Cassie is a farmer’s daughter with a fortune teller gifts. She tries to use her psychic gift to help the people she loves and mostly fails. Her genius neighbour Athena offers her help, except Athena is a Greek goddess reincarnate. It might be Australia in the 1980’s but the remaining Greek gods still think humans are their playthings.
Published by Odyssey Books
It’s #6 degrees time (well its Sunday not Saturday but yesterday was otherwise engaged). Time to link six books in a chain starting with: Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, surely one of the most often retold stories. Also, Wikipedia tells me, responsible for popularising the phrase Merry Christmas. So, there you go. Merry Christmas. One … Continue reading 6 Degrees from a Dickens Christmas to a home in Toyland
It’s first Saturday of the month and time for #6degrees hosted by Kate at booksaremybestandfavourite. You can play too. Vanity Fair is one of these books you have to stop and think. It’s really famous. Have I read it or do I think I have read it because it is so famous? The answer is that no … Continue reading Six Degrees of Separation from Vanity to Solitude
It’s time for s #6degrees hosted by Kate at booksaremybestandfavourite. “The Outsiders,” by SE Hinton is one of those books people read in English class. Is that right? Not me. I read it long, long ago because I wanted to, not because I had to. The first book I remember being ‘set’ for English was Alan Marshall’s autobiography … Continue reading # 6 degrees from Rebellious Boys to Naughty Girls
Pocket Bookclub is not enamoured with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or the monster in the book. This a story we retell and reimagine over and over. In fact, Frankenstein is 200 years old this year. It has captured our collective cultural imagination but the source just did not stand up for us. Let’s start with who … Continue reading “I left the baby on the bus and now I’m going to fall into a delirious fever”