Finished Christian Kracht’s novella “Eurotrash” - a hilarious story & somehow imbues awful rich people with some humanity.

Busting his octogenarian mother out of a psych ward, the narrator attempts to help her spend her ill-gained wealth as fast as possible on a road trip around Switzerland

Sometimes you just gotta roll in dirt, then wet grass, then tanbark. Then rinse and repeat.

“Part fact part fiction is what life is.” - Jeanette Winterson on having the same name as her protagonist in Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, updated intro, 2014.

Delightfully revisiting this novel, haven’t read it in more than ten years since my beloved lit degree days. Bliss.

Jumaana Abdu’s debut novel is a highly accomplished tale of a divorced mother finding herself, community, and setting down roots in rural NSW as a Muslim woman. Beautiful commentary on the importance of place, connection and people.

Now desperately trying to find anything else she’s written.

A group of diverse and impoverished teens are invited to do the Kokoda trail with local cops. Good commentary of how our education system fails kids, but the novel is undercooked and gives too much humanity to racist characters. @picadorbooks.bsky.social

So keen for the first installment of my summer subscription! Thanks for double wrapping it so that I couldn’t peek at the title, it’s those small details that really count.

Going to read it on Christmas morning 🎄🥰@paperbackbookshop.bsky.social