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Where have I put this????? I started it, took it out with me somewhere, where is it????

Just picked this up from the library. It's a daunting 477 pages with no renewals because it's just won the biography prize.
I'm not sure that I want to know *that* much about him, but I'll see how I go...

You think the film of the Odyssey is new? Think again: https://anzlitlovers.com/2026/08/12/a...

Oh this is good, very, very good. Why have I never read this author's books for adults before, only her children's books?!!

2026 Prime Minister's Literary Awards shortlists, congratulations to all the authors, publishers editors and cover designers! https://anzlitlovers.com/2026/08/11/2...

Readings has compiled a list of translations! https://www.readings.com.au/news/your...

I haven't read the preface which, along with the bibliography is 43 pages long, so the story only starts on page 47 and I've really only read 9 pages. Gosh, my French is rusty!!

Quite shocking to read this with Western eyes to see how Persian women's lives were constrained, compared to their sisters in the the West. Even after divorce, Touba is subjected to her first husband, Haji Mahmud's rules and restrictions about what she may do, for three months, and even then, she must guard her reputation.

I have one day to finish this before I begin #20 Books of Winter https://anzlitlovers.com/2026/05/12/2...

This is very entertaining!

Is anyone else being driven crazy by stupid offers to get their book reviewed on Amazon or GR? Presumably after paying for it, I just send the emails to junk mail.
But word of advice, anybody stupid enough to send this kind of marketing to someone like me who (a) doesn't have a book in the marketplace and (b) has over 3000 reviews of my own blog which has never been monetised, is probably AI.

Not only narrated by a book but also by the cremated ashes of a mother...

The Introduction is interesting because of its feminist angle.