This has been a strange year for my AWW Challenge – I read a lot of books but haven’t gotten around to reviewing that many yet. And I started strong but then had a small slump and then somehow have come back strong at the end. And while my number looks huge compared to what I usually achieve, I have come in big with picture books with them taking up almost half of my total. I don’t have any guilt about this however which is a surprise to no one more than myself because I know what kind of year I have had and know it is a pure miracle I have read anything at all so to be able to have such a phenomenal number is amazing. Plus I read a lot of CBCA and Christmas picture books which bumped up my numbers.
My final total for the year is 58 read and 20 reviewed which is an almost win from my 40 read, 30 reviewed goal from the start of the year. I read over 200 books this year and the AWW made up 30% of those. This is a 5% increase from last year so maybe in 2021 I can make it 35% or higher. I don’t need to worry that I haven’t got reviews for them all yet, I have all next year to get some reviews included but to have read this many, mainly accidentally, is astounding. I am curious about what next year will bring. The 2021 AWW Challenge sign up is already up but I don’t think I’m ready to set a number yet. I need to get through this year first, see it to the end and then I can focus on 2021.
Did you participate in the AWW this year? If so how did you go? Or if not, with a new year nearly upon us it’s a great chance to jump on board for the 2021 challenge and discover the wonderful women writers Australia has to offer.
AWW 2020 Books Read and Reviewed
Fairytales for Feisty Girls by Susannah McFarlane
Growing Up Queer in Australia ed Benjamin Lee – Review
Summer Time by Hilary Bell
Goodwood by Holly Throsby – Review
A Day at the Show by Gwyn Perkins – Review
Just the Way We Are by Jessica Shirvington – Review
Shout out to the Girls – Review
Meerkat Choir by Nicki Greenberg – Review
Celeste the Giraffe Loved to Laugh by Celeste Barber – Review
Charlotte Pass by Lee Christine
Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend
The Mistake by Wendy James
Meet Me at the Intersection ed Rebecca Lim
Welcome to Orphancorp by Marlee Jane Ward
Clancy the Quokka by Lilli Wilkinson – Review
Star Crossed by Minnie Darke – Review
A Trip to the Beach by Gwyn Perkins
Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley
Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
Faking It (#2) by Gabrielle Tozer – Review
The Ex by Nicola Moriarty
Those Other Women Nicola Moriarty – Review
The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl by Melissa Keil
What I Like About Me by Jenna Guillaume – Review
The Anzac Bilby by Claire Saxby
The Easter Bunnyroo by Susannah Chambers
Archibald the Naughtiest Elf in the World Causes Trouble for the Easter Bunny by Skye Davidson
Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah – Review
Before You Forget by Julia Lawrinson – Review
Queer Stories ed. Maeve Marsden
Ella and the Ocean by Lian Tanner
My Friend Fred by Frances Watts
Blinky Bill: The Quaint Little Australian by Dorothy Wall – Review
Blinky Bill Grows Up by Dorothy Wall – Review
Blinky Bill and Nutsy by Dorothy Wall – Review
All I Want for Christmas is Rain by Cori Brooke
Please Don’t Hug Me by Kay Kerr
This Is a Ball by Beck Stanton
Who’s Your Real Mum? by Bernadette Green
My Folks Grew Up in the ’80s by Beck Feiner
The Red Book by Beck Stanton
There’s no such thing! By Heidi McKinnon
All Through The Year by Jane Godwin
Reindeer’s Christmas Surprise by Ursula Dubosarsky
Little Dog and the Christmas Wish by Corinne Fenton
A Very Quacky Christmas by Frances Watts – Review
What Do You Wish For? by Jane Godwin
Tea and Sugar Christmas by Jane Jolly
An Aussie Day Before Christmas by Kilmeny Niland – Review
Santa and the Sugar Glider by Alexa Moses
Cleo and Rob by Helen Brown
Dear Grandpa by Kate Simpson
Theodore the Unsure by Pip Smith
Ask Hercules Quick by Ursula Dubosarky
The Cute Penguin by Gabriel Evans
When Billy Was a Dog by Kirsty Murray
Baz & Benz by Heidi McKinnon
Ivanhoe Swift Left Home at Six by Jane Godwin
Are These Hen’s Eggs by Christina Booth
Miss Kraken by Nicki Greenberg
Pennies for Hitler by Jackie French
The Naked Penguin by Kym Larder
Whitney and Britney, Chicken Divas by Lucinda Gifford – Review
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