Necessary sin number 3: Profanity.
This book is making me think hard. Gotta love that.

“I will not be civil to anything or anyone that refuses to acknowledge the full humanity of women and girls. This is a battle. To that end, the shock and the offense profanity causes are necessary and important.”

Sin Number 1: Anger.

Oops! Shopping for my husband‘s Christmas presents today in my favourite bookshop, I came across this. Could. Not. Resist 🙈🙊🙊.

Eltahawy was in Australia recently where she caused a “shit-storm” (is that an Australian expression?) on tv show, Q&A. It has lead to many a heated discussion between my husband & I.

I first heard about her on Litsy when this book came out a couple of months ago.

Now I‘m dropping everything to dive on in 👊🙌✊.

I have a million things to do today, but hey....priorities 📖☕️🌞🙏.
#ozfiction #hammockreading #currentlyreading

Making a start on this #ozfiction chosen for our final 2019 book club read. #currentlyreading

Coleman is ingenious. Spec fiction is not one of my favourite genres, but f^~! me, this was good.
Whilst it was fast-paced from the get-go I had to re-read the first third & write down the characters. It‘s not that there are a lot, but Coleman cleverly reveals limited info making them feel somewhat nebulous at first.
But PLEASE READ ON, because it will be worth it.
I cannot wait to see what this brilliant writer comes up with next. #ozfiction

Went for a walk this morning to drop a couple of books off at a local little free library. Unexpectedly found a copy of this gem that I have read and loved but for some reason didn‘t have a copy of 🤔.
Then I spotted these gorgeous cygnets with their parents on the river‘s edge 😍👏. Winning 😊.
#ozfiction #indigenousfiction

Read this in Bali, which was a rather contrasting setting! I‘ve seen the author here on Litsy and thought it was about time I read one of his books. I found this copy on my mum‘s shelves as we were clearing out her house recently.

I liked it. A good holiday read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Full disclosure: I‘m a serious Perlman fan. I‘ve read all his published fiction. This is his latest novel and I couldn‘t resist bumping it to the top of my gargantuan #tbr.

Contemporary, observant, funny and clever. It explores sexual misconduct in the workplace and the pressures of modern life, with a bit of love story thrown in for good measure.

Perlman is a great Australian novelist. #mustreadauthor
#ozfiction

Adding to my overflowing #TBR at the #UWRF 😬. This is Guy reading from his novel that is now a #mustread for me.

Attending the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2019 in Bali, Indonesia. One of many highlights of Day One was Lemn Sissay reading from his memoir. 😍😢👏. So grateful to be here 🙏.

#littlefreelibrary in our rustic villa on Nusa Lembongan Island, Indonesia. Three days here, then we‘re off to the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival. 😎🙏👏

My husband and my Sunday reading material. Let‘s just say the tagged book is of particular relevance 😉😎😆🥰.

@CarolynM @JennyM so far so good on the Perlman front. Quite unlike his other work. 👍

#upnext #currentlyreading #mustreadauthor #newrelease #ozfiction 😍

This was a fascinating & frightening #truecrime read written by the real estate agent currently selling my mum‘s home.

Thoroughly and painstaking researched, Juliet has put her heart into this, becoming good friends with the victim‘s daughter.

Another inquest into who killed Shirley Finn has just concluded here in Perth, Western Australia. The findings have not yet been released, but sadly I doubt there will be any clear answers. 🤞🤞🤞

How I love that this kid loves reading as much as me 🙏📚😍👩‍👦💞. #raisingreaders #schoolholidays

So pleased to be closer to my goal of reading everything Georgia Blain ever wrote. Thank you @Rissreads for finding me this copy 🙏.

📚👏😍 #ozfiction

On tv program Australian Story tonight is the story of Shirley Finn who was murdered in Perth, Western Australia in 1975.

My sister and I recently engaged Real Estate Agent Juliet Wills to sell our Mum‘s home upon her moving into aged care. When signing the contract to accept an offer on the sale last weekend, Juliet gave me this copy of her book, she said because she knew I was a book lover.

My mum, who now has dementia, was a huge fan of ⬇️

This was wonderful. Epic, beautiful but very accessible. Storytelling that hooked me in from the beginning.

I‘ve read all three of Hosseini‘s novels and reckon he might just be a #mustreadauthor for me.

I am loving this book so much. Just what I needed to get lost in. 🙏😍

#currentlyreading

Dog, tea, book and blanket on a blustery, rainy Friday afternoon. Bliss 🐶☕️📚🌧☺️.

My 10yo son came home from school, excitedly telling me he‘d had a relief teacher who is an author that day. He proudly showed me her autograph on a piece of paper and asked me to take him to the library so that he could borrow her first book in the Lintang series, which is this one. He‘s part-way in and loving it!

#coolstory #localauthor #raisingreaders #ozkidsfiction

#Nextup #Currentread #Bookclub

Relational psychotherapy 101. Nine chapters, each one a fictional amalgam of clients treated by the authors, with ‘tick-a-box‘ at the end of each chapter to help the reader reflect of whether the ‘issues‘ might apply to them.

Chapters 4 & 5 may or may not have aptly described particular family members, with whom I‘ve been struggling to relate 🤪😂😬. #justsayin‘. Of course, none of the chapters applied to me 🤣😇.

#oznonfiction #selfhelp

#Nextup #Nonfiction @Rissreads

Uncle Jack Charles is an absolute legend. Removed from his mother as a young baby and raised in an institution in Melbourne, the only Aboriginal child there.

