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Books you have to read

Heckler I'M HAVING trouble with the proclivity among women of a certain age of giving each other reading material.

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Pull the plug on e-books

Heckler I'll never buy an e-reader. I love paper books too much. Every day I read that yet another cut-price e-reader has squished itself into the booming market.

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Browsing for books a pain

Heckler I have not one, not two, but three heckles that I'll lump together as bibliopathology, for want of a better term.

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Novel way to get into my bad books

Heckler I LIKE good books and admire those who write them. But sometimes ''good'' books are not so good. You know the ones you buy thinking ''I should read that some time'', that sit on your bookshelf for...

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Weigh-in plan cleared for take-off

Heckler YET again I have been subjected to discrimination at an airport check-in counter.

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Let's stamp out those long lines at post office

Heckler IF YOU are, like me, old fashioned and still send letters by post, you would be wise to purchase all your stamps and aerograms in bulk in future.

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Going back to school will never be the same

Heckler ''DROP off your school list and we will pack it for you to pick up later.'' This is the offer from a big office supplies chain. I can't imagine anything worse.

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Hoping to hear silent night this Christmas

Heckler CHRISTMAS has a distinct resonance in our house. In other homes, the festive season might be accompanied by the sound of Jingle Bells or the comforting noise of cooking from the kitchen.

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Limiting my contact with Australian bugbears

Heckler AFTER moving to the US six weeks ago, the list of things I miss about Australia would fill this entire newspaper. Far easier then, to talk about the things I don't miss.

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50 shades of excuses to avoid reading

Heckler THE inaugural Bad Mothers Book Club was held last week, the first selected text being Fifty Shades of Grey.

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All hail first letter to help put you on e-asy street

Heckler I WAS so pleased to see that bookshops are now categorising their books alphabetically.

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Throw the book at philistine scribblers

Heckler I WAS moved by a recent obituary in the Herald to revisit the works of that brilliant essayist, Gore Vidal, and was delighted to find several collections of his work at my local library.

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Hard to keep abreast of all the fashions

Heckler IT IS perhaps unsurprising that men's magazines are breast-obsessed (and give these ''lady lumps'' so many different monikers that Urban Dictionary should be kept at the ready).

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Why a Jack should never beat a King

Heckler Missing: One book shop. Last seen sleeping on King Street, Newtown ...

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Coming to terms with a new year

The Heckler THIS is a special bulletin to all bad mothers to fill them in on the details of the annual back to school meeting which took place this week.

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A Kindling affection for not doing it by the book

Heckler I'VE had it with the Kindle haters.

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Crockery is all white and wrong

Heckler Am I the only person on this planet who does not want white crockery?

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Honey in hair, bee in bonnet

Heckler I BELIEVE city driving should be banned. And brass plaques listing the names of dead aldermen … and bathrooms without steam extractors … and formalin-tasting gelato made with saccharin...

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It was either T. rex or the coq au vin

Heckler ONCE again, dinosaurs rule the living room. It's all thanks to Claude, a five-year-old nephew from Paris, who has been caught in the thrall of giant creatures with unpronounceable names. With

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Don't dump on my kerb

Heckler As I walk the streets, there is nothing quite like spring in Sydney. Jasmine lazily breathes its mystic scent over the garden walls. Jacarandas hint at their promise of purple joy.