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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Could not put this down!!!! What a package!!!!!!!! The most wholesome picturesque village with all the tea and sweet old neighbours combined with a thriller writer solving the crime combined with big themes of loss and infertility added in with some horror and our fascination with true crime…I was wondering after The Life Experiment why
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What a way to live! Imagine being a non swimmer and selling your home to sail.. Gosh what a story; it’s only a short book, I’m so glad I didn’t have to stay on the raft for too much longer…I have to say, I didn’t much care for Maurice, he would have been a hard
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This was fast and snappy, set now and in Melbourne I was engrossed in this thriller, I think I’ve loved every Dervla McTiernan bust fun to have one set in Australia! This was really influencey too so that was fun Everything about this thriller is SO well done!!!!!!! Twisty and thrilling and I can completely
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This is such a big hearted novel, with Margo the child of an hooters waitress and an ex Pro- Wrestler, I thought it was going to be ridiculous money problems instead I’ve fallen in love, and deep dived into a founder’s story…I absolutely inhaled this one! Adored Margo! Loved how young and naïve, Margo was
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