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My Ned Kelly book reading challenge

Submitted by sunniefromoz on Sat, 21/06/2008 - 5:39pm.
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I'm currently trying to read as many of the books long-listed for the 2008 Ned Kelly Awards as I can.
I've bought a few and the State Library of Tasmania is coming to the party with quite a few others.
To date I've read
Best first novel nominees:

VODKA DOESN'T FREEZE - Leah Giarratano
MAELSTROM - Michael MacConnell
THE LOW ROAD - Chris Womersley
FRANTIC - Katherine Howell

Best novel nominees
SUCKED IN - Shane Maloney
AMONGST THE DEAD - Robert Gott
SKIN AND BONE - Kathryn Fox
FAN MAIL - P.D. Martin
EL DORADO - Dorothy Porter

Best true crime:
UNDERBELLY: THE GANGLAND WAR - John Silvester, Andrew Rule
LIVES OF CRIME-  Gary Tippett & Ian Munro

and I have waiting iin the wings:

Gospel - Sydney Bauer
Mr Sin: (The Abe Saffron Dossier) - Tony Reeves
Bye, Bye Baby - Lauren Crow
Fatal Flaw - Roger Maynard
Killing Jodie - Janet Fife Yeomans
Golden Serpent - Mark Abernathy
Blood Sunset - Jarad Henry
Red Centre, Dark Heart - Evan McHugh
The Tattooed Man - Alex Palmer
Harum Scarum - Felicity Young
Bondi Badlands - Greg Callaghan

There are three nominees I haven't been able to find (Broken Swallow, Green Velvet Shoes, Iraqi Icicle.) If anyone knows where I can get my hands on copies of these books, I'd be most grateful. 

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Blog entry: Open File by Peter Corris
Blog entry: Trick or Treat
Book review: Frantic
Book review: The Low Road
Book review: Maelstrom
Book review: Vodka Doesn't Freeze
Book review: Mr Sin (The Abe Saffron Dossier)
Book review: Killing Jodie
Book review: Fatal Flaw
Book review: Bye Bye Baby

Question Four - Responsibility

Submitted by Karen on Tue, 22/04/2008 - 10:26am.

Do you think the hospital should or could have been more vigilant in picking up and addressing the narrator's ambivalence towards Cassie at the time of her birth?  Do you think this would have made any difference to her subsequent actions?

  • What is your experience of, and views on, the post-natal care provided by hospitals and child-health clinics?
  • What is your experience of, and views on, the support provided in our society to families in general?

 

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Question Three - Failure to Bond?

Submitted by Karen on Tue, 22/04/2008 - 10:20am.

The narrator provides the reader with a graphic description of the birth of her first child and its aftermath, where she had trouble bonding with the baby.  In your opinion do you think this failure to bond can be seen as explaining any of her subsequent actions?  Do you believe that the narrator's behaviour could be attributable to post-partum depression?  Why or why not?

 

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Question Two - Convention Breaking

Submitted by Karen on Tue, 22/04/2008 - 10:18am.

Still Waters breaks from convention in the fact that its narrator is not an immediately warm or likeable woman.  At any stage during the reading of Still Waters did you find yourself feeling sympathetic towards its narrator?  If so, when did you lose sympathy for her?  Did your sympathy return at any point?

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Question One - Narrator

Submitted by Karen on Tue, 22/04/2008 - 10:16am.

The narrator of Still Waters remains unnamed throughout the novel.  Why do you think the author has chosen to do this?  Do you think it is a successful device and if so, how and why?

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