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𝙳𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝙻𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎

This morning I caught up with my delightful booksta bestie Sarah @lostinherpages for a coffee and catch up on all the tea from the @surfcoastwritersfestival last weekend. Sounds like I missed a cracking event. Look out for 2027 👏

Of course I arrived early and managed a couple of pages of my current read ~ Country People, which is proving a jaunty little romp and I’m loving it. And then somehow I managed to amble into @torquaybooks to pick up what is many readers prediction to be on the @thebookerprizes longlist this year ~ John of John by Douglas Stuart.

And some bookmail was waiting for me when I wandered home thanks to @hachetteaus the new @christinalauren 💗 The Romance Revival is out 14/7/26

Also loving my new gorgeous striped long sleeve from @tinytrove_ 🤎💛💜

Now that’s what I call a fantastic morning ☕️ 📚 💬 👩‍❤️‍👩

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About last night! How lucky were we to have @caseywritesstories travel from Melbourne down to Torquay and drop in to @wordsandwinetorquay Bookclub to talk about her beautifully heartwarming book Five Stages of Grace 🩷 We laughed, we cried, we shared stories and came together in that beautiful way only women can.

Thank you Sarah for creating a wonderful night for us and as always to the team @torquay_wine_store for always looking after us 🩷📖 🍷

#booksbymybed #bookclubs #bookclubsofinstagram #aussieauthors #womeninspiringwomen

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𝙵𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝙶𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚎 ~ 𝙲𝚊𝚜𝚎𝚢 𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚝

Holy moly. This was the most perfect read. It was heart breaking and yet heartwarming, full of moments of despair and yet brimming with hope, vulnerable in laying bare weaknesses and yet overflowing with strength.

Our main character Grace is blissfully living her life with her husband, trying for a baby and then she gets the news no one imagines receiving. But if Grace thought cancer would be the only battle she takes on she’s wrong. Her challenges move beyond her diagnosis and become so much more, her marriage, her family and any certainty about her future.

This beautifully written story speaks to the experience of many as they grieve losses on multiple fronts. I laughed, I was filled with anger and I cried…. a LOT!

This is our bookclubs May read and we are so lucky to be hosting @caseywritesstories at our @wordsandwinetorquay Bookclub tonight. I’m looking forward to meeting Casey and chatting all things Grace 🩷 with Wine and tissues in hand 🍷
A big thank you to my book bestie Sarah for coordinating tonight’s event 🩷 @lostinherpages
About the book 📖

Grace Granger has one dream: to become a mother. It’s all she and her husband can think about. But when a small lump on her neck turns out to be cancer, the life Grace was building – the marriage, the family, the future – becomes a battle for survival.
Told through the five stages of grief – Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance – Grace’s journey is raw, heart-wrenching, and unexpectedly hopeful.
As she navigates invasive treatments, an overbearing mother, busy friends, and a husband who feels further away with each passing day, Grace must decide: will she fight for the life she’s losing, or learn to embrace the one she still has?

@hawkeyepublishing

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A P R I L W R A P - U P

(better late than never 🙃)

April was SUCH a good reading month for me 🥹📚

I found some new favourites, had lots of 5 star reads, and honestly just felt completely pulled back into that magical “can’t stop thinking about this book” kind of reading mood. The best feeling.

I read across a bit of everything this month too - literary fiction, thriller, fantasy, uplifting cosy mystery & slightly strange books that blur the line between reality and imagination….... and somehow they all worked for me.
Definitely one of those months where my only problem was deciding what to pick up next because everything was hitting 😅

》》Did you have a standout read in April? Or a book you’re still thinking about? Let me know if you've read any of these ones - I'd love to hear your thoughts!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
》Remarkably Bright Creatures
》Heart the Lover
》 On the Calculation of Volume

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
》Yesteryear
》The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
》Caller Unknown

⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
》 The Red Winter
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#aprilwrapup #Bookstagrammers #stacksaturday
#bookstacks #readerslife

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚁𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚛 ~ 𝙰𝚗𝚓𝚎𝚝 𝙳𝚊𝚊𝚗𝚓𝚎
𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝙼𝚌𝙺𝚊𝚢

The Remembered Soldier was on my list and had been a failed buddy read with @lostinherpages . I struggled to want to pick it up. I stopped about 80 pages in.
Then it was listed in the Booker prize international long list and so I picked it up again.

I wish I could love this like so many others have. But the interminably long stream of consciousness style of writing felt like running through mud for my brain. I can appreciate those who found this poetic and descriptive. But I slogged, on and on and on.

But then, the last 100 pages took me on such a journey and this saved the whole book for me. The ending leaves the reader having to decide to if the “constructed” love throughout the book is what human connection and life is all about or if this was just an illusion of the saddest kind.

Should you pick this up? If you have marathon reading ability and can patiently sit with the journey then go for it. And bravo to the translation of this epic tale.

#bookerprize #bookish #bookworm #translatedfiction #booksbooksbooks

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This was my first Trent Dalton book. His debut novel, Boy Swallows Universe, apparently drew inspiration from a traumatic childhood during which his mother and her heroin dealing partner were both jailed. In Lola in the Mirror, Dalton utilises 17 years of social affairs journalism to infuse his storytelling with fictional renderings of happenings experienced by the real-life Brisbane “houseless”. And yes, it also features a ruthless drug queen, Flora Box.

The teenage narrator and her mother have been on the run for nearly eighteen years since the mother killed her husband. The narrator has been kept ignorant of her real name to protect her from the authorities. For the past seven years the pair have lived in a disused van alongside other dispossessed folk in a scrap yard near the Brisbane River. The girl draws, sustained by dreams of one day having her art exhibited at The Met. Each chapter is prefaced by a striking sketch attributed to the girl and labelled with museum-like retrospective commentary.

