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Beautiful Mess
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May 16, 2017
bookshelves: cover-love, australian-author, grief, award-text-prize-shortlist, award-text-prize-winner, book-group, aust-2017-pub, read-challenge-aus-readers-2018, read-challenge-loveozya-2018, anxiety-disorder, self-harm, suicide, lgbtqia, friendship, family, high-school, australia, psychiatric-treatment, mental-illness, depression, sex, poetry, letter-writing, cbca-notables-2018, inkys-longlist-2018, read-challenge-all-aussie-2018, loveozya, published-2017, owned-book
TW: Suicide, Self harm
I have things to say, including: I finished 3 days before book group! WTF I'm sure book groupers have things to say too. I might write things after.
And reading this finished my two February Book Challenges. Didn't think that was gonna happen.
I love this cover. It has shiny.
I have things to say, including: I finished 3 days before book group! WTF I'm sure book groupers have things to say too. I might write things after.
And reading this finished my two February Book Challenges. Didn't think that was gonna happen.
I love this cover. It has shiny.
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Quotes Clare Liked
“Something happens when I write stuff down, it stops whirring around in my head and becomes this tangible thing that I can look at and prod and get used to.”
― Beautiful Mess
― Beautiful Mess
“It makes the cracks in my heart that feel like they've been repairing themselves break all over again.”
― Beautiful Mess
― Beautiful Mess
“It's the worst feeling knowing that Ava is upset, but what's worse is knowing that there's absolutely nothing I can do to fix it.”
― Beautiful Mess
― Beautiful Mess
Reading Progress
December 13, 2016
– Shelved as:
to-read
December 13, 2016
– Shelved
May 16, 2017
– Shelved as:
cover-love
May 16, 2017
– Shelved as:
australian-author
May 16, 2017
– Shelved as:
grief
May 16, 2017
– Shelved as:
award-text-prize-shortlist
May 16, 2017
– Shelved as:
award-text-prize-winner
September 19, 2017
– Shelved as:
book-group
December 6, 2017
– Shelved as:
aust-2017-pub
January 20, 2018
– Shelved as:
read-challenge-aus-readers-2018
February 18, 2018
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Started Reading
February 18, 2018
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5.24%
"One chapter in, this book has shredded my heart and strewn the shards all over the floor. As Crong would say, "it makes a wicked noise with the collapse."
My memories are tangled with those shards:
don't want to dream your
wasps fluttering by your side,
breathless up a tree"
page
15
My memories are tangled with those shards:
don't want to dream your
wasps fluttering by your side,
breathless up a tree"
February 19, 2018
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12.94%
""I wouldn't have got so worked up about the other job interview if I knew that's how easy they were.""
page
37
February 23, 2018
– Shelved as:
read-challenge-loveozya-2018
February 23, 2018
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19.93%
""Maybe he is actually from the seventies and I'm in some weird time parallel universe thing. Great, that's all I need this year, to become friends with some time-travelling guy.""
page
57
February 23, 2018
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46.15%
"How is everyone in this book so off the chart at communicating?"
page
132
February 24, 2018
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48.95%
"Why do so many books I've read lately have records in them? They're shit! Short and the sound quality is non-existent."
page
140
February 24, 2018
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53.85%
"That's not suicide. Even if she had attempted suicide in the past, that's an accidental death. This book's handling of mental illness was so good, until this."
page
154
February 24, 2018
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63.64%
""Andre never knew that there were two girls in Year 8 who learned to say I love you in Arabic just for him."
So yes, this funny, but here's another black character who's furthering the white girl's storyline. WTF The teachers even relate the vandalism to racism.
Ok, I agree it's Kel's storyline this furthers, but she's the black girl who died to further Ava's storyline!? How did this win the Text Prize??"
page
182
So yes, this funny, but here's another black character who's furthering the white girl's storyline. WTF The teachers even relate the vandalism to racism.
Ok, I agree it's Kel's storyline this furthers, but she's the black girl who died to further Ava's storyline!? How did this win the Text Prize??"
February 24, 2018
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63.99%
""Sometimes I think. I don't want to kill myself, but if I died. That would be okay.""
page
183
February 24, 2018
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68.53%
"That's disingenuous. Nola does know people Ava knows - she's the school counsellor!? And for an alternative school, that kids attend due to problems at their former school, seeing the counsellor would be one of the first things a student does on arrival. Not as a result of a fellow student telling her its helpful - weeks later."
page
196
February 24, 2018
–
69.23%
"I'm all over dirty innuendo (I live in the gutter) but that was not obvious."
page
198
February 25, 2018
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71.33%
""It's so weird that you can literally put your tongue inside someone else's mouth and then have nothing to talk about.""
page
204
February 25, 2018
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91.26%
"I knew from other reviews that Gideon was gonna do something and I had a list of possibilties, but that takes the cake. It's so cleverly appropriate to who he is."
page
261
February 25, 2018
– Shelved as:
anxiety-disorder
February 25, 2018
– Shelved as:
self-harm
February 25, 2018
– Shelved as:
suicide
February 25, 2018
– Shelved as:
lgbtqia
February 25, 2018
– Shelved as:
friendship
February 25, 2018
– Shelved as:
family
February 25, 2018
– Shelved as:
high-school
February 25, 2018
– Shelved as:
australia
February 25, 2018
– Shelved as:
psychiatric-treatment
February 25, 2018
– Shelved as:
mental-illness
February 25, 2018
– Shelved as:
depression
February 25, 2018
– Shelved as:
sex
February 25, 2018
– Shelved as:
poetry
February 25, 2018
– Shelved as:
letter-writing
February 25, 2018
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Finished Reading
February 27, 2018
– Shelved as:
cbca-notables-2018
February 28, 2018
– Shelved as:
inkys-longlist-2018
March 27, 2018
– Shelved as:
read-challenge-all-aussie-2018
April 20, 2019
– Shelved as:
loveozya
October 3, 2019
– Shelved as:
published-2017
March 8, 2023
– Shelved as:
owned-book