February 2024 Reading Round Up

Stats:

Reading Goal: 53/150  

Dymocks: 8/8

            Entrée: 8/8

            Main: 

            Dessert:

Stella Prize Summer Reading Challenge:  13/16

The Nerd Daily: 32/52

KT Book Bingo: 17/25

QBD: 16/24

#AussieYAChallenge: 2/15                                                                                                                                                                    

Book Fair Australia: 3/6

Australian: 50

Australian Men: 16

Australian Women: 33

Indigenous: 2

LGTBQIA: 2

Non-Australian: 3

Men:

Women: 3

Total Men: 15

Total Women: 37

Co-written/Anthologies:  4

No Author Specified:  1

In February, I read 27 books, mostly for review for my blog and Sisters in Crime. One book – the Bluey book – didn’t have a distinct author, and I have picked up a couple of other challenges that have a few easy prompts to fill. All the books I read this month were reviewed, including a series for the Children’s Murdoch Research Institute. I have focused on children’s and Australian literature again, and am hoping to read more Australian children’s books across the board and as diversely as I can, based on what is sent, and also what is on offer in review guides. And now onto more reading, getting through a large TBR pile, and getting ahead of my reading for each month as much as possible.

1. The Eleventh Floor by Kylie Orr
2. The Day of the Whale by Rachel Delahaye
3. How to Avoid Being Eaten by Sharks and Other Advice by John Larkin
4. Jawsome: Licence to Rock by RJ Timmis
5. 11 Ruby Road 1900 by Charlotte Barkla
6. Castle Rock Mystery Crew: The Jase Files by Vicky McClure and Kim Curran
7. Pearly and Pig and the Island of Secrets by Sue Whiting
8. Dragons Drumming by Sandra Bennett and Maya Bora
9. Time to Rest by Jack Carty and Natasha Carty
10. The Grimmelings by Rachael King
11. Losing the Plot by Annaliese Byrd
12. Square Me, Round World by Chelsea Luker and Eliza Fricker
13. The Unexpected Heiress: A Family Saga from Concentration Camp to Gold Mining Empire by George Mallory
14. Leo and Ralph by Peter Carnavas
15. Slug Dad and Monster Mum (Kip’s Guide to Bedtime: Early Morning Waking) by Robert Boddington and Jack Robertson
16. Pick Your Nose (Kip’s Guide to Bedtime: Limit Setting Disorder/Sleep Onset Association) by Robert Boddington and Jack Robertson
17. Bluey: Trains
18. The Old Bedtime Pass Puncher (Kip’s Guide to Bedtime: Bedtime Pass Technique) by Robert Boddington and Jack Robertson
19. Marshmallow Puffins at the Window (Kip’s Guide to Bedtime: Nighttime Fears) by Robert Boddington and Jack Robertson
20. Has Dad Joined the Circus? (Kip’s Guide to Bedtime: Camping Out) by Robert Boddington and Jack Robertson
21. A Beach in the Bedroom (Kip’s Guide to Bedtime:  Visual Imagery and Relaxation Technique) by Robert Boddington and Jack Robertson
22. Twinning: BFFs (Not) by Alexa Moses
23. What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan
24. The Peak (Spy Academy #1) by Jack Heath
25. Outlaw Girls by Emily Gale and Nova Weetman
26. The Travelling Bookshop: Mim and the Vicious Vendetta by Katrina Nannestad
27. The Sea Captain’s Wife by Jackie French