Leura-xmas-2012Here’s a selection of posts (in reverse order of publication) by participants in the Australian Women Writers challenge to help celebrate Christmas. Most are recent wrap-up posts for the challenge, including one from Shelleyrae from Book’d Out blog, the person who must have read and reviewed more books by Australian women this year than anyone.

  1. Michelle from Book to the Future – this isn’t a round-up of Michelle’s reading, but rather Part 1 of a selection of highly recommended reads from a number of book bloggers and authors
  2. Bernadette from Reactions to Reading – mostly crime
  3. David Golding – mixed genres and a call for men to join the challenge in 2013
  4. Timothy of Book Coasters, the blog of Gold Coast Libraries – a librarian’s recap of the challenge
  5. Tsana’s Reads and Reviews – two completed challenges, Science Fiction and Fantasy
  6. Sean Adventures of a Bookonaut podcast – of particular interest to readers of this blog is Sean’s interview with author Helen Merrick
  7. Yvonne of Stumbling Through the Past – mostly history, memoir and biography
  8. Shelleyrae of Book’d Out – 100 AWW books and counting, mostly contemporary
  9. Jon Page of Bite the Book – mostly literary
  10. Lara Cain Grey, This Charming Mum
  11. Janine Rizetti, The Resident Judge
  12. ?

Number 12 is for you.

Have you finished the challenge? Have you written a wrap-up post? If you have, please add your link here or in the comments below. If you haven’t, how did you go?