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... of Repose, by Wallace Stegner
* The Snow Geese, by William Fiennes
* Home, by Marilynne Robinson
* Sorry, by Gail Jones
* The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
And with that, another great reading year draws to a close. It's been fabulous and fun, and ... ... are often not my favourites but boy some of the shortlisted/longlisted ones are great! I'm thinking of Sea of Poppies, Sorry and a few others. Also, I'm expecting this years booker winner Wolf Hall to be a good read and I really liked Small Island an Orange prize winner.
Just ... ... doesn't read many new books, keep trying to rectify that!
From the few I have read -
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Sorry by Gail Jones
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Also, I suspect, once I've read it, that Wolf Hall will make my list.
ETA
Ones that I was hoping would ... OK, that list was way too long! I've deleted it. If anyone wants the alphabetized list, tell me and I'll send it to you.
... My reaction to a book really comes from my heart (and maybe my guts!). I either get bored, upset or I get swept along. Sorry was book I expected to like, but didn't so much. I'm now reading a book I expected not to like, but now I'm enjoying it immensely (more on that specific book ... ... Elmore Leonard?? Nick Hornby???).
Madeline! "Look at me!" Get Shorty!
>91: I had a similar reaction to Sorry!. Hi SqueakyChu - I just skimmed though most of this thread. Your posts on Sorry inspired some thoughts of my own. I read it earlier this year. My initial reaction was actually not all the different from yours. I enjoyed the writing, but not the story so much - I had this impression that the ... Sorry - Gail Jones. What I wrote last month (maybe it was the weather?) on another thread: The outline of this story is an interesting and important one in terms of revealing Australian history. And the writing is often exquisite, but it was the writing that also kept me at a bit of a ... ... Gearino (4.5)
3. The Wasp Eater - William Lychack (4)
4. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout (3)
5. Sorry - Gail Jones (3)
6. Wearing Dad's Head - Barry Yourgrau (3.5)
7. Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person (4.5) - Miriam Engelberg -
8.
9. I went back and wrote a review of Sorry. See the link in Message 33. That leads me to think about reviews and why there are so many good reviews and so few negative reviews. This is what I came up with.
After finishing a disagreeable book, I don't want to think about it any more. I want to ... There was one memorable quote in Sorry that I'm saving:
A secure pleasant solitude shaped itself around her. In the sweet warm air drifted lilting voices, occasional noise from outside, a banging door, a parrot-screech, a car passing slowly, crunching on the gravel. Nothing to disturb the ... 44. Sorry - Gail Jones
I'm feeling kind of bad about this book. It seems as if it was loved by everyone who read it except for me. I found the ... Sorry by Gail Jones. The outline of this story is an interesting, and important, one in terms of Australian history and the writing is often exquisite, but it was the writing that kept me at a bit of an emotional distance as well. I'm a very emotional reader, but I just can't feel as much for a ... ... about it. I'll pass on the other title as well. I've going to get off LT and get some work done, then sit down and read Sorry from beginning to end--that's how I like to read a really good book, and I've heard it's a good one. ... are full price but that we need right away (along with the other 400 or so books on our TBR mountain)?
Ooh! Sorry is great so far and comes highly recommended by others. You can read it for the Orange Jul ... ... are reading the same books, but I still think it's hilarious how often you and I have got the same books in front of us. Sorry was the only new book I just had to buy (even though it was full-price) while at the used-book sale a couple of weeks ago and am really looking forward to reading it. ... Kerry - I just started Sorry by Gail Jones for my Orange July. I'm so happy to be reading soomething I like again. What a relief! The writing is just beautiful.
Susan - Do you need the recipe for the chocolate zucchini cake? My recipe is wonderful and so easy!!
For books that are ... ...
After checking some of the threads, yours included, I think I would really enjoy Eucalyptus by Murray Bail. Although Sorry sounds good too, I think the Bail novel might be a better 'holiday' read for me.
The True History of the Kelly Gang was also recommended to me (by Bonnie), so I ... ... novels set in Australia.
