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Reading highlights 2025

Posted on 30/12/2025 by Angela Savage

I read like a boss in 2025, especially after rediscovering audiobooks, averaging 1.2 books each week. When I first tried audio, I made the mistake of substituting it for hardcopy reading, which didn’t work for me at all. This time … Continue reading →

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Reading highlights 2024

Posted on 29/12/2024 by Angela Savage

It’s been a great year for reading for me. I read 60 books–47 by women writers–and two manuscripts. I read six audio books, the rest in hard copy. I borrowed roughly one quarter from the library, and read 10 books … Continue reading →

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Praise for Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist

Posted on 11/12/2024 by Angela Savage

Excited to see Spinning Around; The Kylie Playlist receiving positive reviews in recent weeks, and to see it recommended not just for Kylie fans, but for fans of good short stories, too. And it’s heartening to see different reviewers highlight … Continue reading →

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Hilary Mantel, my mother and me

Posted on 09/10/2022 by Angela Savage

When my mother Olgamary was first diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2010, I asked if she had any regrets. Without missing a beat, she said, “I might not live to read the sequel to Wolf Hall.” The story became so well-known … Continue reading →

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Dealing with the unfamiliar in Lockdown #2

Posted on 07/08/2020 by Angela Savage

Melbourne emerged from a 10-week lockdown designed to ‘flatten the curve’ of COVID-19 infections on 1 June 2020. Life was starting to resemble something akin to normal, when a friend commented over (a socially distant) lunch that she felt like … Continue reading →

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A novel virus

Posted on 02/04/2020 by Angela Savage

When I first starting reading about the emergence of a ‘novel coronavirus’, my first thought was, ‘What? Books can get it, too?’ To think, only weeks ago, I was able to make light of it. Since then, the virus now … Continue reading →

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Reading Bingo 2019

Posted on 30/12/2019 by Angela Savage

It’s that time of year again: time to play Reading Bingo. For newcomers to this blog, Reading Bingo is a framework I use for reflecting on my year of reading. It’s a friendlier format for me than a ‘Best of…’ … Continue reading →

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Books that changed me

Posted on 13/09/2019 by Angela Savage

Being a fan of the regular column, ‘Books that changed me’ in The Sunday Age, I was delighted to be invited to submit my own list, which I managed to whittle down from around 400 to four. This post originally … Continue reading →

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I’d Like to Know What You’ve Learned*

Posted on 30/09/2014 by Angela Savage

Regular readers of this blog will know I’m a big fan of Margot Kinberg and her blog, Confessions of a Mystery novelist. Here I share Margot’s wonderful recent post on raising children who read.

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Six degrees of separation: Burial Rites

Posted on 05/04/2014 by Angela Savage

I’m taking part in a new meme for writers and book bloggers based on Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy’s 1929 short story ‘Chains’ in which he coined the phrases ‘six degrees of separation’. Each month, WA writers/bloggers Annabel Smith and Emma … Continue reading →

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