My favorite reads of 2025. 3rd book.
#Praiseworthy
#AlexisWright
“Once upon a fine time for some people in the world, but not so plenteous, nor perfect for others, there lived a culture dreamer obsessing about the era.”
#Praiseworthy
#AlexisWright
Brokenness.Poverty broken....Broken homes…Broken ties.Broken culture. Broken land.Broken people.Broken love? Broken joy? Race broken.A broken state of affairs.Broken band-aids. Broken children. Broken thoughts. Links to all times broken...
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
#Praiseworthy
#AlexisWright
Brokenness. Poverty broken...Broken homes.
Broken emotions. Broken ties. Broken culture. Broken land. Broken people. Broken love? Broken joy? Race broken. A broken state of affairs. Broken band-aids. Broken children…
Links to all times broken...
#booksky
#TheWriteWomen
#BookSky #Australia 🖋️📚 #TBR
💙📚 #WomenWriting #AlexisWright - Three by Alexis Wright: Carpentaria 2006 - Miles Franklin Literary Award (2007) , Praiseworthy 2023 - The Stella Prize (2024), and just re-issued Tracker 2017 and 2025 The Stella Prize (2018) Women's Prize for Nonfiction Longlist.
Finished #Praiseworthy
#AlexisWright
He did not have to become a heretic, like some black man addicted to the Australian way of life…where was the insult in saying the only words that he loved to say and mattered most to him...the only two words relevant to his existence, Aboriginal Sovereignty.
#Praiseworthy
#AlexisWright
Brokenness.Poverty broken. Broken generators.Broken homes.Broken emotions.Broken ties.Broken culture.Broken land. Broken people.Broken love? Broken joy? Race broken.A broken state of affairs.
Broken band-aids.Broken children.Broken thoughts.Links to all times broken….
#Praiseworthy
#AlexisWright
They needed to be able to swear their allegiance to Praiseworthy by answering these simple questions based on the dominant white people's common bonds and values to Australia….What you got to do is stop thinking in blackness, and start thinking in white wash….
#Praiseworthy
#AlexisWright
…real money was a hoax…It was the government's way of controlling poverty Aboriginal people, ruthlessly convincing them to have useless beliefs about banks having money to save them....Money did not hold up the sky on what was left of his traditional land.
#Praiseworthy
#AlexisWright
She turned away…to the wisdom of moths,of butterflies…hatching her own plan to escape…She would risk sanity,future times of calamity…to live fabulously,flamboyantly lepidoptera-ism,in a poem for a chrysalis hatching into the glory of a simple butterfly.
Posted last summer when I first picked up #Praiseworthy by #AlexisWright, a book I never finished reading. But Úrsula Buendía believed that time goes in a circle and I am doing this one again.
“Once upon a fine time for some people in the world, but not so plenteous, nor perfect for others….”
Born On This Day
(25th November):
Alexis Wright,
Waanyi (Australian) author.
#BornOnThisDay #AlexisWright
#AboriginalAuthors
Miles Franklin award 2024: #AlexisWright continues dream run as shortlist announced: Much-lauded Praiseworthy joins works by Gregory Day, André Dao, Sanya Rushdi, Jen Craig and Hossein Asgari competing for Australia’s highest literary honour
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Once upon a fine time for some people in the world, but not so plenteous, nor perfect for others, there lived a culture dreamer obsessing about the era.
#Praiseworthy
#AlexisWright
The Canberra politicians accused the traditional owners of being deranged, of seeing things that only they could see, a haze. Nobody else saw changes in the climate….
#Praiseworthy
#AlexisWright
