Doddyaboutbooks
Neurospicy mood reader, with a focus on Aussie books and diverse books and authors. Queer AF. Xe/xir
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The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations about a Triple Murder Trial
Helen Garner
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The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations about a Triple Murder Trial
Helen Garner
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Gods of Jade and Shadow
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Siang Lu is fast becoming a new favourite author of mine. His story telling is so imaginative and creative there's no way I can tell what's going to happen next and it's brilliant!
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The Life to Come
Michelle de Kretser
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The Stella Prize winners
The Stella Prize is an Australian Literary prize for non-binary and women authors. The prize has been active for over 10 years and includes fiction, poetry and non-fiction. I'm only including the winners in this list but the longlist is always interesting and in recent years includes more and more indigenous voices. https://stella.org.au/past-prize-winners/
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Post from the The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations about a Triple Murder Trial forum
Chloe: Women often smile, ironically, to appear defanged. Sarah: This goes back to our uncomfortable relationship with female aggression. Maybe true crime is a place where you don’t have todo the smiling and mincing with your voice rising at the end. Chloe: Do we take women seriously? Was Erin taken seriously? Helen: I suspect she wasn’t taken seriously. I think she was seen in that family as a wild card.
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Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction
Sonia Sulaiman
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Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction
Sonia Sulaiman
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hii :) currently trying to get out of a like two month long reading slump & it has not been going well unfortunately 😞 what are some 'action' heavy books that you've enjoyed? doesnt have to be super action-y in the sense of fighting or battles (tho im open to those too) but i need something where there's something interesting happening almost every other moment? if that makes sense?😭 something that doesn't give my brain too much time to rest or get bored. my close friends(usual reading buddies) are in slumps as well so it'd be nice if there's something we could read together? some of my fav 'action' packed books are:
• you made a fool of death with your beauty • kindred • im glad my mom died • the silent patient • the duke and i • battle royale
we're open to literally any genre! thank you so much in advance <333
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So I have been in a reading slump but I know what type I want to read . I need book recs that will make me scream at the plot twists, stay up till 4 am reading, and makes me sad with angst. Any recs?
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Just wanted to let you all know how grateful I am for people on this app and how much fun I am having chatting with you all!
Me interacting with people on Pagebound, learning of new books and seeing all the kindness and positivity. Let's share the love for books:
Hope everyone else has been having fun chats on this app!
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A fantasy universe created by Sir Terry Pratchett, Discworld is a flat planet balanced on the backs of four elephants, which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle. These are comedic novels that parody traditional fantasy tropes. All books can be read as standalones.
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Hello PB Friends,
Any Aussies here been to the Book Fair Australia and can share their experience?
Is it all about bookish accessories and merchandise? Or is it mostly self-published authors trying sell you their books? Or something else altogether?
13Post from the The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations about a Triple Murder Trial forum
Helen: In order to live life, women have to throttle back in the,selves huge amounts of aggression. So I’m never surprised when I hear about a woman killing someone. It doesn’t surprise me at all. Sarah: There’s a social taboo around female aggression — and often even assertiveness. These stories are about power. For women, who often don’t have much of it in their own lives, that’s fascinating.
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Discussion on why women are obsessed with true crime.
Chloe: You don’t need ti think about war or climate change or the bills you need to pay. Procedural crime shows begin with some sickness in the citizen body. There’s a communal fear: will this murderous energy be contained? And, at the end, a clever detective manages to cauterise the rot and we can all sleep safely. I suppose true crime gives that relief with the added frisson of it being factual. But there’s another theory: women are listening to or reading or watching true crime because they recognise themselves in these stories as, unfortunately, the victims — and they’re almost trying to game out: How do you not pick the sociopath on Tinder? …
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