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AWW17: Girl Reporter by Tansy Rayner Roberts
ARC Review & Australian Women Writers Challenge 2017: Book #3 Title: Girl Reporter (Cookie Cutter Superhero-verse #2) Authors: Tansy Rayner Roberts Publisher and Year: Book Smugglers, 2017 Genre:...
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AWW17: Liesmith by Alis Franklin
Australian Women Writers Challenge 2017: Book #4 Title: Liesmith (The Wyrd #1) Authors: Alis Franklin Publisher and Year: Hydra, 2014 Genre: urban fantasy, mythology, queer, romance Blurb from...
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AWW17: The Opposite of Life by Narrelle M. Harris
Australian Women Writers Challenge 2017: Book #5 Title: The Opposite of Life Authors: Narrelle M. Harris Publisher and Year: Pulp Fiction Press, 2007 Genre: urban fantasy, crime, mystery, vampire...
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AWW17: Musketeer Space and Joyeux by Tansy Rayner Roberts
ARC Review & Australian Women Writers Challenge 2017: Book #6 & #7 Title: Musketeer Space and Joyeux Authors: Tansy Rayner Roberts Publisher and Year: Tansy Rayner Roberts, 2014 (Musketeer...
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My favourite reads from 2017
2017 could easily be nicknamed the year of Tansy Rayner Roberts, because I read a bunch of her books and they all ended up on my ‘best of the year’ shelf on Goodreads. Compared with previous years, my...
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Review of 2017 reading goals
Back in January, I posted about my 2017 reading goals. Back then, 2017 was shiny and new and I was hopeful for a productive reading year and my goals reflected this. I also thought that the structure...
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Reading Goals for 2018
Once again it’s time to talk about reading goals, this time for the year ahead. Reading is such a huge part of my life that I’m glad that it get specific focus in my rituals for the new year. I’m...
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Bout of Books 21: Goals and Updates for the week
Getting ready for Bout of Books 21! This is my post outlining my goals and plan for the week, plus a section for my daily updates across the week. A week spent with a focus on reading and letting...
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Finalising (finally) Cusp from 2017
It’s nearly the end of January and I’ve been working up to writing this post all month. Some transitions in theme happen seamlessly as one year folds into a new one, others take a little bit of extra...
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Review: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
Review Title: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown Authors: Holly Black Publisher and Year: Little Brown Books for Young Readers, 2013 Genre: urban fantasy, young adult, vampire fiction, horror Blurb from...
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Alchemy in 2018
I feel like in some ways this post has taken forever to come together. And it’s one of those years where finding my theme took longer and while the concepts were clear to me, the overarching word to...
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Alchemy in progress
When I read back on my original post about Alchemy and what this year in focus was going to look like, once again I’m amazed at the purity of the theme as it has played out and also simultaneously, how...
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Speaking truth to self and the state of me…
State of me: Healing and growing in equal measure, in progress. Slow going. I’m grieving the loss of a relationship I deeply valued and poured everything I could into. I’m in the midst of one of the...
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The end of 2018 and Alchemy
Oh 2018… you were such a long and hard year. While there were moments of profound joy, it was overall a sad and painful year. This is to finalise my thoughts and the lessons I learned from my 2018...
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2018 Australian women writers challenge wrap up
As you probably saw from my previous post, 2018 I spent in something of a tailspin. I came nowhere close to completing on any of my intentions around reading, reviewing or challenges. I’m still a...
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2019: Embracing the Plateau
The time has come for me to let everyone else in on my theme for 2019. I stumbled upon this one scrolling through Facebook, but it struck me like a bell. One of the people I follow in my capacity as a...
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My poor blog has languished this year, and I haven’t had much inspiration to write. I was also having some technical issues that are now a thing of the past thanks to getting someone different to take...
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Leaving the Plateau
As I mentioned, this blog space has languished this year, not intentionally but it’s been a big year for me personally and inwardly. I haven’t had a lot to say externally. 2019 and my theme Plateau has...
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Australian Women Writer’s Challenge 2019 – Complete!
This is a challenge that I didn’t pay much attention to in the foreground, or keep on top of in any way. I tracked the books I read and that was pretty much it. Leaving it to the me of today to sort...
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2020: Emerge
Very occasionally it takes until deep into February to be able to put words to the page and write about what it is my yearly theme is going to encompass. I definitely don’t plan it this way but that’s...
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