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A blog about books and writing, through rainbow-tinted glasses. Every book gets a gay rating.

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Review: Abandon Every Hope by Hayley Singer

Why don’t we speak or think of what happens in abattoirs and slaughterhouses?

Animals, Australian, Essays, Ethics, Nonfiction, Stella Prize

Review: Body Friend by Katherine Brabon

A meticulous study of pain.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Stella Prize

Review: North And South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

All is flux.

19th Century, Classics, England, Fiction

Review: Always Will Be by Mikaela Saunders

Radical visions of the future.

Australian, Clim change, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Short stories, Speculative

Review: The Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

The big climate book.

Climate change, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, Speculative

Review: How Far The Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler

Science meets memoir.

Essays, Marine biology, nature, Nonfiction, science, Science writing

Review: The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright

The limits and possibilities of empathy.

Contemporary, Fiction, Ireland, Novel

Review: Banzeiro Òkòtó by Eliane Brum (translated by Diane Whitty)

Where the river goes savage.

Brazil, Climate change, Environment, nature, Nonfiction

Review: Eventually, Everything Connects by Sarah Firth

Sly, whimsical, existential essays.

Australian, Contemporary, Essays, Graphic novel, Memoir

Review: God Forgets About The Poor by Peter Polites

“People will love my suffering”.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Greece, Migrant, Novel

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