Thunder Road

The Young Adult (YA) category of novel didn’t exist when I was a kid. Sure, there were plenty of books that would have been categorised YA if they’d been published today but mostly it was just kids’ fiction or fiction for everyone else. Depending on your reading level in the upper primary school years, you’d [...]

My seven-year-old son is a little young to read Game as Ned, much to his frustration. But, with a long car trip imminent, I agreed to let him listen to the audio version of the book with me - thinking I could skip over any of the more confronting parts of the story.
On the road, [...]

In my previous post, I mentioned that a book takes on a life of its own once it is released. In part, this is because every reader brings their own world experience to the words they read and they respond accordingly.

During my time as a newspaper journalist, I became familiar with writing articles that generally had a very short shelf life. You soon learn that today’s news is tomorrow’s food for the compost worms.