At the end of December 2015 I planned on reading four books by Australian Women Writers in 2016. I ended up reading only one, but it was excellent: Emma Viskec’s award-winning thriller, Resurrection Bay.
For 2017 I am again planning to read four books for the Australian Women Writers Challenge (#AWW2017). I hope that listing them will help me follow-through. I love making lists of books to read, but tend to rebel against actually reading them. Hope springs eternal.
The first two were written-up in the January issue of BookPage magazine:
1. The Dry by Jane Harper
2. The Strays by Emily Bitto
The second two are classics, a category on which challenge organizers would like to put more emphasis:
3. My Brilliant Career (1901) by Miles Franklin
4. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn (1909) by Miles Franklin
And then there’s this big list of Lesbian and Queer Women Writers that I want to check out. Sigh. I know everyone says it, but SO MANY BOOKS! SO LITTLE TIME!
If you’d like to check out the challenge or sign-up for it yourself, visit the website: australianwomenwriters.com. There you’ll find great resources for reading Australian Women Writers and links to the challenge’s various social media groups.
Great to have you back with the AWW Challenge, Chris. Hope you reach your goal!
Thanks, Elizabeth! I'm excited to get back into it.
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