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Good Reading : December January 2010
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34 goodreading ı DECEMBER 2009 / JANUARY 2010 Everything about books www.goodreadingmagazine.com ONLINE word of mouth the best of 2009 YOUNG ADULTS Somebody's Crying -- Maureen McCarthy 16+ Everything Beautiful -- Simmone Howell 16+ Jackdaw Summer -- David Almond 12+ If I Stay -- Gayle For man 15+ Variant X -- Sue Robinson 15+ Guantanamo Boy -- Anna Perera 14+ Brown Skin Blue -- Belinda Jeffrey 15+ Liar -- Justine Larbalestier 14+ A Small Free Kiss in the Dark -- Glenda Millard 12+ GENERAL NON-FICTION Churchill and Australia -- Graham Freudenberg Je Suis Australienne: Remarkable women in France, 1880-1945 -- Rosemary Lancaster The Paris Review Interviews Volume 3 -- edited by Philip Gourevitch The Dreaming and Other Essays -- W E H Stanner Teaching Poetry in the Primary Classroom -- Gervase Phinn (teaching book) The Blue Plateau: A landscape memoir -- Mark Tredinnick The Greatest Show on Earth -- Richard Dawkins The Thirty-Six -- Siegmund Siegreich Three Cups of Tea -- Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin YOUNGER READERS 7+ Fox and Fine Feathers -- Narelle Oliver 7+ Imagine a Place -- Sarah L Thomson 10+ We Are All Bor n Free: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in pictures 8+ This Morning I Met a Whale -- Michael Morpurgo 10+ Classic Poetry -- Selected by Michael Rosen 11+ The Magician's Elephant -- Kate DiCamillo 10+ Finding Home -- Gary Crew 9+ SCIENCE FICTION / FANTASY Paul of Dune -- Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson The Gabble and Other Stories -- Neal Asher The Winds of Dune -- Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson Best Served Cold -- Joe Abercrombie Cyberabad Days -- Ian McDonald AUDIO Journey into Space -- Charles Chilton The Magic Pudding -- Nor man Lindsay Moonfleet -- J Meade Falkner Talking Heads -- Alan Bennett The Spoken Word -- British writers YOUNGER READERS 0+ Spells -- Emily Gravett 4+ The Hero of Little Street -- Gregory Rogers The Duck in the Gun -- Joy Cowley 5+ The Rabbit Problem -- Emily Gravett 4+ It's Useful to Have a Duck: It's Useful to HaveaBoy--Isol2+ Snake and Lizard -- Joy Cowley 5+ Crazy Hair -- Neil Gaiman 4+ Looking for a good book to pack in your holiday bag this Christmas or maybe as a gift to book-loving friend or family member? To help you out, and just in case you missed these reviews, here are some of the books that have received either 4½ or 5 stars from our reviewers this year. high praise GENERAL FICTION One Mor ning Like a Bird -- Andrew Miller The Elegance of the Hedgehog -- Muriel Barbery A Mercy -- Toni Mor rison Drood -- Dan Simmons Valley of Grace -- Marion Halligan The Art of Racing in the Rain -- Garth Stein The Women in Black -- Madeleine St John The Patient -- Mohamed Khadra Ransom -- David Malouf Black Mirror -- Gail Jones The Darwin Poems -- Emily Ballou The Thing Around Your Neck -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reunion -- Andrea Goldsmith Jasper Jones -- Craig Silvey The World Beneath -- Cate Kennedy Valmiki's Daughter -- Shani Mootoo The Brightest Star in the Sky -- Marian Keyes BIOGRAPHY The Weight of Silence -- Catherine Therese The Horse Boy: A father's quest to heal his son -- Rupert Isaacson Females on the Fatal Shore -- Susanna de Vries Mama Mia -- Mia Freedman Factory Girls: Voices from the heart of moder n China -- Leslie T Chang Bite of the Mango -- Mariatu Kamara with Susan McClelland CRIME Buried -- Mark Billingham Blood Line -- Mark Billingham Long Lost -- Harlan Coben The Chalk Circle Man -- Fred Vargas Far Cry -- John Harvey Lennox -- Craig Russell The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest -- Stieg Larsson The Complaints -- Ian Rankin Fever of the Bone -- Val McDer mid The Ignorance of Blood -- Robert Wilson
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