by Rebecca Bowyer | Jan 22, 2021 | Round-ups
Welcome to the Australian Women Writers Challenge diversity round up for December 2020 and January 2021. As it’s the first round up for the year, I’ll include the wrap up from 2020 as well. The start of a new year is a great time to join the Australian...
by Ashleigh Meikle | Jan 20, 2021 | Round-ups, Yearly wrap-up
Welcome to 2021, and the 2020 wrap up post, which also includes December in its count. In December 2020, we had four children’s books read, and sixteen young adult books! So a bit of a reversal, but we still have more reviews for children’s books in 2020 overall – 170...
by Mic Loves Books | Jan 15, 2021 | Yearly wrap-up
2020 was a strange year for many of us with a global pandemic keeping most people at home a lot more than usual, not me. I’m a supermarket worker so I was even busier than usual. it will be interesting to see how that affected our reading statistics,...
by whisperinggums | Jan 13, 2021 | Yearly wrap-up
It’s annual Challenge wrap-up time, the time when we see how our reading and reviewing has fallen out over the year. The Challenge is now nine years old, and our database contains reviews for around 6,900 books, an increase of about 12% on our total to the end...
by Tegan Edwards | Jan 11, 2021 | Round-ups, Yearly wrap-up
Hello Fabulous Readers of 2020! Let’s talk about the year that was — literarily speaking anyway… As we often note, Non-Fiction & Poetry are an unlikely pairing and the reviews for these genres are sometimes on the smaller side compared to other popular ones on...
by TheresaSmithWrites | Jan 9, 2021 | Yearly wrap-up
Happy New Year! As is our tradition here at AWW, before moving forward, we take one more look back on the year that was. For Historical Fiction, 2020 looked like this: 470 reviews on 186 books written by 142 fabulous Australian women! Top reads for the year were: The...
by Claire Holderness | Jan 6, 2021 | Round-ups, Yearly wrap-up
Well, the year is over and it’s time for a new one, hopefully, a better one for most of us. In 2020 there were 135 books reviewed in the Speculative Fiction category which is half the amount reviewed in 2019. I don’t know if this is because there were...
by Mrs B's Book Reviews | Jan 4, 2021 | Round-ups, Yearly wrap-up
Welcome, it is my honour to present to you the 2020 yearly wrap up of the Romance genre. Despite the setbacks and challenges we have faced in this unprecedented year we should all be applauded for the valuable contributions we have made to the romance genre arm of the...
by Jenny Mustey | Jan 1, 2021 | Round-ups
Well hello, we have now arrived to the first day of 2021. I guess we will all be wondering what is in store for us this year. I trust that all your families welcomed in the New Year with a sense of optimism and hope. During December there were 45 reviews that...
by Janine Rizzetti | Dec 23, 2020 | Round-ups
After a lean October, November was a bumper month for reviews in the History, Memoir and Biography category, with 19 reviews received of 16 books. It’s always pleasing to see a book receiving reviews eight years after publication, as is the case this month with...
