I was fortunate enough to attend three virtual events last week ranging from the 26th of June to the start of July. These involved the LoveYA Day hosted by the Northlakes Moreton Bay Libraries, the Bouquiniste bookstore book club and a virtual book launch.
my june to be read pile
May might have been one of the fastest months I’ve experienced in a long time. This can likely be chalked up to the flurry of university assignments I’ve been submitting and amount of reading I accomplished (5 books – a lot for me when not on holidays!).
At the end of June I’m attending a Love YA Day event featuring many iconic Australian Young Adult authors. As such, my goal is to read one book by each of these authors before this event!
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my May to-be-read pile
In the last week I’ve finally escaped my reading slump and found time to squeeze reading back into my schedule. Hurray! This is in large part due to the Netflix adaption of Shadow and Bone having just been released and my eagerness to watch it. I’m hearing raving reviews by fans of the book calling it “The best book to series adaption ever” and some even daring to say “the show is better than the book”. That, I’m finding hard to believe.
Thus, of course the first book on my TBR was Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo.
I finished this story on the second of May and really enjoyed it. I read it so fast that the story whizzed past me, and I almost wonder if I read it too quickly before I’d had a chance to become attached to the characters. The world, the Grisha and the coloured kafta all feel very real and whimsical. It’s a world I’m excited to continue reading in.
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7 YA and Adult books by Indigenous authors you need to read
On my quest to read more novels set in Australia in 2021, I’ve compiled this handy list of great books written by Indigenous authors with Indigenous main characters. I’m planning on making my way further through this list throughout 2021 and hope that you will join me and pick up a few titles from this list for yourself!
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Please Don’t Hug Me by Kay Kerr | Review
The first book by debut author Kay Kerr is a heart-filled, #OwnVoices story following Erin, an autistic female teenage navigating her final months of high school. This book is both parts laugh out loud funny and heart wrenching and will leave a mark on your heart long after you slip this beautiful book onto your shelf.
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map of books I read in 2020
I live in Australia, and very few of the worlds I dived into in 2019 were my own. I also personally dislike how America centric the internet and media is. This is why I decided to map out the locations of the books I read in 2020. There are plenty of stories set in other countries that don’t expect me to understand what different areas of a state look like without telling me. Or even where a state is located. As a way to visualise my reading I added the covers of books as I read them in 2020 to this map:
I have listed them all below in the order I read them by country. If you’re curious for my thoughts on any of these, feel free to ask below!
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favourite reads of this crazy year
Despite how topsy-turvy this year has been, I managed to read the most books I’ve ever read in a year. The start of lockdown for me was composed of five week waits on books sent in the mail but by the end I was burnt out. But we’ve made it. The end of this crazy year is upon us. We can’t know that 2021 will be better but forgive me for being hopeful for the first time all year that some normalcy may resume.
Here are the books that left a resounding impact on me this year.
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I’ve been strung up with university assignments for the last month, but now will holidays finally here I thought I’d get around to finally posting this blog post. A month late, oops!
The lovely Cozy with books tagged me in this book tag! So here’s my answers to her would you rather questions!
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It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood | Review
The Text Prize winner of 2018, Nina Kenwood’s young adult romance deals with the teenage self in every way of the term. From our protagonist Natalie’s self image and how her acne has impacted her life, to self exploration as she finds first love in unlikely places and people. The realistic depictions of teenagers and their views will stay with you long after you put this down.
ACNH Book Tag
I’ve seen a fair few of my favourite bloggers do this tag in the last few weeks, so finally I gave in and had to do it myself. I love Animal Crossing and adore New Horizons. After seeing a book tag combing books and ACNH I couldn’t not partake.
This tag was created by Two Book Thieves.
