This year, I am once again participating in the 52 Book Club Challenge. The Challenge is to read one book each week, to a particular prompt. The thing I most enjoy about this challenge, apart from reading the books, is matching books to the prompts. It’s a fun thing to do, and I often end […]

This year, I am once again participating in the 52 Book Club Challenge. The Challenge is to read one book each week, to a particular prompt. The thing I most enjoy about this challenge, apart from reading the books, is matching books to the prompts. It’s a fun thing to do, and I often end […]

Recently, Better Reading announced their annual list of Top 100 Books. “Each year, Australians have their say about which books and authors they love to read in the Better Reading Top 100. It has become a well-loved annual event that readers vote for, celebrate and discuss. It is a true reflection of what Australians read, […]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Summary Flinders is a biography of the life and voyages of Matthew Flinders, explorer, who mapped the coastline of Australia. This biography follows Flinders’ final voyage home from Australia, in 1810, after being imprisoned by the French. Even though Matthew Flinders died young, at age 40, his legacy as one of the world’s greatest […]

So far in 2024, I’ve read 57 books. It really has been a great year of reading, with many of those books being given a 4 star rating. Following are just four of those 4 star books. Telling Tales by … Continue reading Four 4 Star Books

So far in 2024, I’ve read 57 books. It really has been a great year of reading, with many of those books being given a 4 star rating. Following are just four of those 4 star books. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Telling Tales is the second book in the very popular Vera Stanhope series. Jeannie was charged with […]

This year, I am once again participating in the 52 Book Club Challenge. The Challenge is to read one book each week, to a particular prompt. The thing I most enjoy about this challenge, apart from reading the books, is … Continue reading May Reading Update #whatsonyourbookshelfchallenge #52booksin52weeks

This year, I am once again participating in the 52 Book Club Challenge. The Challenge is to read one book each week, to a particular prompt. The thing I most enjoy about this challenge, apart from reading the books, is matching books to the prompts. It’s a fun thing to do, and I often end […]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Summary The Secret Book of Flora Lea is a very engrossing and ‘tug at the heart strings’ novel with the themes of family, love and fate. Hazel and Flora spent their childhood, during World War 11, in the countryside outside London, after being evacuated for safety. While they were away from their family, older […]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Atlas: the Story of Pa Salt is the eighth book in the Seven Sisters series. This series has been a reading highlight for me. As I was reading the seventh book, not realising there was an eighth book, I was feeling quite disappointed that the series was about to come to an end. When […]

This year, I am once again participating in the 52 Book Club Challenge. The Challenge is to read one book each week, to a particular prompt. The thing I most enjoy about this challenge, apart from reading the books, is matching books to the prompts. It’s a fun thing to do, and I often end […]

The Seven Sisters series is loosely based on the mythology of the star constellation known as the Pleiades, or more commonly, the Seven Sisters. The books follow the exploits of a group of adopted siblings who, following the death of their father, follow the clues he left them, that would enable them to find their […]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “An intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided” – Goodreads The Women by Kristin Hannah highlights the experiences of the Army nurses who were involved in the Vietnam War. Frankie, the daughter of a wealthy family, enlists as an Army nurse. This shocks […]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Summary Twenty six year old Rory and her much loved little dog Buster, rarely leave their third floor apartment. During the day, she works for her aunt’s private investigation business, and she spends her nights gazing at the stars from her rooftop. She also notices the homeless men across the road and imagines the […]