Not long into the book tragedy strikes and the narrator turns to a salvaged junkyard mirror to seek clues to her past, guide her through the present and foretell her future. Dalton proclaims, “I genuinely do believe in the power of magic“, and it is in the magical realism of the mirror that we meet Lola, fluid and unpredictable, sometimes suave and sophisticated, occasionally distressed and unravelling. The narrator is equally mercurial, displaying great resilience but also artless vulnerability. Her life becomes a test of wills, especially when she attempts to walk away from the clutches of Madam Box and her loathsome son, an act usually associated with terminal consequences.

Lola in the Mirror is poignant and humorous. It is a wild ride (subtlety is scarce on the streets) encountering violence, addiction and suicide. But it is also an expression of community, hope and love, embracing themes of loss, sacrifice, identity and found family.

It is a book where you fervently wish for a positive outcome, but one where jeopardy lurks around every street corner and river bend.

Once started, it was a book I found almost impossible to put down.

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📚SUNDAY VIBES📚

It's been a self imposed lazy start to the day.
A little sleep in, a mighty headache,
2 coffees and I am almost finished with this riveting read by @sallyhepworth

I only have 3 more books to go in my backlog of Sally's book. I am trying to read them in order, which means Mad Mabel will be the last to read.
Oh, but how I want to read it now! 😑

Whatever your Sunday looks like, I hope you enjoy it.

QOTD: What are you reading now?

Read on and relax 🤗

#bookstafriends #sallyhepworth #sundayreadingvibes #bookmyimagination

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📚2025 - Reflections on my reading year📚

I read 61 books in 2025, a significant reduction on the previous year whether that is measured in books or pages. But I’m fine with that. Life had a very different look last year compared with the previous year, and while the quantity declined, the quality remained gratifyingly high due to the generosity of spirit of friends and publishers.

53 of the books were fiction, 8 were nonfiction. Orbital was the shortest, The Goldfinch the longest.

As has been the case for a few years now, I read more books written by women (34) than men (27).
45 of the books were written by authors who I hadn’t read before, and I “discovered” some fantastic writers including Niall Williams and Fíona Scarlett, both of whom feature in my top 12 reads of the year. Along with Ian McEwan, these were the only writers I read more than one book by in 2025.

Here are the books that stood out for me in 2025.

📚Prize winners
Orbital - Samantha Harvey
The Safekeep - Yael Van Der Wouden

📚Modern classic
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

📚Gifted
A Family Matter - Claire Lynch (thank you @vintagebooks )

📚Recommended by friends
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
Against The Loveless World - Susan Abulhawa
The Housekeeper And The Professor - Yoko Ogawa
The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Boys Don’t Cry - Fíona Scarlett (thank you @faberbooks)
This is Happiness - Niall Williams (thank you @rachelquinmarketing @bloomsburypublishing)
Time of the Child - Niall Williams (thank you @rachelquinmarketing @bloomsburypublishing)
Lola In The Mirror - Trent Dalton

A hugely appreciative shoutout to the chief recommenders (who I suggest you follow if you don’t already!):
@literaryphdelights
@numberslady_reads
@therobinsbookshelf
@fiction_fan_girl
@salboreads
@suzzed81
@lostinherpages

Do we share any 2025 favourites?

Wishing you all a happy 2026. May it be filled with wonderful bookish experiences, both anticipated and delightfully unexpected.

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@lostinherpages has shared this beautiful tribute to Torquay Library - with a touch of Love Actually magic and plenty of library love ❤️🎄

Thanks for the kind words - you’ve made us blush and think to ourselves… that we actually look quite pretty! 🥲

#GeelongRegionalLibraries #TorquayLibrary #loveactuallyisallaround #Ilookquitepretty #librarylove

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Yay! Whoop whoop! 🥳 I’ve reached 4000+ followers.

❤️ To say thank you, I’m going to post a little surprise out to one of my followers (selected randomly).

❤️ I’m so grateful to you all for your comments, posts, likes & book recommendations. My TBR list is a mile long & my library holds are out of control!

❤️ You are all fabulous & I’m so thankful to be a part of this book loving community.

💕Lisa 💕

#booklover #bookcommunity #bookstagram #gratitude #thankyou #bookfriends

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Triple Treat!

I have 3 new books to sink my teeth into, which will be far better for me than the lollies I devoured today. 😝😬

I am currently reading:

The Water's Dead -
by @author_catherine_lea
and it is very hard to put down.
The mystery is confounding me, and the setting is in beautiful New Zealand 🇳🇿 😍
Thank you to Catherine for sending this one. 🥰

Next up, I will be reading:

The Washup -
by @nicolecrowewrites
A rural crime read set in another gorgeous setting: Magnetic Island.
Thank you to @hardiegrantbooks @panterapress and Nicole for this one.

And then, I will be starting November with the new release from one of my favourites.... Christian White.

The Long Night
A promise of dark things and the plot twist we all love from him.
Many thanks to Christian, @affirmpress, and @tandemcollectiveglobal for this one.

Which books will you be reading next?

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𝚂𝚖𝚞𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛

The highlight of my bookish calendar is the @wordsandwinetorquay Smutober night. Created for the spicy gals this is a seperate event from our normal monthly bookclub.

The group chat before the night really kicks off and sets the tone for the evening.

The book this year was The Seven Year Itch by @amydawsauthor and it sure provided the light, fun, smut that we enjoy. Dress code was C&ntry and Western and the ladies delivered! 🤠

Special mention to the themed cookies that provide re enactments of chapter 35 #iykyk

We had stellar reviews, played fun games, ate smut themed food and enjoyed the friendships, new and old, that nights like this provide.

My belly aches from laughter 😆
My bookish heart is full 🩷

Swipe with caution to check out some of the fun ➡️

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