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Winton has a strong respect for the dangerous beauty and bounty of the Australian landscape. His rich descriptions kept me bound to the page when his all too frequent bouts of unreasonable violence disgusted me. The ending felt cruel and pointless.

Enjoying more of Winton tonight....

A boy is on the run across Australian‘s saltlands. He meets a disgraced priest living in a deserted shepherd‘s but and stays with him for a while. They are both outsiders, both surviving, dealing with their past and trying to make sense of life and faith. All is raw about this book: nature, plot, landscape, language. Well done but for me personally a so-so.

#LitsyBitsy #Journeys #ATY2020 #BookByAnAustralianAuthor #SummerFun #ReadInWater

PICK, PICK, PICK!
I adored this book. Winton really does write Australia well. The language, the characters and the landscape.
This book has it all, the good and the bad. It made me both laugh out loud and cry. I'm sure Jaxie and Fintan will stay with me a long time.
#Ozfiction is awesome!

Bookmail! Very much anticipating this one.

No one writes antiheroes like Mr Winton. Another extraordinary story, this one set in outback inland Western Australia. Mysterious characters, some passive and overt violence, hints of the past, and an unresolved future.

July reading wrap up time and it was a mixed month for me. I had a great two weeks of holiday reading, followed by an end of the month hell week- where it took me 12 days to read a single book. My best reads bookended the month- Moon Tiger and The Shepherd‘s Hut. I had a great school read, and a wonderful graphic novel for #readharder2018 but otherwise it was so so. Hoping for some better reading consistency as I tackle the Booker Longlist!

The Shepherd‘s Hut is an exceptional, thorough, and critical study of toxic masculinity culture. Jaxie Clackton is a vivid antihero- an unforgettable Australian voice; a voice that speaks for generations of young men, brought up in tough places and tough times, and for whom adults have been found wanting. This too, is a novel of Australia, Winton‘s writing brings to life the unforgiving landscape, which is central to our ability to find ourselves.

Well this is just an excellent concluding section #indiebuddyreads

Winton, my soul. #indiebuddyreads

THIS BOOK THOUGH

People can spoil too.

Reading has been on hold in a big way this week...it‘s been less than ideal. So glad to be getting back into this one tonight.

Finally reading #indiebuddyreads

Another one for the TBR #placeascharacter #onlyconnect #readingaroundtheworld The Shepherd‘s Hut by Tim Winton - an Australian odyssey

Received on #netgalley in exchange for my review. A teenaged boy, suddenly orphaned and on the run, meets a banished priest in the wild. The writing is direct, energetic and heavy on dialect, which puts you right into the character‘s mind. The story also has a strong sense of character and place as well as strong biblical overtones in that it ends in violence and redemption. My only issue is that it gets a little too into minutiae at times. 4⭐️

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Thank you @MrsMalaprop it arrived today. 🙏🙏
Looking forward to it!

Last day of May and Winter is here ! Here is my #maywrapup. I feel like I read more than this but then I recall I spend time on short stories that I have yet to finish. No contest on best book of the month for me 😀. Although Lullaby and When I hit you were both great.

11/24 on #ReadHarder2018

@Mitch #ozfictiongiveaway #winners

A copy of this “rifle-shot of a novel” 😳 (Penguin Books) is making its way to you. It could even arrive in the next couple of days so look out for it. 🤗📚👍

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@Neale you called it early - I loved this one. Head over heels 😀.

It‘s one of those situations where I can‘t commit to another book for a few days. I hope I have just read a nominee from the 2018 Booker longlist- I would be disappointed if it wasn‘t considered. It‘s a beautifully written “Australian Western” as I like to think of it. So many layers, so much to ponder after you recover from it.

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Oh yes this is all it was promised to be and this book cover design I absolutely love !

#indiebuddyreads @Neale @AceOnRoam

I can't wait any longer, I'm diving in!

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Thanks for hosting this giveaway @MrsMalaprop ! I'd like a chance to win the tagged book because I don't think I've ever read a book by an Australian author, so I feel like this book would be a nice place to start.
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Congratulations @MrsMalaprop - such a great idea. I‘ve stacked 2 extra books just thinking about how little Australian fiction I‘ve read. I love Tim Winton. Really enjoyed Breathe and am excited for his new book. #ozfictiongiveaway

Always ❤️ your posts mate. Congratulations! I‘d like to read the tagged book so I can complete my collection of Tim. I have a love/hate relationship with this author so every book is exciting. I loved him as a teenager, hated him as a young adult but love him again now as a middle age woman.

The bathtime contemplation of my May / June bookstack ... particularly looking forward to the #indiebuddyreads of The Song of Achilles and Census, oh actually I am looking forward to them all ! With the exception of my Somerset Maugham short stories which have been sent to purgatory...

Winton has managed to create one of the most interesting characters I have read in years. Add to this a story which is full of suspense leading to an amazing climax and you get my favourite book of 2018. Truly a must read for Winton fans. 😊

GOD IS WHAT YOU DO, NOT WHAT OR WHO YOU BELIEVE IN.

Four of the 13 books I‘ve read so far this year. All of them recently released Western Australian fiction. All of them excellent reads: 2 debuts and 2 by seasoned authors.

I‘ve been pondering....am I just more aware of what‘s out there? Is little old WA (population not geographical size!) punching well above it‘s literary weight? Or am I just biased? 🤷‍♀️

Does it even matter? 😊📚👏

#localfiction #setinmytown #ozfiction

Tim Winton has surpassed himself: this stunning novel grabs you from page 1. You know immediately that Jaxie is tough & defiant, but his raw honesty & youth come through (all this in the first few pages). Winton tells a great yarn & makes you care about his characters. The writing is alive & inventive & Jaxie‘s voice authentic with colourful language & droll humour. Masterful. He manages to say, by story alone, much about boys & masculinity.

Wow! Gritty and gut wrenching. This book is as unrelentingly fierce as the Australian landscape it is set in.

Ok, full disclosure. I am a huge Winton fan. Apart from some of his dubious early play writing, it‘s fair to say I‘ve rated all his work. I know he‘s not for everyone.

This book was a ride. It was brutal. And anyone who reckons Winton doesn‘t know how to do endings, well just try this one on for size.

Aside: there is heavy use of Australian vernacular, so I wonder about the novel‘s global accessibility 🤔. ‘Et‘ for ‘eat‘ even got on MY nerves.

#April80sMovies #CaddyShack Whenever the movie Caddy Shack is mentioned I think of the pool ‘poo‘ scene 💩🤣, so this paragraph from my #currentread seems apt. Read it if you dare!

My current read also fits the #AprilBookishMadness #ChildProtagonist prompt. It‘s not clear how old Jaxie is. He tells people he‘s 17 but they think he‘s more like 15.

Loving this book and wish I could do nothing but read today...

#Nextup this beauty. Local (and internationally acclaimed) author Tim Winton has been doing the publicity rounds with his latest novel.

I picked up a signed copy from my local bookstore a couple of weeks ago. I apparently just missed the man himself as he‘d just been in to sign copies.

Can‘t wait to get stuck in 🤗📚😍. Although I am preparing myself for a harrowing read 😬.

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Starting my autographed copy of this one! Tim Winton is one of my favourite authors.

Winton is a masterful storyteller. I'm still trying to comprehend what I've just finished reading.

In desperate need of a Winton fix, so starting this on audio! 🤘🏽

Saturday night, hubby was watching The Revenent, so I made a start on this!