What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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Re: What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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Told in three distinct threads, it features the language of Australia's Wiradjuri people (Winch is a Wiradjuri woman), in telling the story of Ngurambang, its history and colonial dispossession.
Taken all together, these three threads reveal a poignant tale, at once sad but hopeful, highlighting the resolve and resilience of Australia's indigenous population, as well as the many injustices to which they have been and continue to be subjected.
This novel is compelling for its originality and subtlety and the controlled but emphatic emotion with which it is told. It is not shouty or angry, and yet it is forceful, revealing and shamefully educative.
Tara June Winch has given us a profound and moving original novel, one which can quite proudly be recognised as a worthy Miles Franklin winner. 4.5 stars out of 5.
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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A solid 4/4 as it was a refreshing continuation of the Noughts and Crosses series and was not a let down at all, especially since the series was meant to have ended years ago on the fourth book in the series. So a fifth book was a nice surprise and completely lived up to its predecessors by still keeping the main narrative but starting afresh with a new plotline. I absolutely loved it. Blackman is one of my favourite authors ever.
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Set mostly in 19th century South Australia, it is a fictionalised story based on real events, including some extraterrestrial influences.
Rawson explains that the ship Admella was wrecked off the south-east coast of South Australia in 1859, en route from Port Adelaide to Melbourne. There were few survivors, and Rawson has used the real names of George Hills, her great-great grandfather, and a mysterious woman, Bridget Ledwith, as the core of this fictional and slightly surrealistic tale.
Beyond these real events and character names, the rest, as Rawson puts it, is "entirely made up and bears no relationship to reality."
The ending is perhaps a little obscure, as George and the creature who is Bridget come to terms in the water under the Semaphore jetty.
Rawson's message, it seems, is that all life on earth, since the beginning of time, remains connected, forever.
Quirky, imaginative, a lively and novel take on a story of shipwreck and colonial Australian life. Didn't quite hit the mark in places, but easy to read and highly engaging. 4 stars out of 5.
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