All year I have been meaning to write progress posts for every month, or every ten books. Until now, I have woefully neglected this activity, and having read 61 books already, am breaking it up into posts of fifteen – and will continue to do this until the end of the year/early 2019, making the collation of posts for my final wrap up of this challenge easier than last year’s attempt. Each list will be varied, with review books and ones I chose to purchase making up my count – they will be diverse in terms of story, genre, fiction or non-fiction, readership, age and as many other aspects of diversity as I have stumbled across on my reading journey – greatly depending on what I have been able to find, have been sent and what I have access to, but also, I choose books based on what I enjoy as well, and in doing so, I feel like I hit as much diversity in my reading as possible without too much trouble.
These lists – to date so far by today, are a little less than half of my total books logged for the year, which on the 11th of August, stands at 115, and counting. I have well surpassed my goal of fifteen for the challenge – a conservative estimate as I often have a list in mind of upcoming releases and books I own, yet also don’t always know what else will come my way. I find it best to underestimate – and then anything extra becomes bonus points.
So below is my first batch of fifteen out of sixty one, with links to each review.
First fifteen
- The Sister’s Song by Louise Allan
- The Tides Between by Elizabeth Jane Corbett –
- Rose Raventhorpe Investigates: Hounds and Hauntings by Janine Beacham
- Four Respectable Ladies Seek Part-Time Husband by Barbara Toner
- The Secrets at Ocean’s Edge by Kali Napier
- The Endsister by Penni Russon
- Graevale by Lynette Noni
- Eventual Poppy Day by Libby Hathorn
- Olmec Obituary by LJM Owen
- The Passengers by Eleanor Limprecht and Interview
- Miss Lily’s Lovely Ladies by Jackie French
- Surf Rider’s Club #2: Bronte’s Big Sister Problem by Mary van Reyk
- Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer
- Skin in the Game: The Pleasure and Pain of Telling True Stories by Sonya Voumard
- Mayan Mendacity by L.J.M. Owen
Coming up next, posts sixteen to thirty of the Australian Women Writer’s challenge and at some stage, a Book Bingo wrap up post for both of my rounds of the challenge with Mrs B’s Book Reviews and Theresa Smith Writes.
Title: Other Worlds 1: Perfect World
First, the book I read for the book that has been turned into a movie was The 
Now we come to the book that scared me, and for this I chose 
Claire G. Coleman author of 
In, The Long Way Home, The Nature of the Beast, A Great Reckoning, and Glass Houses – the Inspector Gamache series, will be attending two events on the 4th and the 5th of March: Glass Houses at 9.30am on the 4th of March, at East Stage Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden, and Into the Woods on the 5th of March at 5pm, at the East Stage Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden.
Another Australian Author published by Hachette attending will be Sarah Schmidt, author of 
The panel also discussed the under-representation of women as winners and nominees of literary prizes in Australia. in 2011, only ten women had ever won the Miles Franklin Award, which had been running for fifty-four years at the time. Since the inception of the Stella Prize, four women have won the Miles Franklin Award and 2013 had the first ever all-female shortlist for the prize. However, women not being nominated or winning is a trend across all major literary prizes, though in general, women are often winners of the fiction category of the state premier Literary Awards across Australia, but not often winners of non-fiction, despite women having written some brilliant and moving non-fiction that I have devoured and enjoyed. A full history can be read 
