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The Choreography of Everyday Life by Annie-B Parson
informative
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
A lovely short book on art, narrative and the dance of life, by the woman who choreographed David Byrne's incredible recent tours (and a whole bunch of other stuff)
I'll Go On by Hwang Jungeun
reflective
sad
slow-paced
2.75
This was a bit ponderous and self-conscious for me - stylistically frustrating and with nothing much going on plot-wise, the commentary on working class South Korean lives didn't really click for me.
The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It by Neal Bascomb
adventurous
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
4.0
Loved this story of three absolutely incredible athletes redefining the limits of the human body
A Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba
adventurous
challenging
dark
fast-paced
3.75
This is good, but not as creepily brilliant as Such Small Hands - I think having an adult narrate the story takes away some of the chilling intensity
Drylands by Thea Astley
challenging
dark
fast-paced
3.75
A scathing, powerfully feminist portrait of small town Queensland, let down for me by a kind of "kids these days" attitude that's probably reasonable for 75 year old Thea Astley, but still got up my nose a bit
Snake by Kate Jennings
dark
funny
fast-paced
5.0
Stunning. Bleakly funny book about a bad marriage, perfectly crafted moments, stitched together into maybe the best Australian novel of the 1990s
La Rose by Louise Erdrich
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
4.25
A sympathetic portrait of a community under stress and the ways traumatic events reverberate out across people and time - Erdrich is just consistently excellent
The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
fast-paced
4.0
A superb patchwork of a book, weaving together family, country, tragedy and history - will be shocked if it doesn't make the Stella list
We Come with This Place by Debra Dank
dark
emotional
informative
medium-paced
4.25
A superb patchwork of a book, weaving together family, country, tragedy and history - will be shocked if it doesn't make the Stella list