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Can I finish this before the new year starts? I'll try.

I’m not connecting with this book at all, and I’m halfway through

Looked at the text size of this book when I got it from the library and was convinced I wasn’t going to finish it in two weeks. I listened to the audiobook for the first few chapters yesterday and tonight I blitzed through it. What can I say. I love a good family epic.

Endlessly fascinating and surprisingly factual without being controversial. And I thought I had problems as the eldest of 5!

I follow Page Break and this was a recommendation from one of the NYC booksellers. However, I didn’t realise how local it was: in the first few pages. Piedimonte’s was mentioned, as was Barkly Square and several other locations that I consider my usual haunts. I already know I’m going to cry at some point (complimentary)

Just finished the prologue and I’m screaming! Also, this looks like a long read (heaps of characters, real people)! So I’m glad I had this on normal loan and not express.

Could be good

My new sauna book. Pages not sewn in, but wax not melting, so far. My sister got it for me while at Canberra because she asked me to buy her a specific vape and when I did she was so overjoyed she asked me to pick at book at Big W lol.

This is Black Mirror scary if you’ve dabbled in the dating world longer than you’d like to admit.

Some notes:
1. I knew this was an easy book, but it’s also the third book this month I’ve read that had mentioned Mrs Dalloway.
2. Rich white people are the whitest people there is lol.
3. I’ve been reading western literature for years - we couldn’t afford books so Mum took us to Union Church Library (are they still open?) I’m fully immersed in the culture now, but still steadily, sort of, adjusting?

Couldn’t find decent books in Manila and by decent I mean books that I’d otherwise normally read. This had an interesting premise, a great cover and for the most part, a title that fends people off. Russians are an acquired taste, I say, as I learn Gaelic and proceed to be an insufferable nutjob myself. To each their own lol.