I need to read more Australian YA.

Yep.  The CBCA 2010 Shortlists and Notables have been announced. 

The YA shortlist is:

CHRISTOPHER, Lucy Stolen
CLARKE, Judith The Winds of Heaven
LARBALESTIER, Justine Liar
METZENTHEN, David Jarvis 24
MILLARD, Glenda A Small Free Kiss in the Dark
TANGEY, Penny Loving Richard Feynman

And I've read... one of them.  I think I have a copy of the Millard (either that or the library does), but I found the cover REALLY off-putting, and I never actually even read the synopsis* -- I'll have to dig it out**.  I think I have Stolen somewhere, too, but I've been over the abduction books for a while now.  Loving Richard Feynman sounds like one I might love, and Jarvis 24 sounds like one that'd be a nice change of pace from what I've been reading lately.

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*IS THIS WHAT I HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO??  WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO MY BRAIN?

**Have I mentioned that the shelves in the living room are coming together?  They just need to be trimmed out and painted and then I can start unpacking the boxes up in the attic.  Yoo hoo, my dusty darlings... Mama's on her way!  (Well, that was just creepy...  I need to stop writing posts while I'm punchy.)

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