• Nat Turner
  • The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch
  • Cinnamon Skin by Walter Mosely
  • Pilgrimage to India by Pramila Jayapal
sep 13 2010 ∞
may 27 2012 +
  • Yirra and her Deadly Dog, Demon - by Anita Heiss and the students of La Perouse Public School
  • Revelations (Blue Bloods #3) - by Melissa de la Cruz
  • The Complete Persepolis - by Marjane Satrapi
  • Good as Lily - by Derek Kirk Kim
  • The Best Little Knitter in the West - by Sermsah bin Saad, illus by Joanna Scott
  • Waiting for Mummy - by Tae-Jun Lee, illus by Dong-Sung Kim
  • Nyuntu Ninti: What You Should Know - by Bob Randall and Melanie Hogan
  • The Complete Persepolis - by Marjane Satrapi
  • Geisha - by Aihara Kyoko
  • Peacock Girl - by Lily Wu
  • Islamic Stories - by Anita Ganeri
  • What Shall I Make - by Nandini Nayar
  • Bush Games and Knucklebones - by Doris Ka...
mar 6 2011 ∞
aug 12 2011 +

(Last updated June 12 2006)

  • Amar, Akhil Reed, The Bill of Rights
  • Anderson, Fred, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766
  • Bethge, Eberhard, Freindship and Resistance: Essays on Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, The Cost of Discipleship
  • Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, Letters and Papers from Prison
  • Cannold, Leslie, The Abortion Myth: Feminism, Morality and the Hard Choices Women Make
  • Corwin, Phillip, Dubious Mandate: A Memoir of the UN in Bosnia, Summer 1995
  • Crotty, Martin, Making the Australia Male: Middle-Class Masculinity 1870 - 1920
  • Dutt, R Palme, India Today
  • Faludi, Susan, Backlash
  • Guy, Laurie, Worlds in Collision: The Gay...
sep 16 2010 ∞
nov 16 2011 +
  • A Good Woman
  • Away We Go
  • Earth
  • Eat Drink Man Woman
  • Election
  • Far From Heaven
  • Fire
  • Hilary and Jackie
  • Magnolia
  • Maurice
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Munich
  • Nine
  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
  • Persepolis
  • Pret-a-Porter
  • State of Play
  • The Baader Meinhof Complex
  • The Good German
  • The Good Shepherd
  • The Ice Storm
sep 26 2010 ∞
nov 6 2010 +
  • Footy Legends - written by Khoa Do, Ahn Do and Suzanne Do, directed by Khoa Do
mar 6 2011 ∞
mar 6 2011 +
  • J Edgar
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
dec 11 2010 ∞
apr 19 2012 +
  • The Longest Day - Cornelius Ryan
  • The Arrival - Sean Tan
sep 24 2010 ∞
sep 24 2010 +

The idea: watch twelve films in twelve months either written or directed by a "person of colour". These are the films I have watched so far:

  • "Bran Nu Dae"
    • director: Rachel Perkins
    • writer: Jimmy Chi and the members of Knuckles
    • my review
  • "Nina's Heavenly Delights"

2011

  • "Footy Legends"
    • Written and directed by various Brothers and Wife Do
    • my review
sep 12 2010 ∞
may 27 2012 +
  • All of Hill Street Blues - if they ever release it on DVD
  • Andrew Denton's God thing
  • Home Song Stories
  • Mercury - if they ever release it on DVD
  • Europa Europa
  • The Wedding Banquet
dec 14 2010 ∞
oct 29 2012 +
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(Last updated 12 June 2006 - needs a lot of updating, mostly to add books and to check what is currently boxed up in storage)

  • Aiken, Joan, Black Hearts in Battersea
  • Bannon, Ann, Woman in the Shadows
  • Bannon, Ann, Journey to a Woman
  • Bannon, Ann, Beebo Brinker
  • Collins, Wilkie, The Moonstone
  • Cunningham, Michael, The Hours
  • Digby, Anne, Secret Letters at Trebizon
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Blithedale Romance
  • Keillor, Garrison, Lake Wobegon, Summer 1956
  • Knight, Florence M, Keep Troth
  • Le Guin, Ursula K, A Wizard of Earthsea
  • Le Guin, Ursula K, The Tombs of Atuan
  • Le Guin, Ursula K, The Farthest Shore
  • Lette, Kathy and Gabrielle Carey, Puberty Blues
sep 16 2010 ∞
sep 16 2010 +