For the purposes of bingo, themes of fantasy also encompasses paranormal and gothic elements. I know many will scream nooo!!!! It's not the same!!!! It really isn't, but since I was at risk of blowing bingo out to an epic size, I had to stop adding categories. And paranormal didn't make the cut as a … Continue reading #BookBingo – Round 8
My Reading Life
Challenge Check In – March
Since I’m doing a few challenges this year, I thought I’d do a monthly check in post by way of keeping myself on track. March has turned out to be a great month for reading, far better than I anticipated given that I had all three of my children with birthdays and a tear in … Continue reading Challenge Check In – March
#BookBingo – Round 7
This week is a match between category and book that was meant to be! Themes of Justice: Half Moon Lake by Kirsten Alexander What really made my skin crawl was the behind doors schemes, the obvious quest to pervert the course of justice. How some people sleep at night, I’ll never know. Have times changed? … Continue reading #BookBingo – Round 7
Challenge Check In – February
Since I’m doing a few challenges this year, I thought I’d do a monthly check in post by way of keeping myself on track. February has been a quieter month than January but I've still made some good progress into each of my challenges. February's efforts look like this: #aww2019: 6 books #AussieAuthor19: 6 books … Continue reading Challenge Check In – February
Challenge Check In – January
Since I'm doing a few challenges this year, I thought I'd do a monthly check in post by way of keeping myself on track. January has been a super month for reading and I was making a huge effort to chip into each of my challenges. January's efforts look like this: #aww2019: 10 books #AussieAuthor19: … Continue reading Challenge Check In – January
My Reading Life: Spring Reading Challenge Wrap Up
Well I've reached the end of my two week Spring break reading challenge. Did I stick to the rules? I watched no TV. Tick on that one! In terms of only reading review books, out of the ten books I read, one was not a review book. What?!!! I know, but I have a good … Continue reading My Reading Life: Spring Reading Challenge Wrap Up
My Reading Life: Spring Reading Challenge Check-in
Reaching the halfway point of my Spring reading challenge, I can report that I am on track! To re-cap the challenge conditions: 1. Exclusively read review books 2. TV Ban I've stuck to the TV ban and haven't even missed it. As to the reading, I've read four books and they were all review titles: … Continue reading My Reading Life: Spring Reading Challenge Check-in
My Reading Life: Spring Reading Challenge
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
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: 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
