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Author Talks with Madeleine Gray - so excited to have a signed copy. 🥳

This may be a good book for you if you relate to Tang's ecological vision. By being in audiobook form it allows the listener to be more in the narrative, creating an immersive experience that lets listeners ponder the relationship between ecological places and human places.....
Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6615828462

…this disquiet I have long reckoned with as my most permanent companion: it comes from a place of wanting. And to want is a hopeful thing. It‘s the most hopeful thing, really📱

Time is everywhere, it is everything. Time is literally all there is ⏰

3.8/5 🌟

Initially put off by yet another tale of a disaffected 20-year-old lacking motivation, I hesitated to continue. However, I'm glad I persisted because after 100 pages, the narrative gains momentum, and I became invested in her entanglement. Despite the familiar setup, the story proved to be a rewarding read overall.

Paws-ing to Share: Currently reading 'Green Dot' by Madeleine Gray. 📚

29 Mar-4 Apr 24 (audiobook)
A directionless girl in her 20s embarks on an affair with a married workmate. I found the protagonist self-indulgent and delusional and the married man an incomprehensible egotist whose only motivation seems to be a younger, adoring body. It did make me reminisce about a friend in a very similar situation in her 20s. Where did his wife think he was when he was eating very average dinners in my Fitzroy sharehouse?

Loved this book so much, the hype is all true! Sad to finish it

The story of a love affair between a 20something looking for direction in life & an older married man. The writing is sharp, & kind of funny (although not always my sense of humour) & if I‘d read it as a teenager or even in my twenties I think it might have broken my heart. At my advanced age, though, I found the narrator a bit too self sabotaging, the man in question unattractive in every way & the love impossible to believe in. #ozfiction

I was going to read the tagged #netgalley #arc next, but not sure I can cope with this.

Each ‘chapter‘ is only a few paragraphs long (also annoying in its own way!) and this sentence appears at every chapter change, so it‘s there 2 or 3 times on every page…. 😠

I‘ll delete it and download it again - if it‘s still the same I‘m giving up.

Green Dot is also full to the brim with dark, wry humour. I loved it. I laughed out loud, a lot. I particularly enjoyed the fun little meta nods to the format that Gray sprinkles throughout the narrative. The only thing that struck me as unrealistic was the fact that Hera‘s office didn‘t hot-desk. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/green-dot-madeleine-gray/