My partner recommended this and I read it while I had COVID (and while we are planning to emigrate) so it was very timely. I found it funny, thoughtful and in the end, touching.
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I mostly read and re-read childrens books, but here are the adult books I also read when I get the chance.
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Adam finished reading Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang
Adam finished reading The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel M.D.
Adam rated Debt, Tenth Anniversary Edition: 5 stars
Debt, Tenth Anniversary Edition by David Graeber, Thomas Piketty
The classic work on debt, now is a special tenth anniversary edition with a new introduction by Thomas Piketty
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Adam rated Debt, Tenth Anniversary Edition: 4 stars
Debt, Tenth Anniversary Edition by David Graeber, Thomas Piketty
The classic work on debt, now is a special tenth anniversary edition with a new introduction by Thomas Piketty
Before …
Adam rated Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear: 4 stars
Adam commented on Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Surprisingly quite good!
@christa I often need reminding, so I started using this image from his website as my desktop background: markfell.com/media/2015_misc/workshopfeedback.jpg
Re-reading.
Adam finished reading Bon and Lesley by Shaun Prescott
Adam reviewed Bon and Lesley by Shaun Prescott
The slow, mundane burn of end-of-times
5 stars
Shaun Prescott has a knack for eerie mundanity — or should it be mundane eeriness? Like The Town, Bon and Lesley is set in a disappearing central western NSW town, but instead of the town literally disappearing, the town of Newnes is being vacated, abandoned and burned as a result of a widespread end-of-times scenario.
Bon and Lesley are two train passengers who become stranded in Newnes and form a makeshift family with local brothers Steven and Jack while trying to be better versions of their city selves and Lesley, at least, attempts to construct something to attach her hopes to in a futureless world.
I don't feel like recounting the plot really does justice to the way Prescott ilustrates the absolute averageness of his characters and their inner monologues (so unremarkable as to be quite strange, but so relatable in how they feebly navigate the non-negotiables of life) while …
Shaun Prescott has a knack for eerie mundanity — or should it be mundane eeriness? Like The Town, Bon and Lesley is set in a disappearing central western NSW town, but instead of the town literally disappearing, the town of Newnes is being vacated, abandoned and burned as a result of a widespread end-of-times scenario.
Bon and Lesley are two train passengers who become stranded in Newnes and form a makeshift family with local brothers Steven and Jack while trying to be better versions of their city selves and Lesley, at least, attempts to construct something to attach her hopes to in a futureless world.
I don't feel like recounting the plot really does justice to the way Prescott ilustrates the absolute averageness of his characters and their inner monologues (so unremarkable as to be quite strange, but so relatable in how they feebly navigate the non-negotiables of life) while creating a kind of ashen, deadened magic that circulates in the forgotten country towns he builds in his stories.
No other books leave me with the feeling that Prescott's do. Might go and re-read The Town now to keep it hanging around.
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Adam finished reading The Circle by Dave Eggers
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet …
yeah, it was fine? a bit...blunt maybe?