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Paula’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Paula’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Paula Vince
Goodreads Author
Born
in Adelaide, Australia
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Influences
L.M.Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Emily Bronte, Jane Austen, Harpe
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Member Since
July 2012
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Best Forgotten
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2011
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4 editions
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The Greenfield Legacy
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2012
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2 editions
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Imogen's Chance
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2014
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2 editions
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Picking Up the Pieces (Adelaide Hills #2)
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2010
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2 editions
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Glimpses of Light
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The Prophecies (Quenarden, #1)
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2002
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3 editions
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The Risky Way Home
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2012
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4 editions
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A Design of Gold
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2009
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3 editions
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The Dark Secret (Quenarden, #3)
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2004
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The Castle of Light (Quenarden, #2)
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2003
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'The Tea Ladies' by Amanda Hampson
Here's what I chose for the Cosy Mystery category of my 2025 Aussie Reading Challenge..
MY THOUGHTS:
This is a retro Aussie tale set in the Surrey Hills and King's Cross areas of Sydney in 1965.
The mystery starts when a tea lady named Hazel Bates spots a beautiful young woman peering through the window of an abandoned warehouse building, scribbling a cryptic message on the dusty glass. Th
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"I loved this book as a teenager and reading it again 30+ years later it still is a good read."
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| The action happens at Gossington Hall (same scene where The Body in the Library took place). It's been recently purchased by film star, Marina Gregg and her director husband, Jason Rudd. Marina is a multiple divorcee with a history of nervous break-d ...more | |
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| The four Penderwick sisters, along with their widowed Dad and beloved pet dog, are on their way to spend three weeks at a holiday cottage. The stately property, Arundel Mansion, has a smaller cottage on its grounds, which they'll be renting for the d ...more | |
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| One rainy day, a country squire named Charles Wyndham accuses his wife and her two siblings of being parasites. Taken by surprise, the trio spends the rest of the day assessing the justice of his claim and delving back through their pasts, collective ...more | |
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| Austen scholar Paula Byrne writes a hypothetical novel in which Jane falls in love with Samuel Rose, the young lawyer who defended poet/artist William Blake from a charge of sedition, and got him acquitted. Rose was suffering from consumption and die ...more | |
"I'd never heard of this author before until Mum gave me this book for Xmas. Turns out it's an Australian classic - and it's easy to see why. The way Stow tells this story through the eyes of a young boy (Rob Coram) reveals that Stow must have a deep "
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"Do not think less of anyone for hating this if they had to read it in high school. I had to as well and I despised this book. I actually grew up in Geraldton in the 70s and 80s and it seemed as though not much had changed since the 40s, excpept mabe "
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"A wild irreverent ride that will more than surprise Austen fans!
Any Janeite who makes it to the third chapter of The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet is in my opinion free to think author Colleen McCullough an impudent rapscallion. I am confident tha" Read more of this review » |
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| The two authors, Gale and Weetman, aimed to write an interesting YA Aussie timeslip tale. The setting is Sydney, featuring Wylie's Baths, a terrific tidal swimming pool still open to the public. Perhaps the title might more accurately be Elsewhen Gir ...more | |
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First off, what great descriptions of the Aussie landscape we get within these pages. 'I stopped, as I sometimes do, to get out and stand looking down across the threadbare velvet-covered brown bones of this land. Stones and low yellow grasses and th ...more |
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“Reader's Bill of Rights
1. The right to not read
2. The right to skip pages
3. The right to not finish
4. The right to reread
5. The right to read anything
6. The right to escapism
7. The right to read anywhere
8. The right to browse
9. The right to read out loud
10. The right to not defend your tastes”
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1. The right to not read
2. The right to skip pages
3. The right to not finish
4. The right to reread
5. The right to read anything
6. The right to escapism
7. The right to read anywhere
8. The right to browse
9. The right to read out loud
10. The right to not defend your tastes”
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“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
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“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
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“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”
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“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
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Paula wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "Dear Paula,I'm not certain if my message got to you yesterday, so here I go again. Sally from Wombat Books has asked me to write my press release for Green Heart of the Forest a..."
Hi Elizabeth, sure, please feel free to use any of my quotes for your press release. Have fun putting it together.
Blessings,
Paula V
Elizabeth wrote: "Dear Paula,I'm not certain if my message got to you yesterday, so here I go again. Sally from Wombat Books has asked me to write my press release for Green Heart of the Forest and because you wro..."
Elizabeth wrote: "Dear Paula,
I'm not certain if my message got to you yesterday, so here I go again. Sally from Wombat Books has asked me to write my press release for Green Heart of the Forest and because you wro..."
Dear Paula,I'm not certain if my message got to you yesterday, so here I go again. Sally from Wombat Books has asked me to write my press release for Green Heart of the Forest and because you wrote my appraisal in the Caleb Ms competition, I was wondering if i could use some of your quotes please. Thanks and God bless.
Elizabeth Klein
