My reading is getting slower and slower this year. I’ve decided it’s time to officially downgrade my reading goals and have set my Goodreads Challenge down to 100 books. Speaking of reading challenges, I didn’t even glance at my selections for the mini Magical Readathon. I was rather disappointed, but recognise I’ve got a lot […]
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This week, I’m over at Nerds of a Feather with a review of The Aurora Cycle by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. It’s a stylish teenage space opera offering action and adventure.
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February was the month of short: two short story collections, a book of short poems and a couple of novellas. Perhaps that’s fitting for a short month. My reading has continued to be slower this year than it used to be. I’m doing my best to roll with it, but it trips up my planning […]
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This week I’m over at Nerds of a Feather with a review of Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat. It’s a story that brings some shades of grey to the traditional battle between light and dark, walking a fine line between paying homage to classic works of fantasy and generic predictability.
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September was dedicated to the Magical Readathon, run by the incomparable G of the Book Roast. Oddly, this made the number of books I read this month drop considerably, though the average number of pages per book went up. I had a blast with both RPG elements of the challenge as well as the reading […]
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The urge to do some spring cleaning hit me this month and particularly targeted my Mt TBR. It was finally time for me to let go of some things that I just wasn’t ever going to get around to reading. I’ve not noted the specifics of what I unhauled, but you can see the impact […]
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The more I read, the more I want to read. Which is to say that Mt TBR keeps slowly creeping upward. It was an interesting mix of stuff this month. There’s fanfic alongside some heavier philosophy and memoir. A couple of Lodestar nominees. And I seem to be on a bit of an audio binge. […]
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June was a slower month for reading. My reading obligations dragged out longer than I anticipated and I picked up a new craft project. Mt TBR Status Mt TBR @ 1 January 2021: 426Mt TBR @ 31 May 2021: 420Mt TBR @ 30 June 2021: 423 Items Read 79. Shuri: The Search for Black Panther, […]
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Published: October 2019 by University of Queensland PressFormat reviewed: Paperback, 280 pagesGenres: Young adult thriller, magical realismSource: Available: Publisher (print and electronic) ~ Abbey’s ~ Amazon (AU, CA, UK, US) ~ Barnes & Noble ~ Book Depository ~ Booktopia ~ Dymocks ~ Indiebound ~ Kobo ~ Smashwords Stacey and Laney are twins — mirror images […]
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This week I’m over at the Skiffy and Fanty Show with a review of the Aurealis-Award-winning Catching Teller Crow by Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina. This is a masterfully-told story about the ghost of an Aboriginal girl who goes with her father to investigate a fatal fire in a small rural town in Australia. It presents […]
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