Erin Cook
@erincook
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I don't care about Neil the seal and don't think he should be in the world section of the wires
Very nice of Dendy to remind me the moments I've had in their various seats
Nadiem Makarim consistently looks haunted in a way few of the other who get wrapped up look. I find it very effecting.
These two were my faves of June and probably the year. Henry Goes Bush cracking fun, a weird, funny trip with Henry Lawson and Banjo Patters. The Good Sea fills a gap in the Australia-Timor Leste reading that I didn't even know was there, a must.
I lost my reading thread. I don't think I'll finish anything else this month, so this was my June! Soft Serve an easy read, JLC was a slut, Muriel Sparks can do no wrong, Suharto's Indonesia a really fascinating mid-Suharto documen
how's this review for a debut Australian author lol okay maybe we can manage our expectations a little
a few months ago I read Hoodwinked, which was fascinating giving so much of Hanson is before my time. I was very intrigued by how Howard Libs acquiesced to her and allowed her to set the tone and then said, years later, 'oof that was a mistake.' And now this one is doing it!
You can spend the last of your money on a book you can't read for a week or two, as a treat
What if your only interests are political Islam in Indonesia and seeing Private Execution live
Insane inscription JLC left to one of his mistresses in a copy of Greene's Honorary Consul lmfao
My Booktopia tracked ad is: a book I looked up multiple times on the work computer, a non fiction consistent seller and uh Mein Kampf
it's dark now in Jakarta and the students haven't cleared off yet, which always gets me tense. especially on a Friday! The livestreams are very chilled at the moment though so let's hope it stays that way overnight 🙏