Sublime

I’m going to settle for small, random stabs of extreme interestingness – moments of intense awareness of the things I’m about to lose, and of gladness that they exist

Helen Garner • Helen Garner on Happiness: ‘It’s Taken Me 80 Years to Figure Out It’s Not a Tranquil, Sunlit Realm’

Helen Garner on Happiness: ‘It’s Taken Me 80 Years to Figure Out It’s Not a Tranquil, Sunlit Realm’

Helen Garner theguardian.com

Em had a slight lankiness to her. She wasn’t just slim, she was skinny, scrawny maybe, in a way Pat noticed other women noticing.

Bri Lee • The Work

filled with the kind of determined cheer that masked a deeper despair.

Ruth Ozeki • The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel

mellifluously

Rachel Cusk • Outline: A Novel (Outline Trilogy Book 1)

unspooled

Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller

subtle stylist and a self-willed Everyman

Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami

in

Jean McNeil • The Dhow House

inures