by whisperinggums | Jul 14, 2021 | Round-ups
Halfway through the year, and that darned pandemic just keeps throwing us curve-balls, doesn’t it? I hope – wherever you are – you are trucking ok. How great that we are all readers, that we have something to take us away to other lives and worlds...
by whisperinggums | Jun 9, 2021 | Round-ups
May 2021 is quite a different month to May last year. The pandemic had started but we had no idea how long it would last. We still don’t know, but we know more about it now, and have some strategies for managing it. That’s a good thing. Bookselling stats...
by whisperinggums | May 12, 2021 | Round-ups
And so the year rolls on, with a third of it gone. Can you believe it? I’m pleased to report, however, that the Challenge in my neck of the woods seems to be going well, with a goodly number of reviews this month. I’m even more pleased that there is a...
by whisperinggums | Apr 14, 2021 | Round-ups
Interesting! March seems like a big reading month for the challenge. In 2019, 2020 and again this year, we had over sixty reviews for literary fiction and classics posted to the challenge, significantly more than the preceding Februarys. Why is this? Is it that autumn...
by whisperinggums | Mar 10, 2021 | Round-ups
A year ago, how innocent we were! There were rumblings of the coronavirus and, here in Australia in early March, limits were starting to be applied to our lives but could we have imagined where we’d be a year later? I don’t think so, and it’s...
