Image: A yellow tile with black writing says ‘great books, average juice and being blissfully unaware that (another) lockdown is just around the corner…’
Kate is on a high from reading Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead and has managed to wrangle an interview. Katherine did a juice cleanse (doesn’t recommend).
Here’s what else gets mentioned:
- The Oxford Book of Aphorisms
- Toastmasters Treasure Chest (Volume 2)
- Conversations – Ben Crowe (Ben is Ash Barty’s mindset coach)
- Lauren Chater‘s newsletter (sign up here)
- The Overshare newsletter by Kay Kerr and Anna Whately
- Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Kate’s vision for The Mother Fault (an exercise with Charlotte Wood)
As allegorical as Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things
As sexy as Eimer McBride’s The Lesser Bohemians
As pacey as Jane Harper’s The Dry
As ‘wild and unfamiliar’ and brave as Geroge Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo
As precise and beautiful and new in language as Zana Fraillon’s The Bone Sparrow
With children as respected and richly imagined as in Romy Ash’s Floundering
A love letter to place like Tim Winton would do
With underlayers/metaphors like in Sophie Cunningham’s Geography
Inviting readers to self-reflect, ask questions, reflect on the world we live in – like Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West or Jane Rawson’s From the Wreck
Sigh. And THAT is why The Motherfault is such a good book, people.
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