Happy Sunday people! I have something a little bit different to share today - a brand new weekly meme called Bookish Bloggers Unite. Each week (usually Friday or Saturday) Bookish Bloggers Unite will have a different topic for discussion, covering all kinds the bookish things we are passionate about. Everyone is welcome to join in - pop over to the host of the...
I always think it is a bit tricky to talk in isolation a book that is part of a series but not the first book - to much missing context, not to mention risk of spoilers for earlier books! So today, instead of just talking about The Girl in the Tower - book two in the Winternight Trilogy - I'm going to talk...
Top ten Tuesday is a weekly blog meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's prompt was to talk about books I'm no longer interested in reading. This was a tricky one for me to write about, since I generally avoid talking about negative stuff here one my blog, but also because I don't tend to take stuff off my to be...
Kind of a mini stack tonight - I have a bunch of books to talk about, but only these three in my hands. These are books that have been longlisted for The Stella Prize, a literary award for Australian women's writing - both fiction and non-fiction - you can read more about it on the Stella Prize website here. The longlist for the...
I had heard a little bit about In the Dark Spaces after Cally Black won the Ampersand Prize, and I was pleased when the Read Harder Challenge gave me an excuse to bump it up my tbr, with task 17 - A sci fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author. 'Dark' is right there i the title of this novel,...
Top ten Tuesday is a weekly blog meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's prompt was a 'love' freebie. Obviously I'm not one to pass up an excuse to talk LOVEOzYA, so my interpretation of the prompt was kind of a no-brainer (ok, it actually took me all week to come up with something, and I'm a bit embarrassed since it's...
The Lifeline Bookfair comes to Canberra three times a year, and I try to go along to at least two of the three - I mean, tables and tables of secondhad books for sale and proceeds to charity? What's not to love?The Bookfair runs for the whole weekend, and if you go along on the Sunday afternoon you can take advantage of the...
Despite being a fan of sci-fi on the screen, I hardly read any (and, weirdly, vice-versa for fantasy - I don't watch a lot but it makes up most of my reading). With Zenith, the stars kind of aligned (haha, stars, sci-fi, space - see what I did there?) - the Read Harder Challenge 2018 includes a task about female author/protagonist sci-fi, I'd...
Hello! I had a couple of reviews planned for the past 10 days or so, but I've been held up by a) we have had no internet at home since last weekend (!!!) and b) I have had review writer's block! So, here i am at a local cafe taking advantage of their free internet and writing something a bit chatty instead =)...
