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lil1inblue
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Pickpick

I love how Yang approached each novella in this series with a different style and format, and how each was told from a different character's perspective. The theme of resistance was powerful and timely. Yang incorporated themes of gender, class, and sexuality, as well. Overall, these were intriguing reads. I'd love to read more by Neon Yang.
#queerbc @puddlejumper

PuddleJumper Such a good quote 18h
AnnCrystal The qoute 👏🏼🥲💝💝💝. 18h
lil1inblue @PuddleJumper Right! I really enjoyed these novellas! 18h
lil1inblue @AnnCrystal 😍 😍 😍 18h
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LapReader
Juice | Tim Winton
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Did very well yesterday on the 📕 front. The tagged 📕 I got at the op shop on my way home from rehearsals. I couldn‘t believe my luck that it was still opened & was a bargain at $5. The 📕 in the middle is from my building‘s 📕 swap from an author I‘ve enjoyed in the past & the top 1 was from a st library I discovered while heading to the pub last Sun so visited again yesterday. Was a massive day & I‘m still buggered today. Tempers flared at 🩰.

Jeg I‘m not a Tim Winton fan but this book was very good. Nice copy you have too. Hope your ballet wasn‘t stressful. 2d
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vikaplus321
Juice | Tim Winton
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This is my first post here on Litsy: I am starting my first Tim Winton book tomorrow, Juice.

Graywacke Welcome Victoria! A link for you: @LitsyWelcomeWagon 3d
Librarybelle Welcome to Litsy! I have the same countertop! 3d
BookmarkTavern Welcome to Litsy! 🎉🎉🎉 3d
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lil1inblue Welcome! I hope you love it here as much as I do! 🥰 3d
CarolynM Welcome to Litsy 🌼 I haven‘t read a lot of Tim Winton @MrsMalaprop is a fan. I did love 3d
MrsMalaprop Thanks for the tag @CarolynM. And strap yourself in for the ride that is Juice 🔥. Welcome 🤗 3d
Dilara Welcome to Litsy! 3d
Reggie Welcome to Litsy! 3d
JessClark78 Welcome to Litsy! 🙂📚 3d
RosePressedPages Welcome 👋🏻😊 3d
Bookwomble Welcome to Litsy 👋🏻😊 3d
vikaplus321 Thank you all for a warm welcome! ❤️ 3d
LeahBergen Hello! 👋 3d
JamieArc Welcome! Hope you love it here as much as we do 😊. I found it helpful to search for books I like and see who is posting about, check out their profiles and see if it‘s someone you want to follow. Also a good one is @LitsyEvents if you‘re not already following it. 2d
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BookedBeyondMeasure
Pickpick

A Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell imagines Black life beyond whiteness—grappling with identity, power, and liberation. Lyrical, bold, and deeply moving, it made me reflect on what it means to fully bloom as a Black girl, and how we reclaim space, joy, and self. A powerful read.
Full review: https://www.instagram.com/p/DLWSkdex08G/?igsh=MXE1Znp5MWNwMnlrcQ==

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readingjedi
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Starting this one today. Not really sure I'm feeling emotionally secure enough for "sad, but beautiful" in my current perimenopausal state, but hey-ho...

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Mattsbookaday
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Mehso-so

Under the Eye of the Little Bird, by Hiromi Kawakami (2016, transl. 2024)
⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Premise: A novel in linked short stories about the distant fate of humanity.

Review: This will no doubt work for a lot of readers, but despite the fact that I can recognize that it‘s very well done, it was not for me. Told in short stories, all at different moments in the future,, this is meant to keep the reader off guard. Cont.

Mattsbookaday And while it succeeded at that, it also left me unable to really care about anything that was happening. And that made this a really tough slog for me, and while I‘m glad I read it, it‘s not one I‘ll ever be tempted to revisit.

Bookish Pair:For another scifi novel-in-stories, Sequoia Nagamatsu‘s How High We Go in the Dark (2022)
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abmaltly
Juice | Tim Winton
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Pickpick

A future dystopian judgement of our lack of commitment to science and change. So close to home. So timely. So sad.

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Tamra
Praiseworthy | Alexis Wright
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Pickpick

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. 4w
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🙂 3w
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. 3w
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HeyT
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Mehso-so

I normally hate to double post but I also finished this in audio today. I enjoyed the characters but I don't know if it was the fact that it was supposed to be a character driven novel and just didn't have the oomph to really make up for the lack of plot action or what but was a little disappointing. The characters do grow and learn from each other but it felt a little too long and drawn out for any meaningful relationships to form.

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Butterfinger
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Pickpick

What a wild ride. Political upheaval, rebellion led by a tyrant's children, genetic engineering, fanciful creatures, non-binary characters. It was everything. #QueerBC @PuddleJumper #LitsyAtoZ I used the author's name @Texreader

Texreader And that cover!!! 1mo
PuddleJumper ❤️❤️ I'm excited to get into this series 1mo
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