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Book Stack :: The Stella Prize long list 2020
Oooooh I LOVE awards lists – I always want to read every single book on every list. Of course that isn’t really possible, at least as long as I’m expected to function in society like a normal person haha, but that doesn’t matter – part of the fun for me is collecting the books and planning when I might read which one, and finding out more about the authors, and what my friends thought of the titles. The Stella Prize long list for 2020 was announced a little over a week ago, and I’ve been loving seeing what everyone thinks of the list (I have literally only heard good things),…
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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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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…
