by Ashleigh Meikle | Oct 20, 2021 | Round-ups
With much of the country still in lockdown in September, I again wondered what the reading trends for this category would be. For children and younger readers, we had seventeen books, and for young adult readers, there were seven – so based on trends from the past two...
by Ashleigh Meikle | Sep 15, 2021 | Round-ups
With much of the country in various lockdowns, in particular in NSW and Victoria, I was again interested in seeing what our trends were – did readers lean more to books for younger readers or young adult, did they lean towards a certain genre or is there less...
by Ashleigh Meikle | Aug 18, 2021 | Round-ups
July saw three states plunged back into lockdowns, making up half the population. Greater Sydney and several of its surrounding regions are still in lockdown, and I had wondered how this might alter our reading habits. In books for those under about thirteen – for the...
by Jenny Mustey | May 7, 2021 | Round-ups
Hello everyone and thanks to all our wonderful readers and reviewers who have contributed to this ever-growing Australian Women Writers Challenge. 73 reviews during April covering 53 titles. The most reviewed General Fiction novel this month is Josephine Moon’s...
by Jenny Mustey | Mar 5, 2021 | Round-ups
Welcome to Autumn! During February there were 48 reviews of General Fiction which is a top effort. I was hoping to add to the tally but didn’t quite finish my latest read Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason who is up amongst the longlist nominees in the ABIA...