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Am halfway through More than gold by John Heffernan. Good stuff this one. About a Bosnian woman and her son who are refugees in Australia - "legal" refugees. Father was taken away by soldiers (in Yugoslavia), and not heard from again. It's mainly about sport though. A lot of info that I wouldn't have read normally. Very emotional this one.

'He was unbeatable. Out in front and unbeatable.
It was the most wonderful feeling, and all he wanted to do was keep
going.' Raiko is a runner and he's come a long way since he arrived
with his mother as a refugee from their war-torn homeland. The
memory of his father spurs him on. Come on, Raiko.
He runs for his father. He runs for Jay, the Aboriginal boy who is
his best friend and personal trainer. He runs for his mother, and for the small town that has become his home.

Had a very bad night last night. Got home not too late, but couldn't sleep!
Kept tossing and turning. Then the phone rang at 3.30 in the morning - the security company that ?looks? after Melodys house. They rang to say that the alarm had been triggered in the hall. Rang Melody's mobile - she wasn't at home, obviously, and she asked us to check it out for her. Bigbird and I set off on a trek to Melodys to find that a blasted moth had set the alarm off. Got home slept for about an hour then got up to go to work. Actually I set off to go to Kinokuniya - okay, I have decided to have one drink less tonight so I can get the first Battle royale..., but to my disgust (aaaggghhhhh!!!) it opens 10am Saturdays. stare Will go after work and then go to Kuletos and wait for everyone else to turn up.
This is a part of The misfits by James Howe. It's one of my favourite bits :

I and my mom were visiting Addie and her mom,
when Addie ups and tells me I should go check out the
new kid next door. I noticed she did not offer to go
with me.
"Just ring the bell," she told me.
So I did. When the inside door opened, there on the
other side of the screen was this kid wearing a dress.
"Will you marry me?" the kid in the dress asked.
I shook my head.
"Why?"
"I am going to marry my mother," I answered. My
mother did not yet know this.
"Can I marry your mother, too?"
"No."
"Can I marry your father?"
"No."
"Can you play with me?"
"Okay," I said.
"I'm Joe," he said.
"Okay."
"I'm a boy," he told me, lifting his dress to show
me the proof. He was not wearing underpants. (For the
record, he had only one pee-pee.)
"I never knew a boy who wore a dress," I told him.
"There's a lot you don't know," he said.
He was right about that.

This is when the characters are four years old, and this is Bobby's first meeting with Joe. It's from pages 32-34 if anyone is interested...