#bookaweek

Home/Tag:#bookaweek

A Book A Week – April 2024

This month was full of faery tales, monster myths reimagined, and the new book from one of Australian literature’s national treasures...  17 - Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes I loved Stone Blind by English writer, broadcaster, classicist, comedian and “rock star mythologist” Natalie Haynes. She brings Greek myth’s so-called monster Medusa to vibrant, brilliant, beautiful

A Book A Week – March 2024

This month was full of faery tales, monster myths reimagined, and the new book from one of Australian literature’s national treasures...  11 - At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities by Heather Webber Heather Webber’s At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities is such an enchanting, moving, heart-breaking but heart-healing book. The fifth of her stand-alone magical

A Book A Week – August 2023

This month I read two awesome books by two favourite authors, Heather Webber and Selina Fenech, some important Australian classics and a moving collection of short stories, took a chance on a new author, and loved a queer contemportary romance and a fascinating historical fiction...  46 of 80 - The Lights of Sugarberry Cove by

Favourite books of 2022

Another year of the Book-A-Week challenge has passed, and I read 90+ books - 52 of them by Australian authors, and one of them 1200 pages long! There were so many beautiful, touching, empowering, inspiring, thought-provoking stories, proving just how magical books are. They teach us, encourage us, inspire us, entertain us, transport us to

Tags: |

A Book A Week – December 2022

December was a big book month - Juz and I have been celebrating the Icelandic tradition of Jolabokaflod (Yule book flood) since we met. I especially loved The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding by Holly Ringland, The Book Witch by Melanie Karsak and The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna. And I

A Book A Week – July 2022

Covid came to our little apartment in July, and although I worked more days at the day job, not less, I did allow myself to read a bit more inbetween. Books three and four of Selina Fenech’s Beshadowed series were awesome, I loved the extraordinary Legacy by Larissa Behrendt, Garden of Promises and Lies by Paula Brackston and Eternal Light

A Book A Week – June 2022

June was a month of beautiful books, and awesome writers festival events for Hannah Kent’s third book Devotion, Kate Forsyth’s intriguing The Crimson Thread and Favel Parrett’s adorable MG book Wandi, plus the fascinating Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta, sweet audiobook Anne of Green Gables, narrated by Rachel McAdams, and The Silent Princess and may other faery

A Book A Week – May 2022

May #bookaweek catch-up – so many incredible reads, especially Claire G Coleman’s extraordinary debut novel Terra Nullius, and Elle McNicoll’s stunning Show Us Who You Are. The first is a heartbreaking, desperately moving and horrifying sci-fi novel, which made me equally sad and enraged – but convinced that *everyone* should read it. It’s beautiful, powerful