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Centique
Too Much Lip | Melissa Lucashenko
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Pickpick

Another ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read. Thank you so much @CarolynM ! This book is like nothing else. Visceral and biting. Angry and loving all at once.
For an outsider like me, knowing little about Aboriginal culture, this is a dive in the deep end - you‘re seeing the impact of generations of colonisation, racism, cruelty, without every reference explained to you, the outsider, in a tidy package. It‘s stronger this way.
An estranged daughter returns ⬇️

Centique ...to her family home. Her life is up-ended and her family and ancestral land is under threat. You meet the far flung family, ancestors and their stories make an appearance, pain and sacrifice has to be accounted for, dealt with in the way of this “mob”. It‘s raw and violent and honest and gripping and definitely kick-arse. (trigger warnings here for a couple of things - ask me if you‘re concerned) 4y
Centique @Reggie you may have already stacked this, but if not I think you‘d like it! 4y
Missusb I have sat across the room from Melissa, and she is an awesome sight and sound to behold #intimidated #suchafan 4y
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TrishB Great review 👍🏻 4y
CarolynM I'm delighted that you liked it so much 🙂 and you have written an excellent review. I agree about the trigger warnings - I think my review noted foul language and abuse of many kinds. @Missusb I think I'd be intimidated too, but I'd love to tell her how good I think this is and how I'd love a book all about Black Superman😂😂😂 4y
Rissreads Fantastic review ❤ 4y
TheEllieMo Sounds great, but I can‘t get it in the UK 😩 4y
batsy Fabulous review! Now I really want to read this. 4y
Centique @Missusb how wonderful! I hope she comes to our local writers festival one day. 4y
Centique @CarolynM a book about Black Superman would be so good 😍 4y
Centique @Rissreads @TrishB thank you 😘 4y
Centique @TheEllieMo awww! I did find they have it on Book Depository UK but I know some people avoid buying from them. 4y
TheEllieMo @Centique I didn‘t even think to look there! Thanks😊 4y
Centique @batsy I think you‘d really enjoy it. It‘s made me want to read more Aboriginal writing for sure - the way they view animals is particularly fascinating to me. 4y
Reggie I stacked it when @CarolynM reviewed it but your passion for it will make me read it sooner than later. Nice review!! 4y
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emilyhaldi
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This book was almost a #hellogoodbye for me, meaning I wanted to bail by page 3. But something is drawing me in and motivating me to find out what the hell is happening between Mia and The Child. Made it to page 40 and still struggling, but I‘m powering through. This is from last years #tbrbingo... determined to make it happen!
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JennyM It has a pretty cover x 6y
LaraReads Such a pretty photo! 6y
Cinfhen The cover is the real winner💕and your photo is 🙌🏻 6y
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GypsyKat So pretty! 6y
SandyW Wow you're determined! 6y
batsy So pretty! From what I've read in reviews I'm a bit afraid to tackle this one 😆 #intimidated 6y
Kalalalatja I want to buy this just for the cover, but all the mixed reviews are holding me back 6y
emilyhaldi I just hate-read the rest of this book 🙄 @batsy @Kalalalatja I do NOT recommend trying this one... it‘s so absurdly bizarre. Imagine a chapter where every object is described using “brick” ...”the brick breeze and the brick sandwich made me pull up the brick blanket to my brick face”... etc etc. Is this a form of art I just cannot comprehend? Perhaps. But I don‘t want to. 6y
Reviewsbylola That sounds absolutely abysmal. Hard pass. 6y
Reviewsbylola I‘m pretty curious what in the world made you pick this one up. 6y
batsy Oh my 😬😬 6y
Cinfhen Sometimes a pretty cover just isn‘t enough!! 6y
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Emabunnie
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Pickpick

I started reading the Goblet of Fire a long time ago and the movie came out when I was about halfway through the book and it didn't match up well so I stopped but yesterday I finally finished rereading it!! On to the Order! #intimidated 👏🏻😊😂

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