Salt Creek | Litsy

Salt Creek | Lucy Treloar

This story of pioneers in the early days of the colony of South Australia is based on one of the author's ancestors who is also an ancestor of mine. The stories about him in my #family are a bit different from the way she tells it😂 #FallintoReading

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vkois88 That's so neat! 5y

JennyM Very cool!!!! 5y

LeeRHarry That‘s fab 😊 5y

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Cathythoughts Wow ! That brings it really home to you 👍🏻❤️ 5y

Amiable It's interesting how different family stories about the same people can be, isn't it? I guess it's a matter of perspective! 😀 5y

BookNAround What a cool perspective to have on a book. 5y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So cool!! 5y

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Brona

Salt Creek | Lucy Treloar

Day 1:
First book of the year #allthebooksof2017
http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2017/01/salt-creek-by-lucy-treloar.html?m=1

JazzFeathers Cover 😍😍😍 6y

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Abailliekaras

Salt Creek | Lucy Treloar

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A slow start but I enjoyed this - in the end the thoughtful writing, immersion in the desolate landscape and determination of Hester kept me reading. The isolation, and the settlers' cruelty to the Aboriginal inhabitants of south Australia depressed me (knowing it's based on fact). Would be good discussion for book clubs. Parallels to The Secret River & reminded me a little of The Signature of All Things.

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Abailliekaras

Salt Creek | Lucy Treloar

Bedtime reading... 😴

ReadingEnvy This one was interesting! 7y

Abailliekaras @ReadingEnvy I'm enjoying it so far, part of Read Harder challenge (read a book set within 100 miles of your location - Adelaide). Not gripped but I like the writing... 7y

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Brona

Salt Creek | Lucy Treloar

"There is nothing we can do. Nothing will change if you upset yourself. The calf will still die, the mother will moan, we will still need the money. We will be here. You cannot change anything by your tears, but you can change some things by your actions." pg 53 #shareatea2017 (or a banana smoothie!)

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LiaMahony

Salt Creek | Lucy Treloar

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Wonderful #Australian #historical #fiction such a tragic saga. Fabulous. A debut novel. Lucy Treloar is one to watch out for in the future.

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ReadingEnvy

Salt Creek | Lucy Treloar

so-so

I liked learning more about this period of Australia's history and in a lesser known location of the still isolated Coorong in South Australia. Best for fans of Little House and My Antonia. The audio book was a bit strange with penin-CHEW-las everywhere and Punjabi sounding natives.

Redheadrambles @ReadingEnvy pg102 "...a tall layer cake filled with jam and cream.....She cut into it revealing its buttery yellow inside. Addie said "This is the loveliest cake I have ever had".... 8y

Redheadrambles In my mind it is a layered Victoria Sponge cake - something like this http://www.abc.net.au/local/recipes/2014/09/01/4078345.htm 8y

ReadingEnvy @Redheadrambles ah, a classic. I have the Mary berry version pinned. 8y

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Redheadrambles

Salt Creek | Lucy Treloar

so-so

⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the third book in my survey of the Miles Franklin shortlist. Set in the 1850's in South Australia it tells of the hardships of the Finch family and their complex relationship with the indigenous Ngarrindjeri people.
I suspect enjoyment of this novel may hinge on how you feel about the Finch family - I earnestly followed their various destinies but didn't ever really care for them.
Ambitious debut but ultimately a little boring ?

DreesReads Bummer, it sounds like the sort of book I would have high hopes for! 8y

MrBook Great review! 8y

Redheadrambles @MrBook thank you MrBook 8y

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Redheadrambles

Salt Creek | Lucy Treloar

Might be a little late on the #bookanddrink #Septphotochallenge. But still, here are my current reads and my favourite teapot with a blend of Kawakawa Fire tea 😉.

Marchpane Can't wait to hear what you think of both of these! 8y

Redheadrambles @Marchpane It is maybe unfair of me to start something like Barkskins next to a debut author like Treloar as she rather suffers by comparison... I am finding Salt Creek a rather stilted reading experience, sort of like the author is trying so hard to get the 19th century narrative voice right but has lost something in the storytelling - I don't know I can't put my finger on the problem exactly ... 8y

MrBook Nice pic! 8y

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ReadingEnvy

Salt Creek | Lucy Treloar

I'm listening to this right now, kind of a Little House on the Prairie Australian edition. Pretty good except she keeps pronouncing peninsula with a "ch" sound. Is that an English thing? Penichula?

Redheadrambles Ah Jenny, you beat me to this one. I have high hopes for this as I have only been so-so on the books from the Miles Franklin so far. 8y

Redheadrambles Is it narrated by an Australian? I would probably say "Pin-in-chew -la" in my NZ accent ? 8y

Marchpane Aussie here & I pronounce it puh-nin-shuh-luh. We're very lazy with our vowels 😄 8y

ReadingEnvy @Redheadrambles if the narrator is Australian she is masking it with an English accent ;) 8y

ReadingEnvy @Marchpane but you do say "sh"... In the us we say pen-IN-suh-luh. Language is so interesting 8y

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