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Pink Mountain on Locust Island

Jamie Marina Lau

Start date: December 1, 2019

Finish date: December 31, 2019

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Sep 08, 2018 Michael Livingston rated it liked it

Bold and original - Lau's use of language is constantly surprising (if occasionally a little over the top). This is a hugely impressive debut filled with vivid imagery and memorable characters. ...more

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Jun 15, 2019 Kim rated it liked it

Shelves: australian, 2019-read, australian-women-writers, australian-author, australian-fiction, act-library, aww2019

This is a really difficult one to rate and review. Completely different to anything I've read before.
Highly experimental form. Sometimes the form is too obscuring to really feel confident following the story-line.
Sometimes the chapters feel more like staccato poetry.
Fascinating reading and I'm glad I did, but time will tell if it stays with me.
It's possible that I will be puzzling over this for a while.
Overall, I'm left with a craving for Chinese noodles and yum cha steamed dumplings.
One to re ...more

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Jul 04, 2019 Natasha (jouljet) rated it liked it

Shelves: stella-prize-longlist, poc, blistbookclub

Pink Mountain On Locust Island Jamie Marina Lau

This reads to me like a collection of Snapchats in this fast moving digital, social media age - observations, random thoughts, strange and sometimes disturbing encounters. An intense crush, an absent present father, drugs and art, something dodgy that you can't quite pinpoint, and an ensemble of characters that are pretty dislikeable.

But the prose is rich imagery and stunning observations. Things like "dad is a grumpy brown couch again", and
"everyo ...more

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Feb 26, 2019 Ely rated it really liked it

This is a very strange book. I don’t know how else to put that. I’m not sure I could really explain to you what the plot is, or describe any of the characters, but I really liked it. Jamie Marina Lau has a very interesting and unique way of writing, and it really drew me in. Despite being a short book, I had worried that this one was going to take me ages to get through, but it was surprisingly quick and easy to get through.

It’s definitely got to be up there on the list of weirdest books I’ve ev ...more

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