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Feb 11, 2012

Maja rated it:

4.5 stars.

Every time he looked at me I felt like I’d touched my tongue to the tip of a battery. In art class I’d watch him lean back and listen and I was nothing but zing and tingle. After a while the tingle turned to electricity, and when he asked me out my whole body amped to a level where technically I should have been dead. I had nothing in common with a sheddy like him, but a girl doesn’t think straight when she’s that close to electrocution.

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Sep 24, 2011

Janina rated it:

Oh book, I love you so ...

It is really hard for me to put into words how I feel about this story. I am sure I won't be able to do it justice.

It is amazing how many things can happen in just one night. And it is even more amazing how Cath Crowley manages to capture them all – in a way that is both funny and heartbreakingly sad, full of fear of an unknown future, bright with colours and brimming with feelings. Crowley brings Melbourne's night to you – the velvety black, the bli More...

19 comments like (31 people liked it)

Jun 24, 2011

Vinaya rated it:

I love graffiti. I've been a huge fan of Banksy from the day I first saw a mural on Brick Lane, and I find every one of his pieces stimulating, entertaining and empathetic. (Although the one above is my FAVOURITE!!) There's not too many artists who can manage that. And the point of street art, the reason for its existence, is to connect. Screw the million-dollar canvases in the galleries, street art is a montage of images designed to appeal to every man. So pretty.

So any More...

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Jan 01, 2012

Jo rated it:

“It’s the time wasting that gets you somewhere.”

Initial Final Page Thoughts.
I have five fingers pressed on my desk in reaction to this book right now. I can’t get much more love for this book.

High Points.
Shadow. Lucy. Best friends. Poetry. Melbourne. A night that lasts forever. Mistaken identities. Missed connections. Graffiti. Eggs. Secrets. Arse-grabbers. Lyrical. Adventure. Insecurities. Mesmerizing. Art. Train carriages. Undercover good guys. Letting go of the More...

124 comments like (24 people liked it)

Sep 13, 2011

~Tina~ rated it:

Aussie Book challenge 2011 #9

Okay! I definitely hate myself since I really had no intention of reading this book (insert gasp here). I don't favor contemporary much, but being that a lot of my friends have read and raved about this and it being an Aussie book (nuff said) I decided to just give it a shot, and boy was I thrilled and surprised how much I truly loved this.

I absolutely fell in love with every single one of these characters!
Ed and Lucy, Leo and Jazz and even More...

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Aug 06, 2011

Lisa O. rated it:

4.5 stars.

Last week, as I was strolling with my two little ones around town for our morning promenade, I happened to pass in front of our neighborhood's church. In its front yard there was quite a congregation of young kids, their instruments and a lot of out of tune music, as they were preparing to rehearse for some parochial event. Of course my daughter, who's 4 and knows the whole Aladdin soundtrack by heart, begged me to stop and listen to whatever they were going to play.
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13 comments like (31 people liked it)

Feb 14, 2012

Noelle rated it:

I just loved this book. Loooooved it. I've already re-read it several times and as I mentioned in another review, it's pretty much spray painted on my heart. (See what I did there???? BUT IT'S TRUE!) Obviously, this deserved a more in-depth review.

I loved the protagonists. Lucy is naive but no pushover. I cracked up when it was revealed that her list of people she’d like to “do it” with was entirely comprised of fictional characters. Remember that age of having a crush on someo More...

15 comments like (16 people liked it)

Sep 14, 2011

Arlene rated it:

Love.love.loved it!!

What a great story! I enjoyed it from cover to cover with not a moment of downtime.

This is exactly what I needed to get me out of my book slump… an Aussie wonder that’s filled with moments of laughter and nothing but love for the characters of Graffiti Moon. I was an instant fan of Cath Crowley when I came across her beautiful story A Little Wanting Song, but now with Graffiti Moon I know for a definite fact that I can’t pass up anything by this grea More...

58 comments like (24 people liked it)

Jan 26, 2012

Rane rated it:

I was very lucky to have been able to grab the early copy of this beautiful book. The authors paints a story that may expand only one night, but with splash of words, she writes what could happen in a short amount of time but can change your life forever after.

Lucy is looking for a Graffiti artist by the name of Shadow. A man she feels could really know her, understand her in a why no one else could. Now if only she could find him! The last day of the school year i More...

4 comments like (13 people liked it)

Feb 20, 2012

Cinnamon rated it:

This review may also be found on A Thousand Little Pages.

This is what I hoped Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist could have been.
This is the type of contemporary YA that I wouldn’t mind reading every day. Kind of like how the Asian-ness in me wouldn’t mind eating rice for every single meal until old age renders me toothless and unable to chew. (Hopefully that sad, sad day will never come.)