Hard to recommend any of them because they are all very different, but in saying that I found Sorry to be excellent. After reading more Aus Lit I'm
Updating my list (but it is getting harder to stick to 5 only):
Sorry by Gail Jones
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
The Butterfly Man by Heather Rose
Four Fires by Bryce Courtenay
ETA- I know that you've come and gone ... ... domestic violence for me to really want to link it to anything else, but we'll see.....
For the record I loved Sorry and it would have linked really well to Purple Hibiscus as a coming of age story with abusive parents, eventhough one is set in Western Australia and the other is ... Oh, I liked Sorry, I hope you do too! I've read (so far) for Orange July Gilgamesh: A Novel by Joan London, What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt, and Small Island by Andrea Levy. (And I ditched The Vintner's Luck after 50 pages.) I'm hoping to get to either Purple Hibiscus or Half ... I'm going to do Orange July as well. I'll be reading Sorry. Which book did you choose? Thanks Aruba. Richard Bausch's Peace is one I upped the rating on because it just stuck around with me. Gail Jone's Sorry is one I've though about upping, actually that one is maybe worth a re-read (rare for me.) ... America - John Robbins
43. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon - Reading Globally Polar theme
44. Sorry - Gail Jones - Orange July
45. The Dawning of the Day : A Jerusalem Tale - Haim Sabato
46. The Twitter Book - Tim O'Reilly
47. Plan B: Further ... Laura - your top five for the quarter is a great idea (I bet your sock drawer is alphabetized!!
The first three, Sorry, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, and Wives and Daughters are all books I loved too, so I will have to seek out your other two recommends on that list. Thanks. Top 5 books for 2Q09
Sorry
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Wives and Daughters
Desertion
Miss Mole
And a few stats about my second quarter reading:
- 19 books, 38 YTD
- 5,735 pages, 11,473 YTD
- 12 written by women, 26 YTD
- 2 from the "1001 Books you Must Read Before you D ... ... theme of both books.
3. Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
***Both books were written by women.
4. Sorry - Gail Jones
*** There is a violent death at the beginning of both books.
5. McSweeney's mammoth treasury of thrilling tales - Michael Chabon
***Both ... ...
49.The Woman in White by Wilki Collins (Reading June) Through Daily.Lit
50.The Pages by Murray Bail
51.Sorry by Gail Jones
52.Scapegallows by Carol Birch
53.All Our Worldly Goods by Irène Némirovsky
Another wonderful month of reading, it's winter here so it's ... ... nights, All Our Worldly Goods turned up in the letter box today, as a loan.
In June I read Girl in a Blue Dress and Sorry, so I'm ahead anyway ;-P
Would highly recommend Sorry.
132 - I found Falling Man a very different book to what I normally read, but well worth it.
Recently finished, Sorry an outstanding Australian novel. ... Elizabeth - Wives and Daughters
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins - The Yellow Wallpaper (on dailylit)
Jones, Gail - Sorry
Roth, Joseph - The Radetzky March
Toews, Miriam - The Flying Troutmans
Tsiolkas, Christos - The Slap
My favorite independent new and used bookstore is ... ... The Girl in the Blue Dress found it strangely captivating, I like historical fiction and this sort of fit the mold.
And Sorry which is an amazing book, in my humble opinion. Highly recommended.
Also, I'm adding another of long-listed to my wee Orange in July list The lost Dog. Just finished Sorry what a fabulous novel. Highly recommended. There are already a couple of good reviews, lindsacl's and avaland's come to mind. A good one for an Orange July list. It was longlisted, I think it should have been placed higher. ... Earley (7/21/09)
74. The Good Thief - Hannah Tinti (7/22/09)
75. The 19th Wife - David Ebershoff (7/24/09)
76. Sorry - Gail Jones (7/26/09)
77. The Spare Room - Helen Garner (7/29/09)
78. Isabel's Bed - Elinor Lipman (7/31/09) a comfort food book
79. The Flying Troutma ... ... Eucalyptus more. I think at some stage it is deserving of a re-read and I dont say that about many books.
Next up is Sorry, an early start to Orange July in the Girlybook Group and another Miles Franklin shortlist tho' from the previous year.
