Today I have the pleasure of joining in with the Aus YA Bloggers latest blog tour, for Ondine Sherman's new contemporary YA novel Snow. Snow is the second book in Sherman's Animal Allies series, and follows teen Sky on a journey from her home in Australia to Alaska where she's meet her estranged father for the first time. Here's the synopsis: Sometimes you...
I have seen so much love around for Sarah Crossan but had never quite managed to pick up one of her books until the lovely people at Bloomsbury sent me a copy of her newest novel, Toffee. This book was absolutely gorgeous, and now I'm super keen to read more of her back list! Here's a bit about Toffee (from the Bloomsbury website):...
Relic is the debut novel from Bronwyn Eley, and the first installment in a new #loveozya fantasy trilogy, The Relic Trilogy. I'm not going to lie, the first thing that attracted me to this book was that the author's name is Bronwyn! Haha! There aren't many of us around, so I always love spotting my name in a book - or on the...
The Good Egg is a super cute picture book from the creators of The Bad Seed. The good egg has been good for as long as he can remember. While the other eggs in his carton are kind of rotten, he always does the right, kind, and courteous thing. He is a verrrrrrry good egg indeed! Until one day he decides that enough...
We all know I love YA books, and I have often been so envious of the YA groups that meet up in other cities - like The YA Room in Melbourne, and The YA Circle in Adelaide. So I was absolutely thrilled when my friends Claire and Ashley announced that they would be starting THE YA EMPIRE - our very own YA group...
Ok, so I know that I'm not supposed to judge a book by its cover and all that, but I'm not ashamed to admit that I decided to read Lisa Siberry's The Brilliant Ideas of Lily Green 100% purely based on that gorgeous cover. I just can't go past a cover with a clever redhead on it - I'm not sure if it's...
If you caught my post yesterday you might know how excited I was about Love Your Bookshop Day this year. Obviously there was no way I could visit my favourite bookshops without picking up a few new books, and today I wanted to share my very excellent haul. Despite the excitement I did manage to restrain myself and only buy books that were...
In celebration of today being Love Your Bookshop Day I thought I'd talk about some of my favourite Canberra bookshops. I think we're pretty lucky as far as bookshops go in Canberra - most of our shopping centres have at least one, and then a few others around the suburbs too - including some lovely indies. I tend to shop at different stores...
Thomas Taylor's Malamander is a delightfully creepy book for middle grade readers... Nobody visits Eerie-on-Sea in the winter. Especially not when darkness falls and the wind howls around Maw Rocks and the wreck of the battleship Leviathan, where even now some swear they have seen the unctuous malamander creep… Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, knows that returning lost things...
August is shaping up to be a very exciting month, bookishly speaking, and my reading wish list for the month is ENORMOUS - I really need to take a few weeks off to just read haha. The Canberra Writers Festival is coming up, and there's Children's Book Week and the CBCA Book of the Year awards and the book fair at school. On...
