by Janine Rizzetti | Jan 22, 2020 | Round-ups
December 2019 brought 12 reviews of 11 books to the Challenge, and what a diverse bunch they are this time! There were reviews of books that have been mentioned in the Round-Ups earlier, some new books published during 2019 and some old books stretching back decades....
by Janine Rizzetti | Dec 21, 2019 | Round-ups
The year is drawing to a close, but we’ve been busy reading in the History, Memoir and Biography category with 17 reviews during November 2019. Many of these reviews picked up on books that have been previously mentioned in our Round Ups, which is always...
by Janine Rizzetti | Nov 27, 2019 | Round-ups
October brought us sixteen reviews of fifteen books in the History, Memoir and Biography, double our tally for September. Memoir and biography continue to dominate, but it was good to see the presence of history amongst our reads this month too. Memoir? The trend...
by Janine Rizzetti | Oct 23, 2019 | Round-ups
September has been a relatively lean month in the History, Memoir and Biography genre with eight books read by nine reviewers. Two reviewers read Leigh Straw’s Angel of Death: Dulcie Markham Australia’s Most Beautiful Bad Woman (2019). Dulcie Markham was...
by Janine Rizzetti | Sep 25, 2019 | Round-ups
There was real variation in the fourteen History, Memoir and Biographies reviews received during August 2019, encompassing place, politics and society, relationships and past lives. Place Australian novelist, essayist and poet Lily Brett has lived in New York for many...
