by Susan Barnes | 5 Dec 2019 | Book Reviews
The Travel Club is a celebration of life, love, sex, friends, companionship, music, and travel. It’s a fun and moving story of how six older women meet around a common love of travel and inadvertently form the Travel Club. The six women come from different walks of...
by Susan Barnes | 2 Aug 2017 | Book Reviews
It’s been about 10 months since I read The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. I did plan to wait a little while before reading the sequel, The Rosie Effect, though not quite this long. I was concerned after reading some reviews, that it may not be as good and I wanted...
by Susan Barnes | 12 Oct 2016 | Book Reviews
The Grass Castle by Karen Viggers is an enjoyable story set in an Australian context that I’m very familiar with. I liked reading about places that I know well. The book is quite descriptive in places which did slow the pace of the story and I did wonder whether...
by Susan Barnes | 14 Sep 2016 | Book Reviews
I really enjoyed, The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. The main character, Don Tillman, probably has Asperger Syndrome so he is socially inept, misses subtleties in conversations and tends to take all remarks literally which created a lot of humour. Don is a professor...
