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I'm an Aussie, so I accidentally participated in this event. I'm currently reading Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton. I remember it being a big thing a few years ago, and now it's being made into a Netflix series.

I'm actually enjoying it. It's set in Brisbane in the 1980s and is all about a kid getting caught up in the drug culture.

Event Wrap Up

well, here we are, August 31st, the end of another Booklr Reads Australian

it's been a wonderful challenge exploring new books and authors from Down Under and having some lovely discussions with people about the different books we read. it hasn't been a big event or a busy one but I hope everyone still had fun and that, whether you participated or not, we got you thinking about reading more Australian stories during the rest of the year 😊

feel free to reblog or comment with the best book you read or something interesting you learned during the course of the challenge and lets see things off with a bang!

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It's ok to feel that way. The good thing about books is that they're not going anywhere (especially if you don't feel the need to read the 'in' books). If you don't feel that magic, don't try to force it. It just makes it even worse.

Live your best life. If that passion for books is ever ignited again, they will still be there, ready for you.

books don't really feel magical to me anymore, and it makes my heart hurt

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If you read the version I read, you will feel it in your heart.

I hate it when people do this, but I'm doing it anyway.

This whole concept is a big part of my novel Hazel. It's literally about trying to find where you 'belong', and it is another form of connection between my main characters. The following is a rant about it:

‘That’s not the story. Like, at all. Do you know why he was an ugly duckling?’

 Alby tilted his head. David leaned down and smiled into Alby’s face.  ‘Because he wasn’t a duckling. He was a fucking cygnet. Calling him an ugly duckling is like calling an orange a pretty strange apple. It’s all about him going through life trying to change himself and find a way to fit in, and always failing miserably. It’s only when he grows up and realises who he truly is that he is happy. Look at you. You’re in this circus with a bunch of ducklings, who don’t you mind, are incredible and amazing ducklings, but they’re still a bunch of baby ducks. You, on the other hand, are a cygnet. And there’s nothing wrong with that. You’re just with the wrong flock.’

One of my favourite quotes, 'To my cygnet. May you find your flock.'

We have bastardised the beauty of the original story, and I hate it.

Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.

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Honestly, if I'm reading fewer than five books, I say I have a light reading load.

I just get distracted so easily.

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Tragedy! You set out to read a negative review of a piece of media you dislike, only to find that the critic is being completely unfair to it and making a bunch of bad, unsupportable arguments.

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so I just finished The Wasp Factory

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Catcher in the Rye is funny to me because people take it too seriously. Holden is a little shit who thinks everyone around him is fake or stupid, and he is different because he knows the truth.

You know.... like a teenager. I read it as an adult and not as a student, so I just found it funny.

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no one is doing it like katniss everdeen and peeta mellark. they have it ALL. fake dating. enemies to lovers. rivals to lovers. friends to lovers. star-crossed lovers. opposites attract. hurt-comfort. nightmare induced bed sharing. shared trauma. guy falls first. sunshine & grumpy. childhood crush.

everyone say thank you suzanne.

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I'm trying to get back into reading, so naturally I have to know:

What's your current read?

#bookblr #booklr #bookworm

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So... whole-world Benjamin Button?

Prompt 2122

Write a story about a world where time moves backwards, and people live their lives in reverse.

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Current read: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

"It was a given that fresh rice hot out of the cooker was served in the order of father, brother, and grandmother, and that perfect pieces of tofu, dumplings, and patties were the brother's while the girls ate the ones that fell apart. The brother had chopsticks, socks, long underwear, and school and lunch bags that matched, while the girls made do with whatever was available... That's how it had always been."

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That's kind of disappointing. At least I found out now and not during one of the graphic(ish) sex scenes.

Because I cannot resist the urge to kick some bears

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A Court of Thorns and Roses is a hypersexualised adult fantasy series? I always thought it was Young Adult... and I finally bought the first book.

Because I cannot resist the urge to kick some bears

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This is going back a few years, but I still don't understand the popularity of The Night Circus.

Book Discussion

based on my recent miss with legends and lattes, what book did you expect to love but it didnt hit you like expected

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#Why would anyone do anything but genre? #then I suppose colour

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It's one of those books where I didn't understand everything that was going on, but I did enjoy it overall.

Weekly Bookish Question #318 ( January 1st - January 7th) 

typical first question of the year: What’s the first book you’re picking/have picked up in 2023? 

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Wanna know something funny?

I'm not a massive fan of Bluey. I watch clips when they appear on TikTok,but I have never actually seen a full episode.

I recently learnt they used an old Women's Weekly cookbook on the show. I happen to have that book, so I made a little video about it.

This video may now be popular on Blueytok. One of my resolutions was to get 200 TikTok followers. I now have 431 followers.

It's so strange.

#tiktok #bluey show