Late last year I hosted a review of Maria Tumarkin's Axiomatic by Amanda who had responded to my call on the Australian Women Writers Challenge for reviews of it and Jamie Marina Lau's Pink Mountain on Locust Island, which won the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Readings Residency Award, and was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for … Continue reading Jamie Marina Lau, Pink Mountain on Locust Island (Guest post by Amanda) (#BookReview)
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Six degrees of separation, FROM The French Lieutenant’s woman TO …
Another year, but Six Degrees just keeps on keeping on - or, at least, I've decided to keep on keeping on with it for the moment. The Six Degrees of Separation meme is currently hosted by Kate (booksaremyfavouriteandbest). Click on the link on her blog-name to see her explanation of how it works. Hmmm ... … Continue reading Six degrees of separation, FROM The French Lieutenant’s woman TO …
Blogging highlights for 2018
Here is the last of my year-end trifecta (the others being my Australian Women Writers' Challenge wrap-up and Reading highlights posts). This is my self-indulgent post, as I like to document trends on my blog for my own record - so do ignore it if you like. Top posts for 2018 I'm intrigued by how little change there … Continue reading Blogging highlights for 2018
Reading highlights for 2018
If you are a regular here you'll know that my Reading Highlights post, which is my answer to those Top Reads posts that many bloggers do, will not contain an ordered list of the books I considered my "best" of the year. I find that just too hard to do (though I did make a … Continue reading Reading highlights for 2018
Monday musings on Australian literature: Australian Women Writers Challenge 2018
As has become tradition, I'm devoting my last Monday Musings of the year to the Australian Women Writers Challenge* - but, this year it coincides with New Year's Eve. When this post goes live, who knows what revelry I'll be up to! Hmm ... I can but hope! Seriously, though, I wish all you wonderful Whispering Gums … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Australian Women Writers Challenge 2018
Maria Tumarkin, Axiomatic (Guest post by Amanda) (#BookReview)
I am thrilled to host this post by Amanda who responded to my call on the Australian Women Writers Challenge for a review of Maria Tumarkin's Axiomatic, which won the Best Writing Award in this year's Melbourne Prize for Literature awards. However, Amanda does not have a place to post reviews on-line, so we agreed … Continue reading Maria Tumarkin, Axiomatic (Guest post by Amanda) (#BookReview)
New Territory Litbloggers’ Year in Review, 2018
When my 2018 New Territory blogging mentee Amy (of The Armchair Critic) suggested that we do some sort of joint end-of-year blog post I loved the idea. The only question was what would we talk about, and how would we do it? It wasn’t too hard to decide former, as the subject matter was obvious: … Continue reading New Territory Litbloggers’ Year in Review, 2018
My literary week (14), lists and a celebrity
I don't really need to write a post today having written two in the last two days, but there are a couple of things I'd love to share with you, so here I am for the third day in a row. Reading group schedule First up is my reading group schedule for the first half … Continue reading My literary week (14), lists and a celebrity
Six degrees of separation, FROM A Christmas carol TO …
And suddenly it's the last Six Degrees of the year. Before we know it, everyone will be writing their top lists of the year, but I, as usual, will do mine in January, when the year is REALLY over. I like me "best books" of the year to be of the actual calendar year. I'm … Continue reading Six degrees of separation, FROM A Christmas carol TO …
Non-fiction November 2018, Weeks 4 and 5
Well, bizarrely, I did the first three weeks from 2016 for my first Non-fiction November of 2018 post! I won't revisit those - they're similar topics to this year's anyhow - but I'm back on track for this post. Non-fiction November, if you haven't guessed, involves celebrating non-fiction for the month, with each week focusing on … Continue reading Non-fiction November 2018, Weeks 4 and 5
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