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 11, 2019 | Round-ups
It’s nearly the end of the year, and still the awards continue, with three announcements in November. Because of this, and because we had a good number of classics posted this month, I am focusing just on those two areas in this post, because none of us have...
by whisperinggums | Nov 13, 2019 | Round-ups
October was an exciting month for awards with the winners for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards being announced, along with other significant awards news. All this will be at the end of the post, as usual. Orsome October! We had 43 reviews posted this month,...
by whisperinggums | Oct 15, 2019 | Round-ups
September saw the announcement of one of the last major shortlists for the year, the Queensland Literary Awards, so look at for those at the end of this post. Springing into September Another decent month for reviews, with 42 being posted. Here are some highlights:...
