pickDecember reads. Plus these ebooks:
Why no women on the streets at night ~ Sarona Abuaker
And Still We Write ~ Publishers for Palestine
Palestine in a World on Fire ~ Katherine Natanel and Ilan Pappé (ed)
We Grow The World Together ~ Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson (ed)
pick14 library books, 4 new books, 15 from tbr pile and 2 netgalley
pickPretty good reading month in august
pickRead rather a lot this month plus 7 ebooks
Favourite was definitely the tagged book, one of my favourite authors‘ best series!
pickBooks I read in June plus ebook of The Palestine Laboratory
pickThis was such a good book I regret not picking it up earlier (got it a few years ago).
Insightful, well researched and clearly articulated, it is a substantial analysis of the experiences of young people in Australia born in the years immediately after 9/11, particularly in educational institutions. Very easy to read. Definitely worth picking up.
pickIn an attempt to get back into writing I‘ve done a few blog posts of some of our favourite board books over the past year and thought I‘d share here too. First is from when the baby was 0-3 months https://www.gillyreads.com/favourite-board-books-0-3-months/
Been a while. Here are some books I got recently
March haul. I bought three of these, the rest are my mum getting a bit carried away
pickNovember reads
pickAugust reads. Still struggling to read much but I did get through some
pickForgot to say I actually managed some reading in July
Haven‘t read anything in 2 months but I did get a lot of books in June
Started a new audiobook
Weekend poetry
Currently reading: Fathoms by Rebecca Giggs.
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Part of my extremely unlikely attempt to read the Stella longlist before the shortlist announcement next week.
pickOne of the best contemporary romances I‘ve ever read. Incredibly detailed and complex character growth, emotional and relational development and just so so many feels.
pickI read White Tears Brown Scars a few years ago and it was one of those reading experiences where everything is just clicking into place and you‘re madly underlining everything and kind of feel like your brain is exploding but in a good way. It really helped me with a lot of things I was trying to figure out about how white supremacy and the patriarchy sit together but just didn‘t have the experience or knowledge to understand properly.
pickHad some wild vivid dreams after reading this collection. Also woke up in the middle of the night and thought of the perfect way to describe how reading made me feel, which obviously I now cannot the remember. The best I‘ve got is: unsettled, a little confused and in awe.
I read this book for both Reading Women and The Story Graph Translation Challenge for book by a South American Author in Translation.
this is my books that have previously been long listed for the Stella Prize and I own but haven‘t read corner of shame.
If anyone is on StoryGraph and into reading Stella books I have a public list of all previously longlisted titles
Also let me know your user name and I‘ll follow you 😊
https://app.thestorygraph.com/tags/570fba18-65fa-4feb-be89-0268d59f59d7
pickFebruary wrap up. Had really great reads this month, highly rate all of these (except the Bridgerton ones - they‘re very average)
pickI am so blown away by the skill of Terese Marie Mailhot, to craft such a short book out of so very much. The writing is remarkable. I genuinely don‘t think I have the words to explain how this book ripped me open. Roxanne Gay said " these essays are too intimate, too absorbing, too beautifully written, but never ever too much. What Mailhot has accomplished in this exquisite book is brilliance both raw and refined, testament."
