This week I was killing some time up at Katoomba library. There is quite a nice view from the desks. On this day another big build up of clouds.
I was checking the shelves to pick up a few more of the ABC's First Tuesday Bookclub Top 50 Australian Books. (I am currently sitting at 38% read)
A book I have read recently
Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook. Chosen because it was the only one on the list I found in the library. It's a dark book set in the 1960s out Broken Hill way, a disturbing adventure of a school teacher who gets drunk, loses all of his money gambling and finds himself befriended by roo shooters. I'm not sure I would recommend it but it was compulsive reading ... I sat up late to finish it.
It sounds a bit like the Braunschweig thrillers, I love to read stories with real places, preferably those I know, involved.
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This one gave the place a fictional name but it was a barely disguised version of Broken Hill in the 1960s.
DeleteWhat a sky!
ReplyDeleteI'm currently reading Michael Palin's book Erebus.
My husband enjoys watching Palins documentaries. Perhaps this will be a good read for him, I will check it out.
DeleteThat sky is gorgeous. Most of our clouds lately have been grey.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing. It seems less chilly to read about misery in Antarctica...
That looks like another interesting book. I am in awe of what the early explorers endured. Since we are in the middle of a heatwave 41c (105.8 F) this afternoon a bit of cool reading would not go astray.
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