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'Ambassador' for Australian Literature (but reading from everywhere else as well). Not tolerant of tweets about sport.
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Well, that didn't last long. Initiated and deleted an Instagram account in no time at all!

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An interesting debut from Nigerian author Uchenna Awoke anzlitlovers.com/2025/03/02/t...

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I've been busy today but I managed to get #6degrees done and have a little rant about Big Books as well... anzlitlovers.com/2025/03/01/s...

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Thanks to a recommendation from Emma @bookaround.bsky.social I found lots to think about in Oliver VII by Antal Szerb, translated by Len Rix anzlitlovers.com/2025/02/26/o...

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I'm not telling anyone what to do. I'm sorry if this hurts your feelings. But please be aware that if you're posting political stuff I can get more than enough of that from the news and so I will regretfully (probably) unfollow you. I'm only here for the books. It's a refuge.

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My timing is never right: I'm a week early for Reading Wales Month hosted by @bookertalk.bsky.social : anzlitlovers.com/2025/02/25/g...

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Still relevant today: Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by C J Hogarth anzlitlovers.com/2025/02/22/p...

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I won’t be surprised if Eva Menasse's Darkenbloom transl by Charlotte Collins is nominated for the International Booker… anzlitlovers.com/2025/02/21/d...

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#ReadingWales25 Reading Wales '25 — the countdown begins bookertalk.com/reading-wale... via @bookertalk.bsky.social

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I’ve read a fair few family history memoirs in my time, and each one is different in its own way, but this one really is unique. It’s a hybrid of family history and Holocaust memoir, of mystery and history… and the desecration of one of the world’s most valued books anzlitlovers.com/2025/02/20/n...

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You Must Remember This is the second novel of Sean Wilson, a writer from Perth, now based in Melbourne. Derived from the author’s experience witnessing his grandmother’s decline into dementia, it is a deeply heartfelt meditation on ageing and memory anzlitlovers.com/2025/02/17/y...

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Yesss! I noticed today that Deepseek was following my account so I had an unproductive exchange telling them that stealing content from my blog or using it to train AI was expressly forbidden on my site. Just now I tried to block them, and I couldn't because their account has been suspended. Yesss!

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Hmm. I notice that I have a new follower @deepseek.bluesky.bot Enhancement. I'd like to draw your attention to my About Page where it says "The use of content on this blog to train AI is expressly prohibited." Go away and write your own stuff, like I do. See anzlitlovers.com/about/

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We are so lucky to have authors of the calibre of Andrea Goldsmith: her new novel The Buried Life is brilliant. anzlitlovers.com/2025/02/15/t...

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An aspect of Australia's military history that I knew nothing about: Travels in Atomic Sunshine, Australia and the Occupation of Japan by Robin Gerster anzlitlovers.com/2025/02/10/t...

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Spell the Month in Books for February: anzlitlovers.com/2025/02/08/s...

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Advice for people in trying times, from Librarian Shipwreck wp.me/p38S12-2hf

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@stujallen.bsky.social Late for last week's #TranslationThurs and early for this weeks! A Dream of Annapurna by Igor Zavilinsky translated by father-and-son duo Michael Purslove and Jonathan Purslove anzlitlovers.com/2025/02/03/a...

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Thinking about Hans Fallada's Every Man Dues Alone today for some reason. 😢

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An intriguing memoir from Ernest Hemingway, published posthumously in 1964 anzlitlovers.com/2025/02/02/a...

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#^Degrees starts this month with Dangerous Liaisons... anzlitlovers.com/2025/02/01/s...

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Clearly (as you can see from my 2024 Books of the Year) I am out of step with the zeitgeist. 2025 Vic Premier's Lit Awards shortlists, with thanks to @readingsbooks.bsky.social anzlitlovers.com/2025/02/01/2...

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As a published biographer, I don’t have any magical solutions, but perhaps I can offer a few tips. michellescotttucker.com/research-tip...

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Bad Boy Fiction from the 1970s: The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis anzlitlovers.com/2025/01/31/t...

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The 2025 #Ockhams New Zealand Lit Awards longlist has been announced: anzlitlovers.com/2025/01/30/2...

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Speculative fiction of the literary kind: debut author Ann Dombroski gives readers plenty to think about in After the Great Storm anzlitlovers.com/2025/01/28/a...

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New on my blog today: review of the epic family and national history The End of August by Yu Miri findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/j...

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@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social‬ For Holocaust Memorial Day commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, I read Last Walk in Naryshkin Park by Rose Zwi, about the genocide in Lithuania, where 91–95% of Lithuania’s Jewish population were killed. anzlitlovers.com/2025/01/27/l...

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Yet another example of how I just don't get on with J-Lit. anzlitlovers.com/2025/01/26/t...

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The longlists for the Tasmanian Premier's Literary Awards have been announced: anzlitlovers.com/2025/01/22/2...

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A bit late for #JohnBanville24 at ReadingMatters, but better late than never: my thoughts about The Book of Evidence by John Banville: anzlitlovers.com/2025/01/21/t...

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