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Welcome!

I’m Lucy, an award-winning book blogger, bibliotherapist and writer with a passion for brilliant books, independent bookstores, literary travel and book festivals around the world.

 

The Literary Edit was named the London Book Fair’s inaugural Book Blog of the Year, and is a stylish online space for readers, writers and literary travellers.

 

Here you’ll find weekly book reviews, write-ups on beautiful bookstores from around the world, literary city guides and some personal insights into the agony and ecstasy of life of an expat, all written lovingly from my beach-side bedroom in Bondi.

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*Unrelated caption alert* Has anyone else made an *Unrelated caption alert*
Has anyone else made any reading goals for the year? I’m hoping to tick off approximately 100 books by the end of the year but here are 21 books that I’ve either been recommended of late or have been meaning to read *forever* that are currently lying around my flat, very much unread. I figured that listing them down here would give me the impetus to move them to the top of my reading pile for 2021:
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo (recommended by @dwaroundtheworld)
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (recommended by @coletbrown)
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel (recommended by @mrturner)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Untethered Soul by Michael A Singer
Stronger by @poornabell
No Such Thing as Normal by @bryonygordon
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (recommended by @kenhooperuk)
Failosophy by @elizabaday
Not a Life Coach by @jamessmithpt (recommended by @aneedtoread)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Golden Notebook by Dorris Lessing
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
To Sir with Love by E R Braithwaite
What books are you hoping to make it through this year? Any more I should be adding to my list?
📷 taken by @lindsayvacek in beautiful Byron Bay
Tis a grey + gloomy penultimate day of 2020 so her Tis a grey + gloomy penultimate day of 2020 so here’s a throwback to where I’d rather be: in an outdoor bubble bath in beautiful Byron Bay with one of the most unsettling books I’ve read this year.
What book are you ending the year with?
I’ve been tagged in a few #meetthebookstagrammer I’ve been tagged in a few #meetthebookstagrammers of late so I thought I’d squeeze one in before this (somewhat wild) year is out with a few random (mainly bookish) facts about me.
1. My literary highlight of 2020 was chasing @elizabeth_gilbert_writer down Hall Street in Bondi while soaking wet in a bikini and getting to eat watermelon with her while she signed my two of her books for me.
2. Second bookish highlight of the year was hosting Bondi Literary Salon events with @trentdaltonauthor, @hollygoeslightly + @britrbennett
3. J’adore memoirs + my five all time favourites are: Wild by @cherylstrayed, Places I Stopped on the Way Home by @meg_fee, Insomniac City by @billhayesphotography, The Hungover Games by @sophieheawood + In Search of Silence by @poornabell
4. A book I would recommend to almost anyone is The Rainbow Troops by @hirataandrea
5. According to my 2020 Spotify Unwrapped I’m in @six60’s top 0.01% of listeners. This will surprise no-one who knows me 🤪
6. Authors I want to read more of in 2021 include John Irving, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin + Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7. Another goal for 2021 is to master the art of parallel parking in a space less than three times the size of my car 🤪
8. If I ever get permanently booted out of Australia, Paris would be the first place I would want to live
9. I currently have three books on the go: Essentialism by @gregorymckeown, The Group by Christie Tate + Own The Day by @aubreymarcus
10. My least favourite book of all time is Ulysses.
Now back to my book(s) 🤓
#ad Whiling away a rainy Tuesday with a brilliant #ad Whiling away a rainy Tuesday with a brilliant new book and a piping hot chocolate. Today’s pick is Jew(ish) by Matt Greene - a hilarious + eloquent account of what it means to be Jewish, it’s an uplifting tale and the perfect anecdote to a rather dismal day. What are you reading his week? #CurrentlyReading #BdLoves @amazonpublishing
Sunny Sundays spent with Steinbeck. What’ve you Sunny Sundays spent with Steinbeck.
What’ve you been reading this weekend?
***Proud klaxon alert*** Won’t ever get over th ***Proud klaxon alert***
Won’t ever get over the amazing feeling of holding a book I helped create in my hands! An absolute joy, delight and pinch-me moment to get to work with the dream team that is @lisamessenger and @collectivehub on 365 Days of Sustainability.
A subject that so many of us are passionate about these days, it’s designed to offer readers handy hacks and simple steps to help up your sustainability game 🙏🏽
Oh, and my fave spot in Bondi - @gertrudeandalice - have copies in stock ❤️
Throwing it back on this sunny Monday to a morning Throwing it back on this sunny Monday to a morning spent reading Unless by Carol Shields at my favourite place in all of Australia, the beyond beautiful @deuxbelettes.
What are you reading this week?
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