Change your life. One book at a time.
Time to put your feet up and get comfy with a good book? Here are ten uplifting, heart-warming, life-changing reads to lighten up your world. 2020 will be remembered not only for a virus that turned the world upside down but also for how it changed our relationship to reading. For many, there was little brain space to take in the complexities of a shopping list let alone a novel
As we hurtle towards the end of our ‘unprecedented’ year, the question arises: What do we want our ‘new normal’* to be in 2021? These three books inspire us to create a better normal. The Future We Choose: Surviving the climate crisis by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac has been sitting on my bookshelf since March. Way back then, bushfires had just devastated our communities and landscape but in the
From the opening page, I knew Sarah Wilson’s book was going to be our first Rise & Shine Book Club selection. She tells the story of arriving at LAX airport and the customs officer, noting she is a writer, asks what she’s writing right now. Sarah responds, “Well, the working title is Wake the f*ck up”. The title may have changed but This One Wild and Precious Life is a