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A review by pat
All Who Live On Islands by Rose Lu
informative
reflective
5.0
Look, Rose is a friend, and it's hard to shake this bias - and if I didn't like the book, would I even leave a rating here? - but I just devoured the entire book while flying back to Melbourne this evening. Rose writes so deftly - clear, thoughtful, honest, and with heart the entire way through - and so it was hard to stop reading it. Perhaps the one advantage of having a longer-than-sensible flight path home meant that I had just the right amount of time with no distractions so I didn't actually need to stop.
At a Verb Wellington event over the past few days, the host of a panel that featured Rose said that after reading this book, you feel like you're now Rose's friend, and that rings true (even though, well, I already was). There's such a vulnerable and beautiful depth captured here, and I'm trying to decide who I'll lend my copy to, because I can already think of a handful of friends and family who will appreciate this.
At a Verb Wellington event over the past few days, the host of a panel that featured Rose said that after reading this book, you feel like you're now Rose's friend, and that rings true (even though, well, I already was). There's such a vulnerable and beautiful depth captured here, and I'm trying to decide who I'll lend my copy to, because I can already think of a handful of friends and family who will appreciate this.