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This monument to Aboriginal sovereignty is going to take hot minute to digest. Wright did an excellent job making time amorphous & porous, such that the characters live simultaneously in the past, present, and even the future. (Homage to oldest extant culture.)There are a multitude of ways to interpret all of the themes, symbolism, etc. such that my head is spinning. 😵‍💫

Tamra Note, because the writing is akin to the oral story telling tradition & is often dreamscape like, the repetition can get tedious. 4d

CarolynM Interesting cover. It can be really hard to get our white, western, linear minds around Aboriginal story telling but it‘s worth the effort. I need to bump this one up my TBR🙂 3d

Tamra @CarolynM settle in and let her take you on the journey. 😊 It sounds like the same colonization tactics and consequences here in the Americas with respect to Indigenous peoples. 2d

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Praiseworthy | Alexis Wright

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Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
Queen James: A New History About the Life and Loves of Britain‘s First King, James Stuart by Gareth Russell

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Tamra

Praiseworthy | Alexis Wright

My new chunkster adventure! With the dreamscape & magical realism elements, the wine is a necessary reading aid. 😅

Leftcoastzen Kitty so pretty!😻 1mo

LeahBergen I love Kitty‘s parted “bangs”! 1mo

Liz_M I almost bought that today -- it was on a bookseller rec shelves and I like most of the other books on it. I look forward to your thoughts! 1mo

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Mimi28 😻😻🫶🏽🩷😊 1mo

Ruthiella 😻😻😻 1mo

Cathythoughts Look forward to your thought too. Yes, the wine can be a great reading aid ❤️ 🍸 1mo

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mjtwo

Praiseworthy | Alexis Wright

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25 Sep-6 Oct 24 (audiobook)
Such a chore, but I felt I could not be too critical without pursuing it to the end. I wish I hadn‘t.
I quite liked magical realism at uni - Rushdie in particular but others also. Maybe I have lost my patience for it with age.
This book needed a brutal editor. It was repetitive to the point that it could have been a good short story or novella. But as is, was a bloated 700+ pages. I do not understand the acclaim.

LeeRHarry I picked this one up when I went to hear the author speak at the Melbourne Writers Festival - now I‘m not sure I‘m going to like it and it feels pretty intimidating. 8mo

mjtwo @LeeRHarry I think I am being harsh. I don‘t usually mind a long book but the audio seemed to go forever and was so slow and repetitive. I expect it may have been better in print, but it has been sitting on my shelf for a while and I was too intimidated by its girth. Curious to hear what others think. 8mo

dabbe #fanofthepan! #betterbooksahead 🙌🏻 8mo

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JenP

Praiseworthy | Alexis Wright

I am really trying to get through this. Trying being the key word here.

Tamra I hope it pays off. I understand it‘s a chunkster. 11mo

JenP @Tamra I hope it doesn‘t make the longlist for the booker so I can abandon it. I‘m sure it‘s very good but I think it does require a certain baseline knowledge of Australian politics and sociopolitical conflicts to truly appreciate. It‘s a very challenging book to read. Also satire isn‘t my favorite genre within literary fiction 11mo

Tamra @JenP hmmmmm, I might need to unstack it. 11mo

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JenP @Tamra it‘s just very dense and requires a significant amount of concentration. 11mo

squirrelbrain It‘s high up on the Booktubers‘ Booker predictions at the moment. I imagined it being more accessible, so I‘ll hang fire on starting it until I know if I ‘need‘ to. 😬 11mo

JenP @squirrelbrain yes, I am debating whether I want to put it on my prediction list but even though it‘s won lots of awards, that doesn‘t always match up with longlist nominees. 11mo

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