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Bookish Challenges to get you Reading More in 2025
I’m not really one for New Year’s resolutions, but let me tell you I love a good reading challenge at the start of a new year! I love using reading challenges to inspire me to read more and read broadly throughout the year. I thought I’d pop in to quickly share some of my reading challenge plans for 2025 and invite you to keep up with my progress during the year. Reading GoalI think the simplest kind of reading challenge is to set a number of books that you’re aiming to read across the year. I like to aim for about a book each week, so set mine at 50.…
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Reading Update: Quarter Year Crisis Tag 2024
I’ve been catching up on some booktube today and one of the videos I really enjoyed was the Quarter Year Crisis tag video Lauren shared on her channel Lauren and the Books. It’s a little check in about how the reading year is going, now that the calendar has clicked over to April (which means we are a quarter of the way through the year already!). I’ve popped the questions and my answers below. 1. How many books have you read so far this year? I am terrible at tracking my reading these days but have been trying to make more of an effort to log everything on The StoryGraph…
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Friday Favourites :: 22 April
Hello and happy Friday book friends! I never quite understand how these short work weeks can feel so long but it gets me every time haha!We had the most lovely, relaxing Easter long weekend here – undoubtably my favourite thing has been staying in bed with my book and a coffee, and of course hot cross bun or two. I’m a big “bed reader”, but more on a lazy weekend morning than before bed of an evening. This week I had my daughter in there with me with her book sometimes, and my cat snuggling sometimes, and it was just so cosy. Let me know in the comments, are you…
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Christmassy :: Q&A :: Cheyenne from The Little Flame Co.
Last year I ran a little series on my blog of Christmas themed Q&As with authors and small business owners, and I enjoyed it so much that I had to bring it back this year. Starting tonight I’ll be posting a new chat every couple of days with authors of books we’ve enjoyed this year, and the people behind some of my favourite small businesses. Just to be clear, none of this content is sponsored. Some of the books I will have received free copies of for review (I’ll always let you know in the post), and all of the items I’ll feature from small businesses are things I have…
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Friday Favourites :: 23 July
Ok, would it be terribly boring of me to have another flash back-y favourite again this week? Because hi here we are! One of my favourites this week was taking a local minibreak with a weekend at a cottage not far from home. You might remember we spent my birthday weekend at Hold Cottage in Gunning (I raved about it here). We loved that trip so much that we knew we wanted to do another cottage weekend again soon, and jumped at the chance to stay at Honeysuckle Cottage in Binalong when they first opened for bookings. We had the most wonderful weekend – it was so cold and miserable…
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Friday Favourites :: 30 April
It has been a huge week here friends – since last Friday I have celebrated my birthday, been antiquing and tea-sniffing at Dirty Jane’s and the Tea Garden Co Studio, seen the Botticelli to Van Gogh exhibition at the National Library of Australia, and tonight I’m preparing for a day in Sydney at the Writers’ Festival tomorrow. If you follow me on Instagram it might come as no surprise that my favourite thing this week was our mini reading retreat birthday weekend at the gorgeous Hold Cottage in Gunning. There is not really much I can say about our stay at Hold except that it was absolutely divine. We (my…
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A little gift guide for the bookish people in your life (who might be A mum but maybe not)
Ok, so, yes. This is a gift guide that I’m writing with Mother’s Day in mind – its on Sunday 9th May here in Australia this year – but I also appreciate that Mother’s Day isn’t everyone’s thing for a whole range of reasons. I hope though that if you do have a look at this post it might give you some inspiration from some broadly book/reading adjacent bits and pieces that would make nice gifts for the people in your life who are into those sorts of things, whether they are mums or not. None of this is sponsored, these are just 100% things that I think are lovely.…
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Friday Favourites :: April 15
Hello friends! How has your week been? It was the second week of the school holidays here, and we had a pretty good time! Amelia and I did an all day pottery class together on Wednesday which was awesome – I’ve been keen to try out pottery since falling in love with Keith from The Great Pottery Throw Down haha. This week’s Friday favourite is a bit of an amalgamation of a bunch of things that happen to have come into alignment this week – the fact has been beautiful sunny weather during the day all week (perfect for autumn holidays) and that we have had lovely chilly mornings perfect…
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Friday Favourites :: April 9
I’ve been thinking a bit over the past few weeks about the sorts of things I’d like to share on my blog, and one thing I haven’t done much of so far this year is general bookish chatty life stuff. To help get back in the habit of logging on for a chat I thought I’d try and pop in on Fridays for a super quick post to share something that is probably at least book adjacent that I have enjoyed during the week – a Friday favourite if you’ll excuse the cheesy alliteration =) So to kick it off, if you follow me on instagram you probably won’t be…
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Book Stack :: Books on the Rail
Have you heard of Books on the Rail? It is a movement that aims to spread the joy of reading by leaving books on public transport across Australia for other commuters to find and enjoy. You know you’ve found a Books on the Rail book when you spot that cute logo sticker on the cover I’m a public transport user in my day to day life, and I just think it is such a fun idea. I absolutely love working with Books on the Rail and am always thrilled when I receive a box of new (or near) release titles from publishers to drop around the public transport here in…
