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Read. Read. Wait. Read. Read. Wait. Read. Garden. Climb a tree. Surf. Run. Whatever. If you are a writer, your brain will click.
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Boy on a Wire
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Into Your Arms: Nick Cave's Songs Reimagined
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Return Ticket
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To the Highlands
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Magpie Mischief
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Voices of the South: Albany-Kinjarling and the Great Southern
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Magwheel Madness
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Kidnapped! (The Amity Kids Adventures #3)
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Disturbing the Peace (The Amity Kids Adventures #2)
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WA local government elections
In Albany, the ballot slips are in the mail.
Here are the choices.
For those of you who have never done this before, or have forgotten how to do it, here are some basic instructions.
You may put 1 in the box of the mayor you want and leave the rest.
Or you could put 2, then all the way down to 7. Or any other variation.
My preference, and I always do this, e
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“…a hilarious, angry and sympathetic portrait of boys behaving badly, teeming with sadistic bullies, imperfect heroes, adolescent onanists and ice-cream gorging hedonists.’— The West Australian”
― Boy on a Wire
― Boy on a Wire
“From the opening sentence, it is clear that we are in the presence of a writer with a distinctive voice and uncanny ability to capture the bewilderment and burgeoning anger of a boy struggling to remain true to himself while navigating the hypocritical system he finds himself trapped in … what makes Boy on a Wire much more than a bleak coming-of-age story is Doust’s sharp wit. “Justice not only prevails at Grammar School, it is rampant.” If you know an angry teenager, give this to him.’ — The Age”
― Boy on a Wire
― Boy on a Wire
“The boarding school memoir or novel is an enduring literary subgenre, from 1950s classics such as The Catcher in the Rye to Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep. Doust’s recognisably Australian contribution to the genre draws on his own experiences in a West Australian boarding school in this clever, polished, detail-rich debut novel. From the opening pages, the reader is wholly transported into the head of Jack Muir, a sensitive, sharp-eyed boy from small-town WA who is constantly measured (unfavourably) against his goldenboy brother. The distinctive, masterfully inhabited adolescent narrator recalls the narrator in darkly funny coming-of-age memoir Hoi Polloi (Craig Sherborne)—as does the juxtaposition of stark naivety and carefully mined knowingness.’ — Bookseller+Publisher”
― Boy on a Wire
― Boy on a Wire
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“In Israel, we spent time working on several kibbutzim. It was unique experience and a very different type of culture than I was used to. I enjoyed picking grapefruits, netting fish on the "fish farm", and doing other agricultural work. Mostly, however, it was the structure of the community that impressed me. People there were living their democratic values. The kibbutz was owned by the people who lived there, the "bosses" were elected by the workers, and overall decisions for the community were made democratically. I recall being impressed by how young-looking and alive the older people there were. Democracy, it seemed, was good for one's health.”
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