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...
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...
