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Just started this- a Pride and Prejudice retelling in Australian contemporary farm country. #romantsy #australianwomenwriters
Just started this- a Pride and Prejudice retelling in Australian contemporary farm country. #romantsy #australianwomenwriters
pickThis was absolutely terrific and the best romance I think I‘ve read this year (definitely the best gay romance). Just makes you feel good.
Birthday present!
Starting a new read tonight!
The sixth square in the Wrapped in Jamie Crochet Along came out yesterday. Called "L'Université", it is about Jamie's time being educated in France. The designer somehow made fleur-de-lis in overlay crochet! Here's my square.
pickWinter's Tale just dropped! If you have a child in your life - late picture-book to middle grade age - this book is for you (or for them). Our maybe it is just for you. It's a magical tale of a child without a family, searching for belonging. Winter is non binary and the book is sexuality-inclusive also. Put it on your Christmas list. Small press so you may need to search / order in.
Page 80 and I'm a DNF. "I am a dude with power, I am an arsehole, I misuse the power and it torments me " is just not a story I care about in 2019. I don't want to sit with him long enough to hear about his redemption.
Everyone's settling down for the night, and I'm starting a new book #catsoflitsy
Square Five of the Wrapped in Jamie Crochet Along released today and I powered through and finished! This is the Manners and Chess square, named for Dougal teaching Jamie chess, Jamie kissing Tibby, and Dougal giving him a further lesson in manners.
pickThis was a quick, straightforward middle grade read. A biracial Hindu girl is pushed toward being a Bollywood dancer by her mother, but after being selected for a specialist Catholic sports school she discovers a love of footy. The racism she encounters was perhaps not challenged enough IMO, especially in a book for very young readers (the MC is 12). But overall not a bad read.
These appear to be my people
Library Reserve placed!
pickThis book has met with mixed reviews, but I liked it. The Aunt Lydia sections were certainly the strongest - I'm not completely convinced that Atwood has captured teen voices - but they were VERY strong.
And all four squares so far: Year of the Ox, Sawny, Goodbye Mama, and Guarding His Right. For the full story go to the Black Sheep Crochet webpage and look for the stories behind the Wrapped in Jamie CAL.
Today in found objects on my dog walk while listening to the Penguin audio of the whistle blower complaint : a marble topped milk crate.
Ps @Litsy i would love a sticker of a wheelchair user listening to audio. Dog companion optional.
Really enjoying this so far. And the new Kobo firmware - the return of the subtle black progress bar at the bottom is appreciated!
Keep Calm and Kill the Chef has dropped! It's not in litsy yet so I've linked to the first book in the series. If you're interested in a cosy mystery series set in Hobart, with recipes, this is for you. (Livia Day is the crime -writing alter ego of Tansy Rayner Roberts.)
Library haul part two!
Having finished #readharder2019 and #aussiesrule2019, I move on toward finishing #readingwomen2019. Here is my challenge so far. Any recs for books in Appalachia, Lambda winners,books from 2018 Reading Women shortlist? Prefer SF, YA, romance, maybe mystery /thriller.
I did it! My #aussiesrule2019 challenge is complete! @Sue Recced: many of them, but esp the Bouchani, Amelia Westlake, Maralinga, Blakwork, A Single Stone, You Must Be Layla. AoC count : I think ten?
Not for me: Utopian man, Australian Heist, All That I Am, Boy Swallows Universe. Only critique of the challenge : too many categories forcing a Literary read. Would prefer more open/imagination-encouraging prompts. But that's my genre bias!
My “meh“-ness is probably not the book's fault. Just yet another confirmation that most Literary Genre books are not for me. Progressive white saviour dude in Melbourne around Federation lives life, does some cool things, has tragic stuff happen to him, and fails to have any plot threads pull together in a satisfying way. The Book Arcade was cool, and in excellent news, this was the last book for my @aussiesrule2019 challenge!
I got up to the Maori-author prompt in my #aussiesrule2019 challenge, but bounced off The Bone People. So on impulse I picked up White Lies, which is Ihimaera's rewriting of his earlier story Medicine Woman. It's a deeply striking story of a Maori healer. Multiple women are in the position of having to make terrible choices thanks to society's racism. Parts are awful, but there's a hopeful ending.
This Athena doily isn't from this book but it is a Grace Fearon design - it was an online crochet along. This is why I haven't been reading much lately! 49 cm unblocked, number ten thread.
Look what I got from the library today! #australianwomenwriters #history #weneeddiversebooks
pickI ended up really liking this graphic novel - enough to reserve the second one when it comes, anyway. (If there is one). A young woman whose life doesn't make sense comes to realise that the magical world she suspected was there has been real all along. But there is a dark side, and family secrets, and more.
Eight pages in and I'm hooked already. A romance featuring a literary lawyer called Miles Franklin who secretly writes romance novels under a pseud - now threatened with exposure as she is shortlisted for a prize? Sign. Me. Up. #romantsy #australianwomenwriters
Guess who has just ordered two of these Moorland blanket yarn packs to start the imminent Wrapped in Jamie Crochet Along? Do these colours say Scotland to you?
1. The Scorpio Races
2. Teleportation
3. Libra
4. Crochet and reading! I just borrowed To Be Taught, If Fortunate.
#friyayintro @howjessreads
Awesome library haul today!
pickThis is an ambitious book, with its structure both strength and weakness. 3 threads weave - White‘s memoir, her research on Maud (an Australian deaf woman from the past), and (d)Deaf history. The memoir part also wove back and forth throughout her own life messily and sometimes confusingly. But it was also amazing. Her personal stories of how exhausting “passing” is, and other issues of ableism, were well written and striking. >>
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