Question reads wrap up: Twitterchat recommendations
Question This month, question everything: fact and fiction…question all sides of the issue, your beliefs, formats and why you read…
Dictionaries were mentioned as leading you to question more (Ellen Forsyth)
Is romance inherently feminist? asks Vassiliki Veros
This month there were lots of people questioning life, books authority, etc…
I think reading, and the ideas triggered can help you to question almost anything, can be a good mythbuster too” Ellen Forsyth
Whatever I’m reading, I try to question or find my assumption that the author will have had the same life experience as me” Sonia Barfoed
We become more informed when we question more. Kind of like young children- their inquisitiveness helps them to learn” Vassiliki Veros
Most re-tweeted…
Questioning mysteries..
“Mysteries have me questioning why I can’t see the clues until the end of the book” Suzie Eisfelder
Questioning Bond…
Sean Connery, Daniel Craig, Pierce Bronson, Who do you prefer?
Questioning the elections…
“The LG election reminded me of my dad sitting down with all the candidate policy stands & discussing each one with me’” Vassiliki Veros
Questioning cookbooks…
“What can I substitute meat with” Rachel Franks
Questioning Science
‘Often recall Richard Feynman/Leon Lederman from school physics. reminded of them when science makes me wonder.’ Jenn Martin
“I think what I love about scifi is that the author offers a plausible answer to a common(or not?) question.” Ange
‘Science fiction is very much founded on the possible but not as yet” Vassiliki Veros
Books, so many books, have you read all these?
The knife of never letting go by Patrick Ness
Heartburn by Nora Ephron “Question the line between autobiography and fiction” Rachel Franks
Their faces were shining -earth post The Rapture by Tim Wilson
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson ” Curiosity landing and @MarsOneProject have made me question humans in space as reality” Ange
Quicksilver by Kim Stanley Robinson
The wind up girl by Paolo Bagicalupi ” food politics/peak oil in future Thailand” Jenn Martin
Without warning by John Birmingham
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Love in a cold climate by Nancy Mitford
The years of rice + salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Queen by Honey Brown
Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
The Yiddish Policemen’s union by Michael Chabon
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Children of men by PD James
The story of England by Michael Wood
The man in the high castle by Philip K Dick
Baroque Trilogy by Neal Stephenson
Paving the road by Sulari Gentil
Behind the shock machine by Gina Perry
Feed by Mira Grant
My sisters keeper by Jodi Picoult
Rangatira by Paula Morris “The NZ Fic Award 2012″ Nelson Public Libs
Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Me before you by Jojo Moyes
Horseman pestilence by Neil Gaiman
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett
Riddley Thomas by Russel Hoban
The astonishing life of Octavian nothing by MT Anderson
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
The good father by Noah Hawley
Defending Jacob by William Landay
Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Without warning by John Birmingham
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
Newsflesh Trilogy by Mira Grant
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Cross stitch by Diana Gabaldon
The dubious Hills by Pamela Dean
Earth David Brin
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
The brain that changes itself by Norman Doidge
The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks
Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell
Doomsday book by Connie Willis
To say nothing of the dog by Connie Willis
Bellwether by Connie Willis
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace
Uncle Tungsten: memories of a chemical boyhood by Oliver Sacks
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Jane eyre series by Jasper Fforde
Where the wild things are by Maurice Sendak
Mists of Avalon byMarion Zimmer Bradley
Bring up the bodies by Hillary Mantel
Rozencrantz & Guildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard
The female eunuch by Germain Greer
The Cinderella deal by Jennifer Cruise
How to be a woman by Caitlan Moran
Bet me by Jennifer Crusie
Agnes and the hitman by Jennifer Crusie
Chicken with plums by Marjane Satrapi
It’s a book by Lane Smith
Lost and found by Oliver Jeffers
Dodging the bull by Paul Mitchell
Plays
Ophelie thinks harder by Jean Betts
Authors
John Birmingham
Peter Manning
Ahdalf Soueif
Cory Doctorow
Neal Stephenson
Agatha Christie
Ellis Peters
John Le Carre
Bernard Cornwell
Stephen King
Connie Willis
Harry Turtledove
Chris Cleave
Gordon Livingston MD “Good for self questions” Love2read
Jane Austen
Hilary Mantel
Shannon Stacy
Kristin Higgans
Julie Garwood
Ursula Le Guin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
HG Wells
Poets
Wallace Stevens
Magazines
New Yorker
New Scientist
Scientific American
Jamie magazine
Pilates- Is it worth it?
Websites
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/beyond-the-shock-machine/4044812
Australian Romance readers convention, 2013
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/
Linnamuseum in Tallin
http://ausdwcon.org/forums/6/topics/498
The Atlantic feed onPulse
http://www.moosewoodcooks.com/all-recipes/
http://www.cracked.com/article/18367_6-insane-fan-theories-that-actually-make-great-movies-better/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2012/aug/28/book-nooks-little-women?CMP=twt_fd
Article – Why smart women read romance by Anne Browning Walker
Amanda Palmer http://amandapalmer.tumblr.com/post/29415876584/real-feminists-dont-gaze-at-males
http://youarenotsosmart.com/the-book/
Are comics a good way to talk about real world issues? http://matthewfinch.me/2012/07/30/945/
50 books you can’t put down 2012
http://annacowan.com/2012/08/28/total-recall-except-i-totally-dont-recall-that-i-love-you/
Games
Plague inc “where you create a virus pandemic and kill the world” Vassiliki Veros
Plants versus Zombies
Television shows
Aaron Sorkin’s new show- Newsroom
Lost in Austen – Television series
Jennifer Byrne presents Dava Sobel ABC1.
Films
