pickWhat fun!! Like all time travel books, it‘s best not to get too bogged down in the details (& luckily the quick pace set by the author helps just that). Rabbit Ward has been a time traveling archaeologist for decades, but the last year has been rough as it‘s obvious someone is horning in on his work. An adventure in the 6th century Constantinople provides him with the opportunity to right his first professional misstep & learn about his opponent!
It‘s been years since the Melbourne Writer‘s Festival remembered that not all readers are into Lit Fic! I‘ve booked in for Kaliane Bradley and Lev Grossman - quite excited! Now to read the books 🤣
https://mwf.com.au/program
pickAn enchanting book about time travel and the consequences that could come. Every time I put the book down I couldn‘t stop thinking about June. This was so beautifully written and sure to be one of my tops books of the year. Book #25 in 2025
so-soBook 8 #wpf25
I didn‘t expect to love this, after all the comments by Littens I respect, when it made the WP #longlist.
I actually didn‘t mind the first half but then it grew just a bit silly and repetitive, around the introduction of the ‘strange machine‘.
I found I didn‘t care for any of the characters and just wanted it to finish. #listcompletist 🙄
What did Victorian women do with their time? She hears Elizabeth's voice. You have to be able to make a posset, sew a seam and recite the Lord's Prayer. Can you do any of those things? Whatever your views on praying and sewing, they certainly fill in the time.
Last night, Ali took a book from the shelf...
A transgender man winds up back in his home town and makes a lot of discoveries... including his former teen self, somehow. A soft pick, but I'm disappointed I didn't like it more. The book feels kind of unfinished to me, like a really good editor could have fixed a *lot* about it. There are some excellent moments but they don't jell into an excellent book.
#TransRightsReadathon Book# 1
“We stood there, four generations of Farrow women, cursed to live between worlds. But in that moment, in the valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains, we existed only on one.”
#March2025
I think, for a second, about just saying fuck it and telling Michael the whole truth, as wild as it sounds. Tell him I'm a time-traveling existential crisis with gender feels and just see what he does.
Geoff wants me to go back to the 1850s,' says Ali.
'Cool,' says Bud. 'What was happening in the 1850s?' Bud some-times likes to pretend that he's never heard of history.
'Crinolines, horse-drawn carriages, men in beards,' says Ali.
'Sounds like Hoxton,' says Dina.
Started my first #TransRightsReadathon book. This isn't transition focused as I expected, more of a “can I fix what went wrong in my life?“ story, and I think maybe a romance is coming. I'm not disappointed! 😂
