by Virginia Ives | Oct 12, 2020 | Round-ups
Since our round up includes both non-fiction and poetry it is perhaps inevitable that one of the persistent undercurrents will be the closeness of the personal and the political. Many of the reviews this month fall under this category in some way. They are books that are genre-resistant, boundary-pushing pieces of collective art or culturally responsive writing that imbue the tensely political climate of the times with raw emotion and beautiful expressions of social critique.
by Virginia Ives | Sep 16, 2020 | Round-ups
As keen eyed readers will notice, I am not Bronwyn of Brona’s Books who has been the purveyor of Non Fiction and Poetry Round Ups here at AWW for several years now. I hope I can partially fill her proverbially big and wonderful shoes. Please bear with me as I catch up...
by Brona68 | Mar 9, 2020 | Round-ups
A quiet round up for February, with only 6 non-fiction reviews and 1 poetry, so I’ve taken the liberty of combining the two this time. The numbers may be light on, compared to the heady totals that fiction racks up, but the diversity of topics in just 7 titles...
by Brona68 | Feb 10, 2020 | Round-ups
Welcome back to a brand New Year of General Non-Fiction reading and reviews! After our horrendous summer bushfires this year, I wondered if we would be searching out climate change/nature books in an attempt to understand what happened. Or would we turn to our comfort...
by Brona68 | Jan 13, 2020 | Yearly wrap-up
Finding a reflective frame of mind at the moment, has been hard to do. As an eastern sea-boarder feeling rather overwhelmed by the fire crisis of the past three months, I’m not sure that taking stock is something I can do until the fires are out. Or maybe I just...
