5/31/2023 0 Comments Mullumbimby lucashenko![]() ![]() This has been in company with her girlfriend who is portrayed as a rather incompetent thief though Kerry has a bag of liberated money with her on her beloved Harley-Davidson softail bike. ![]() It certainly gets quite crowded and like ‘Mullumbimby’ can be initially a little hard to grasp through the opening with skinny Kerry Salter escaping to her home base essentially on the run from criminal activity in and around Logan and Trinder Park. The story line, however, is very different. Once again, the landscape is important as the backstop for indigenous life and memory with all sorts of past and current traditional meanings. ![]() However, the exact location is fictional fuzzy with the gloriously named Durrongo standing in for a typical local town. The location is roughly similar with regular mentions of what seems like the Brunswick river, Bruns Heads, the Brighton beaches, Byron Bay etc. Certainly, this book has been very well received (see the BCC Lib holding above) having been awarded the 2019 Miles Franklin award, the Stella prize and on the shortlists for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the Queensland Literary Awards. I probably expected something similar this time but got a lot, lot more. I very much enjoyed Melissa Lucashenko’s ‘Mullumbimby’ as a gentle reflection on life in and around that town’s vicinity tied in with the beauties of the landscape, its very varied denizens and her Bandjalung inheritance from her mother. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Josie silver![]() ![]() ![]() Based on the number of 5-star gushing reviews already posted on Goodreads, this is going to be a minority opinion. Written with Josie Silver’s signature warmth, charm and insights into the human heart, One Night on the Island explores the meaning of home, the joys of escape and how the things we think we want are never the things we really need. But as the days go by, they no longer seem to mind each other’s company quite as much as they thought they would… Instantly at odds with each other, Cleo and Mac don’t know how they’re going to manage until the next weekly ferry arrives. Unfortunately, a mix-up with the bookings means both solitude seekers have reserved the same one-bedroom hideaway on exactly the same dates. With his life in Boston deteriorating in ways he can’t bring himself to acknowledge, his soul searching has brought him to the same Irish island in search of his roots and some clarity. Mac is also looking forward to some time to himself. The remote Irish island she’s booked is a far cry from London, but at least it’s a chance to hunker down in a luxury cabin and indulge in some quiet, solitary self-care while she figures out her next steps in her love life and her career. Spending her thirtieth birthday alone is the last thing that dating columnist Cleo wanted, but she is going on a self-coupling quasi-sabbatical–at the insistence of her boss–in the name of re-energizing herself and adding a new perspective to her column. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Fragments by dan wells![]() ![]() The cliff-hanger ending ensures that fans can look forward to more surprises in the next book in this exciting and thought-provoking series, but this one doesn't stand alone.- Sharon Rawlins, New Jersey State Library, TrentonĬopyright 2013 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. Kira discovers a secret about herself that forces her to make the ultimate sacrifice to save others. They end up with even more questions after finding human survivors in Denver who have a cure for RM that allows them to have children, but the cure comes at a huge price. They all travel on foot and horseback from Manhattan to Chicago and then Denver to find answers. Only by being united will everyone be able to live in peace. She has to find a cure before the Partials and humans destroy one another. Kira allies herself with the last human in Manhattan, Afa, a mentally unstable IT Director from ParaGen who may be able to help her, along with Samm and Heron, the Partials who betrayed, then saved her, and know what she really is. ![]() She makes her way on foot from East Meadow, New York, to the company headquarters of ParaGen in Manhattan in search of a way to cure the RM virus that kills newborns and to stop the expiration of Partials at age 20. in 2076, Kira is struggling to accept the fact that she is a genetically enhanced human known as a Partial. Gr 9 Up-In this second book in the saga, set in a postapocalyptic U.S. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Ann patchett 2001 novel![]() ![]() Their animosity is directed toward their parents. The children, for the most part, get along with each other. When Franny was a child, she and her step-siblings came together every summer in Bert and Beverly’s new home in Virginia. As Fix receives treatments and talks to Franny, Franny listens eagerly to his stories, knowing their time is limited. Fix Keating, now in his eighties, is dying of esophageal cancer, and his daughter Franny has come to visit and help him with his chemotherapy treatments. The story flashes forward almost fifty years. Bert and Beverly eventually have an affair, divorce Fix and Teresa, marry each other, and move to Virginia. Bert becomes infatuated with Beverly, and ends up kissing her. Bert Cousins and his wife Teresa are two guests at the party. The party becomes wilder than expected once everyone starts drinking. ![]() ![]() The story opens in Southern California at the home of Fix and Beverly Keating, who are having a christening party for their baby girl Franny. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While it’s heart may be in the right place, the results are very much not Grant Ginder’s book is the source material, but whatever merits it might have are lost in a slew of lightweight sentiment, shonky local colour and agonising contrivance.Īn overqualified cast are the big draw here Kristen Bell plays Alice, sister of Paul (Dear Evan Hansen’s Ben Platt) and the grown up children of Donna (Allison Janney). ‘Save the HATE’ screams the posters for Claire Scanlon’s wooly rom-com, which doubles down on family discord at the expense of romance or common sense this isn’t the story of a couple, tentatively getting together, but of a family who have stopped communicating with each other. ![]() |