Hello! After several years sharing my bookish thoughts and love here, I have made the move to my own domain. You can now find my blog at https://bookishbron.com/ All of my posts have been moved over, and I hope you'll join us too! xo Bron ...
I love footy. I grew up in Victoria, I barracked for the Hawks and was crazy for anything with brown and gold stripes. I obsessed over the games and the stats and the players. I never had a chance to play - it actually never occurred to me that I could! I can honestly say that seeing the creation of the AFLW, a...
I'm so delighted to be part of the Books on Tour Blog Tour for Ashling Kwok's brand new picture book The Battle. This is a gorgeous book - both the story and those illustrations (by Cara King)! - about facing fears that are holding you back. Ashling was kind enough to answer some questions about the book and the inspiration behind it, so...
There was a run of absolutely spectacular #loveozya books that came out across late March into April and May, and one of those that I have read - and adored - so far is Poppy Nwosu's gorgeous contemporary novel Taking Down Evelyn Tait The door creaks open and standing in the entrance is my absolute worst nightmare. Perfect hair, perfect teeth, perfect brain....
National Simultaneous Storytime was held a few weeks ago on 27 May. This year's featured book for the event was Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas by Lucinda Gifford. I think NSS is such a wonderful event - here's some information from the Australian Library and Information Association NSS website, because they can explain it much better than I can! National Simultaneous Storytime...
Anitia Heiss's Who Am I? is a middlegrade historical fiction novel set in Sydney in 1937, and is the fictional a diary of Mary Talence, a member of the Stolen Generation. It was originally published in 2001, and has been re-released as part of reconciliation week this year. I read this in one sitting last week, at the same time as the Black...
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#loveozmg May :: The Year the Maps Changed :: Danielle Binks
Is it weird that I always find it the hardest to write the reviews of the books I love the most? I read Danielle Binks' debut middle-grade novel The Year the Maps Changed about a month ago, and I have had total reviewers' block when it comes to writing up how I felt about it, and why I loved it so much. I'm...
Hello! Obviously my April blogging spree/reviewathon went well until it ended and then it was over! To be honest, I'm still having some trouble settling into a routine. Not in a dramatic, or sad, or very stressful way, just in a floaty, what happened to my day and also what day is it anyway kind of way. I don't really want to talk...
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#HERSTORY Q&A :: Tea Cooper :: The Girl in the Painting
The first book I read from Harlequin's HERSTORY campaign - featuring historical fiction about women who rebel - was Tea Cooper's The Girl in the Painting. This was my second time reading a book by Tea, having read The Woman in the Green Dress last year, and I absolutely enjoyed both - you can see my reviews here and here. This week Tea...
