downunder update

What happens when you ask a compatriot for a Review? You get one!
I asked. I received. And Bushie’s Net Guide gave me the true blue reply, no pulled punches here, a ridgie didge review that has me now searching everywhere for another template.
I’d be rapt if I could get one like the Bushman.
However, all envy [...]

Reason is a better name than Logic or Rationality. So said Serafina, who champions rationality and deplores any mention of magic. Especially the witchcraft (smokes and mirrors she calls it) practiced by her own mother. But what happens when her daughter is 15?
Justine Larbalestier won an Andre Norton Award for best genre Young [...]

Review : Whale Rider : a gripping mystical fable and simply one of the most beautiful films I have seen in my entire life.
Not so much a Weekend Read but a Weekend Watch.
When his canoe capsized a thousand years ago, Paikea escaped death by riding to shore on the back of a whale.
On the [...]