I stumbled across this on Twitter and thought it was a nice idea: The 2013 Australian Women Writers Challenge.
The challenge is to commit to read and review a set amount of books by Australian women writers during 2013 – easy! I mean, I would have read some anyway, but this makes it more official. Of course, I’m going to seek out as many speculative and sci-fi chicky authors as possible, but maybe I’ll step out of my comfort zone too, and dip into some (shock) other kinds of fiction! Stranger things have happened, I assure you.
So, I’m thinking some old favourites: Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park, something by Isobelle Carmody (maybe a re-read of the Darkfall series?), plus I’ll be on the hunt for new, awesome Sci-Fi and Speculative fiction from the awesome ladies of my fair shores. A few folk have recommended The Infernal by Kim Wilkins (a nice horror fantasy novel from a Brisbane lass) so that is definitely going on the list.
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If you are interested in participating, follow the links above and sign up! There is also a page on Goodreads as well, so you can join the discussion with others taking the challenge.
Fellow Aussies! Recommend me a great read from an awesome Aussie Sheila!
I’d seen the posts on Twitter for the last few days, but I’d been a bit lazy in signing up… so when I saw you’d joined I figured I’d make it official now too!
Yay for Aussie women writers and all their awesomeness!
Exactly. If you have any tips on books I must read, let me know!
I did enjoy Gather The Bones by Alison Stuart. That was a romance/paranormal/historical fiction book. Also, Wolf Pear by Dianne Gray was a great crime/mystery story too. There’s two just off the top of my head
I’ve taken up this challenge too (along with several others!). Highly recommend Caroline Overington…found her last year and I’m hooked!
Yay, thanks for the book tip too, I’ll look her up!
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