven't read them (or I've only watched the move). The only books I've actually read are For the Term of His Natural Life and Year of Wonders.
The latter I probably wouldn't have put on an awesome Aussie top 50, but the former I would have.
I may have to reassess next year's reading plans to make sure I inject more Aussie goodness into it. I've already got Christos Tsiolkas in there, but I think I need to do a bit better. Hmmmm, I can feel a new challenge coming on.
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Oopsie, your mention of
Year of Wonders made me recall that I neglected to mention some Australian memoirists, including Geraldine Brooks. I haven't read her novels, but I've read
Foreign Correspondence and also Jill Ker Conway's
Road from Coorain. I regret the oversight mostly because it was a gross injustice to the wonderful memoirs of Clive James, which I recommend highly.
I'm thinking about next year's challenges, too; I've mostly failed abysmally at this year's goals.