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I live and work in Adelaide South Australia, but I love travel, and am passionate about communities and networking. I am one of those lucky people whose work and leisure activities feed each other. Welcome to my page :-)
What I've been doing
03 Feb 2010
I am restricting my participation in the 2010 Global Reading Challenge to crime fiction titles, but participants can use books of any genre of their choosing.
Join the challenge here .
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The Expert Challenge
Read two novels from each of these continents in the course of 2010:
Africa
DEVIL'S PEAK by Deon Meyer (South Africa)
THE SWAYING PILLARS by Elizabeth Ferrars (Uyowa, a fictitious African state)
Asia
Australas[..]
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02 Feb 2010
2009 Random House, translated by Marlaine Delargy, 438 pages, ISBN 978-0-385-34222-3
THE DARKEST ROOM is set on the island of Oland of the east coast of Sweden. On the eastern side of Oland are the twin lighthouses of Eel Point, one giving off a red light at night, the other a white light that rarely seems to work. Near the lighthouses just inland is the manor house built 150 years ago from the timbers of shipwrecks.
Katrine and Joakim Westin have bought the manor house and are in the [..]
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Aussie Author Challenge
This one is being run by Book Lover Book Reviews .
I've signed up for the FAIR DINKUM challenge which requires me to read 8 titles by at least 5 different Aussie authors.
In 2009 I read 20 books by Aussie authors so I should be able to do this easily, although of course mine will have that extra little challenge of being all crime fiction titles.
TRUTH, Peter Temple
BLOOD BORN, Kathryn Fox
CONSEQUENCES OF SIN, Clare Langley-Hawthorne (some might [..]
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OzProjects provides two Bookclubs for 10-19 year olds.
Beware of Books is for students from 15-19 years. It is a place where you can discuss books, publish book reviews, and occasionally meet an author.
From 15 -31 March Kim Miller will be answering questions in a special Beware of Books forum. Kim is the author of [...]
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01 Feb 2010
I originally wrote this review in 2006 and it was published elsewhere.
I have re-vamped it as part of the Crime Fiction Alphabet although you may detect a slightly predictive tone towards the end.
My copy was published by Random House, Australia, 2006
Joe Middleton knows that the Christchurch Carver did not commit all of the murders attributed to him. Primarily because Joe is the Carver and a murder has been listed that he did not commit. From his vantage point of working in the polic[..]
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I've had an excellent month as you can see from the list below.
The numbers at the front of each line are ratings I gave each book. All were between very good and excellent.
4.3, CONSEQUENCES OF SIN, Clare Langley-Hawthorne (29 Jan)
4.9, THE BLOOD OF THE WICKED, Leighton Gage (28 Jan)- Kindle
5.0, THE BRASS VERDICT, Michael Connelly (23 Jan)
4.1, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, Edgar Allan Poe - audio (22 Jan)
4.3, UR, Stephen King (18 Jan) - Kindle
4.6[..]
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The Alphabet in Crime Fiction - a Community Meme.
Here are the rules
Each week you have to write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week.
Your post MUST be related to either the first letter of a book's title, the first letter of an author's first name, or the first letter of the author's surname.
So you see you have lots of choice. You could write a review, or a bio of an author, so long as it fits the rules somehow.
Please check each Monday for t[..]
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31 Jan 2010
If you are a reader of my blog you will know that I bought a 6" Kindle towards the end of last year.
Since then I've read 6 books on the Kindle which I suppose is not so many, but I am really looking forward to taking it with me when I have some long plane journeys at the end of February.
There's been quite a bit written this week about the release of promotional stuff about the Apple iPod which I think is designed to rival the Kindle DX released on January 19.
And then today there ha[..]
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I've been running a poll for the last 2 weeks and as you can see most respondents have plumped for 1 to 2 books a week.
In fact some of those who took part in the poll left comments to that effect in the post that accompanied the poll .
I thought I might aim for about 110, based on averages of previous years. If what I have managed to read so far this year, 12, is any indication, then I might get to many more than that.
I guess the next question is how you actually choose the books: Cr[..]
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The Alphabet in Crime Fiction - a Community Meme. The letter for the week beginning 25 January was the Letter O
11 wonderful contributors again this week, and again a great range of terrific titles, including one not to read!
Tomorrow, 1 February, we will be featuring the letter P and what possibilities there are!
And then we have 10 more letters with some really challenging ones like Q, X, and Z to contemplate
If you read and write about crime fiction, we'd love to have your cont[..]
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Kerrie Smiths Whiteboard
1 Aug 2009
Elizabeth Gunn wrote
Hi Kerrie, I've just joined me.edu.au because I've recently set up a group called Multilingual Australia which hopes to improve government funding and support for languages education in all sectors of the community including schools, pre-schools, adult education and so on. I was wondering whether you were at all interested in a network like that. It would be great to hear your thoughts on such a group and whether you would like to support us. Best regards, Liz
21 Jan 2009
Concetta Gotlieb wrote
Hey Kerrie
Nice to meet you in person - it's great to put the faces (and senses of humour) to the names.
Talk to you again soon,
Chet
3 Jan 2009
Tony Searl wrote
Thanks for alerting me to the me.edu.au video Kerrie, I've re posted it to spread the PLN word. Happy learning in 2009.
24 Aug 2008
simon fenton - jones wrote
Kerrie,
Could I suggest that if anyone has another blog at another domain, like yourself, that they put a bookmark on their me page which points to it? It would be a pity not to let newbies know that most of your blogging is dome elsewhere. Especially as its worth reading.
7 Aug 2008
Margaret Aitchison wrote
Hi Kerrie, Congratulations on your new
position. Just wanted to thank you for
the encouragement you have been to me.
Enjoy the new challenges.
Regards
Margaret
7 Aug 2008
Cheryl Taylor-Cox wrote
Hi Kerrie,
Congratulations on your new position. Wow, Executive Officer of education.au. That is just so fantastic! Wishing you every success and lots of fun too. Kind regards, Cheryl.
29 Jun 2008
Concetta Gotlieb wrote
Hi Kerrie
I just commented on your Mysteries in Paradise blog. I tried to enter the url of my me.edu.au blog but it wouldn't accept it because of the format of the addresss.
I guess it's just something we will have to live with?
26 May 2008
Leonie Black wrote
Hi Kerrie
Thanks for putting me in touch with Cecily. I have just created an Aboriginal Studies OZprojects....well started it any way. I would be happy to get your feedback or ideas.
Leonie
17 May 2008
Leigh Newton wrote
Thanks Kerrie.
I know what part of the issue is with the edna.au site. It's lacking colour and therefore looks overly official and intimidating.
16 May 2008
Leigh Newton wrote
Kerrie, you sent out an email reminding about subscribing to conversations. Where is an email subscription link and RSS link on the IB page? That should be obvious for all so that they can continue with a conversation. Thanks.
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Aphrodite Noikou
Amanda Rablin
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Cecily Wright
Concetta Gotlieb
Cheryl Taylor-Cox
Caroline Jasper
Alan Levine
Deanne Bullen
Kate Foy
Erika Dauner
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