Now, I don’t think an extended and super girly squeal would qualify as a review, so More...

12 comments like (8 people liked it)

Jan 31, 2012

Ari rated it:

"I was nothing inside but light and color"

Can you be in love with a book? I know that I can fall in love with a character, I had a few crushes here and there, but if I were to want to get married with a book, I would propose to this one in a heartbeat.

Dear Graffiti Moon, will you please marry me?.. For richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, as long as we both shall live, until my kindle do us part..

*waiting for the answer*

You wa More...

21 comments like (20 people liked it)

Jul 13, 2011

Lamia rated it:

This review can also be found at The Book Eater

ATTN READING MANIACS AND BOOK LOVERS: To all of you who have regular reading slumps, READ THIS. I can guarantee this book will get you out of it.

So, I finished this book 4 days ago and I'm still trying to gather my thoughts into coherent sentences.
The writing was so beautiful that I kept stopping to stare at the words. I wanted to crawl across the page and come up to the words and snuggle them. And also hug the characte More...

11 comments like (17 people liked it)

May 01, 2011

Catie rated it:

This is the kind of book that I wish today’s teens would read. I don’t know how many times I’ve passive aggressively ranted in goodreads groups about the ridiculously unrealistic romances in the majority of young adult novels. I’m sure most of you know what I am referring to – instant, uncontrollable passion between two people who couldn’t be more one dimensional, combined with some manufactured reason that they can’t be together, and pages and pages of endless whinging about it. So this book More...

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Feb 10, 2012

Aly (Fantasy4eva) rated it:

There’s a guy down at the servo
With lions in his hair
Matted tails of roaring kings
A dirty song caught on his skin
He can’t remember when he lost them
But he lost the daytime things
Daytime shirts and daytime ties
And shiny daytime shoes
Daytime cloudy thoughts that drift
In cloudy daytime blues
Daytime smiles from people travelling
While they ride the sunshine home
Daytime TV on the weekend
Daytime talking on the phone
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9 comments like (8 people liked it)

Nov 15, 2011

Hira rated it:

“Mum says when wanting collides with getting, that's the moment of truth. I want to collide. I want to run right into Shadow and let the force spill our thoughts so we can pick each other up and pass each other back like piles of shiny stones.”

This is a book that shows what teenagers are really like. Searching, exploring, always trying to find some meaning in life.

It's the end of Year 12, and Lucy is out searching for Shadow, a graffiti artist whose work is all over the More...

0 comments like (7 people liked it)

Oct 23, 2010

Nic rated it:

"For a while, for as long as you're looking at it, that painting is the world and you get to be in it."

I decided to give Graffiti Moon a try after reading my Goodreads friend Nomes' review. And I am so glad I did because it was brilliant!

The story is written in both Lucy’s and Ed’s point of view. You have got to love dual narration where you get into both character's minds. There is also some poetry from Poet (Shadow‘s friend) thrown in as well just to mix it u More...

14 comments like (22 people liked it)

Oct 25, 2011

Margot rated it:

I honestly don't even want to talk about what happens in the book, because the summary is pretty much, well, what happens in the book, so I'm just going to go with this:

The characters were lovely, the words were perfect, the prose was beautiful, the book was brilliant; my heart is content.

Also, this quote really got to me. I just loved it and I find myself thinking about it constantly.

"Open skies painted above painted doorways and painted birds skimming More...

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Aug 22, 2011

Trinity rated it:

This book grabbed a hold of my insides and threw them across the sky...in a really really good way.
I love you Cath Crowley.

0 comments like (9 people liked it)

Feb 15, 2012

Maggie rated it:

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.
—The other Leo, Leo Tolstoy

You know, if my high school teacher had just handed me Graffiti Moon to explain aesthetics, Tolstoy and Kant would've made so much more sense. And been so much more enjoyable.

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13 comments like (13 people liked it)

Feb 17, 2012

Ms. KoKo rated it:

I was thinking 4.5, but with how I felt once finished, there's no way I can't give it a solid 5!
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That's what my face was frozen in once I completed this read. I mean, it's 5:30am and this was finished in one sitting. It was sweet, funny, and heartfelt. It just felt genuine. And it is one of the few times I enjoyed all the characters; main and supporting. Even the mentors who are barely in it. Their spirit was felt. Following Lucy More...

