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NYR Twitter Session – Australia-wide! TONIGHT 8pm AEST

Take part in Australia’s SIXTH TWEETING session for the National Year of Reading. Find out how you can tweet to other bookworms…

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NYR Twitter Session – Australia-wide! TONIGHT 8pm AEST

Take part in Australia’s Third TWEETING session for the National Year of Reading. Find out how you can tweet to other bookworms…

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TONIGHT 8pm AEDST – Australia-Wide Twitter Session

Take part in Australia’s Third TWEETING session for the National Year of Reading. Find out how you can tweet to other bookworms about your favourite books which make you #think!

Be there or be a square.

 

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NYR Twitter Session – Australia-wide! Tomorrow 8pm AEDST

Take part in Australia’s Third TWEETING session for the National Year of Reading. Find out how you can tweet to other bookworms about books which make you think..

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Sunday Reading ….. Let’s get #thinking

It’s been a big week. Kevin Rudd dismally lost the challenge to Julia Gillard on Monday, Bob Carr took the reigns of foreign minister and we had our #laugh twitter book club discussion.  So this Sunday, have a break and get reading!  We have some exciting #think recommendations on the way for this month’s discussion, but here is one to get you started that’s quite suited to NYR and the events of this week….

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NYR Twitter Session – Australia-wide! TONIGHT 8pm AEDST

Take part in Australia’s Second TWEETING session for the National Year of Reading. Find out how you can tweet to other bookworms…

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Books are roads to anywhere!

The launch of the National Year of Reading is just around the corner (Feb 14) !  Get Reading!

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Want a laugh? Our LAUGHing list is filled with reads that are guaranteed to make you #laugh.

As you know, the 2012 National Year of Reading theme for February is #Laugh.  Don’t know where to start?  See our recommendations which we promise will send you LAUGHing.

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There’s a bit of Glover in here…The Mud House

We all know him from his critical but humorous approach to life.  But there’s heaps of Richard Glover we will never see just from reading his weekly column in The Sydney Morning Herald – Spectrum. Find out more

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Charles Dickens’ 200th Birthday

Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, David Copperfield….Charles Dickens (1812-1870) had a profound impact on English literature.  He is and forever will be part of the English canon.  He was a very popular author during his lifetime, and his works continue to be timeless classics.

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