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An absolute heartbreaker! Two limbs: both are Australian girls who are attracted to/in love with their female best friends. Told in alternating chapters: one limb grows up to marry a man, the other is out and lives with found family. Both women/stories are impacted by the AIDS epidemic and both tragic, albeit with very different events. I loved this and was torn apart by both women‘s stories.

This is not a Shaun Tan book I am used to but I loved it! It's about a fake inventor named Henry Archibald Mintox and the fake stories about the inventions pictured in the book. The pictures are actually really from the Powerhouse Museum. I thought the pictures, and the stories were great and hilarious.

In a bank vault in the fictional town of Huxley, near the NSW-Queensland border.
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I could feel this book in my bones. It physically caused me pain. Because that's how good Hardcastle writes. I could feel the loss, the grief, the pain the characters went through. This is how intense this book is. So be careful if you want to read it (recommended!). Especially if you are personally involved in one of the topics. To me the parts about the AIDS epidemic in the 80ties was almost impossible to read.

Next op shop was the Red Cross. This was a much better score than I usually get from there. The books were excellent. Lots of which I already own. The scrapbook supplies were super cheap and the clothes were fun. Grand total 🟰 $46.00. I didn‘t spend too much considering I downed 2 delicious margaritas at the Mexican restaurant for lunch along with 3 fish tacos beforehand.

I almost gave up on this audiobook within the first hour because I was having a hard time following which character was which. But it got easier and I‘m glad I stuck with it. It‘s heavy on heartbreak, but so beautiful. I just barely didn‘t cry at work while listening. 💔

Chosen family is family.

I was in the mood for some Garner, having been lucky enough to see her speak followed by Tim Winton speaking about her at a conference to honour her and her work a couple of months ago.
This 1992 novel is one of only a few of her books left for me to read. It‘s really three separate but interlinked stories.
As always her writing is exquisite. Although she is an Australian national treasure, she is only now being read more globally. #ozfiction

Like many others, I loved this, so thank you to the many Littens who have talked about this book over the past few months.

It follow the lives of 2 queer teenage girls in 70s / 80s Australia - one who is outed and joins a queer community and one who hides her sexuality and marries a man.

It did feel slightly patchy in places - I felt I knew ‘limb one‘ better but wanted to learn more about the queer community around her. I also felt the ⬇️

I saw this graphic on Facebook and wrote this about it.

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