Life’s about to get busier than usual for me, so I’d better post my ‘ AWW 2017 Challenge Completed’ post now, rather than wait until further into December. Besides, I can always add to it if I write any more reviews between now and Christmas.
I’ve reviewed 63 books by Australian Women Writers for the 2017 challenge. I’ve actually read more than 70, but as is always the case for me, review writing lags behind reading.
I’ve read some terrific books. The links below are to my reviews on Goodreads, but if you are not a member there and don’t want to join (why ever not?) then you’ll find the reviews posted up on this blog.
My favourites? Well that would depend on the day and the mood that I’m in. But there’s something for everyone here. Happy reading!
My first review for 2017: Ruth Quibell’s ‘The Promise of Things’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1856238300
My second review for 2017: Jan Smith’s memoir: ‘Confession of a Homegrown Alien’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1869402236
My third review for 2017: ‘The Hidden Hours’ by Sara Foster. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1883268075
My fourth review for 2017: ‘Jerome and His Women’ by Joan O’Hagan. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1883331037
My fifth review for 2017: ‘The Circle and the Equator’ by Kyra Giorgi. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1860248050
My sixth review for 2017: ‘To The Sea’ by Christine Dibley. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1912818866
My seventh review for 2017: ‘Family Skeleton’ by Carmel Bird. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1914770862
My ninth review for 2017: ‘The Hate Race’ by Maxine Beneba Clarke. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1922048357
My tenth review for 2017: ‘One Leg Over’ by Robin Dalton. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1869405017
My eleventh review for 2017: ‘Dangerous to Know’ by Anne Buist. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1926843735
My twelfth review for 2017: ‘Three Wishes’ by Liane Moriarty. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1936197055
My thirteenth review for 2017: ‘The Last Anniversary’ by Liane Moriarty. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1938070601
My fourteenth review for 2017: ‘Dear Quentin’ by Quentin Bryce. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1975824052
My fifteenth review for 2017: ‘They Cannot Take The Sky’ edited by Michael Green, Andre Dao, Angelica Neville, Dana Affleck and Sienna Merope. Two of the editors are Australian women. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1978615706
My sixteenth review for 2017: ‘The Shape of Water’ by Anne Blythe-Cooper. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1979554458
My seventeenth review for 2017: ‘Dying:A Memoir’ by Cory Taylor. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1966031083
My eighteenth review for 2017: ‘Do You Love Me or What?’ by Sue Woolfe. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1983528277
My nineteenth review for 2017: ‘The Better Son’ by Katherine Johnson. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1976753527
My twentieth review for 2017: ‘See What I have Done’ by Sarah Schmidt. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1976754019
My twenty-first review for 2017: ‘Fighting Hislam’ by Susan Carland. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2002270477
My twenty-second review for 2017: ‘The Golden Child’ by Wendy James. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2003198466
My twenty-third review for 2017: ‘Storyland’ by Catherine McKinnon. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2020153979
My twenty-fourth review for 2017: Eva Hornung’s ‘The Last Garden’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2016291975
My twenty-fifth review for 2017: Caroline Overington’s ‘The Lucky One’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2025830240
My twenty-sixth review for 2017: Julia Baird’s ‘Victoria the Queen’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2017350400
My twenty-seventh review for 2017: Sally Abbott’s ‘Closing Down’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2027819431
My twenty-eighth review for 2017: Sarah Bailey’s ‘The Dark Lake’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2029882390
My twenty-ninth review for 2017: Karenlee Thompson’s ‘Flame Tip’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2032513269
My thirtieth review for 2017: Eliza Henry-Jones’s ‘Ache’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2032512180
My thirty-first review for 2017: Baba Schwartz’s memoir ‘The May Beetles’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2016292585
My thirty-second review for 2017: Katherine Brabon’s ‘The Memory Artist’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2002271308
My thirty-third review for 2017: Tania Blanchard’s ‘The Girl from Munich’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2034586815
My thirty-fourth review for 2017: Catherine Lee’s ‘Dark Chemistry’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2058539962
My thirty-fifth review for 2017: Sheila Fitzpatrick’s ‘Mischka’s War’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2049558282
My thirty-sixth review for 2017: Pip Smith’s ‘Half Wild’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2073193845
My thirty-seventh review for 2017: Louise Milligan’s ‘Cardinal’ (The Rise and Fall of George Pell). Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2077301675
My thirty-eighth review for 2017: Claire Corbett’s ‘Watch Over Me’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2066236549
My thirty-ninth review for 2017: Zana Fraillon’s ‘The Bone Sparrow’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2084707820
My fortieth review for 2017: Catherine Lee’s ‘Dark Paradise’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2087184561
My forty-first review for 2017: Kate Cole-Adams’ ‘Anaesthesia’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2067978123
My forty-second review for 2017: M.J. Tjia’s ‘She Be Damned’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2094068016
My forty-third review for 2017: Joanne Verikios’s ‘Winning Horsemanship’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2096996109
My forty-fourth review for 2017: Sheridan Jobbins’s ‘Wish You Were Here’. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2067059504
My forty-fifth review for 2017: ‘My side of the Bridge’ by Veronica Brodie as told to Mary-Anne Gale. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2108145982
My forty-sixth review for 2017: ‘The Choke’ by Sofie Laguna. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2114184678
My forty-seventh review for 2017: ‘Three Little Maids’ by Ethel Turner. This book was first published in 1900. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2099071465
My forty-eighth review for 2017. ‘Fatal Mistake’ by Karen M Davis. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2122460695
My forty-ninth review for 2017. ‘Bridget Crack’ by Rachel Leary. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2125184396
My fiftieth review for 2017. ‘The Way Back’ by Kylie Ladd. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2126162571
My fifty-first review for 2017. ‘A Dangerous Language’ by Sulari Gentill. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2128279463
My fifty-second review for 2017. ‘Driving Too Fast’, a collection of poetry by Dorothy Porter. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2095031576
My fifty-third review for 2017. ‘The Lone Child’ by Anna George. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2136207838
My fifty-fourth review for 2017. ‘Sixty Seconds’ by Jesse Blackadder. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2137314655
My fifty-fifth review for 2017. ‘How to Dress a Dummy’ by Cassie Lane. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2143063710
My fifty-sixth review for 2017. ‘Falling Pomegranate Seeds’ by Wendy J Dunn. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2153449270
My fifty-seventh review for 2017. ‘The Tides Between’ by Elizabeth Jane Corbett. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2170121049
My fifty-eighth review for 2017.’Drawing Sybylla’ by Odette Kelada. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2176490281
My fifty-ninth review for 2017. ‘Accidental Heroes’ (‘The Rogues’ #1) by Lian Tanner. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2176494041
My sixtieth review for 2017. ‘The Trauma Cleaner’ by Sarah Krasnostein. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2180507753
My sixty-first review for 2017. ‘Mirror Sydney’ by Vanessa Berry. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2181439191
My sixty-second review for 2017. ‘Whitehaven Beach’ (a children’s book) by Cathy Maisano. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2189421556
My sixty-third review for 2017. ‘A Crying in the Wind’ by Elizabeth Fleetwood. Here’s a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2197240310