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kidlit :: The Brilliant Ideas of Lily Green :: Lisa Siberry
Ok, so I know that I’m not supposed to judge a book by its cover and all that, but I’m not ashamed to admit that I decided to read Lisa Siberry’s The Brilliant Ideas of Lily Green 100% purely based on that gorgeous cover. I just can’t go past a cover with a clever redhead on it – I’m not sure if it’s love by association with Anne of Green Gables, or if I’m subconsciously curating a collection for when my own reddish-haired daughter is old enough to read them, but as soon as I saw this I had to have it. While an impulse cover buy is nothing new…
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Sunday Stack :: #loveozya :: Gold Inky Longlist
I have previously written a bit about my love of literary prize lists – and how I always want to read ALL THE BOOKS on them (check out my post on the topic from this time-ish last year here), and given my love for Australian YA it is probably no surprise that the Gold Inky awards long list is one of my favourites! In case you haven’t come across the Inky awards before, they are Australia’s teen choice book awards. There are two categories – the Gold Inky award is for Australian YA books, and the Silver award goes to an international YA book. The longlists – of 10 books…
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Library loans :: The Stella Prize Longlist
When the longlist for the Stella Prize – a major literary award for women’s writing in Australia – was announced I immediately logged onto my library account to start requesting some of the titles. I did pretty well – about 10 days later and my loans for 4 of the fiction titles are in already! I wrote a bit last year about my issues with prize lists and reader’s FOMO – I always want to read ALL THE BOOKS, which is obviously not possible. This year my plan is to start with the fiction books – 7 of the 12 longlisted books are fiction and I’d like to read them…
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#loveozya :: Untidy Towns :: Kate O’Donnell
After spending a long time reading mostly YA fantasy, and thinking contemporary YA wasn’t really for me, I’ve been LOVING some of the Australian contemporary YA I’ve read this year, and now want to read it ALL! In particular, contemporary #loveozya set in rural areas is really hitting the spot (I grew up in rural Victoria, so this should probably be no surprise haha) Absolutely one of my favourites so far has been Kate O’Donnell‘s debut YA novel Untidy Towns, which I finally picked up after it was longlisted for the ABIA awards (for Book of the Year for Older Children). Seventeen-year-old Adelaide is sick of being expected to succeed…
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Sunday stack :: More award longlists and ALL the award list FOMO
It’s awards list season here! A couple of weeks ago the Stella Prize longlist was announced (I wrote a bit about it here) and the shortlist comes out on International Women’s Day (March 8), along with the longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the Aurealis Awards shortlist was released a few weeks ago too.We’ve also had announcements of longlists for awards in the YA and kids’ books space this week too – with the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Notables, and the Inky Awards longlists, AND the Readings Children’s Book Prize shortlist. It’s so exciting to see so much wonderful literature recognised (and of…
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Sunday stack :: The Stella Prize longlist
Kind of a mini stack tonight – I have a bunch of books to talk about, but only these three in my hands. These are books that have been longlisted for The Stella Prize, a literary award for Australian women’s writing – both fiction and non-fiction – you can read more about it on the Stella Prize website here. The longlist for the Stella Prize consists of 12 books, and the shortlist of 6 will be announced on International Women’s day – Thursday 8th March, and we’ll find out who the winner is on 12 April. Last year I bought a set of the 6 shortlisted books from Readings and…