Glad you liked Sorry, Lindsacl. I thought it was a lovely book, too, although withheld the final half star for reasons that now escape me. ... rather unmanageable at times. :)
ETA: lindsacl, you don't have a list! Oh well. I did like your review of Gail Jones' Sorry, I agree that it was a very powerful read, but I had a (minor) plot quibble that took it down from a 5 star for me. Maybe I'm just overly tough on my compatriots' ... ... Hundred Secret Senses 1996
long-listed
Girl in the Blue Dress 2009 - Bookring -I might start this one this month.
Sorry 2008 - Bookring -This one might turn up in July.
Gilgamesh by Joan London 2004
Fall on your Knees 1997
ETA Two more long-listed books to my list
* ... >136: Sorry is fabulous, SqueakyChu. I just finished it last week and enjoyed my 15 min of fame with a "hot review," if you'd like to check it out. But actually, the lovely Jill deserves all the credit because it was HER review that inspired me to read it in the first place!
Edited to add: I ... Sorry and The Road Home are excellent reads! ... .
There are seven "Orange" books in my collection at home which I've not yet read. Things seem to be pointing now toward Sorry by Gail Jones because I just received a copy (an ARC) of that book in the mail yesterday from BookMooch. Hi Laura
Congratulations on your "hot" review for Sorry, found on today's home page.
...
Donna828 for Little Children
Kiwidoc for A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz As a Young boy
lilndsacl for Sorry
tiffin in 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : lindsacl's (Laura's) challenge - part 2 (Jun 1, 2009, 7:53pm) I must read Sorry. It seems to be one of those special books. ... target="_blank"> Sorry - review
From my review: Sorry opens with 10-year-old Perdita Keene ... #88> I really enjoyed Sorry as well!
Still going (slowly) on Silas Marner. Took a little while to get into, after Pride and Prejudice and Zombies I think I kept on expecting zombies to pop up and bad puns. :) But enjoying it now.
And last night I also picked up Rebecca which I haven't ... Finished The Lacquer Lady, and am now about 30 pages into Sorry, which I'm already enjoying a great deal. ... Earley (7/21/09)
74. The Good Thief - Hannah Tinti (7/22/09)
75. The 19th Wife - David Ebershoff (7/24/09)
76. Sorry - Gail Jones (7/26/09)
77. The Spare Room - Helen Garner (7/29/09)
78. Isabel's Bed - Elinor Lipman (7/31/09) a comfort food book
79. The Flying Troutma ... ... Book Prize, 2006 (3/22/09)
A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews (4/05/09)
26a - Diana Evans - (6/19/09)
Sorry - Gail Jones (7/26/09)
The 19th Wife - David Ebershoff (7/24/09)
8. I Need a Vacation!*** 9/9
The Pursuit of Alice - Elinor L ... 
14. Sorry by Gail Jones (c2007, 219 pages, finished Apr 3)
This was a bit of a random read for me, and a pleasant surprise. I'm now looking into Dreams of Speaking, another book by Gail Jones ...
... by Nora Eisenberg, an Early Reviewer which is readable, but, well, I read about 100 pages, and put it down to read:
Sorry by Gail Jones - Jones has a really nice way with words. The term "Sorry" references the Australian policy of removing Indigenous Australian children from their ... I had a response avaland posted here, but rereading ... I've decided to delete. I don't think anyone will miss the post. It's recoverable, if anyone wants it back. #119 - Hey! Happy belated birthday for yesterday!
Just out of interest, does the title Sorry have any political connotations? ... the soldiers start getting sick. Yesterday was my birthday, and I couldn't stand reading a bland book, so I started:
-Sorry by Gail Jones, a very Orange-y feeling novel located in NW Australia. After the Early Reviewer, this one feels just so thick with complexity. Much better.
... Reviewer
39. Scream Queens of the Dead Sea - Gilad Elbom
40. The Longest Trip Home - John Grogan
41. Sorry - Gail Jones - Orange July
42. American Rust - Philipp Meyer
43. Diet for a New America - John Robbins
44. The 19th Wife - David Ebershoff - ... ... /103465.html">review
34. Wives and Daughters - review
33. Sorry - review
32. The Lacquer Lady - review
31. L ... freelunch, I have been impressed with ALL the 2008 Miles Franklin books I've read so far. I'm sorry you didn't get into Sorry (no pun intended), as that was my standout. I'm looking forward to The Fern Tattoo!
