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I am really enjoying keeping track of my reading in this way, and seeing just what the spread is of age groups, genres, formats etc. Of the 20 so far,  18 are Australian, 7 are young adult, 7 are children's/younger readers, 3 picture books, thee for adults (one fiction, two non fiction). There is one collection of poetry, and one verse novel. Allen & Unwin and Scholastic are well represented in the list of publishers - which is a reflection both of the number of books those two produce and the number they send me to review.  Another interesting statistic is in the gender balance - four books by male authors and sixteen by women. Interesting because there has been no conscious decision there, it's just how it's fallen.

So, how do I choose my books. Usually from the top of my review pile (which is actually not a pile but a shelving system in my office. I shelve them in the order I receive them and generally read them in that order. But this year I am trying to read more  books not from my review pile, and have started a little pile of books I want to read for the first time or re-explore. Also, I do occasionally move books up my review pile if I'm simply hanging out to review them or f I need a shorter read. For example, whilst I was ploughing my way through Froi (almost 600 pages), which happened over four days, each day I also read something shorter.

Am I still enjoying the challenge? Yes. No regrets at having set it for myself at all.
Will keep you updated as it expands

Hope you, too, are having fun reading whatever you can during this National Year of Reading.

Oh, BTW - where I've reviewed a title in the list above, I have linked to that review!
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Busy Week



I'm having a busy week (who am I kidding? Every week is a busy week) but just wanted to share a couple of exciting happenings.

Firstly, on Sunday the new-look Aussiereviews went live. I've been running the site for over ten years, focusing on reviewing Australian books, and the site was well overdue for an overhaul. My lovely daughter did the new design, and I spent quite a bit of time transferring over 2300 reviews from the old html individual files over to a much easier content management system. Check out the new look here and read a little more about the overhaul here.   

In other exciting news, Monday brought me that thin that makes every author's heart sing - an advance copy of my newest book-baby.  Check out the beautiful cover! Sonia Kretschmar's illustrations are simply stunning.

Do Not Forget Australia will be released by Walker Books on March 1, but if you simply can't wait, you can preorder your copy here.
Hope your week is just as funfilled and exciting as mine is proving to be!                                                    






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