The Week in Review

The Week in Review

What I’ve Written

A Blast from the Past

What I’ve Read (Reviews)

Child of Spring poem by Emma Grigg (E. J. Grigg Author) A delightful poem, taking the reader on a frolic with a little spring lamb.

The Big Squeeze by Nancy Richy (The Elphant’s Trunk) Nancy Richy minimises the sheer, agonising, crushing horror every woman knows as a mild “morbid fascination” at a boob being squashed between solid plates in an annual mammogram. It’s a story of anxiety, and relief, part of the world of women’s experience that’s usually hidden behind closed doors.

A Ghost Cuddler poem by Phil Lister (Listerlyrics) Some people have pets for emotional support. Some people have comfort blankets or pillows. How about a comfort ghost? Someone who is ethereal, but always there? Phil Lister writes about a ghost who is there to listen and give a comforting hug.

Battle Season poem by Dawn Benedict (Rhymes, Dreams, Fantasy and Thoughts) My life has been spent moving between places that are extremely hot and mildly hot. I’ve never seen snow. Reading Dawn Benedict’s poem, I can see and feel the springtime life beginning to emerge while snow still falls and winter refuses to die. I especially love the final verse, as monochrome gives way to colour.

Tyrannosaurus Rex had Lips Over its Teeth, Research Suggests by Nicola Davis (Guardian Australia). Jurassic Park had it wrong. Researchers have compared the mouth structures of Tyrannosaurus and modern reptiles, some of which have lips and some of which don’t, to come to the conclusion that T-Rex had thin scaly lips over their teeth. Of course, their lips were scaly, lip balm hadn’t been invented yet, and with those tiny arms they probably couldn’t reach to apply it if it had.

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If I read it and I like it, or find it interesting, it goes in here. I try to only include one item from any single author in a week (even if I loved a number of things they published), because otherwise the list would get over-long.

I don’t do paid reviews, but I do accept recommendations, and even review copies of books, so if you’d particularly like me to review something, tell me about it.

A Look at a Book

Reviews for The Wallaby Detectives and the Tomato Sauce Mystery

Fabulous fun book! The kids loved it, and it made me a bit homesick for Aus myself, with the Wallaby tales. When’s the next one out? – Patricia (Lulu)

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