And Miss-Owl: over on Group Reads: Literature Pale Fire seems to be winning the ... ... favorites list), When the Emperor Was Divine, The English Patient, On Chesil Beach, The Accidental, Mister Pip, Sorry, The White Tiger. I read a lot of Stephen King years back and enjoyed most of those as well.
I also read a lot of classics--books that have EARNED their hype! >196: I did some homework and found Sorry was also longlisted for the 2008 Orange Prize. Thanks Whisper!
Just to get a few more people hooked on Sorry, here is an excerpt (page 78 of the Europa edition)
"For those who do not read, for whom reading is not part of the texture of knowing, the gorgeous complication, the luxurious interiority, the thrilling extrapolation from ... Sorry sounds wonderful. I'm adding it to my TBR pile. Hi Jill! Starring your thread for your insightful reviews and adding Sorry and The Hiding Place to my expanding TBR pile I've heard great things about Sorry ... it was Orange shortlisted, wasn't it? If so, I'll get to it eventually as I'm working my way through the lists. I may want to read it sooner than later, anyway! 19. Sorry by Gail Jones
This is the last book for January - one that I did not want to end.
Jones is an Australian with a passionate, lyrical and ... ... by Tom Gilling (Read Apr)
9.Women in Black by Madeline St John (Read May)
10.The Pages by Murray Bail (Read June)
11.Sorry by Gail Jones (Read June)
12.Everymans Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany (Read July)
13.The Lost Dog by Michelle de Krester (Read July)
14.Wanting ... ... Woman in White by Wilki Collins (Reading June) Through Daily.Lit
50.The Pages by Murray Bail (Read June)
51.Sorry by Gail Jones (Read June)
52.Scapegallows by Carol Birch (Read June)
53.All Our Worldly Goods by Irène Némirovsky (Read June)
54.Everymans Rules for Scientif ... ... what I can take in. And you've given me two more great ideas to check out. Actually Gail Jones is familiar because I have Sorry requested from by library. I'll check that one out first. Thanks for the ideas. ... ion:
Blindness Jose Saramago
a man and then an entire town go blind- the reviews alone make me want to read this one
Sorry by Gail Jones - a fictional account of con-joined twins
Property by Valerie Martin - a novel of women as slave owners,set in the American South AUSTRALIA AND PACIFIC:
1. Sorry - Gail Jones - A young girl lives the life of an outcast as her parents ignore her and her schoolmates ostracize her. The author of this book was born in Harvey, Western Australia. ... Teeth , The inheritance of Loss and The Poisonwood Bible, also all on the 1001 list.
I think The Road Home and Sorry are coming my way soon but I'm not sure they'll make it here by the end of Jan. Might have to make it an Orange 2009. I just picked up Sorry from the library so I'm excited to see your review. I shall definitely move it up my list! ... of the cereal box, the soup cans, the bread wrapper, and all back issues of the Reader's Digest, one comes upon Sorry as a delight and welcome respite. Will be adding Sorry to my books to buy. Thanks for recommendation. >14: Sorry looks like a quite interesting book. I'll have to give it a try.
ETA: mrstreme...You can fix most of the wonky touchstones by going over to the right side of the screen and clicking on "others". Then find the work you really want and click on it. E.g., the touchstone for this ... Looks like your reading year is off to a great start, mrstreme. I will be adding Sorry to Continent TBR thanks to your wonderful review. 1) Sorry by Gail Jones (review)
Touchstone now working! I have started with Sorry by Gail Jones - a great read so far... well I've been dodging and avoiding reading Sorry for four days now - I've read about one-third of it and it just isn't me.
time to move on to something else, specifically Teckla ... "http://www.librarything.com/work/203141/reviews/11772681">Review
4. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout (3)
5. Sorry - Gail Jones (3)
6. Hot, Flat, and Crowded - Thomas L. Friedman - CURRENT READ
7.
Mmmm! Food or Beverage
1. Recipes from America's Smal ... Miss-Owl, hurrah for your students!!
Freelunch, I did really enjoy Sorry, but it's not like it suddenly changes tack or anything. I think it was the best of the Miles Franklin books I've read so far.
