Hosted by: Passages to the Past.
Challenge period: 1st January to 31st December, 2020
Sign up: anytime during the year
All the details are available on the sign-up page.
There are six different reading levels: 20th Century Reader (2 books), Victorian Reader (5 books), Renaissance Reader (10 books), Medieval (15 books), Ancient History (25 books) and Prehistoric (50+ books).
Hosted by: Ariel and Kriti @ Armed With A Book
Challenge period: 1st January to 31st December, 2020
Sign Up: Open until 15th March, 2020
Aim: To complete all 25 squares on the bingo card (reviews not required, but questions will be asked about the books read).
More information and how to sign up can be found here.
To mark off 25 squares on a bingo card with a year to do it sounds a pretty simple task, but
Hosted by: Becky's Book Reviews
Challenge period: December 1, 2019 - December 31, 2020
Aim: To read a minimum of four books, from or set during the Georgian era, fiction or non-fiction (no review required).
More information and how to sign up can be found here.
Looking back over my reading trends, I realised that a large part of my reading material falls
Hosted by: Brandee and Lexie at (un)Conventional Bookworms
Challenge period: 1st January to 31st December, 2020
Sign Up: By 1st September, 2020
Aim: To read and review books released in 2020.
All the information can be found here on the sign-up page.
As I didn't reach my target of 61 books to read and
Hosted by: Jo at Book Lover Reviews
Challenge period: 1st January to 31st December, 2020
Sign Up: Anytime during the year
Aim: To showcase the quality and diversity of the books being produced by Australian authors.
All the information and how to join is here on the sign-up page.
This year I'm participating at the same level as last year
Hosted by: Australian Women Writers.
Challenge period: 1st January to 31st December, 2020.
Sign Up: Throughout the year until 30th November, 2020.
Aim: To help overcome gender bias in the reviewing of books by Australian women.
Further information about the challenge and how to join can be found here.
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released. Find out more here.
Aussie Author Challenge 2019
This year I participated at the Wallaroo level: read and review 6 titles written by Australian Authors of which at least 2 of those authors are female, at least 2 of those authors are male, and at least 2 of those authors are new to you; Fiction or non-fiction, at least 2 genres.
My statistics show that I read a total of 29 books by Australian authors: 26 by female authors, 3 by male authors and 1 by a father and daughter team. What I
Publication Date: November 19, 2019
Falcon Historical
eBook & Paperback; 384 Pages
Series: The Lydiard Chronicles, Book 3
Genre: Historical Fiction
Synopsis
London, 1649. Horrified eyewitnesses to King Charles’s bloody execution, Royalists Nan Wilmot and Frances Apsley plot to return the king’s exiled son to England’s throne, while their radical cousin Luce, the wife of king-killer John Hutchinson, rejoices in the new republic’s triumph. Nan exploits her high-ranking
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released. Find out more here.
It's the first Saturday of the month and time to play Six Degrees of Separation, the first for 2020. This meme is hosted by Kate of Books Are My Favourite and Best. The aim is to link six books to each other from the starting point.
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Read is this month's starting point. It is about a fictional 1970s rock and roll band.
Again, I haven't read the book we are starting with, which makes it that little bit harder to launch the chain. The book's blurb, however, contains the phrase coming of age. A classic coming of age story, and a
