Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!! Mind blowing and so spec-fic..I think even to talk loose plot gives away too much; but just know what a plot!!! What great characters!!! What cool concepts really not crazily discussed!!!!!! Really compassionate and so much care taken here This is so not my normal genre and gosh I just gobbled it right up,
I did not want to put this down! So compulsive!!!! So nothing I will ever experience ever!!! Imagine being brought your favourite peppermint tea to your office while cruising on your mega yacht…or polishing the windows of that yacht from dawn until dusk….suxh a story of haves and have nots!!! So captivating!!!! I could not
It is a shimmering mosaic of a novel, the blurb here on goodreads is perfect. What a compassionate and exquisite tribute to a friend and friendship. It’s only a slim little book, but it certainly isn’t one I tore through; the deep depression, sadness and grief thot I found here was really eloquently described..but then
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Beautiful. All the craftsmanship nuance we’ve come to expect from an Ann Patchett and then some. A novel about fathers and their daughters, home, childhood and memory…and ‘Whistler, who had exceeded everyone’s expectations’ Cannot stop thinking about the grapes! Loved it SO much
This was SO much fun! A 30 year marriage over and a f***k it list written…so many bad decisions and lots of day drinking ensues and I just romped along with Grace. Not once did I ever think she wasn’t behaving like a real person, not once did I not think about ageism, agency, identity
I didn’t love this one, but gosh everyone else loves it! Maybe I just had a bad experience with coffee shop chats? I was completely there for the kindness, the listening and empathy; of course I am I love a kind novel. And I can definitely see why people would love this novel. But the pretty
All the feels!!!! Such a love letter to friendship and early adulthood and inner west Sydney! I adore Katie and really appreciate being able to know such a firecracker on the page because she was gone way too soon. This is such a gift of a memoir, I kind of feel now I did an
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Magic. A book about the importance of books, bookselling, bookshops and love…I couldn’t have loved Wilbur more. I adore every thing about this novel. I’m sure I’ll look back and wonder whether it’s sentimental, but who cares!?! Love everything about it; every theme, character, book lore, midnight library connection….love it! This is one that I
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Adored my first Kevin Wilson novel SO much! I guess there are elements of humour; like the sign Rube and Mad could have held up..but for me it was all about the poignancy; it’s such a big hearted novel. What a lovely exploration of sibling love and loneliness, the love a child has for a parent,
A beautiful meditation on grief, love, solitude and forgiveness, life…it feels like all of the big feels are here. Although it is a masterpiece, and obviously a five star read, I can’t say I found the mouse plague, chicken killing, chickens eating mice and mice eating birds was enjoyable hahaha but it is beautiful, and
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