Lisa Bianca’s Comments (group member since Nov 04, 2021)

Lisa Bianca’s comments from the Aussie Readers group.

I hope Brenda doesn't mind me answering on her behalf, it's one of my favourite genres but it is very broad. Its basically a book that has elements that are imagined, do not exist in the real world, now or in the past.
So supernatural, futuristic, magical, science fiction, dystopia, fantasy, horror, superhero tales or alternative history.

I'm in please Brenda
I might add a couple more lines later, if that's alright, I've some lines partly filled out.

Autumn Challenge
Duration: 1/3/22 - 31/5/22
Level: Hard
Progress: 0/30
AA: 0/21 (minimum 1 per row/column)

#1 Across
1. Favourite Genre (Dystopian): The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott AA
2. Male MC: The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton AA
3. Mystery: Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
4. 350+: The Yield by Tara June Winch AA
5. Male Author: The Returns by Philip Salom AA

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#2 Across
1. Bright Cover: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan AA
2. Australian Author: A Soldier's Quartet by AA Colin Baldwin AA
3. Published 2021: Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by Anita Heiss AA
4. From the Library: Eternal by Lisa Scottoline
5. Speculative Fiction: Unsheltered by Clare Moleta AA

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#4 Across
1. Set in another country: Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
2. Part of series: A Decline in Prophets by Sulari Gentill AA
3. Debut: Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
4. Cosy Mystery: The Alpine Xanadu (Emma Lord #24) by Mary Daheim
5. Crim: Singapore Sapphire by A.M. Stuart AA

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#1 Down
1. Favourite Genre(Dystopian): Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy AA
2. Bright Cover: The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
3. Female MC: After Story by Larissa Behrendt AA
4. Set in another country: The Roxy Letters by Mary Pauline Lowry
5. Historical Fiction: Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson AA

#2 Down
1. Male MC: Consolation by Garry Disher AA
2. Australian Author:A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill AA
3. Sky on the Cover: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
4. Part of Series:Devil's Food by Kerry Greenwood AA
5. Young adult: We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

#5 Down
1. Male Author: The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong AA
2. Speculative Fiction: The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay AA
3. Your Choice: Flammes by Robbie Arnott AA
4. Crime: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill AA
5. Set in Australia: Gum: The story of eucalypts their champions by Ashley Hay AA

Catsalive wrote: "Love his writing style, it's so easily accessible. Not too happy about the rapid ending, it feels unfinished.

I knew Noel had to be up to something back then otherwise he wouldn't have been mentio..."

Felt much the same, I've enjoyed other Disher books, but yes, the ending was wound up so quickly. Seeing Charlie again? I guess he evolved a fair bit during the story. And, as for good old Noel!

Sarah wrote: "This was my first non-Hirschhausen Garry Disher read - and it was great! ... Interestingly, this was the second of three books I've read in the past couple of months which is set on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. The first was Christian White's Wild Place,..Is this setting familiar to other readers?
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My third Garry Disher and the first non-Hirschhausen too, Disher sure does get around with his story locations.
2/3 rds through the book and things are building up.
I am about to read Christian White's Wild Place as recommended by one of my daughters.

Enjoying the setting, I spent my first 15 years in the Mornington Peninsula, living at Seaford and often travelling to Phillip Island which gets a mention.

Brenda wrote: "if you link your titles and authors as well, they'll be correct. Your second Male author has the incorrect surname :)

Also Outback Creed by Jonathan Macpherson was published December 2017 so doesn't fit the 2022 New Release criteria :)

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Hi Brenda, oops will sort out now, had to wait till I could get on computer as app is not edit friendly.

a worthy challenge -
Annual Australian Authors Challenge 2022
Duration: 1/1/22 - 31/12/22
Level: 1
2/12

Male Authors:
1. Death in the Ladies' Goddess Club - Julian Leatherdale Read Jan
2. The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
3. A Soldiers Quartet - Colin Baldwin

Female Authors:
1. The Song of the Crocodile - Nardi Simpson
2. The Yield - Tara June Winch
3. Unforgiven - Sarah Barrie Read Jan

2022 New Releases
1. TBA
2. A family of strangers - Fiona Lowe
3. The Woman in the Library - Sulari Gentill

Favourite Genre Dystopia/Apocalyptic/Speculative
1. Migrations - Charlotte McConaghy
2. The Rain Heron - Robbie Arnott
3. Unsheltered - Clare Moleta

Andrea wrote: "Earlier this week I saw some promotion for a Boy Swallows Universe clock tower tour in Brisbane, and it’s really captured my imagination. I was thinking about which book settings I ..."

I too thought I'd like to do the Mole Creek visit, after reading The Better Son. Living in Tasmania at the moment so more than aspirational. I'd forgotten about the clock tower in Boy Swallows Universe till you mentioned it.