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
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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
My Reading Life: Reading Bingo 2017
Last week I read a post about reading bingo on a blog I follow, Whispering Gums. It wasn't until after I commented about what fun it would be to participate in, that I realised the bingo card pictured looked a bit familiar: I had of course downloaded it at the beginning of the year and … Continue reading My Reading Life: Reading Bingo 2017
My Reading Life: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women is a novel that repeatedly shows up as a favourite for so many readers and writers. In fact, in my own interview series, Behind the Pen, many interviewees have cited Little Women as a childhood favourite. Likewise, in the Australian Women Writers historical fiction Sunday Spotlight interviews, a standard question I ask is … Continue reading My Reading Life: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
My Reading Life: The Spoils of Time Series by Penny Vincenzi
In case you hadn’t yet guessed, I have a literary love of the saga series, the ones where each book is around the 500 to 700 page mark with the content spanning decades and generations through the entwined lives of one family. A little bit like Downton Abbey but in book form, which is probably … Continue reading My Reading Life: The Spoils of Time Series by Penny Vincenzi
My Reading Life: Monica McInerney
I clearly remember my first Monica McInerney: Those Faraday Girls, a birthday gift from my best friend. Little did my friend know at the time that she was gifting me so much more than an excellent novel. She had given me a new author to love, whose work was reminiscent of Maeve Binchy but … Continue reading My Reading Life: Monica McInerney
