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Australian Women Writers 2014 Challenge
I enjoy the Australian Women Writers Challenge, but last year I almost failed to meet my commitment. Life gets so busy. So this year I’m going to scale back a bit, with the hope that reading a couple less books will give me time to read a few more reviews from other challenge participants. So…
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Take Your Best Shot by Jacqueline Kent – Review
This is my final review for the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2013, and I didn’t think I’d choose to review a biography. In a way, Take Your Best Shot. The Prime Ministership of Julia Gillard is less a biography and more a recap of recent events in Australian Federal politics. As such, it’s clear and…
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Romance & the Australian Women Writers Challenge
I read a lot of romance novels. It’s what I write, so you could call it market research, but really it’s because I love their hopefulness, the emotional journey and the guaranteed happy ever after. However, because I read so much romance, I hoped to make my Australian Women Writers (AWW) Challenge about non-romance books.…
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Riding on Air by Maggie Gilbert
I don’t read much Young Adult, so picking up Maggie Gilbert’s Riding on Air for the Australian Women Writers Challenge is stepping out of my comfort zone. It turned out to be a lovely trip down memory lane, plus left me impressed with the deft handling of some serious issues. As a kid I read…
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Review of The Colony
The Colony. A History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens is impeccably and extensively researched, well-written and challenges some of Australia’s more pervasive myths, such as the “damned whores” of the First Fleet and the “fading away” of the Indigenous owners of the lands that became Sydney. Restoring the agency of people such as Bennelong…