Australia has so far to go in righting wrongs done to the first people of this land. Thank goodness we are hearing more and more of their stories.

Devastating, fascinating and life-affirming. 🖤💛❤️

@Rissreads and I saw Claire Coleman talk about her newest speculative fiction novel this evening. She was fabulous 😍 and I can‘t wait to read it 👏.

#ozfiction #indigenousfiction

#Australianreadinghour

Can‘t get much more Australian than this bloke @CarolynM 😁.

And @Rissreads & I are going to see Clare Coleman talk about her new book The Old Lie.

#currentlyreading #Indigenouswriters

#7days7covers #covercrush Day 7

If you haven‘t participated in this challenge and you‘d like to, consider yourself tagged. 7 photos of favourite book covers over 7 days.

Thanks for the original tag @Lizpixie 🙏.

#7days7covers #covercrush Day 6

@TheBookStacker perhaps you‘d like to have a go at this challenge?

#7days7covers #covercrush Day 5

@LibrarianRyan care to have a go?

#7days7covers #covercrush Day 4

7 covers, 7 days. No explanation. Wanna have a go @Lidia ?

I am so grateful for Australian Aboriginal writers like Winch, Coleman and Lukashenko for writing amazing contemporary fiction about Australian Aboriginal people, weaving the past and the present with breathtaking skill ❤️💛🖤.

This book was stunning. It made me bawl. It made me mad. It made me grow.

All the love for this novel, and I can‘t wait to see her speak at the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in October. 🙏💕😍

#ozfiction

#7days7covers #covercrush Day 3 😍

@CoffeeK8 have a go at this challenge, if you‘re keen? 😊

#7days7covers #covercrush Day 2

@MeganAnn would you like to have a go at posting a favourite cover a day for 7 days?

#7days7covers #covercrush Day 1

@Rissreads would you like to have a go at posting 7 book covers you love for 7 days? No explanations. 🤞😊

From one #ozfiction to the next. I don‘t know much about this book or author, but I do know she‘s Aboriginal (Wiradjuri) and that she will be at the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali next month, where I am lucky enough to be going again this year 👏🙏📚😊. So I‘m gonna give it a crack. #currentlyreading

An easy, quick and engrossing read. Emotionally challenging though, due to the disturbing subject matter. Good debut #ozfiction #crimefiction

I‘ve not spent much time reading or on Litsy lately. Dad died in Jan & I moved Mum into care in July. Dementia afflicted them both & sibling conflict has added stress 😢. My fab eldest sister came to stay last week and was a powerhouse, getting the family home ready for sale to provide for Mum‘s care 🙏❤️.

This post is not book related, but it‘s definitely reading that helps get me through.

Oh & I am loving myself in my new t-shirt.
💪💃🏿✊😂💕

2. Reading IS my superpower 📚📚📚💪.
3. Pisces.
4. My sister is flying in from interstate 💕. We‘ll be visiting our mum, then heading out for cocktails & dinner with friends🍸🍽😍.
5. @Rissreads @The_Real_Nani 👋👋

#friyayintro @howjessreads

Thanks for the tag @Lizpixie

Gonna give this Australian crime fiction a go next. #ozfiction #crime #currentlyreading

Wow! I‘ve seen this book around a lot and I‘m glad someone in my book club chose it so I could get on and read it. This memoir explores so many themes. Fascinating, devastating and triumphant. Can‘t wait to discuss it Monday night.

Book, breakfast and sunshine on a Thursday morning. It‘s the end of winter and I can feel spring in those rays 🌞. Hope to finish this book club read today. 🤞

#Upnext #bookclub

I‘ve seen all the Litsy love for this one. Excited to be getting to it 🤗📖.

#currentlyreading

I heard Australian author Christos Tsiolkas discussing White on the radio. He was effusive in his praise & had just written a book on White‘s work. Tsiolkas recommended the tagged book as a good entry point.

Holy moley, this was hard work. And I loved every minute of it. Dense, beautifully written, dark and devastating. I wanted to lock myself away so that I could savour the world he created. Torturous, slowly-paced & exquisite. #ozfiction 😍

This kid cracks me up, drives the whole family nuts, and makes me so proud 🥰. He decided to set up ‘Clem‘s library‘ in class because the teacher‘s selection of readers ‘are boring‘ 🤣.

Instead of working against him (as some teachers do), she‘s working with him & allowing him to do so.

He quickly scrawled these ‘rules‘ this morning. He had 3 more bags of books to take in, but I only let him take this one in today. #raisingreaders ❤️📚❤️📚

My bedside #TBR teeters due to life circumstances conspiring to keep me from it.

I‘ll get to you soon my pretties 🤗📚😍.

I am slowly making my way through the tagged absolute gem of a tome. I‘m loving every minute of my first Patrick White experience ❤️😍❤️, when I actually get the opportunity to get to it 😫.

The 10yo‘s Friday night dinner set-up. It‘s only on Friday nights that we allow reading at the table 😂📚❤️.

@CarolynM not only did it make the shortlist, it bloody won Australia‘s Miles Franklin award last night 🙌👏😍 🇦🇺.

Such an awesome book and an awesome result 🖤💛❤️. #ozfiction #indigenousfiction #milesfranklin @Rissreads

Thanks to the lovely @Rissreads I have three more Georgia Blain novels to add to my collection 😍. She found these three by scouring Perth‘s second hand book stores. 🙏🙌📚😙👏 #mustreadauthor #ozfiction #grateful