Just for fun, I am picking up another bingo challenge. Like all challenges this year, I have chosen them based on the openness of the categories, to fiction and non-fiction and to Australian and non-Australian authors. I feel this will give me a better chance of filling in all or as many of the categories… Continue reading Books and Bites Bingo – Intro and square one marked off
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Book Bingo one 2020 – A Prize Winning Book
Welcome to another year of book bingo with my co-hosts, Amanda Barrett and Theresa Smith. This year, we have cut down the number of squares from thirty to twelve, so one square a month to post about, though nothing is stopping us from filling out the card within a few months and scheduling every post.… Continue reading Book Bingo one 2020 – A Prize Winning Book
My 2020 Reading Challenges
In 2020, I have decided to take part in four specific reading challenges, and one overall challenge. The overall challenge will be my total books read between these four challenges, reviewing and my work as a quiz writer, and I am aiming to read 165 books in total. Below are the other challenges I am… Continue reading My 2020 Reading Challenges
2019 Australian Women Writer’s Challenge Completed,
At the start of the year, I pledged to read fifteen books across the year, and ended up reading one hundred, and reviewing about ninety-seven of those – as some were read for my job as a quiz writer and I didn’t get a chance to review them all. Of the one hundred, it is… Continue reading 2019 Australian Women Writer’s Challenge Completed,
Book Bingo Twenty-Four – A Prize Winner and BINGO – A book by an author with the same initials
Hello, and welcome to my third last book bingo for the year with Amanda and Theresa. After this one, I have to check off a book over 500 pages, and a book by an author with the same initials - the latter of which I think I have chosen. This week, I am marking off… Continue reading Book Bingo Twenty-Four – A Prize Winner and BINGO – A book by an author with the same initials
Book Bingo Twenty-Three – A Book Set in the Australian Outback and DOUBLE BINGO
Welcome to one of my final book bingo entries for the year with Amanda and Theresa, and my first for November. This time around, I am ticking off a book set in the Australian Outback, where I have been able to get a bingo in one down row and one across row by ticking off… Continue reading Book Bingo Twenty-Three – A Book Set in the Australian Outback and DOUBLE BINGO
Book Bingo Twenty-Two – A fictional biography of a woman from history
Welcome to week twenty-two of Book Bingo with Theresa and Amanda. Coming to the end of October, and I have made it to one of my trickier squares - a fictional biography of a woman from history. With this one, I wasn't sure what I was going to do, yet I had earlier in the… Continue reading Book Bingo Twenty-Two – A fictional biography of a woman from history
Book Bingo Twenty-One – BINGO for two rows and Written by an author over 65.
Welcome to week twenty-one of Book Bingo for 2019 with Amanda and Theresa. This week, as well as being able to give a BINGO to two of my rows, I am crossing off the written by an author over 65 square. Age ones are a challenge because it's not always obvious what age range an… Continue reading Book Bingo Twenty-One – BINGO for two rows and Written by an author over 65.
Book Bingo Twenty – BINGO and Themes of Science Fiction
Book bingo week again, and we are into September with Theresa and Amanda. This week, I am ticking off themes of science fiction. This was always going to be a tricky one for me as I don't read much science fiction, and the book I initially assigned to this didn't feel like it fitted properly… Continue reading Book Bingo Twenty – BINGO and Themes of Science Fiction
Book Bingo Nineteen: Themes of Culture
It's September, and time for book bingo again with Theresa and Amanda. This means I have six to seven books left on my card to fill in, some of which I am unsure of what to do. Science Fiction is always a tricky, because there are times it crosses over with fantasy. I initially had… Continue reading Book Bingo Nineteen: Themes of Culture
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