Jane B

Don't forget all you Mosman Readers out there. Post a review on Mosman Readers during January and you'll go into the draw for some fabulous prizes. You have to be in it to win it!

If you've enjoyed reading Sarah Waters books: Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith, Affinity and her latest The Little Stranger you might be interested in hearing her talking candidly about her books at the Seymour Centre in February.
For more information http://mardigras.org.au/mardi-gras-2010/events-calendar/in-conversation-with-sarah-waters/index.cfm

Jonathan Little's The Kindly Ones has won the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award for 2009. You can read the winning passages here

A series of questions relating to books and reading has been circulating arounds blogs lately. I saw this on Booktager you might want to answer them. Here are mine



Do you snack while you read? If so, favourite reading snack?

Not often but sometimes I like to nibble on Kettle chips.



Do you tend to mark books as you read them, or does the idea of writing on books horrify you?

I never mark books… Continue

The Swedish Acadmeny announced on Thursday that Romanian-born German novelist and essayist Herta Müller won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature for The Appointment a book set against the backdrop of Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. It is a story of a young Romanian factory worker--so desperate to escape the betrayal and hardships of her life that she sews notes offering marriage into the linings of suits bound for Italy. She is found out and is… Continue