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#Breakdownof2019

Realistic Fiction - 31
Historical Fiction - 57
Anthologies/Collections - 5
Classics - 32
Fantasy - 15
Science Fiction - 5
Nonfiction - 19
Poetry - 1 (only because it was a challenge prompt)

Ended up reading 175 books

Completed #PopSugar19
Read 22 Chunksters (Goal was 10)
Completed #Booked2019
Completed#AtoZLitsy
Completed #ReadHarder19

Need to read a book set in Papua New Guinea, Serbia, and Tanzania in 2020

WHAT A YEAR!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin, this is a confrontational book about growing up “Leb” in Australia. I don‘t think there is another author writing this frankly about these issues and in such a punchy style. This book will be offensive to some, I felt uncomfortable about plenty of things here, yet it got me to ask myself why and to consider how you might see the world when you grow up branded by the horrific actions of others.

⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is not terrible but it is a little bit tricksy for its own good. The highlight was the Galah, an impressive amount of imagination is involved in this narration. I didn‘t find the communication between bird and satellite dish to add anything at all to the book apart from confusion. Plotwise it‘s pretty thin and structurally it‘s a little messy. What it does do well is small town Australia circa 1960.

Just finished an awesome week of reading.

#PopSugar19 - 37/50 K?K! (question) / R (game) /
THOSP (same title)

#Booked19 - 17/24 R (social media) / LWFC (food) / TWR (middle grade) @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft @Cinfhen

#ReadHarder19 - 14/24 LWFC (Mexico voices) / TWR (Oceania voices) / TOAOI (animal POV)

#AroundtheWorld19 - 5/52 K?K! (Haiti)

High praise. I am thinking of buying a subscription to the New Yorker to see more of this type of writing. Excellent read!!

#ReadHarder19 - 11/24 (book by a journalist)

Since I was reading a bio of Katherine Swynford, why not also read Seton's Dragonwyck. Seton is who introduced this person to me.

#PopSugar19 28/50 (1 mil ratings - TGWTDT / plant on cover - MOTM)
#AtoZLitsy19 20/26 (I)
#ReadHarder19 10/24 (neurodiverse - TGWTDT)
@BookishMarginalia
#AroundtheWorld19 1/52 (Norway)