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Australian fiction made this long, cold winter bearable. Here are the top ten reasons why:<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0 My wild side got a thrill every time the word “bloody<\/a>” passed my lips.<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Australian fiction (along with books from Great Britain) is a vocabulary builder: bonnet, Bob’s-your-uncle, vegetable marrow and all that.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0\u00a0 It expands my correct spelling options: theater or theatre, center or centre, color or colour, honor or honour and so on.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 Australia’s historcial fiction has a Wlid West flavor. Think Man from Snowy River<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 When reading Australian fiction in winter, it’s nice to know it’s summer in Australia.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 There’s something so cozy about children who call their mommies “mummy” and their moms “mum.”<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0 If you read enough Australian fiction, your interior life becomes a grand convergence of Lost<\/em><\/a>, Saving Mr. Banks<\/a> and Crocodile Dundee<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0 You will find book treasures like Winter Journey<\/em><\/a> and\u00a0The Light Between Oceans<\/em><\/a>. Memorable, thoughtful, and thought-provoking books.<\/p>\n

What good Australian fiction have you read lately? Leave a comment.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: www.metropole.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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