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 Brona68 | Feb 11, 2019 | Round-ups
Welcome to a brand new year of monthly reviews for General Non-Fiction. We’re starting off 2019 with 18 non-fiction reviews, for 11 different books from 14 individual reviewers. A great start! During the week, The Stella Prize announced their 2019 longlist, with...
by TheresaSmithWrites | Feb 18, 2018 | Interviews, Spotlights
Recently longlisted for The Stella Prize, Sofie Laguna’s The Choke is a brilliant, haunting novel about a child navigating an often dark and uncaring world of male power and violence, in which grown-ups can’t be trusted and comfort can only be found in nature. I...
