Graeme's travel journey

BOOK REVIEWS In 2016, I began writing book reviews for a local newsletter in my home town of Ulverstone in Tasmania. It was always something I wanted to do, to voice my opinion because so many books do not come up to scratch and those that do, deserve to be praised. It’s so hard to find a good book unless you have some prior knowledge of the author, some feed-back from another reader or a good review to guide you. I very rarely read book reviews now because most of them don’t do what they are meant to do, and that is to inform the reader of its readability. A synopsis is not a review and I see these all the time in newspapers and magazines. There are also those academic reviews that use adjectives that I have never heard of and leave me perplexed and wondering what in the hell I just read. Then we have those books that have fantastic reviews on the back eg: Fast paced, impossible to put down. I once read a book that had the back page full of marvelous reviews. By the time I ...

It has been a while since I have written here and in that time much has happened in the World. The printed book "Tears in Thailand' is at a stand still as Thailand along with much of the world is shut down. I have not been able to get back to Thailand to see to the distribution. Even if I could distribute it, there are limited customers there now. I have some copies with me at home. In the meantime, I have been updating my site on Smashwords.com  I have included a small book on the site with five short stories, which is a preamble to the book "Mountain Pride" a story of a plane crash set in the harsh climate of the central  highlands of Tasmania. I have also submitted a short story of my great great grandfathers journey to Tasmania in a local competition, which later on, I may make part of a personal anthology. I am working on some lengthy novels, but these take time.