I’m taking inspiration from NaNoWriMo month which happens in November. I think its been a thing for years now; its a month long get writing initiative…writers are encouraged to talk about their goals and check in for a month; I think the idea is to just get over yourself and write the damn novel already? […]
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The most perfect romantic comedy I say! I absolutely ADORE this one. I wish I’d saved it for December! What a great Christmas read this would have made, but tbh it made a great anytime read! Love a enemies to lovers and loved loved love that workplace family and ‘home away from home’ feeling of
I’m finally breathing easy after learning a new job earlier this year and I am SO excited to be back to my website!!! Here are my October rec’s with the hope of finally being back and this time staying back!!!!!!
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I feel as though I’ve just come back from a long trip! Truely an epic saga. I did love love it; it’s a caring, beautifully told story full of love for people, operations, lepers, milk and honey, God and India! No wonder it is over 700 pages it covers so much!!!! Definitely not one to
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Such a powerful read about growing up in an Australian housing commission estate. Definitely gave me the Angela’s Ashes feels except this is Australia in the 2000s. I definitely felt like Shayla hungry, vulnerable and powerless throughout the novel. The cycle of poverty is here, inter generational trauma is here, substance abuse and physical and
I could not have loved this book; the characters, the language or themes more! I love first lust, lasting love, the love for children, the love for a husband books and this just had it all. I also loved the quiet, methodical feel of the novel, I read it like slow summer lazy read where
I would have loved this novel if it was just a novel. I could absolutely see Sydney and their home in Elizabeth Farm. I loved the writing and the character arcs and the sense of a public person with a private viewpoint…but I don’t know; is there any suggestion of a romance between Elizabeth Macarthur
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This is one of the best novels I have ever read. It completely was a romp to read. It had all of the fun, glamour, fashion and fashion you expect from a Natasha Lester novel. But it also completely has so much social commentary here. Why is it that most designers are men? Why are
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I did feel a little old reading this one; I was yelling things like who cares, do what you want, don’t pay that price….but it was so fun and completely read itself, I wish I had’ve had it at 29! Loved Prue and her hired outfits, loved being in Sydney (I read the opening scene
This is one that has been sitting on myTBR for way too long. I knew it would be completely worth it, and it completely was. It’s beautiful writing, beautiful imagery, heartwrenching story and of course I had no idea how beautiful wolves were and how essential predators are for our environment. This is a book
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