Current Reading - Books best thread
Like Amor, I've been thinking about my favourite books of the year and, almost despite myself, I can't go past Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life. Sometimes overwrought, determinedly ahistorical and just endlessly, crushingly heartbreaking. Nothing I've read has affected me more.
I've been reading an awful lot of local books this year - Australian literature is really hitting some heights this year - Charlotte Wood's scorching The Natural Way of Things deserves to be read by an international audience, and Stephanie Bishop's achingly sad The Other Side of the World is a classically old-fashioned novel that is deeply moving.
Like Amor, I've been thinking about my favourite books of the year and, almost despite myself, I can't go past Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life. Sometimes overwrought, determinedly ahistorical and just endlessly, crushingly heartbreaking. Nothing I've read has affected me more.
I've been reading an awful lot of local books this year - Australian literature is really hitting some heights this year - Charlotte Wood's scorching The Natural Way of Things deserves to be read by an international audience, and Stephanie Bishop's achingly sad The Other Side of the World is a classically old-fashioned novel that is deeply moving.
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