by Tegan Edwards | Oct 16, 2021 | Round-ups
Hello Readers! For September there was: 9 Reviews, 6 Reviewers, and 9 Books Reviewed (1 of which was poetry). Wonderfully 6 of these 9 books were first-time reviews. Thank you for adding them to the database! The most prolific reviewer was Katie Elder here on Instagram with 4 books reviewed. The most reviewed title this month was…all of them! As each title was reviewed once.
by Mic Loves Books | Oct 16, 2021 | Round-ups
Here I sit, at the end of the first week of Term 4, wondering where the year has gone and when I’m going to make some time to sit down and attack the pile of reviews I have to write; knowing that it won’t be this weekend. This weekend I have a skip on my...
by whisperinggums | Oct 13, 2021 | Round-ups
So September has been and gone, with New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT, spending it all in lockdown. However, as I write this in October, New South Wales is “relatively” free again, as will the ACT be at the end of the week. Things should be freer in...
by Claire Holderness | Oct 6, 2021 | Round-ups
Only 3 months left of this crazy year, I hope we can all get some good reading in. During September there were 11 books reviewed. Caitlin from Underground writers reviewed Lakesedge by Lyndall Clipstone she says “Lakesedge is exactly what I look for in a modern...
by TheresaSmithWrites | Oct 5, 2021 | Round-ups
Welcome to the latest round up of historical fiction. September was a quiet month with 23 reviews on 17 books by 19 authors. Top titles for the month: Daughter of the Hunter Valley by Paula J Beavan with 3 reviews – thanks to Brenda Telford, Helen Sibbritt and...
by Jess Fitzpatrick | Oct 4, 2021 | Round-ups
Welcome back to the Romance, Erotica and Romantic Suspense round-up for September 2021. There were twenty-six reviews submitted in September, and while numbers are down compared to August 2021, this is still a fantastic achievement and thank you to everyone who took...
by Jenny Mustey | Oct 1, 2021 | Round-ups
Hello everyone, hope you are all weathering the storm, quite literally! Apart from ongoing restrictions and upheaval due to the pandemic we have some challenging events including an earthquake that hit a large part of the southern part of the mainland, heavy rain on...
by Janine Rizzetti | Sep 22, 2021 | Round-ups
August was a quiet month here at History Memoir and Biography. Eight reviews of seven books were posted to the database. The boundaries between ‘History Memoir and Biography’ and non-fiction essays are not always watertight, and two of the books reviewed...
by Ashleigh Meikle | Sep 15, 2021 | Round-ups
With much of the country in various lockdowns, in particular in NSW and Victoria, I was again interested in seeing what our trends were – did readers lean more to books for younger readers or young adult, did they lean towards a certain genre or is there less...
by Tegan Edwards | Sep 13, 2021 | Round-ups
Hello Readers! For Non-Fiction in August there was: 6 reviews, 5 reviewers, and 6 books reviewed (2 poetry). The most prolific reviewer was Brona at Brona’s Books with 2 books reviewed. The most reviewed title this month was all of them! As each title was reviewed once. As always, click on the coloured quote from a review to be taken directly to it. And a quick reminder: this round up includes poetry submissions despite their not being non-fiction. It just came out in the wash that way!
