pickReading in Samoa next to my normally a non reader step daughter Tilly. The bridge collapsed very early on in this book so where to next I wonder?
Night shift reading hopefully tonight all going well📚The Bridge which is my current #litsypostalmarkup . I am hoping to finish it before I go on holidays in 4 days to Scandinavia😍
pickThis book wasn't what I was expecting and I think that's coloured my judgement a little. It is an insightful and thought provoking meditation on the consequences of tragedy, living with grief and assigning responsibility both legal and moral. However, for me, it was not as moving as it could have been. I think it was trying to cover too much ground, a bit more focus would have given it a lot more emotional impact. #ozfiction #lmpbc #groupz
#lmpbc #groupz
I was hoping to get this finished today and get it in the mail for you @Freespirit but I've fallen a bit behind. Should be done by the end of the week and I'll send it on express post. Sorry to keep you waiting.
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A tragic, beautiful and moving story that, for me at least, hit close to home. Full of hard truths and revelations, this book wrapped itself around my heart and squeezed with all its might ❤️
On a side note, this is also probably the best Australian novel I‘ve read to date 👏🏼🇦🇺
#popsugar19 - a novel based on a #truestory
1. Tagged 🌉
2. “The factories rang their end-of-shift sirens, and herds of workers dashed through cyclone-wire gates towards their cars and bikes, or the narrow footpaths that lead to railway stations and bus stops”. 🚃
3. “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you”. - Mortimer J Adler
#weekendreads 📖📖📖
pickThis is a novel that examines tragedy, both large and small in scale. Through these twin tragedies, Gandolfo interrogates some challenging ideas about both human nature, and urban Australian society- social mobility, and immobility, generational change and stasis, it‘s a reminder of the role of chance in determining the outcomes of the poor decisions which we universally make, and that in the face of immeasurable loss and grief that life endures.
pickApart from a couple of bits that I didn‘t buy or were a bit jarring this was a really good book, my second favourite on the #stellaprize shortlist so far (but I haven‘t read the winner yet). The devastating ripple effects of twin tragedies and the complex nature to teen friendship were both dealt with honestly and with compassion. The familiar setting also made the book more real for me.
I am really enjoying this book but WHHHHYYYY does it have a typo?!
Despite the fact that this story is set before I was born there is something very familiar about it. Perhaps because I‘ve been driving over the bridge in question since I was a small girl. #stellaprize #oxfiction
#BookMail Pt24 My final two books are both new Aussie reads, one fiction, one non fiction. This novel is set in Melbourne, Victoria in two time periods. In the 1970s, 22yr old Italian immigrant Antonello is working as a digger on the West Gate Bridge until it collapses one October morning, killing 35 of his work mates. In 2009 Jo has just finished high school & has the world at her feet, until one terrible mistake brings it crashing down.
pickThis one smacked me in the feels.
A wonderful story about family, friendship, grief and loss.
#stellaprize2019 #aussiesrule2019
#BridgeOverTroubledWater #MarchIntoThe70s
Partly set in 1970 and drawing on the true story of the collapse of the partly built Westgate Bridge that killed 35 workers, this novel is on the shortlist for the 2019 Stella Prize. I'm looking forward to reading it. #ozfiction
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