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My name is Weezelle and I’m a penguin living in Melbourne. I love books - the texture, the weight, the smell, and especially the scratchy noise of turning a page when you’re reading in bed. I'm also a tea-lover. Tea is the perfect accompaniment to a book. They are complementary sources of solace; comforting and rejuvenating and something to connect over.

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Thar she blows!: It’s got to be Rush Oh!
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November 14, 2017
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Hard to review, beautiful to read: Ali Smith’s Autumn
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Val McDermid does fluffy in Northanger Abbey
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A Doctrine for Bitches? 10 propositions to help you decide
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Totally Glorious: The Glorious Heresies
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Aussie author spotlight: Jacinta Halloran
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August: Books I read and a thing that made me laugh
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Reworking New Zealand’s history: Where the Rekohu Bone Sings
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Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton: Reigning supreme with Aussie kids
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Six books the library nabbed for me (and why I’m reading them)
July 26, 2017
‘The people who drew the pictures are very good drawers’, pronounces Master Six
July 18, 2017
12 days, 4 books and a beach
July 7, 2017
Resistance and Remembrance: Us Women, Our Ways, Our World
July 1, 2017
Six Degrees of Separation – from picnicking to murdering
June 20, 2017
Pompous and Ponderous yet Pretty Persuasive: When Nietzsche Wept
May 29, 2017
Death to the teabag! 7 best things from the Melbourne Tea Festival
May 22, 2017
Audiobook Nook: The Dalai Lama’s Cat
May 15, 2017
Her name is Elizabeth Strout: Anything Is Possible
May 7, 2017
We’re going on a book hunt: Clunes Book Festival in pictures
May 2, 2017
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Girl With All The Gifts
April 9, 2017
Bound and gagged in a boot? That’s not cricket!
March 18, 2017
‘It’s important to retain the humanity’: The Song of the Stork
March 15, 2017
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
March 8, 2017
Violence and Murder (and Feminism): An Isolated Incident
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Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men
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When the cover is the best bit: The House at Bishopsgate
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Top Ten Things For Every Romance Novel
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Accent anarchy: listening to The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
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Fingersmith: Book and movie combo deal!
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Eight Books I’d Love Santa to Leave Under the Tree
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Sharp Objects: it’s no Gone Girl (but maybe that’s a good thing?)
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2016’s Top Ten New-To-Me Authors
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Two sisters share their country
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Australia’s asylum shame
August 25, 2016
The Not the Booker prize 2016 shortlist revealed
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July 28, 2016
The Man Booker and the Not the Booker Prize 2016

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