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abmaltly

Joined December 2023

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Here One Moment | Liane Moriarty
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It took me a while to get into this book but I really enjoyed it by the end. I love reading stories with changing character perspectives every chapter and this one really pulled the threads together in the second half

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Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir
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I really enjoyed this book and the relationship between the characters. Sometimes I found the constant problem/solution loop frustrating but overall the story was great.

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While I was looking for a lighter book to read, this grabbed my attention as I run with an amazing group of women. This I such an uplifting book about women friendships and supportive relationships, and triumph through difficult times. Bring tissues 🙂

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A very confronting, honest and truly engaging memoir. Reading this, with the current violence against women protests ongoing, and post the disappointing failure of the Voice referendum, it makes you wonder if we are ever going to make significant progress in supporting marginalised communities and those less fortunate in society.

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Larrimah (dys). | Caroline Graham Stevenson
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While it took me a little while to get into, I really enjoyed this book. The story, the investigation by the authors, the characters and the travel around the Australian Outback just make me want to go on an adventure.

MrsMalaprop I didn‘t know this was a book. The doco was really good 👍. 6mo
abmaltly @MrsMalaprop this is for our book club and I only just found out there is a doco. I‘ll watch that now I‘ve finished 🙂 6mo
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While ostensibly a book about cycling around the world for six years this book is so much more. A reflection on humanity, a philosophical discussion of history and how the world is going wrong, but a celebration of humanity, love and kindness particularly from those who have so little.

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Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck
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What an amazing and devastating book. It took me a while to get into but from halfway through, it just built and built.
There are so many similarities between these times and today. Corporate greed and hate of others continue. We forget everyone is human, living and/or struggling with their own lives.
What a wonderful read. What wonderful strength and love among those with so little. I wish everyone read and reflected on this book.

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Burial Rites | Hannah Kent
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I really enjoyed this book. It's an emotional roller coaster and it been a while since a story made me as annoyed and frustrated in so many different ways.
I'm so glad the world has progressed for women in so many ways, but small minded people continue to wreak havoc for many.

MrsMalaprop One of my faves ❤️ 7mo
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The Seven | Chris Hammer
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What a great Australian detective novel. I really enjoyed this story, its ongoing twists and turns and characters experience across time.

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Demon Copperhead: A Novel | Barbara Kingsolver
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What a great book. As per the book “a good story doesn‘t just copy life, it pushes back on it”

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What an amazing story of an incredible series of journeys and an even more incredible woman. It‘s hard to imagine anyone undertaking such incredible adventures alone and self sufficient.

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A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles
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Such a wonderful book. A triumph of humanity and of living life to the fullest despite adverse circumstances.

MrsMalaprop Hope it made a good first BC book. 7mo
abmaltly @MrsMalaprop it was great 😊 7mo
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Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bront
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A true linguistic painting

MrsMalaprop ❤️❤️❤️ this book. 7mo
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One Shot | Lee Child
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An easy and enjoyable read, and a bit different from the movie

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Shadowlines | Stephen Kinnane
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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.”

MrsMalaprop Haha, adding this book to my stack & who do I find? Welcome to Litsy 🥰 9mo
abmaltly 😂. Thank you 🙂 9mo
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Such a well researched and well written book. The minimization of women‘s lives not only by society in the 1930/40s but also subsequently by successive biographers is obvious and fury invoking.

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My Place | Sally Morgan
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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.