Tag: feature book

• boy swallows universe

  My whole self aches for Eli Bell, the young protagonist who navigates haphazardly through that time of life where parents are supposed to give us stability and care. Instead, Eli’s story includes a mute-by-choice brother (August), addicted and incarcerated parents, a murderer for a babysitter (Arthur ‘Slim’ Halliday), violent bullies as his play mates, a…

  Betty

  28th Mar 2020

  australian author, book reviews

  australian fiction, bettysbookclub, book review, boyswallowsuniverse, brisbane author, feature book, trentdalton

• high fidelity

  For those who have managed not to know the High Fidelity storyline – protagonist Fleming is fresh out of a long-term relationship with Laura, and he goes to great effort to convince himself that he is fine with this (even though he’s obviously devastated and beginning to question his entire life’s trajectory because of it).…

  Betty

  14th Mar 2020

  bestseller, book reviews

  bettysbookclub, book to screen, contemporary classic, contemporary fiction, feature book, high fidelity, nick hornby, rob fleming