This was one I was meant to flick through, it was an impulse borrow from the library, but instead of flicking I devoured. I hadn’t known anything about Lisa Wilkinson prior and now I feel a close friendship…I loved all the growing up in Australian suburbia in the 60s and 70s, the magazines of the […]
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So very glad I finally got to take this one off my TBR. It was just as wonderful as I knew it would be. The lack of First Nations agency was heartbreakingly portrayed here ‘none of us have a choice…we live where the white man tells us to live’ as was the importance of miyagan
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I’ve been in bookclubs for the last 15 years. I’ve been in friend group style bookclubs, I’ve been in formal structured bookclubs, I’ve run bookclubs and been in exclusive book buddy style bookclubs; for me there is nothing better than talking to someone who has read the book you have just finished. I am a
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A novel all about mothers and not mothers. It’s also a love letter to friendship and found family. I loved the ideas of different coloured mothers and that not all mothers are the same. That idea of saudade; longing and nostalgia all rolled up in one emotion is just beautiful. Eva, Bridget, Billy and Carrie
I loved it. I love a rural romance and have so been looking forward to Lucie and Jack’s story. It was so perfectly done. I loved the town of Settlers Bridge, I so loved the community; you know it’s a great novel when you know the local IGA! I loved learning about Lucie’s passion as
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Such a fun rom com of a read x loved it loved seeing their friendship grow and the people Alex and Poppy become, loved all the armchair travel I got to do (I had no idea Nicholas Cage had a big white marble pyramid in New Orleans) loved all the in jokes.. just such a
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This was an accidental reread for me, I was just going to see if the opening scene was as brilliant as I remembered, and it was even more so. This is a brilliant and beautiful novel. It’s not all flowers and honeybees, but the message ‘mate, I think you are just you and there’s nothing
I don’t know Tom Tilley, I think I would have read it so differently if I’d have know this “careful, dorky boy..taking small steps into the unknown’ was going to grow up to be a public man. I just went along for the ride. I’m not a Christian, and I can imagine it would be
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I’ve had the most bookish vs movie weekend ever! I went to the movies with my sisters on Saturday night to see Where The Crawdads Sing and my library copy of 11.22.63 is overdue today so I just had to sit there and read hard for the rest of the time 😉 then once I
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It really did give me One Day and Me Before You feels..I am a complete romantic and you would definitely have to be to enjoy this novel. It really does feel like a ‘romantic moment that belonged in a book or a movie..’ I love a book about destiny and decisions, and the one that
