Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe wins the Top 100 Books countdown — as it happened
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Who knows why the book was chosen?
Not I.
But #GoodMorningMidnight immediately after #BoySwallowsUniverse is ... a jarring experience.
Gone is the criminally violent melodrama. And positivity.
In is something that each member of the venerable club has lived beside. Or lived out. For decades.
#Dementia
#ElderlyRelative has July #Bookclub with #BoySwallowsUniverse.
They've done hrs listening to the #Audiobook and watching/listening to reviews, interviews & discussions.
And we've made up and sung songs about the plot and relationships between characters.
But #Recall level is still pretty low.
So now they're trying watching the Netflix series based on the book.
Opening scenes were thug-life violence. Neither of us were keen to continue.
But they did.
Reading around #BoySwallowsUniverse.
Today the story seems to be about an optimist living in a #BlueBeard story variant.
Forbidden actions, curiosity, punishment, vengance, justice.
Still puzzled by the (so far) absence of corrupt #QueenslandCops in this story. How could heroin be sold without them?
EDIT 2 days later: The corrupt cops have emerged.
#Dementia
Have loaded about 15 hours of interviews, reviews & background video and audio files on and around the novel #BoySwallowsUniverse onto a USB thumbdrive.
And that is playing on a (older) smart TV as an single-topic, artificial TV channel.
And the intersection between #Literature and #ProductPromotion is getting emphasised again.
(I already knew that #CharlesDickens' works were thoroughly commercialised.)
Know any great novelists who weren't successful minor celebrities?
1/?
And this month we, (me & #ElderlyRelative, #Blind & with #Dementia) are prepping for a #BookClub meeting on #BoySwallowsUniverse.
The #Audiobook performer is pretty much perfect. #StigWemyss is not raising even yellow flags based on what I know of teenagers in #Brisbane's junkie-criminal culture. (Not firmly based, past hearing two fellow Brisbane train passengers discussing how best to drink metho, & media coverage of violence.)
Que Minh Luu exits NETFLIX content role after five-year run
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"Boy Swallows Universe" is a series adaptation of a book telling a story of growing up in 1980s Australia. There's a fair dose of magical realism, but in the right amounts, so the whole thing doesn't venture into gibberish. It's actually quite brutal as for a story of a child. A solid thing with an unexpected performance from Simon "The Mentalist" Baker, whom I didn't recognise at first. I am also a taste for Australia as a setting place for stories.
NETFLIX hosts 'Now Streaming' reception ahead of 2025 AACTA Awards
#AACTA #AACTAAwards #AppleCiderVinegar #BoySwallowsUniverse #HeartbreakHigh #Netflix
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