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Winton is a must read author for me and I devoured this. The dystopian landscape is set in Western Australia around the location of Exmouth, where my parents lived for 29 yrs. What is particularly confronting and frightening is that it stated in a review that everything he writes about is a likely climate science scenario. It‘s based on scientifically accepted and understood evidence and models. A Sobering and chilling thought. 4.5⭐️ #Ozfiction

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This book was the opposite of Betty and I am grateful for that. I needed to quiet my brain. I loved all the small stories of the narrators life. All those thoughts you have that you file away, that then pop up later. Some are profound, enlightening and instrumental to your past, while others are just bits of fluff, insignificant observations. #Ozfiction

Finished reading this great #ozfiction when I should be packing up my house to move.

Someone put this ARC in my Little Street Library. It‘s set in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia. It was pretty good and provided an excellent palate cleanse for me 😁🙏. #ozfiction

Although this is billed as a romcom I didn‘t find it at all funny, but I also didn‘t feel like it was trying to be. Rather it was a romance with a bit more substance than most and, as the author says in her acknowledgment, “something of a love letter to bookshops and bookselling”. Most enjoyable. #ozfiction

First one down for #10BeforeTheEnd

I‘m a fan of Steven Carroll‘s Eliot Quartet and I really wanted to like this book which features a character introduced in the 4th of that series, but, although I enjoyed his writing as much as ever, I was left wondering what this story was actually about. I know I‘m not at my sharpest right now so I may have to try this one again one day.
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Craig Silvey is a local (Perth Western Australian) author. I‘ve read all of his books and this is his latest, a children‘s book that has just been made into a movie that I‘m going to see this weekend. If anyone is looking for Australian fiction recommendations my favourites written by Silvey are Jasper Jones and Rhubarb. #ozfiction

A young woman of fragile mental health suffers a crisis & is admitted to a psychiatric ward where she gradually recovers. This is a difficult book to rate because it doesn't really have much by way of characters or plot & the writing is very ordinary but I think its first person narration is effective in communicating the experience of a mental health crisis. #ozfiction

Australian Aboriginal man and academic Tony Birch is an exceptional short story writer. He writes from the perspective of the down-trodden and marginalised with skill and empathy. Absolutely love his work. #ozfiction ❤️🖤💛

A soft pick. Just finished reading the debut #ozfiction by Sri Lankin-Australian author Ayesha Inoon. I learnt some things and look forward to our book club discussion tomorrow night. I appreciated the opportunity to step into the shoes of someone emigrating to Australia. It was just a little clunkily done IMO.