I turned 44 yesterday and cannot believe it. Last time I looked 44 was grown up, and I feel like I’m just getting started, but that’s probably a blog for another day… I had a wonderful relax and completely read the day away! Dave made me a bed end bookshelf out of pine and built …
Could.Not.Put.It.Down loved it being set in suburbia in 1989, prince’s 1999 completely takes me back to the summer of 1989 and for a valid reason I think now. Loved Tom and the theme of satanic panic, loved all the twists and turns, loved absolutely everything about it. So clever, so well done
I remember forever from when I was 14, I thought it was so romantic and so sophisticated…my experience reading it as a 44 (ekk) year old was so different! I can’t remember if being quite so risqué, I remember it was about sex, but I think a lot went over my head? I had no …
SO much to think about with this novel! Just like with every Jodi Picoult x This is the first COVID novel I have read, I was afraid it was too soon, afraid I would start freaking out about it again.. but it was a funny experience, kind of futuristic; this is how people will think …
What a year 2022 is turning out to be! Here in Cronulla we had the covid explosion that was January, the speed of February- such a short month! And now March here we are already half way through! At Anna’s we’ve started our IRL Author Events again, and they have been wonderful! Susannah Hardy, Penelope …
I got to read an uncorrected proof and I’m so grateful to Allen and Unwin for the experience. Loved the 80s nostalgia and all the good eating x I loved the opportunity to get inside the head of a privileged, rich white completely flawed Carrie. Loved the exploration of family expectations, sibling rivalry and gosh …
w This was my second time around with the liars and I loved it all the more. That twist! That Cadence! So well done, Such a strong sense of place and people x I see criticism of the style, but it’s from the perspective of a broken girl..I love it
SO atmospheric, SO claustrophobic. I’m not real a thriller reader, but goodness this was great Australian rural noir, ‘the close, damp heat’ I thought it captured the 70s so well, the casual sexism and racism, the meat and three veg Australian feel ‘size of a brick shithouse..still bloody poignant’. Janet, Carmel, Barbara, it was all …
A more moving novel I haven’t read x for me this is perfect. I loved and knew Harold, Maureen, David, Queenie and Rex..I could completely see the English countryside Harold was walking through in his yachting shoes…the fallen leafy branches and velvet pads of moss..I loved the discussion on loneliness and the image of the …
What a page turner! I can see the Big Little Lies comparison, but this is definitely its own story. Absolutely its a novel about a suburban mums, and it does think about that small town community, and those school yard cliques but there is so much more going on… I cannot believe it’s a debut! …
