The Samuel Beckett novel, Watt, recommended by a Beckett scholar I’m studying with. I’d hoped to cut down on the amount of room books take up in my house but it’s not happening. They’re all hard copies – I do buy ebooks but not many. I bought What it is Like to Go to To War in the UTS Co-op bookstore – it was on special and I’m glad I picked it up. I’ve been supporting them for many years and when my novel was published they were very supportive of me. I bought Terra Australis and the Knausgaard and Life Drawing from my local bookstore, Megalong Books. I’m also reading What it is Like to Go To Warby US Marine and Vietnam Vet Karl Marlantes and just finished Karl Ove Knausgaard’s first instalment of his six-volume Proustian novel-memoir A Death in the Familyand Life Drawing, a debut novel by American writer Robin Black – a gorgeous literary page-turner. He’s really interested in their technology and notes that this group has canoes whereas another group swims out to offshore islands. It’s incredible, to read his descriptions of parts of Australia never before seen by Europeans and his encounters with very different groups of Indigenous people. I’m also reading Matthew Flinders’ journal Terra Australisfor my PhD but also it’s a book every Australian should read. I’m reading a lot for my PhD, including an extraordinary book by Israeli security academic Eyal Weizman called Hollow Land, on the architecture of military occupation. The Bookshelf Diaries takes a peek into the reading life of writers, readers and book lovers.
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