I stayed up late last night (*yawn*) finishing The End of the Affair. I may have to re-rea ... Sorry is proving to be a challenge - it feels like something I might have been assigned to read in High School, and I never read assigned books in school. I'll try to stick with it (at only 216 pages I should be able to manage it)
I think I need to make an effort to read more "lit ... ... first book in the series) Vlad meets his wife and battles a rival Boss for control of his territory.
next up for me is Sorry by Gail Jones, a bookring'd book which was nominated for the 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award. ... collection: Women of Algiers in their Apartment by Assia Djebar
Best Novels - The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi and Sorry by Gail Jones
Best Nonfiction not related to my schoolwork - Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women Writers by Susan Morrison ... five)
Children of the New World by Assia Djebar
Outcast by Sadie Jones
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
Sorry by Gail Jones
Where the Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
1st runner up - Pillar of Salt by Albert Memmi (a superbly written book but ... I'm behind in updating this:
97. Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley
98. Sorry by Gail Jones
99. The Girls by Lori Lansens
100. True History of the Kelly Gang by ... aid.
My reading always slows down at the end of the school year, when student papers take priority. I've been picking at Sorry for about a month, reading 5 or 6 pages at night before falling asleep.
I'm looking forward to all your reviews and suggestions. Great group idea, avaland! ... favorite author.
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi, a grim but riveting and well-crafted story set in 1960s Wales.
Sorry by Gail Jones, the lyrical writing in this Australian author's short novels has made her a favorite.
Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War by Assi ... ... .
All of the Kate Grenville's
Disquiet
The Girls
Interpreter of Maladies
The Road Home
Small Island
Sorry
The Story of Forgetting
The Spare Room
Breath
Ursula, Under
The Deportees
The Red Tent
Careless
The Uncommon Reader
On Chesil Beach
. . . ... Sorry to be arriving here so late.
July recap:
Deaf Sentence
Sorry
The Oxford Project
The Latehomecomer
The Wednesday Sisters
Last Night at the Lobster
Oxford Project, Latehomecomer and Wednesday Sisters are my recommends of the month. (I did like the others, but just not as ... ... Levy
The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
If I could have 4 I would also add Sorry by Gail Jones
And, yes, I also had a very Orange July! Thanks freelunch. :) I was thinking of starting it myself, only, well, work got in the way. (How dare it! ;)
I finished Sorry on the bus home, and found it very moving, even if I was a bit disappointed in the ending. But so beautiful overall, it's still recommended. (Although don't read it in ... ... of them.
About time we started up the group reading log for August. Especially since I've only got about 6 pages left on Sorry! Not sure what I'll be starting next yet... ... of them.
About time we started up the group reading log for August. Especially since I've only got about 6 pages left on Sorry! Not sure what I'll be starting next yet... Hard to pick from some real winners, but I'll try:
Sorry by Gail Jones
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
The one I'll finish today (hopefully) will probably make this list, maybe as a tie: The Tenderness of Wolve ... ... Perfection (wonderful)
Small Island (beautiful)
Alligator (a bit of a dud)
The Night Watch (disappointing)
Sorry (really good)
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam (really, really good)
The Road Home (really, really, really good)
. . . and I'm up for more ... ... on chauffeur duty on Mon & Tues, so my reading has pretty much stalled since Friday.
In other words, I'm still reading Sorry on the bus, The Book Thief in bed, and Mr Bear & I have *one* chapter left on The Secret Garden. I told him we could buy another book (maybe one with Robin Hood, ... I finished Sorry by Gail Jones very very late Saturday night; now enjoying The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney. I was up till 3 this morning finishing Sorry. We're pathetic. ;o) ... Fantastic. Quirky characters but with depth and self examination.
I decided to stay in Australia, so started Sorry by Gail Jones (2008 long list). Exquisite writing. Very much enjoying so far. Lots of reading time this weekend, so I may even knock off two more Oranges! Juicy! ... what would you recommend a beginning Faulkner reader start with?
amandameale - glad to see your high recommendation for Sorry, which I just started. I'm enjoying reading your reviews. ... last night - wonderful book full of quirky characters. Staying in an Australian theme with a very different book, Sorry by Gail Jones. ... on the bus last night, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'll quite happily recommend all his books. And was going to start Sorry by Gail Jones this morning (one of the Miles Franklin short-listed books, DrCris has organised bookrings for them all), but the miserable weather in Sydney meant ... ... love.
