Welcome to Litsy!

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Why? Because Hozier holding a snake is hot 🥵.

#CoverLove Brown
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

A shot of a free lecture I attended at the Sydney Writer‘s Festival on Friday by the tagged author. #whereisallissa hint I am wearing a pink coat. I headed off to op shop after this. That morning I‘d been to fascinating lectures on 🎣(so I could impress my nephew & dad with my knowledge), turning plays into books & how Australian author Kate Forsyth uses myths to create her novels. I learn so much at these festivals and love using my brain again.

Just an amazing book. A story of love amid a sea of hate driven by small minded people. How hate of minorities continues to this day is a tragedy of the human race.

“If power is the ability of others to make you inhabit their story of you, this power can only be contained by the rigidity of ignorance and the inability to question and to learn.”

In Christopher Koch‘s ‘The Boys in the Island‘, Hobart is described as ‘a city, but only just‘.

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What an amazing book. I haven‘t been as angry, ashamed, or cried as much reading a book as I have for a long time. A story of the cruelty and stupidity of society, both in the past and to this day, besides the strength and enduring love still given by those marginalized by it.

#52bookclub23 #setinaustralia #naturalitsy @AllDebooks

In Dark Emu we learn that pre colonial Australia was not populated by unsophisticated nomadic hunter gatherers, but by people who had established agriculture, lived in houses and villages, curated the landscape. Major crops included yams and grains. A people who lived for ~65,000 years with an attachment and respect for land and who did not rely on violence as an integral part of their society. We could all learn so much from First Nations people.

This book was a difficult, uncomfortable and painful read. I guess it was supposed to be. It is not a book that mourns the Queen‘s death. It is a book full of anger directed at part of what the ‘white queen‘ represented. I.e colonisation, dispossession and genocide. It also focuses on ‘whiteness‘ and white privilege and everyday racism that indigenous people face. The writing was hard to follow at times. Raw pain radiates from these pages.

Love how subtle this one is!!

It‘s my weekend to work, the roster has changed - so new branch, new crew… it‘s been pretty quiet… but I had 🌮 for lunch so I‘m feeling good!