What is it with March? I feel like I'm at least a week behind in my life all of a sudden! Someone told me that they think March is kind of like the Monday of months, and everyone I've talked to about it since has agreed. In any case, here I am - a week since my last post - and today I'm...

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Ok, so, first things first - yes it's Wednesday and this is my Top Ten Tuesday post... but I loved this week's theme so much that when I didn't get to it yesterday I didn't want to miss out on talking about it, so figured I'd go ahead anyway! Top ten Tuesday is a weekly blog meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl....

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Hello! Welcome to this week's #BookishBloggersUnite post! #BookishBloggersUnite is a weekly meme that started when a bunch of book loving bloggers decided it would be fun to talk about our favourite bookish things together! We post weekly, and anyone is welcome to join in at any time. If you'd like to play along this week please pop over to see this week's lovely...

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Zac & Mia has been vaguely on my radar for a while, but if there is one thing that will give me the push I need to finally read something it is hearing there is a movie or TV adaptation. To be honest I'm not even really sure what the story is with the TV series - when we'll get it here -...

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Helloo everyone! Happy Friday and welcome to our weekly #BookishBloggersUnite post! #BookishBloggersUnite is a meme that started when a bunch of book living bloggers decided it would be fun to get together each week and talk about some of our favourite bookish things. Everyone is welcome to join in, and we take turns hosting -  I'm super excited to be this week's host!...

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It's awards list season here! A couple of weeks ago the Stella Prize longlist was announced (I wrote a bit about it here) and the shortlist comes out on International Women's Day (March 8), along with the longlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction, and the Aurealis Awards shortlist was released a few weeks ago too. We've also had announcements of longlists for...

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Hey all! It's #BookishBloggersUnite time again! This week is being hosted by my fellow Aussie and bookish friend Sue, from Doddy About Books, and the theme is 'Favourite Women Writers Across Multiple Genres'. For my take on this one I'm going to talk about three authors I love who write/wrote genre fiction. Amie Kaufman - Sci-fi If you've been here before you might...

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2018 is shaping up to be an amazing year for #loveozya books! P is For Pearl  by Eliza Henry-Jones  is another fantastic contemporary YA novel released by an Aussie author already this year. I requested a review copy of this one from Harper Collins purely based on the fact that the author was Australian and the Tasmanian setting sounded beautiful. At that stage it didn't even...

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It is no secret that I'm trying to read ALL the #loveozya books this year, and that If I Tell You, by Alicia Tuckerman, was one of the books that I was most excited about (I wrote a bit about it here).  By now it is also no secret that when I read this I absolutely I loved it! Let me tell you...

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