Today is the first day of the two week spring school holidays break. It’s such a nice time of the year, weather wise, even out here in the desert. It’s not too hot yet and the mornings are lovely and fresh. I am really looking forward to two weeks off work just potting around the … Continue reading My Reading Life: Spring Reading Challenge
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Australian Reading Hour
Today is the day! What is Australian Reading Hour? It's a day where everyone is encouraged to stop for an hour, pick up a book, and read it. Read it to yourself, read it to your children, read to someone else's children. Read to another adult who can't read. Just read! It may seem odd for … Continue reading Australian Reading Hour
Top 5 Anticipated Reads
There’s always loads of books I want to read. It’s pretty much a list that I’ll never get to the end of. But every season there are new releases on the horizon that automatically jump to the very top of my list and for the remainder of the year, these are my top five can’t … Continue reading Top 5 Anticipated Reads
My Reading Life: Unique Blogger Award
It was such a lovely surprise to see a notification on my Facebook this morning from fellow blogger, Sheree from Keeping Up With The Penguins. Sheree has nominated me for a Unique Blogger Award! A big thanks to Sheree for the kindness and if you aren't familiar with her blog, you should definitely check it … Continue reading My Reading Life: Unique Blogger Award
My Reading Life: #aww2018 Challenge Checkpoint 4
Since my last #aww2018 challenge checkpoint about six weeks ago, I can add another 13 titles to my list, taking my total for the year so far up to 65 books. I’m inching towards my goal of 80 books and I’m feeling fairly confident that I’ll reach it before the year ends. Each of the … Continue reading My Reading Life: #aww2018 Challenge Checkpoint 4
My Reading Life: February Reviews to Come
February has brought some pretty fantastic books to my door. It might be a little quiet here on the review front for the next week, but once the end of the month begins to approach, I'll have some new release reviews for you on the following sensational titles. Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig Set against … Continue reading My Reading Life: February Reviews to Come
My Reading Life: The 2018 Stella Prize Longlist
The 2018 Stella Prize longlist of powerful books by Australian women is: The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar (Wild Dingo Press) A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work by Bernadette Brennan (Text Publishing) Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness by Kate Cole-Adams (Text Publishing) Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman (Hachette Australia) … Continue reading My Reading Life: The 2018 Stella Prize Longlist
My Reading Life: #aww2018 Challenge Checkpoint 1
I've decided this year to do a series of checking in posts for my Australian Women Writers Challenge. I started off last year marking off every ten books, but then I would forget and have to mark off twenty and then life would become chaotic, causing me to forget again until before I knew, I had reached the end of … Continue reading My Reading Life: #aww2018 Challenge Checkpoint 1
My Reading Life: Coincidentally Covered
Today has been a day of cover coincidences. In the morning post, copies of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You arrived. At lunch time I settled in to read some of the latest posts from the book blogs I follow. Up pops a post containing No One is Coming to Save … Continue reading My Reading Life: Coincidentally Covered
My Reading Life: 10 Anticipated Reads
I'm looking forward to reading lots of books this year and have set a personal target for 100. There's a few standout titles by authors I love being released in the first half of 2018, and I've been quietly saving the covers into a folder called 'Anticipated Reads'. There's 10 covers in there now, so … Continue reading My Reading Life: 10 Anticipated Reads
