#November AusReadingMonth22

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1. #AusReadingMonth22 is here hosted by BronasBooks
2. It is one of  my favourite challenges!
3. Here are my reading lists:

2022 LONGLIST:  (shortlist announcement 03 November) – winners = 17 November

CURROWAN – WINNER!!

2021 LONGLIST:

1. Peter Hartcher, Red Zone: China’s Challenge and Australia’s Future – REVIEW
2. Stuart Rintoul, Lowitja: The authorised biography of Lowitja O’Donoghue  READ….review ready POSTED
3. Marian Wilkinson, The Carbon Club READ….review ready – not posted  in Nov…sorry Brona
4. The Lucky Laundry –  Nathan Lynch – READ….review ready POSTED
5. Indelible City – Louisa Lim – READ review ready  not posted  in Nov…sorry Brona
6. Dark as Last Night (Tony Birch) (VIC)  winner Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection  2022 READ….POSTED
7. The Carbon Club – Marian Wilkinson – (QLD) shortlist Walkley Award 2021 READ….review ready  not posted  in Nov…sorry Brona
8. Soil – M. Evans – (TAS) longlist Tasmanian Literary Awards 2022 READ….review ready  not posted  in Nov…sorry Brona
9. Telling Tennant’s Story: The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence – D. Ashenden  (NT) READ….review ready not posted  in Nov…sorry Brona

1. Amani Haydar, The Mother Wound 
2. Kate Holden, The Winter Road (winner) 
3. Zoe Holman, Where The Water Ends
4. Louise Milligan, Witness 
5. Claire G. Coleman, Lies, Damned Lies
6. John Rasko and Carl Power, Flesh Made New

1. The Dictionary of Lost Words – Pip Williams (SA) – NOT READING
2. Richard Flanagan, Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry – NOT READING
3. Backseat Drivers – Craig Cormick – (ACT) winner  non-fiction ACT Writing and Publishing Awards 2109 – NOT READING

1. Currowan – ORDERED
2. Fighting for Hakerm (Craig Foster) (NSW) ??  2022 or 2023?

University of Southern QLD Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection

1. Dark as Last Night (Tony Birch) – READ
2. The Kindness of Birds (Merlinda Bobis)
3. The Burnished Sun (Mirandi Riwoe)
4. If You’re Happy (Fiona Robertson)
5. Lake Malibu and Other Stories (Su-May Tan)

TIP — NT = read a book about Ayer’s Rock/Uluru

Info: Lowitja

Learned about:

1. Oodnadatta
2. AyersRock/Uluru
3. Goyder’s Line

Story starts in Oodnadatta SA, NNW of Adelaide (1043 km)

The Aboriginal school is the biggest employer.

The Oodnadatta Aboriginal School, located in Kutaya Terrace, is a school operated by the Government of South Australia offering education from Reception to Year 12. In 2018, the school had a total enrolment of 14 students, of whom 86% were indigenous, and a teaching staff of three.

At the 2016 census, the population of Oodnadatta was 204 with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people making up 53.3% of the population.

I’VE BEEN READING Australian books for just 1e years…and now names (Alfred Deakin)…that I recognize start appearing in my current books! I read Judith Brett’s “The Egmatic Mr. Deakin” in 2018.

The more I read about how Australian government treated the aboriginals…..the more shocked I become.