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Australian Women Writers Challenge
The Australian Women Writers (AWW) Challenge started this year, and I signed up early. It’s not for writers, it’s for readers. You commit to reading a certain number of books by Australian women writers, and you challenge yourself to read outside your usual genres. Libraries are a huge help in browsing for different, new-to-you authors.…
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A New Map of the Universe by Annabel Smith
A New Map of the Universe by Annabel Smith is a novel about the silences within and between people. The title comes from a wonderful sentence, “He gave her a new map of the universe and then he left her to navigate her way through it alone.” (p. 65) Annabel writes in a spare poetic…