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What a freaky little number. I loved it. Not my usual genre (sci-fi historical fic?), but I went along for the ride. For some reason it reminded me of Playing Beattie Bow by Ruth Park, which is a childhood favourite 🤔. Thanks again for enabling me @LeeRHarry 🙏🙌. #ozfiction

Just started to read this lovely little number sent to me by @LeeRHarry for our #aussiesecretsanta. I thought Lee had miraculously picked an #unknowntomeauthor and Australian at that! Then I scroll back through the Litsy posts on it and see that I have had numerous encounters with this book & had added it to my stack 🤪. Now I‘m even more excited to read it 😁. #currentlyreading

A man and a woman are the only survivors of a ship wreck. The man is convinced that it‘s the woman who saved him. After the wreck, he struggles to move on but eventually he does, he gets married and have kids. But he never forgets the woman and also gets convinced that she is not a human woman, but something else and also that this something is closer to him than he thinks. It could be that he is right

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3rd book #JoysOfJune

An ordinary man meets the extraordinary when he is shipwrecked and succoured by an otherworldly creature. The impact of his time with her will resonate through the rest of his life. Hard to say more without spoilers but I loved the perspective of the creature and how it sees our world. If you love strange, contemplative sci fi, the sea, eccentric grandmothers and precocious, scientifically curious children - I think you‘ll love this too!

Done with work for the week. Now to get ready for #24in48. I think this is my final TBR, but it is so hard to choose.

Got this book today!! Excited to read this.

Take a moment to admire the stunning #endpaper

FINALLY. Two of my favorite people, Sarah Schmidt and @SavidgeReads have been RAVING about this book for months, and I have finally got it in my hot little hands. And look at Simon, right there on the front! I‘m so excited to read it! I don‘t even know what it‘s about - that‘s how much I trust them. 😆🐙📚

A lovely, charming, strange and wonderful sci-fi novel. Tells the story of the survivor of a shipwreck off the coast of Australia, and how he survived for 8 days partly due to the presence and protection offered by someone (or something) which bound him to life. Which then follows, or haunts, his life thereafter. The story is ultimately about the struggle to survive, and how we cling to life, and how no one can survive on their own

My latest purchase. Completely influenced by booktube extraordinarie Simon Savidge. Can‘t wait to dive right in 😉😝

A bit weird for me. Has a sci-fi dimension to it. Based on an historical fact. Her great great grandfather survived a wreck. The steamship Admella sank off the SA coast in 1859. She uses these facts to weave a different sort of story. This is my third Aussie read for this year. 6 books read and half Aussie. @MrsMalaprop

George survives a shipwreck off the South Australian coast but is haunted by an alien woman survivor whom he fears will ruin his life. Until he finds her he can‘t be a ‘casually human man‘. His son Henry, a strange boy, coexists with an alien mark on his skin & craves his father‘s acceptance. Beautiful writing, compassionate w vivid scenes of 19th century Adelaide. The supernatural parts challenged me but made me think of home & living w ‘others‘.

Book serendipity moment: we visited a friend today who has an art gallery, & I happened to mention I was reading From The Wreck ... he asked what shipwreck it was - I said the Admella - and he had A PAINTING OF THE ADMELLA! Here it is. 😍 #booknerdmoment

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My pick is the tagged book which Simon Savidge raves about and which is only available in Australia - nowhere else, so unfair!!
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What a great book to end the year on!

I made it to 250 peeps! I‘m pretty happy with my effort this year. Happy New Year everyone - I hope 2018 is much nicer to you than 2017 was!

Looking forward to the challenges (reading and otherwise!) that the new year will bring.

😂😂😂 Tell it like it is girl!

Australian historical fiction with a side of sci-fi / paranormal. An otherworldly being insinuates herself into the life of a shipwreck survivor and attaches herself (literally) to his son. Ethereal and moving.

Mostly in 3rd person POV, but we get some chapters in her voice. #UnusualNarrators #AndItsAugust

@KVanRead here's a few new books by #australianauthors - I loved all of these. The Gulf and Ache are both contemporary reads, a little bittersweet. From the Wreck is historical fiction with a (scifi? paranormal?) twist and Rubik is offbeat interconnected stories.

Some other favourites posted recently:
http://litsy.com/p/Nk4xbkZabUV4
http://litsy.com/p/SnkwRDloaEtH
http://litsy.com/p/SWxaUXhhR0Rz

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Finally treated myself to a copy of this one (and grabbed the latest Meanjin with John Clarke's final submission 😢)

This one sounds fascinating!