It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #SundayPost #SundaySalon

 

Linking to: It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? at BookDate; Sunday Post @ Caffeinated Reviewer; and the Sunday Salon @ ReaderBuzz

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Life…

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Hoping to get back on track soon!

It’s the last Monday of the month, so here’s my challenge update

 

2024 Nonfiction Reader Challenge: 5/12

2024 Linz The Bookworm/ Logophile Reading Challenge: 23/60

The Crossing Continents Reading Challenge 2024: 4/12

2024 Fantasy/SciFi Reading Challenge: 3/12

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What I’ve Read Since I last Posted…

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The Fellowship of the Puzzle Makers by Samuel Burr

Audrey’s Gone AWOL by Annie de Monchaux

The Night In Question by Susan Fletcher

The Grazier’s Son by Cathryn Hein

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What I’m Reading This Week…

 

 

Datson Angel is a turbo-charged adventure into the savage heart of 1980s Australia: a place completely alien, yet frighteningly similar, to today.
EVERYTHING IN THIS BOOK HAPPENED . . .
At seventeen, Anna Broinowski is precocious, naive and convinced she knows how the world works. But O-Week at Sydney University changes that. She’s suddenly in a hyper-masculine caste system, where future captains of industry terrorise freshers and invade dorms in naked, screaming packs.
Nothing is what she thought it’d be . . . until Anna finds her people. New dreams are made. Playing violin, auditioning for NIDA, losing her virginity. Then Peisley, a gentle giant, talks of a hitchhiking trip up north. And, after agreeing on three rules – never split up, remain platonic, accept every lift that gets them closer to Darwin – Anna decides to go.
Hitchhiking the highways leads her into a dystopian dustbowl on society’s hard edges, where outsiders must adapt or perish, and women teeter on an existential knife edge. In this flyblown asylum, love and danger collide with the toxic misogyny in the guts of the Australian soul. Anna will learn that the line between victim and survivor can be as cruel as luck and as random as a shiny blue Datson on a red dirt road.
Based on her battered travel diary, Datsun Angel is a savage, darkly funny memoir of sex, drugs and violence-fuelled adventure through the brutal 1980s Australian outback. It is a feminist On the Road, told through a #MeToo filter.

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Martha Berry is fifty years old, a spinster, and one of an army of polite and invisible women in 1956 Sydney who go to work each day and get things done without fuss, fanfare or reward.  
Working at the country’s national broadcaster, she’s seen highly praised talent come and go over the years but when she is sent to work as a secretary on a brand-new radio serial, created to follow in the footsteps of Australia’s longest running show, Blue Hills, she finds herself at the mercy of an egotistical and erratic young producer without a clue, a conservative broadcaster frightened by the word ‘pregnant’ and a motley cast of actors with ideas of their own about their roles in the show.  
When Martha is forced to step in to rescue the serial from impending cancellation, she ends up secretly ghost-writing scripts for As The Sun Sets, creating mayhem with management, and coming up with storylines that resonate with the serial’s growing and loyal audience of women listeners.  
But she can’t keep her secret forever and when she’s threatened with exposure, Martha has to decide if she wants to remain in the shadows, or to finally step into the spotlight.

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WHO IS ADA?
With Sadie she’s an Aussie girl in London, a performer, a ball of creativity and a lover of food.
With Stuart she’s funny and quirky, capable of finding romance in a dinner of crisps on a cold harbour and long train rides.
With her family she’s the joker, the peacekeeper, the entertainer.
But she doesn’t have to choose which version of herself to be… right?
Ada’s answer to most questions is: yes. Every night is an opportunity to be thrilled and every morning a chance to recount it to her friends, so when she falls for Sadie and Stuart at the same time, she sees no reason not to pursue them both.
But as the realities of modern life begin to catch up with her, and everyone wants Ada to define herself in relation to them, she feels the weight of the questions: which version of yourself is most true? And do other people enhance your best self, or distort it?
Go Lightly is a tribute to party girls who’d rather enjoy the present than fear the future or regret the past, and a love letter to the community you find when you’re far from home.

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For everything there is an appointed time, even a time for every affair under the heavens.
After thirteen years it’s time for Mac to return home to face a past he’s been running from. A past his best friend Dave has been unable to escape.
It was 1990, their final year of school and with an INXS soundtrack, life was moving on. Bus stops, homework and football were giving way to pay slips and beer, to first cars and first loves.
Until one night changed it all.
As the story of that evening unravels, so too do the binds that cross generations of family. The pride of fathers. The love of mothers and a sister. The love of a mate; the prejudices that run deep. Testing them, and the strong social ties that small towns have, Mac searches for honesty and for the precious words never said, while Dave fights for his story to be heard.
Before it’s too late, can these once-close friends and their town still divided by tragedy find a time for peace?

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