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Eventually, their heartfelt masterpiece might find its way onto tables marked '3 for $10', where, in all likelihood, it will remain.
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Authors risk exposing their own private desires when their characters get frisky.
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Since becoming a mother, I have come to appreciate more and more the diverse, complex depictions of motherhood in fiction.
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Whether you're 'babe', 'chicken' or 'mouse', take heart that your pet name is spoken with affection. (Unless it's 'muffin'.)
06/05/2017 6:03 AM AEST
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Books can blur the line between good and evil.
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Don't like AFL? Join the (book) club!
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The brave, new(ish) world of citizen reviews can inform, but they can also misguide.
15/04/2017 4:29 AM AEST
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When you read them out loud, you are almost singing, and there is undoubtedly something joyful in that.
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The sadness we hear in music, literature and film is strangely irresistible.
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It would be a terrible shame to lose the opportunity to visit physical bookstores, whatever form they might take.
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I read because of the way it makes my world a bigger, more complex and exciting one.
05/03/2017 6:23 AM AEDT
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Every reader brings their own biases, moods and habits to the story.
26/02/2017 6:08 AM AEDT
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For readers, commuting offers that most elusive of luxuries -- free time.
13/02/2017 6:45 AM AEDT
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I'm not sure that all of this focus on food is bringing us any level or joy.
05/02/2017 7:02 AM AEDT
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I'm sitting on the fence.
25/01/2017 10:47 AM AEDT
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They're fictional, but that doesn't make the loss any less real.
18/01/2017 1:31 PM AEDT
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We try to dissuade our children from falling into gender stereotypes, but what about our own?
11/01/2017 9:38 PM AEDT
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Anyone can be a romantic hero between the covers... of a book.
05/01/2017 3:17 PM AEDT
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You wouldn't read about it.
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