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Adam

ctrlyrown@bookwyrm.social

Joined 3 years, 2 months ago

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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reviewed Paradise Estate by Max Easton

Max Easton: Paradise Estate (2023, Giramondo Publishing) 4 stars

So Sydney, so universal

4 stars

Paradise Estate picks up a few years down the road (and on the other side of the peak COVID pandemic years) from where The Magpie Wing left off, following Helen as she endures some major life events in addition to the shitshow that is renting and sharing an anywhere-near-affordable house in a major Australian city.

So many of the characters are looking for genuine connection with each other, if they could only get past their own vices, preoccupations, insecure and unsatisfying work, and inhospitable living conditions.

All the Paradise Estate housemates share a common dissatisfaction with the world at large and have a real desire to make change, which is tempered by their own personal histories of injury and loss, vanity (in Nathan's case), and the jadedness and exhaustion that comes with precarious living and working well into their 30s and beyond.

I've spent most of my adult years in …

Thuận: Chinatown (2022, New Directions Publishing Corporation) 5 stars

"An abandoned package is discovered in the Paris Metro: the subway workers suspect it's a …

Chinatown

5 stars

Thuận's continuous internal monologue style is so distinctive, full of repetitions and multiplications. So different to what I've read lately which was a refreshing change.