#AusReadingMonth2022 Wrap-Up

Carins, Australia – #AusReadingMonth2022 Wrap-Up

Results 2022:

1. Well, I did my best
2. …but could not complete the bingo card.
3. #AUSReadingMonth2022
4. @bronasbooks “This Reading Life”  blogpost
5. Better luck next year!
6. I feels like all the Australian writers live in NSW, QLD or VIC!
7. Perhaps in 2023 I’ll  look for books that are in locations in
8. ACT, (Canberra)  – NT, (Northern Territory,  WA (Western Australia)
9. Thank you for hosting Brona!

 

1. Best book:  Tony Birch’s short story collection Dark as Last Night…it s a gem!
2. Book snooze fest: Indelible City…just was not my “cup of tea.”
3. Book eye-openers: The Red Zone and The Lucky Laundry
4. Book Australian hero: Lowitja...she was a remarkable woman! 
5. Book Climate/Earth: The Carbon Club and Soil…must keep reading about science in 2023!
6. Book Indigenous rights: Telling Tennant’s Story …spek on the globe, Tennant Creek
7. ….but so important to learn about.

 

My Reading list:

1. Dark as Last Night (Tony Birch) (VIC)  – REVIEW
2. The Red Zone – Peter Hartcher – New South Wales (NSW) – REVIEW
3. Lowitja  – (change of plans…) – selecting author from (VIC) –  REVIEW
4. The Carbon Club – Marian Wilkinson – Queensland (QLD)  – REVIEW
5. The Lucky Laundry – Nathan Lynch – Western Australia (WA) – REVIEW
6. Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong  Louisa Lim – FREE SPACE –REVIEW
7. Soil – M. Evans – (TAS) A love letter to Mother Earth. – REVIEW
8. Telling Tennant’s Story: – D. Ashenden  (NT) – REVIEW
9. Friends & Rivals – Brenda Niall – REVIEW  (VIC)
10. (SA)  – (ACT)- Home to the nation’s capital, Canberra.

 

1. I read two of the finalists for Walkley Award 2022.
2. …and I have added the others to my TBR 2023.
3. These are some of the best non-fiction books from Australia 2022
4. …need reading suggestions?
5. Winner of award:  Currowan by Bronwyn Adcock

1. I read three of the finalists for Walkley Award 2021.
2. I will add these extra books to my TBR 2023 with one exception:
3. Toxic …about the Tasmanian Salmon Industry. 
4. I hear from others this was a difficult book to read
5. …do not like cruelty of animals.
6. Winner of award:  The Winter Road by K. Holden

 

 

1. I read the WINNER Australian Political Book of the Year 2022
2. Telling Tennant’s Story by D. Ashenden.
3. Here is the longlist…some good books for 2023 non-fiction!

 

1. I selected SOIL by M. Evans because I needed a book by a Tasmanian writer!
2. Soil = A love letter to Mother Earth.