Books 2015-2017

From late 2014 onwards I got increasingly drawn into the campaign to stop the WestConnex toll road project in Sydney. Unfortunately my regular book reading has suffered as it has soaked up nearly all of my spare time. But actually I've probably spent more time reading as a result, it's just that it has been mostly in the form of newspaper and online articles, not books. I've also written a number of articles and given speeches. From mid-2015 I have written thousands of facebook posts for No WestConnex: Public Transport, about 99% of those are mine. Most of them are only a paragraph or so, but it has improved my writing and ability to absorb and summarise material quickly.

So here's a list of the rather small number of books I've read over the last 3 years.

Beating the Big End of Town (How a community defeated the East West toll road) - Anthony Main

This Changes Everything - Naomi Klein

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

Red Hot (The Life and Times of Nick Origlass) - Hall Greenland

Adolf Hitler : My Part in His Downfall - Spike Milligan

Phoenix - Resurrection (Vol. 5) - Osamu Tezuka

As my kids gradually got older, I also read a number of 'proper' books to them:
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room - Lemony Snicket
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - Roald Dahl
The Magic Pudding - Norman Lindsay
The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, Scottie in Gumnut Land - May Gibbs