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#QuotsyJuly20 Day 1: #Halfway

'Living is the challenge, Josie. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time, whether it's giving birth to a baby or being a housewife or a barrister or a soldier. You've accomplished something.'

This is one of my favourite books ❤ Do I need more copies? Absolutely 😝

#bookworm #bookstack #bookish #melinamarchetta #lookingforalibrandi

Reread this gem 23 years after my first reading in year 9. Apart from a few aged references to Telecom and shoulder pads, this story absolutely still translates and resonates. My view of Josie has changed with my age and experience, making this reading different but still enjoyable.

#30JuneBooks 📖

Day 18: #uglycover

Listen, I‘ve really enjoyed Melina Marchetta‘s books, but this 1992 cover is so distasteful 😂🤢

@howjessreads #books #melinamarchetta

StarTrekSummerMay #Manhunt

Either of my most recent review posts could have doubled for this prompt, but I'm going with this story about a teenage girl discovering her father.

Today‘s book haul!! 📚
The Princeton Public Library had its annual sale, and I controlled myself by setting a limit of 3 books and managing to walk out with 4 ☺️ That‘s what I call self-control! 😂💖
1. “Looking for Alibrandi” by Melina Marchetta
2. “Good in Bed” by Jennifer Weiner
3. “Girl Online” by Zoe Sugg
4. “Once & Future” (# 1) by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy
#books #yalit #onceandfuture #melinamarchetta #girlonline #zoesugg

#agameoffavorites #dayfour
Local Girl Anna Daniels who is well known in national radio and TV circles released her debut novel, which is set in our town of Rockhampton. I confess I have not read it yet. She cites her all time favorite book as Looking For Alibrandi. @ErinSueG @WhiskeyMistress

Great YA read. An Australian Catholic schoolgirl travels the road to adulthood in Sydney while dealing with her Italian heritage, boys, exams, and a newly found father. Captures all the tumult of youth amidst Australia‘s conversation about multiculturalism in the early 90s.

Really enjoying this Sydney-set YA .

Loved this book.

I'm beginning to realise that things don't turn out the way you want them to.
And sometimes, when they don't, they can turn out just a little bit better.

#melinamarchetta #lookingforalibrandi

#BookMail today contained the Viking/Penguin Australian Children‘s Classics edition of the tagged book. I love these so much, especially Playing Beattie Bow, the colour is gorgeous! I need to track down Blueback by Tim Winton, The Power Of One by Bryce Courtenay, A Fortunate Life by A.B.Facey, I Can Jump Puddles by Alan Marshall & Taronga by Victor Kelcher in this edition. If anyone knows where I can find them, I‘ll be eternally grateful.🙏

Multiculturalism is quite inviting.

The film version of Looking for Alibrandi celebrates its 17-year anniversary today! 😍 BuzzFeed AU is live-tweeting a rewatch of this film at 12.30pm. Come and join! I'm betting the motorbike ride across Anzac Bridge will feel just as amazing today.

I mentioned to the hubby that I've never had a Golden Gaytime. So this is what he bought me tonight. Paired with an equally iconic Australian book. 😍

#octphotochallenge Day 2 - Literary best friend. Growing up Josephine Alabrandi was the closest thing I got to a literary best friend (and Ellie from tomorrow when the war began) An Australian teenager with sass that seemed to understand a lot of what I went through as well, it's why Marchetta remains one of my favourite authors to this day.

Promise me you‘ll never stop dreaming.

Australian classic - great for young adult readers not that I am one!

"Simple dreams are the hardest to come true."