by Claire Holderness | Jun 2, 2021 | Round-ups
Nearly halfway through the year already, and May was a big month for speculative fiction with 28 books reviewed which is just fabulous. This is a longer round-up this month and I still haven’t been able to cover them all. Mic Loves Books and I, Claire’s...
by Ashleigh Meikle | Mar 17, 2021 | Round-ups
We’re into March now, and in Australia, we’re living in a COVID-normal world of check-ins, tests, and social distancing. Yet we are still reading, and our numbers for younger readers and young adult books are tracking to be fairly similar. We had ten reviews for...
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 Ashleigh Meikle | Aug 19, 2020 | Round-ups
July had an explosion in reviews for children’s books– twenty-five–but a fall in young adult reviews–down to two. One book reviewed has been entered several times since it came out. This is an interesting trend, seeing what books, genres and audiences are read more at...
by Ashleigh Meikle | Jun 17, 2020 | Round-ups
Welcome to the May 2020 Round Up. We were still in some kind of lockdown, but things started to ease a little – we could go to the shops and get take away, but were still working from home and I think learning from home. Heading into June, things are getting much...