It's a deceptively light novel that is quite tender about love and loss and growing up. Stories within stories.
Sorry, Gail Jones (4.5 stars)
Excellent story, poetic writing about a white child neglected by her avoidant parents, finding kinship with an Aboriginal girl and a deaf ... ... Fiends, Christopher Moore, 1995
Urban vampire girlfriend fantasy. If you like Carl Hiaasen, you may like this.
91. Sorry, Gail Jones, 2007, Australian Author
Miles Franklin and Orange shortlists 2008. Excellent story, poetic writing about a white child neglected by her avoidant ... 34. Sorry by Gail Jones
Still thinking about it... 74. Sorry by Gail Jones
Loved it, loved it, loved it. Just before the second World War, an English couple arrive in Broome (Aus). Perdita is born to a violent father and a distant mother who requires lengthy stays in a mental hospital. She finds "family" with a young boy unable to speak ... ... With the helpful guidance and suggestions from others, I think that this month can be filled with excellent reading. Sorry is another one I don't have but want to get around to reading sometime this year. I'm excited to hear what everyone thinks of these books! My first for Orange July is Sorry. Hope they are all as good as this one! ... on
#4 The age of innocence
#5 Suite Francaise
Dissapointments
The enchantress of Florence
Goodbye to Berlin
Sorry by Gail Jones
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This didn't grab me. The characters were abstract, the plot boring. The writing too flowery and overly poetic. This seems to me a rather academic attempt to apologize for the way the aboriginal people were treated by the whites in the form of a novel. Don't know why I ... Finished Sorry by Gail Jones over the weekend, it certainly is one of the best books I've read thus far this year. I recently finished a reread of The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville, it was a personal book of the year a few years back. I still love it.
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Sorry is the story of Perdita, an unwanted child of a unhappy couple living in northwest Australia after the first World War. Perdita's father ... yay for short books! reading Sorry now (well, not right at this moment). I seem to have both feet firmly planted in Australia. One, in northwest Australia post WWII still with Gail Jones's Sorry, and the other in New South Wales with The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville. The Grenville is a reread, the book was one of my favorites a few years ago. Finished A New England Tale which I found interesting (review posted on the book's page), now setting out to finish Sorry by Gail Jones, a short, lyrical book set in Western Australia in post WWII Western Australia. I'm in Norhtwestern Australia in Sorry by Gail Jones. Reading Sorry by Gail Jones at the moment. As with a previous book of hers read, the prose is lovely. Earlier this week from The Book Depository in the UK:
Voices, the third mystery in the series by Arnaldur Indridason
Sorry by Gail Jones (I have her previous two books)
Swiftly by Adam Robert (his latest)
notice they are all one word titles. . .
On the same day from Amazon:
Dark I ... ... did an Elizabeth Strout collection, and three books from the UK (including the 3rd Indridason mystery and Gail Jones's Sorry). Unfortunately, my pleasure reading is currently limited to late nights and weekends. . . (well, 3 out of 7 touchstones...) >17
Will do, avaland. I'll put it next on my list. I have a couple of books going at the moment but hopefully I'll get to Sorry next week for you. ... writers on the Miles Franklin Award (Australia) longlist for 2008 are:
Orpheus Lost, Janette Turner Hospital
Sorry, Gail Jones, Vintage (Random House Australia)
On this year's nomination list for the National Book Critics Circle Award (USA) were:
Joyce Carol Oa ... I ordered Sorry and have placed a few on my wish list. I really wanted to pick up Monster Love after reading some reviews on it, but couldn't bring myself to spend over $30 US to get it from the UK (am I whining?). I doubt I'll have anything read before the shortlist is announced, some years I'm ... ... on Their Backs by Linda Grant
The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley
Fault Lines by Nancy Huston
Sorry by Gail Jones
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
When We Were Bad by Charlot ... I have a copy of Sorry at home but I haven't read it yet. This may bump it up the TBR pile a bit. I work in a bookshop and The Memory Room was a huge seller this Christmas. From all reports it's excellent.
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