24 days of Rescue Reads Reviews. Day #1 You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld. This review springs from my general fan-girling over everything Sittenfeld writes. instagram.com/p/C0TTImHpsTD/…

24 Days of Rescue Reads Reviews Day #2 Madame Pompadour by Nancy Mitford. Part of my reading life is devoted to my ambition to one-day be described as a noted (selective) Mitford buff. #holidayreading instagram.com/p/C0VhT-QpyTD/…

24 days of Rescue Reads Reviews Day # 3: Certain Admissions by Gideon Haigh. The artefacts of a murder investigation are ideal to vividly furnish an account of an earlier time and place. ... #truecrime #holidayreads #notsonewrelease instagram.com/p/C0YoR6cJBcd/…

24 Days of Rescue Reads Reviews Day 4: Report from the Interior by Paul Auster (2013). This rescue from the op-shop shelves was motivated firmly by the “authors I really ought to read” category of convictions. ... #holidayreads #bestof2023 #thrifting instagram.com/p/C0aNIDEh4eS/…

24 Days of Rescue Reads Reviews Day 6. Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid instagram.com/p/C0fPzzKhNJC/…

24 Days of Rescue Reads Reviews Day 7: A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work by Bernadette Brennan. #bestof2023 #thrifting instagram.com/p/C0i266mpUqJ/…

24 days of Rescue Reads Reviews Day 8: Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason. ... There’s a lot here to love and chew on. #bestof2023 #sorrowandbliss instagram.com/p/C0k5aRgJk_r/…

24 days of Rescue Reads Reviews Day 9: The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay. I spend an unjustifiable amount of my domestic life anthropomorphising my dog. ... #bestof2023 #notsonewrelease Laura Jean McKay #CEASEFIRE instagram.com/p/C0nbD5iJSVA/…

24 Days of Rescue Reads Reviews Day 10: The Choke by Sofie Laguna Very bad things happen in this book. Good things happen too. Sometimes these things are simply bad or simply good. Often it’s more complicated than that. ... #bestof2023 #notsonewrelease instagram.com/p/C0pntQRBKLJ/…

24 Days of Rescue Reads Reviews Day 12: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. How much do you remember of your childhood? ... instagram.com/p/C0utudhBwD6/…

24 Days of Rescue Reads Reviews Day 13: An Autobiography by Janet Frame I have a section of my home library dedicated to mad memoirs. ... #bestof2023 #madmemoirs #notsonewrelease instagram.com/p/C0xTW3YhA4O/…

24 Days of Rescue Reads Reviews Day 14: Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis. The blurb on the back of this Bret Easton Ellis novel (my first) describes its coming of age story as ‘fierce’. ... #bestof2023 #notsonewrelease instagram.com/p/C0z4wjuhwuW/…

24 Days of Rescue Reads Reviews Day 15: True Stories by Helen Garner. ... Garner uses plain language to make sacred all her subjects. ... #bestof2023 #helengarner #notsonewrelease instagram.com/p/C02s3_oPbm5/…

24 Days of Rescue Reads Reviews Day 16: Educated by Tara Westover. I know you probably all read this in 2018 when Barack Obama told you to, ... #notsonewrelease #stillgood #bestof2023 instagram.com/p/C05JSZ3By4l/…

24 Days of Rescue Reads Reviews Day 17: The Lebs by Michael Mohammed Ahmad. ... It’s youthful and urgent and documents a world that is entirely fresh to me. ... #bestof2023 instagram.com/p/C07fD66hAtY/…

24 Days of Rescue Reads Reviews Day 19: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid. Has anyone else been watching And Just Like That, the Sex and the City return series? I’m not proud of it but I can’t look away. ... #bestof2023 instagram.com/p/C1AzYvVh0i4/…

24 Days of Rescue Reads Reviews Day 20: Vertigo by Amanda Lohrey. Like Lohrey’s Miles Franklin Award winning Labyrinth, Vertigo is categorised as ‘a pastoral’ and sees its protagonists seek a new way ... #bestof2023 #notsonewrelease instagram.com/p/C1Ddh6rBYh7/…

24 Days of Rescue Reads Reviews Day 21: Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by Anita Heiss. My repertoire of droll analysis finds itself barren in the face of this lovely heartful book by Anita Heiss. ... #bestof2023 #notsonewrelease instagram.com/p/C1F-B7Qh2nT/…

24 Days if Rescue Reads Reviews Day 23: The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín (1992) My Friday op-shop colleague is as enamoured with books as I am and is regularly pressing Tóibín into my hands. ... #notsonewrelease #bestof2023 instagram.com/p/C1LA0QmhkJP/…

And so to my top five of 2023 (in no particular order) Infidelity and Other Affairs by Kate Legge; Not Waving, Drowning by Sarah Krasnostein, Small Acts of Disappearance by Fiona Wright and The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Happy Christmas.