#AusReadingMonth2020 Sign-Up

• I cannot wait to start #AUSReadingMonth2020!
• @Bornasbooks
• This day has been circled on my calendar for two reasons:
• enjoying reading Australian  writers
• enjoying being physically fit  living in my ‘covid’ bubble!

 

Introduction:

1. I am going to follow Brona’s lead ….and use her template for a sign-up post.
2. I am just too exhausted…
3. …following  USA election coverage 24/7) to create something different.
4. Brona has put time an effort into organizing this challenge and
5. …inspiring me yet again to read AUSSIE!
6. Many thanks, Brona!
7. This year I was  blown off course by the covid tsunami
8. ..and lost many reading weeks.
9. I did write ‘Lockdown Journals’ and review a few books.
10. I just could not concentrate and
11. keep my focus on fiction while reality was in my face!
12. I did manage to read a few books….but not many Australian writers.
13. I hope to make up lost time during #AusReadingMonth2020.

 

For AusReading Month I plan to finish and review:

1. I thought to shake a few things up…I’m doing a bingo card
2. …concentrating on a single genre.
3. I am trying to do a POETRY bingo card!
4. Reading poetry…
5. …takes more concentration and research than a novel!
6. The up-side….the books are between 60-80 pages!

 

• QLD – Comfort Food – Ellen van Neerven
  
• FREE SPACE – Argosy – Bella Li
• TAS – Another Love, Another Life – Graeme Hetherington,
• SA – Ruby Moonlight – Ali Cobby Eckermann
• NT – Dew and Broken Glass – Penny Drysdale
• ACT –Things I’ve Thought To Tell You Since I Saw You Last – Penelope Layland
• NSW – Waiting for the Past – Les Murray
• VIC –  Empirical  – Lisa Gorton
• WA –  Nganajungu Yagu – Charmaine Papertalk Green – READING

 

For AusReading Month I plan to finish and review:

1. I going to try to complete a 2nd bingo card!
2. I told Brona…I’m going ‘whole hog’  and then some!
3. My bingo card genre will be non-ficton.
   
4. These books will double as options for Non-Fiction November
5. I will try to read the Walkley Award 2020 longlist.
6. The winner will be announced
7. …Walkley website (walkleys.com) from 7pm AEDT on Friday, November 20.  

 

The longlisted titles are:

• NSW – After the Count (Stephanie Convery)
• VIC – City On Fire (Antony Dapiran)
• VIC – Hazelwood (Tom Doig)
• VIC – Buckley’s Chance (Garry Linnell, Michael Joseph)
• QLD – Body Count (Paddy Manning)
• FREE SPACE – We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know (Sophie McNeill)
• VIC – Fallen (Lucie Morris-Marr) – READING
• SA – Penny Wong (Margaret Simons)
• NSW – The Altar Boys (Suzanne Smit).

 

For AusReading Month I plan to finish and review:

1. Depending on my energy level in November
2. I may start…a 3rd bingo card!
3. My bingo card genre will be fiction.
4. I may not finish this card….I will plan a few books:

 

• QLD – An Item From the Late News (Thea Astley) – READING
• FREE SPACE – Pearly Gates (Owen Marshall) – New Zealand

 

1. Who am I? 
2. Nancy Burns
3. Where  do I live?
4. The Netherlands