by Janine Rizzetti | Feb 26, 2020 | Round-ups
We have had a fairly quiet January in the History Memoir and Biography category, with ten reviews for the month. Given that Australia tends to go into vacation mode in January, one might have expected more, but perhaps this unnerving summer has not been conducive to...
by Mic Loves Books | Feb 21, 2020 | Round-ups
We have had a great start to the year in the Crime genre with 75 reviews of 54 books by 47 authors. I notice, as I look through the list, that some of those entries are for older reviews that were not logged last year but it does mean that I made it into the database...
by Ashleigh Meikle | Feb 18, 2020 | Round-ups
Welcome to the first monthly round up for 2020 of the children’s and young adult books read for the Australian Writers Challenge. In the Young Adult category, across all genres, we had eight reviews, and six reviews for children and younger readers. That’s fifteen in...
by whisperinggums | Feb 12, 2020 | Round-ups
Another year, and what a start we’ve had to it here in Australia. I do hope all our readers here are safe. Our review numbers are down on last year’s by nearly 15%, which may be explained by many of us being focused on other things. Another year also means...
by Brona68 | Feb 10, 2020 | Round-ups
Welcome back to a brand New Year of General Non-Fiction reading and reviews! After our horrendous summer bushfires this year, I wondered if we would be searching out climate change/nature books in an attempt to understand what happened. Or would we turn to our comfort...
by Jenny Mustey | Feb 7, 2020 | Round-ups
It’s been a fabulous start to the reading year with 48 reviews submitted and a number of popular and highly regarded titles amongst them. The book world has been abuzz with the new Booktopia Favourite Australian Book (FAB) Award with 60% of the top 50 authors in the...
