Cassie McCullough

So people around, you know, from the Brisbane area to the north coast of New South Wales, we call ourselves Guris as opposed to Murris or Noongars or Kooris.

And so when I'm writing these stories, it's very much based

Oh, my heaving, groaning bookshelves.

I'm always reading a lot and, I mean, obviously I have to read a lot of kind of scholarly theory stuff for my study, but I also get to read a lot of fiction and

Yeah, lately I've been rereading some favourites.

So I reread Carpentaria by Alexis Wright.

Enormous book.

Enormous.

My favourite book, hands down.

I would credit that one with kind of inspiring me to have a go at writing myself.

I think I've read it about five times.

And, yeah, it's still amazing.

Yeah, it is.

I love rereading.

It's my favorite kind of reading.

You know, I read a lot and my kind of metric for, you know, whether I loved a book or not is will I reread this?

And when I first read Carpentaria, I was not a writer.

I just really loved the story.

And

rereading it as a writer, you see a lot more.