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by Daniel Stepniak · Published 20 August 2018 · Last modified 4 October 2023
Reading Time: 3 minutes In her book, ‘Eggshell Skull’, Bri Lee offers something of interest to readers with divergent interests. Those fascinated by courtroom drama will undoubtedly find the book impossible to put down, as Bri...
BOOK REVIEWS / Fiction / FILM REVIEWS
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 15 August 2018 · Last modified 4 October 2023
Reading Time: 4 minutesIAN McEWAN’S ‘ON CHESIL BEACH’ BOOK ADAPTED TO FILM ‘On Chesil Beach’ was published in 2007. Ian McEwan’s 166 page novelette (short enough to be read in one long sitting or over a...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 12 August 2018 · Last modified 2 April 2019
Reading Time: 10 minutesTHE KILLING OF MANMEET ALISHER: AVOIDABLE OR INEVITABLE? In late 2016, Manmeet Alisher, a young Brisbane singer/bus-driver was killed by Francis O’Donohue, a passenger who due to his Chronic...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 9 August 2018 · Last modified 28 March 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘The Wife’ is a film based the book of the same name by Meg Wolitzer. I would be very surprised if it proved to be a smashing box office success as it is anything...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 9 August 2018 · Last modified 4 October 2023
Reading Time: 3 minutesPrior to picking up this book I had no idea that Tony Jones, the journalist best known as the host of the often controversial ABC current affairs program QandA, was also a writer of...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 1 August 2018 · Last modified 19 April 2019
Reading Time: 3 minutesCatholic Church and community leaders urge us to acknowledge the good work of Archbishop Wilson, rather than just remember him for concealing the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in the 1970s. Is...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 31 July 2018 · Last modified 1 April 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have held Father Frank Brennan in high regard. He has not towed the party line when certain Catholic leaders needed to be criticised or for example when the church needed to consider recognising...
MUSIC REVIEWS / Music Reviews - Classical
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 23 July 2018 · Last modified 19 April 2019
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMax Richter – Sleep – eight hours of carefully varied classical and electronic contemplative music on 204 tracks. Peoria – Mass (Re-Imagined) – Beautiful, minimalist-classical music song by, surprisingly, a ‘post-rock’ quintet, better known for their experimental...
MUSIC REVIEWS / Music Reviews - Rock
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 23 July 2018 · Last modified 4 October 2022
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis album presents the Angel’s most loved songs in a style that takes us away from the frenzy of the original loud sound and beat, to a softer but equally rhythmic version of the songs sung by the Doc. While I would never have imagined preferring acoustic versions of ‘Be With You,’ or ‘Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again,’ I must confess that I’ve grown extremely fond of them, and think of them as presented as if in a very intimate concert venue.
MUSIC REVIEWS / Music Reviews - Alternative
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 22 July 2018 · Last modified 19 April 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor 33 years, the Cowboy Junkies have played rock/blues/country/folk music that has not grown old for those of uslucky enough to hear of this fabulous Toronto based four piece band. Amazingly, the composition of...
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