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Readersvoice.com aims to pick up a few good reading tips. While browsing along the bookshelves in a charity store, I came across a 1967 Fontana paperback copy of The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas A Kempis. Written in the early 15th Century, it urges the reader to reject the folly and unreality of the world — a shadow of shadows — and says there is no reality except in loving God and serving him alone.
The book is one of the classics of theology, and for this issue of readersvoice.com I interviewed Deacon Douglas McManaman about the subject. Deacon McManaman teaches theology, and in this interview he gives many excellent reading suggestions.
Deacon Douglas McManaman talks about studying theology, and how it ties in with philosophy…
Deacon Douglas McManaman gives some great reading tips, listing some of the classic theological books, as well as some classic fiction authors…
For what you’d pay for a new paperback, you could fill a sports bag with second-hand books at the Lifeline Bookfest, in Brisbane. There are literally millions of books at Bookfests: many of which you’d never even hear about otherwise, some more than a century old. They should have these things all round the world. I could just imagine the sorts of books that might turn up at a New York or London Bookfest.
The Bookfest is on from June 6-8 from 8am to 8pm, and books go supercheap on June 9 from 8am-3pm, at the Brisbane Convention Centre, South Brisbane, Australia. I interviewed the organiser of volunteers at the Lifeline Bookfest, Anastasia Magriplis.
Also, earlier this year, I went along to see author Alexander McCall Smith give a talk at the Brisbane City Hall about his novel Tea Time for the Traditionally Built.
Anastasia Magriplis talks about organising volunteers for the fantastic Lifeline Bookfest, Brisbane…
There is a woman I heard of whose mother has read every novel Edinburgh author Alexander McCall Smith has written in his The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series of books. His latest, the tenth in the series, is Tea Time for the Traditionally Built. I went along to see Alexander McCall Smith give a talk in Brisbane earlier this year.
Readersvoice.com aims to collect a few good reading tips. For this issue, I went along to see Stella Rimington give a talk at the Ithaca Auditorium at the Brisbane City Hall on March 10. Stella Rimington was the Director-General of MI5, Britain’s security service, from 1992-96, but she had always planned on writing thrillers. As you might expect, she was fond of the thriller genre, and she mentioned a few of her favorites during the talk she gave.
Thriller writer Stella Rimington talks about her MI5 days at a talk at the Brisbane City Hall…
Thriller writer Stella Rimington mentions a few of her favorite authors from the thriller and mystery genres…
Readersvoice.com aims to pick up a few good reading tips. Punter’s Turf tells the story of John Punter, a professional better on horses and amateur sleuth. He’s often contacted by people in the Melbourne racing industry when they need someone to handle a problem with discretion- someone who knows his way around the track. Peter Klein also knows his way around the track, having worked in the racing industry since he was a teenager, which he wrote about in his autobiography A Strapper’s Tale. He followed this with his first John Punter crime novel, Punter’s Luck, and his latest is Punter’s Turf. If you like crime novels, fast plots, and want to learn about the Melbourne horse racing industry, it’s short odds you’ll enjoy this book.