One of the challenges I did during 2019 was the PopSugar Challenge. It had forty categories, plus an additional ten advanced ones - a couple of which I managed to check off, and I filled most of the main categories, some with multiple books. It was a good challenge, but one thing I think lets… Continue reading Pop Sugar Challenge Round Up
Category: Kate Forsyth
2018 Book Bingo Wrap up and 2019 Book Bingo Sign up
This year I participated in a book bingo challenge with Amanda and Theresa, and we also all participated in the Australian Women Writer's Challenge together, and many of the books I read filled both challenges. During 2018, I managed to complete two cards of twenty-five squares each, with some books working for separate categories in… Continue reading 2018 Book Bingo Wrap up and 2019 Book Bingo Sign up
Australian Women Writers Challenge 2018 Completed Post
This year I pledged to read fifteen books - which I had completed by at least March, if not earlier. I read a total of seventy-nine books and reviewed seventy-eight - one review is due to go live in January and as a result, also counts towards my 2019 challenge. One book from this year… Continue reading Australian Women Writers Challenge 2018 Completed Post
Gendered Reading: Why Do We Still Insist on Gendering Books?
Over the past few months and years, I have been following online discussions about the way people gender reading - not only the act of reading, as a pursuit that girls are said to prefer, but the books we give younger children and what we expect of them as they grow and how they develop… Continue reading Gendered Reading: Why Do We Still Insist on Gendering Books?
Book Bingo Twenty-two – a prize winning book, a book by someone over sixty, and a book with a yellow cover.
With 2018 rushing towards its busy, and warm conclusion, and in consultation with my fellow book bingo players, I have assigned some previously read books to the following categories, and have assigned my prize-winning category is taken up this time by 2007 Aurealis Best Children's Book winning series, The Chain of Charms by Kate Forsyth,… Continue reading Book Bingo Twenty-two – a prize winning book, a book by someone over sixty, and a book with a yellow cover.
Australian Women Writer’s Challenge Check in Four – forty-five to sixty.
My fourth check in, and most current one as of the 12th of August, 2018, takes me to sixty books for the year, and in July I managed to read an entire Kate Forsyth series, as well as historical fiction, an #OwnVoices book, female focussed books, and one with fascinating link to ancient history that… Continue reading Australian Women Writer’s Challenge Check in Four – forty-five to sixty.
Book Bingo fifteen – A Book Set More Than 100 Years Ago
Kate Forsyth's Chain of Charms series has been sitting on my shelf for a few years. Between university up until eighteen months ago, reviewing for publishers and most recently, writing quizzes for Scholastic Australia, I've been trying to squeeze them in, and have found time lately, so that's what I have done. A book set… Continue reading Book Bingo fifteen – A Book Set More Than 100 Years Ago
The Butterfly in Amber (Chain of Charms #6) by Kate Forsyth
Title: The Butterfly in Amber (Chain of Charms #6) Author: Kate Forsyth Genre: Historical Fiction/Children's Fiction Publisher: Pan MacMillan Published: Format: 1st July 2008 Pages: 266 Price: $9.99 Synopsis: Life is always hard for the gypsies, who live to their own rhythm and their own rules, but since Oliver Cromwell had seized control of England,… Continue reading The Butterfly in Amber (Chain of Charms #6) by Kate Forsyth
The Lightning Bolt (Chain of Charms #5) by Kate Forsyth
Title: The Lightning Bolt (Chain of Charms #5) Author: Kate Forsyth Genre: Historical Fiction, Children's Literature Publisher: Pan MacMillan Published: 10th November 2007/1st September 2008 Format: Paperback Pages: 220 Price: $9.99 Synopsis: The final three paperbacks of the award-winning six-book series by Kate Forsyth. Life is always hard for the gypsies, who live to their… Continue reading The Lightning Bolt (Chain of Charms #5) by Kate Forsyth
The Cat’s Eye Shell (Chain of Charms #4) by Kate Forsyth
Title: The Cat's Eye Shell (Chain of Charms #4) Author: Kate Forsyth Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Pan Macmillan Published: 11th November 2007/1st September 2008 Format: Paperback Pages: 245 Price: $9.99 Synopsis: The fourth exciting book in the six-book series by bestselling author, Kate Forsyth. Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist… Continue reading The Cat’s Eye Shell (Chain of Charms #4) by Kate Forsyth
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