Australian fiction made this long, cold winter bearable. Here are the top ten reasons why:
10. My wild side got a thrill every time the word “bloody” passed my lips.
9. Australian fiction (along with books from Great Britain) is a vocabulary builder: bonnet, Bob’s-your-uncle, vegetable marrow and all that.
8. It expands my correct spelling options: theater or theatre, center or centre, color or colour, honor or honour and so on.
7. When listening to audiobooks, the emPHAsis on the wrong syLAble makes a person giggle: conTROversy instead of CONtroversy, weekEND instead of WEEKend, and the like.
6. Australia’s historcial fiction has a Wlid West flavor. Think Man from Snowy River.
5. When reading Australian fiction in winter, it’s nice to know it’s summer in Australia.
4. There’s something so cozy about children who call their mommies “mummy” and their moms “mum.”
3. If you read enough Australian fiction, your interior life becomes a grand convergence of Lost, Saving Mr. Banks and Crocodile Dundee.
2. The history of how Australian settlers treated the aboriginal people is so similar to how the United States treated Native Americans reveals the universality of humanity’s dark side. Yes, those tragic sagas remind me, we need a Savior.
1. You will find book treasures like Winter Journey and The Light Between Oceans. Memorable, thoughtful, and thought-provoking books.
What good Australian fiction have you read lately? Leave a comment.
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