In September, I read 23 books -ten were by Australian women, one checked off another box in Books and Bites Bingo and reviewed all books on this list. I’m slowly moving through my challenges, getting to some categories that are a bit more of a challenge, in finding the books to fit them. This month, in particularly the end of the month, saw a surge in published books. There were so many, the 29th was known in the book and publishing world as Super Tuesday, and I was able to read and review seven of those books – there were too many to read them all, and not all of them appealed to me.
So as we head into the last three months of 2020, I hope to be able to fill everything else in as well as stay on top of my review books.
Books and Bites Bingo
Set in Europe: Josephine’s Garden by Stephanie Parkyn
Debut Novel: The Soldier’s Curse by Meg and Tom Keneally (Monsarrat Series Book One)
Travel Memoir: The Strangeworlds Travel Agency by L.D. Lapinski
Published More than 100 Years Ago: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Written in the First Person: Pippa’s Island: Puppy Pandemonium by Belinda Murrell
Fairy Tale Collection: Snow White and Rose Red: And Other Tales of Kind Young Women by Kate Forsyth and Lorena Carrington
A Book with a door on the cover: The Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valour by Ally Carter
Written by someone called Jane: Persuasion by Jane Austen
An Australian crime or thriller: A Testament of Character (Rowland Sinclair #10) by Sulari Gentill
Wherever you go: Wherever You Go (Around the World Supper Club) by Monique Mulligan
Eco-themes: The Vanishing Deep by Astrid Scholte
A Neil Gaiman book: Pirate Stew by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell
Short story collection: Radio National Fictions (various short stories on ABC Listen app
Published the year you were born:
Makes you blush: The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome by Katrina Nannestad
That book you keep putting off: The Louvre by James Gardiner
A book with lots of hype: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling (Ravenclaw Edition)
Has “the girl” in the title: The Girl She Was by Rebecca Freeborn
A book with bad reviews: Trials of Apollo: The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan
Book to movie: Nim’s Island by Wendy Orr
Scary: The Monstrous Devices by Damien Love
Someone you love’s fave book:
Made into a TV Series:
A title longer than five words: The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune McAdam
Fave childhood book:
September – 23
| Book | Author | Challenge |
| Feathers | Karen Hendriks and illustrated by Kim Fleming | Reading Challenge, AWW2020 |
| The Wizards of Once | Cressida Cowell | Reading Challenge |
| Fly on the Wall | Remy Lai | Reading Challenge, AWW2020 |
| Fairy Tales Gone Bad: Zombierella | Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Freya Hartas | Reading Challenge |
| The Wizards of Once: Twice Magic | Cressida Cowell | Reading Challenge |
| Old Man Emu | John Williamson and illustrated by Simon McLean | Reading Challenge |
| The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis 1933-1945 | Catrine Clay | Reading Challenge |
| What Zola did on Wednesday | Melina Marchetta, illustrated by Deb Hudson | Reading Challenge, AWW2020 |
| Scary Bird | Michael Streich | Reading Challenge |
| Grump | Jonathon Bentley | Reading Challenge |
| Stupid Carrots | David Campbell and Daron Parton | Reading Challenge |
| Around the World Supper Club: Wherever You Go | Monique Mulligan | Reading Challenge, AWW2020 |
| Kensy and Max: Full Speed | Jacqueline Harvey | Reading Challenge, AWW2020 |
| Wizards of Once: Knock Three Times | Cressida Cowell | Reading Challenge |
| Santa and the Sugar Glider | Alexa Moses and Anil Tortop | Reading Challenge, AWW2020 |
| Wizards of Once: Never and Forever | Cressida Cowell | Reading Challenge |
| The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst | Jaclyn Moriarty | Reading Challenge, AWW2020 |
| Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow | Jessica Townsend | Reading Challenge, AWW2020 |
| The Left-handed Booksellers of London | Garth Nix | Reading Challenge, |
| Bad Guys Episode 12: The One? | Aaron Blabey | Reading Challenge, |
| Timmy the Ticked-Off Pony: Bite Me | Magda Szubanski | Reading Challenge, AWW2020 |
| October, October | Katya Balen | Reading Challenge, |
| Pirate Stew | Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell | Reading Challenge, Books and Bites Book Bingo |
| Rainshaker | Elizabeth Mary Cummings and Cheri Hughes | Reading Challenge, AWW2020 |