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Aug 03, 2011

Isamlq rated it:

I swear I'm trying not to gush but you don't know how happy I am to have read this. It's a little after dawn... (and having started this at one in the morning,) that's maybe four or five hours of me sitting here unable to pull my eyes from this one. I'd been waiting for this for so long and now that I've ~~read~~ sped through it, I'm pumped and happy. Graffiti Moon is why I read YA. Once in a while I come across a story that stands out against others. Crappy past reads aren't so lackluster, don't se More...

20 comments like (20 people liked it)

May 30, 2011

Jessica rated it:

Another Aussie YA that leaves me stunned because of the beautiful way it's written...

For me, Graffiti Moon was a magical reading experience. Cath Crowley painted pictures in my mind, it was like Shadow took his paint tins and sprayed his graffiti on a wall inside my head, I could see them this clearly in my mind’s eye.

Poet

The daytime things

There’s a guy down at the servo
With lions in his hair
Matted tails of roaring kings
A di More...

7 comments like (8 people liked it)

Jul 19, 2011

Michelle rated it:

Just finished reading this on Kindle. I read a sample last night and just had to buy it. Stayed up till 3:30 this morning when I finally decided that I had to get some sleep. Woke up, got the kids off to school and got straight back into it. I kinda rushed through it though because I was dying to see what happened in the end. Now I want to go back and read it again, to savour it, to take my time, and to highlight about a million awesome quotes!

I just loved it. Loved the story line, t More...

0 comments like (2 people liked it)

Oct 21, 2011

Dija rated it:

Remember love
Remember
Love doesn’t make the world go round
Sex makes it spin for a second or two
If you’re lucky
So do chips, sausage rolls and girls in short skirts
Remember
Love
Lays its fingers on your heart
And holds it
Under water
Remember that
When the next girl smiles

You know the smile you get when you see an old couple still in love? Or when you see two children holding hands and pretending to be on a "date"? Or More...

6 comments like (7 people liked it)

Jan 14, 2012

Kassiah rated it:

I'm always saying that I want to give half stars, and in this case, I wish I could give more stars. More stars!

This is one of the my favorites. The story starts out when newly graduated from high-school Lucy gets a text from her boss, Just arrived at the studio. Your graffiti guys Shadow and Poet are here. She takes off, hoping to get a glimpse of the guys who have painted the city. She feels an intense connection to their art, and especially to Shadow. Lucy believes if they co More...

1 comment like (2 people liked it)

Feb 03, 2012

♥Rachel♥ rated it:

I loved this story! I didn't want it to end.

The story of Graffiti Moon takes place over twenty-four hours. Lucy is a seventeen-year old student who's just finished year twelve and is out for the night with her friends to celebrate. Her whole focus for the evening is to find Shadow, a graffiti artist that does these amazing heartfelt paintings all over the city. She feels a powerful connection to these paintings, and the emotion behind them. Lucy has a passion for art and think More...

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Sep 04, 2011

Laura rated it:

Art, paint, glass, energy, romance, color, and so, so many secrets are all splashed, swirled and exhibited on the pages of Graffiti Moon. For one night, we learn to look and really see the night through artisits’ eyes. A colorful night filled with celebrating and shadow hunting.

O’ the colors! The colors jumped out at me from the pages of this book right away. Gray buildings, yellow birds, “the exact kind of blue”, black night, pink vans, clear glass, white oceans, and the reds, gre More...

10 comments like (10 people liked it)

Feb 13, 2012

Missie rated it:

Every time I think of giving up YA because of the insta-love, love-triangle drama, I read a book like Graffiti Moon, and remember why I do love this genre.

Now that high school has come to an end, Lucy knows she's ready to move on. To explore her passion for art and dreams and life. But first, she's determined to find the one guy that she knows she's meant to explore it all with, the elusive graffiti artist, Shadow. And though he doesn't know it, he's been looking for her, too.

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Jan 23, 2012

Joy rated it:

Cath Crowley, you're so one in a million! Yes, you are baby! Graffiti Moon it's one of the bests I ever had!

It is rare to find a brilliant book that touches the core of its reader's beliefs about family, happiness, and dreams. It is like an innocent softbound book with hardbound pages. It is simple but deep, short but lyrical, and a cliche but full of unique passion. It is a story with morals. It has humor that lightens the progress of reading. It has a mellow tone that slowly caress More...

0 comments like (2 people liked it)

Sep 03, 2011

Glaiza rated it:

I'm lending this to a friend who doesn't even like poetry because I love the characters and the words. They felt real and relatable and I'd love to write a review but this book is just like art - as Ed would say - sometimes you don't have the words to explain how you feel but you can paint images to try. Just read Graffiti Moon and you'll breathe and live the picture/film of a simple story, beautifully told.

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