by whisperinggums | Feb 10, 2021 | Round-ups
I started off last January’s round-up commenting on the difficult start to the year we’d had with smoke, terrible bushfires and some floods. Little did I (or we) know then what the rest of the year would bring! And it isn’t over yet. Just as well we...
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 whisperinggums | Dec 9, 2020 | Round-ups
Before we know it, it will be Christmas and the end of another AWW Challenge year. It will be interesting to see whether this year’s end of year round-up is different in any ways to last year’s. Will the pandemic have wrought a major change in our reading...
by whisperinggums | Nov 20, 2020 | Round-ups
We are halfway through spring now, and heading towards the end of the calendar year, so the awards season is slowing down. However, they haven’t stopped, as you’ll see at the end of this post. Oh October Our October count of 37 reviews, is down a little on...
by whisperinggums | Oct 14, 2020 | Round-ups
Spring has sprung down-under with a wonderful – and much appreciated display of wildflowers and colourful crops (not to mention some colourful weeds too!) We have continued reading, though perhaps not quite as much as we did over winter. As always, please check...