Here Come the Dogs: A Novel | 
so-soThere were passages of this book that I loved but ultimately I didn't find that the story hung together very well. Too many things were left unexplained and unconnected.
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so-soThere were passages of this book that I loved but ultimately I didn't find that the story hung together very well. Too many things were left unexplained and unconnected.
This morning my book club met over croissants to discuss this book. It was not a well liked book by most but lead to some good discussion. Which was followed by a very intense chat about climate change and our government's (in Australia) lack of adequate progress on this front. Anyone else's book club end up fixing the problems of the world?
panI found the part-verse-part-prose book utterly frustrating. The story shifted from one event to another often with no clear purpose, things happened that were never explained, characters popped up now and again for no apparent reason and the three main characters were unlikeable (not necessarily a bad thing but didn't work for me) and were impossible to connect with. On top of that there were mistakes which a good editor should have picked up.
Okay, my #litsypartyofone plans got hijacked by a couple of crazy kids, some god awful weather (so, so hot) and general exhaustion so instead I'm doing it this morning. My husband's keeping the children happy, he has brought me in a coffee and I'm having a read in bed for the morning. I'm currently half way through a versed novel and I'm undecided on my opinion of it as yet. @Ambrosnazzy thanks for organising this.
Today I'll spend nearly three hours sitting beside the swimming pool while the kids and my nephew do their lessons. Plenty of time to get into this novel at least.
Really looking forward to this one. Mix of verse and prose.
Thinking I'm going to have to distract myself with plenty of reading today after dropping my daughter off for her very first day at school. Added to that my unemployment status is really hitting me now that the kids are not under my feet.
My first verse novel written by an Australian rapper and poet. It's very different but so far I'm enjoying it.
Starting my new bookclub book. I've not read a lot of verse but really enjoying this so far.
Next year's book club reads shaping up nicely...
Beat poet, rapper, Malaysian-Australian, Omar Musa, writes about what it means to be a disaffected, disempowered young man in multicultural Australia. The hip hop flow def came through in the lyricism of the writing. Pretty cool actually! #booktober #diversereads @RealLifeReading
