The Lucky Galah

Oh my goodness Nerissa @Rissreads This mammoth parcel just arrived for me filled with good things. I‘m absolutely gobsmacked 🤩. The Aussie books sound SO good, I haven‘t read that Boyne yet, I was intending to read Shuggie Bain soon & White Fragility is on my TBR. 🙌 Amazing choices👍 And the lovely decoration and card! Absolutely astounded and grateful for your kindness. Happiest of New Years to you & I hope we can meet up again IRL soon!

LeahBergen How lovely! 2y

Rissreads Awwww so glad you love it all. I‘ve been meaning to send you a parcel for over a year! I chose all the books from your tbr list that I‘ve read and loved, except Lucky Galah, which I loved and thought you may enjoy it. Thanks for your friendship on Litsy and I‘m hoping one day we can meet again in person. You are one of many on Litsy who make me a more knowledgeable reader, which makes me a happier person 😘 2y

Centique @Rissreads awww that is so thoughtful of you to go to all that effort ♥️💙 I‘m so glad we met on Litsy and in real life. Litsy has been a really happy place for me too 💕 2y

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CarolynM

The Lucky Galah | Tracy Sorensen

#BookReport for April

Quite coincidentally all the books I read this month were written by women. My favourite was The Lucky Galah. Melting Moments was the most disappointing.

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Cinfhen Nice month!!! I‘m not familiar with a bunch of your titles! I‘ll need to look at your feed for reviews❤️ 5y

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CarolynM

The Lucky Galah | Tracy Sorensen

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What a delight! I loved the quirky perspective - such a clever way to tie in all the town's stories. A riot of nostalgic Australian culture. I think this one is probably incomprehensible not only to non Australians, but also to most Australians born after 1975. Thank you for gifting me this one Nerissa. I loved it. #ozfiction
Also #bookspin

Rissreads, TheAromaofBooks

Centique And very importantly, how was the chocolate bunny? 😂💕 5y

CarolynM @Centique It's a Bilby rather than a bunny and it's delicious. Haigh's chocolate is the best😋 5y

Rissreads I‘m soooooo glad you liked it! Spread the word! ❤️ 5y

Centique @CarolynM cute! I‘m going to have to look out for Haighs. I‘m looking forward to when I can get back to Melbourne 🤞🤞💕 5y

TheAromaofBooks Sounds like a fun read!! 5y

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CarolynM

The Lucky Galah | Tracy Sorensen

Here's my #bookspin #doublespin and #triplespin trio. I'm happy. Great number drawing @TheAromaofBooks

Rissreads I can‘t wait to hear your review on Lucky Galah 5y

Rissreads And my number 7 double spin is a book you gifted me! Ha!

The Golden Age: A Novel

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 5y

Jeg I remember I loved Lucky Galah. Look forward to your thoughts. 5y

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CarolynM

The Lucky Galah | Tracy Sorensen

Forgot to post this last night😳🙄 Thank you so much Nerissa, I am looking forward to reading this, I've heard lots of good things. And I love the card - very appropriate. #jolabokaflodswap

MaleficentBookDragon, Rissreads

Rissreads I hope you like it as much as I did! It's very Ozzie 🤣 5y

Rissreads #Ozfiction 5y

Jeg One of my favourite reads from this year. 5y

MaleficentBookDragon 🎁🎄🍫 📚 Happy #Jolakabodflod 5y

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Jeg

The Lucky Galah | Tracy Sorensen

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Timely read. Very Aussie read. Comment by Rosalie Ham “ Subtle , disarming and insightful. “ That sums this read up for me. Also reminded me of the part Carnarvon played in the moon landing. We hear a lot about Parkes but not a lot about Carnarvon‘s part. Her attention to the details of daily Aussie life back then stirred lots of memories for me .I loved this book. @MrsMalaprop @Rissreads #ozfiction

Rissreads I'm so happy you loved it! Hopefully we will get other people reading it. 💛 5y

CarolynM I've been wondering about this one. You've convinced me. Stacked🙂 5y

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Redheadrambles

The Lucky Galah | Tracy Sorensen

so-so

⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is not terrible but it is a little bit tricksy for its own good. The highlight was the Galah, an impressive amount of imagination is involved in this narration. I didn‘t find the communication between bird and satellite dish to add anything at all to the book apart from confusion. Plotwise it‘s pretty thin and structurally it‘s a little messy. What it does do well is small town Australia circa 1960.

Redheadrambles #readharder19 Animal as POV character 5y

ClairesReads Not quite a win, but always good to tick another one off 5y

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Rissreads

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#Ozfiction
Wow, I loved this book. It is narrated by a galah named Lucky who lives in a country town in WA leading up to the moon landing in the 60‘s. I loved the Aussie slang and references including Emu bitter, Jatz crackers, lamingtons, EH holdens and wooden salad bowls with matching servers. Everything about this story and it‘s characters were just so Australian - quirky, flawed but loveable. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Jeg Sounds like something I‘d like to read. I‘ll keep a look out for it. 6y

Rissreads @Jeg I really hope this book gets a following it was lovely. 💜 5y

MrsMalaprop More great #ozfiction 🇦🇺👏. 5y

Jeg @Rissreads the good library has it but have not shelved it yet. I‘m first on list. Looking forward to reading it. 5y

Rissreads @Jeg Your lucky, it will still have that brand new book smell! 💙 5y

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