Hi everyone – thanks to those who voted for our first book choice. We’re going to be reading and talking about HOME by Marilynne Robinson so go out and grab yourself a copy and get into it!

I’ve had a look around and the cheapest online retailers are fishpond.com.au who sell the hardback for $33.50 plus $6 for next day delivery although shipping is free if you order over $50.

Borders, Dymocks and the like are selling the book for around $45 hardcover – it seems paperback isn’t out yet?!

In order to whet your appetite, here is an interview with the author about the book.

If you have some interest in the woman behind the book (which you should!) and while you’re waiting for your book to arrive, then it’s really worth reading this Paris Review interview with Marilynne Robinson. Marilynne discusses, among other things:

• Her latest book Home and its companion-book Gilead
• religion and faith – I was surprised to find she is a Christian but not one bound by rules or limited by judgements
• the environment – she’s angry about how fish farming is emptying the seas to placate our politically correct need for omega 3
• science – she finds Dawkins rather simplistic in a mysterious, uncontainable world
• time – and how she manages to command it
• teaching – and how it keeps her from the despair of writing and being a hermit

These topics are woven into her honest responses that I found completely refreshing, and, in places beautiful in description. She’s passionate and intellectual but not at all pretentious.

I’m now really looking forward to reading Home if her interview answers are anything to go by.

Tags: Author Interviews, Book of the bi-month, Families in Fiction, fiction, Marilynne Robinson

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