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Book Stack :: Cbr Writers Festival 2022
I’ve been going on about it a bit on social media, but I felt like my weekend at the Canberra Writers Festival deserves a proper post here as well, and what better than to share a gorgeous book stack. If I’m completely honest, I tend to find the program for the CWF fairly uninspiring – it feels like so much of the focus is on political journalism and memoir and nonfiction, and I’m so much more of a fiction reader. I do, though, love hearing people’s stories, and I am always so fascinated to hear from authors. So this year I decided to just pick a day and a venue…
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Event :: Nattie Kate Mason at The Book Cow
Ok, stop the presses! Last weekend I went to A REAL LIVE BOOK EVENT! It has been so long since I went to an in person event! I feel like maybe the last live thing I went to was the Sydney Writers’ Festival last year. In any case, it has been a while and my first time back was wonderful! On Saturday The Book Cow, a fabulous bookshop here in Canberra, hosted lovely Aussie fantasy author Nattie Kate Mason for a book signing and chat. The weather was absolutely divine (honestly, Canberra in the autumn can be so perfect) and we sat outside (which, besides just being divine also felt…
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Friday Favourites :: 18 March
Happy Friday again already. We had a public holiday here on Monday, and my week has epitomised that short post long weekend week in that it seemed to be both super short but also long at the same time! We’re really starting to feel like were pulling into the end of term (I think next week is week 8, so 3 weeks to go?), but also i just feel like everyone seems a little bit worn out (worn down?) at the moment. I’m not sure whether it’s the heaviness of the world right now, or the fact that we’ve hit 2 years now of pandemic looming over us, but there…
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Friday Favourites :: 9 July
I think I mentioned in my favourites post last week about how the past few weeks have seen us in the midst of snap lockdowns and travel restrictions and cancellations of plans and all of that. This week’s favourite is kind of related, because something I’m loving this week is the way the book community is getting behind virtual events. While I completely appreciate the disappointment that comes from having to cancel planned events, and how difficult it has been for authors launching new books at a time when they can’t do face-to-face events I have really loved seeing authors and publishers and venues “pivot” to take their events online…
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Friday FavouriteS :: 7 May
I’m popping in with a super quick Friday favourites post today because I’m all out of words and energy after all the excitement of the past few weeks. This might be another obvious one, but my favourite thing this week has of course been our trip to Sydney for the Writers’ Festival. I fully intend to write up a bit more about the day, linking the books and authors I saw, but for now I just couldn’t let a favourites post pass without mentioning it. Everything about the weekend is lovely. I always love the Sydney Writers’ Festival YA day – I have probably mentioned before that they do the…
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Book haul :: Love Your Bookshop Day
If you caught my post yesterday you might know how excited I was about Love Your Bookshop Day this year. Obviously there was no way I could visit my favourite bookshops without picking up a few new books, and today I wanted to share my very excellent haul. Despite the excitement I did manage to restrain myself and only buy books that were on my list – I’ve been looking forward to getting my hands on each of these! The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling – Wai ChimThis brand new contemporary #loveozya is all over instagram at the moment, and I am only hearing great things. I can’t wait…
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Love Your Bookshop Day
In celebration of today being Love Your Bookshop Day I thought I’d talk about some of my favourite Canberra bookshops. I think we’re pretty lucky as far as bookshops go in Canberra – most of our shopping centres have at least one, and then a few others around the suburbs too – including some lovely indies. I tend to shop at different stores depending what I’m up to – I have a favourite near home, and a favourite near work – and I fairly regularly visit others for bookish events (bookshops in Canberra have some amazing events!). So, here are some I’d recommend checking out if you’re in town! MUSE…
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Sydney Writers’ Festival 2019 :: All Day YA
Yesterday was one of my favourite book events of the year – the Sydney Writers’ Festival All Day YA. This was my third time – if you’d like to check out my posts about previous years you can see 2017 here and 2018 here. Honestly, I think the SWF just does the most amazing job with their YA programming, and each year I come home wishing we had a similar event at our writers’ festival in Canberra! In short, the day is split up into 5 time slots, with two sessions to chose from at each time. Tickets are $10 for each event, and they are a mix of panels,…
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Review :: The Place on Dalhousie :: Melina Marchetta
Despite having a special place in my book-loving heart for Melina Marchetta since reading Looking for Alibrandi as a teenager, I hadn’t read any of her other books until her adult crime/thriller novel Tell the Truth Shame the Devil was released last year. When that one came out I went with a friend to see her talk about it at a local book store (Muse – Canberra friends if you haven’t been yet you must check it out – they have the best events!). She was absolutely wonderful at the event, so I was thrilled to see that she would be back again with another new release this year. I…
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Sunday Book Stack ::CWF edition
I spent most of this weekend at the Canberra Writers Festival. Of course I picked up a couple of new books – have you even been to a writers festival if you don’t come home with a stack of new books? I have loads to say about the festival, the sessions I saw, and the books I bought, but I just wanted to share a quick snap of the books I had with me on Saturday evening, from the sessions I had seen during the day. I’m looking forward to reading all of these! (Ok, except I think I might be too scared to read The Mind Behind the Crime!…
