Aussie Readers discussion

Thanks Brenda! 🙂📚

4/6 completed, my favourites were White Fang, and Heat Wave which I finished today quite appropriately during this (hopefully) last heat wave of this neverending summer!

#7. Title: Read a book that has any of these summer themed words in the title; 'Sun', 'Summer', 'Heat' or 'Hot'.
Heat Wave by Penelope Lively 4★

#8. 25th December: Read a novel with a Christmas setting.
Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan

#9. New Years Eve: What better way to say goodbye to 2018 than by reading a book that was published this year!
La jeune fille et la nuit by Guillaume Musso

#10. Cover - Read a book with EITHER a snow scene OR a beach scene on the cover
White Fang by Jack London 5★

#11. Holiday - Read a book where the MC (main character) is on holidays
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham 3★

#12. Reader's Choice: Read any book of your choice
Murder on the Ballarat Train by Kerry Greenwood AA 3★

Well done Valerie!!

YAY!! Finished the Summer challenge just in time!!

For Part A..the rainbow

1: Yellow...Those Other Women by Nicola Moriarty AA...read 3.5*
2: Orange...Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman...read 3.5*
3: Red ...Wanting by Richard Flanagan AA...read 3.5*
4: Green...Fool Me Once by ...Harlan Coben...read 4*
5: Blue...When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi...read 4.5*
6: Purple...The Perfect Stranger by...Megan Miranda...read 3.5*



Part B:
7: Title..read a book with summer themed words SUN SUMMER HEAT or HOT...Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame...read 3.5*
8: 25th December..Read a novel with a Christmas setting A Highland Christmas by M.C. Beaton...read 3.5*
9: New Years Eve..book published in 2018 Any Ordinary Day: What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life? by Leigh Sales AA...read 4*
10: Cover..a book with EITHER a snow or beach scene on the cover...On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan...read 3.5*
11: Holiday..read a book where the MC is on holidays...What I Did On My Holidays by Chrissie Manby...read 3*
12: Reader's Choice..read book of my choice The Secret Wife by Gill Paul...read 4*

Have 40 pages left to my green non-fiction in depth read, but calling the challenge complete!
Part A:
6/6
Part A:
Read a Rainbow - It's the colour on the cover that counts! (Minimum 50% colour coverage essential!)
#1. Yellow The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon / Robert Whitaker 5*
#2. Orange Rasputin's Shadow / Raymond Khoury 3*
#3. Red The Sword of the Templars / Paul Christopher 3*
#4. Green The Celts: A History / Peter Berresford Ellis 4*
#5. Blue Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World / Joan Druett 5*
#6. Purple Damned Whores and God's Police / Anne Summers 4* AA

Part B:
6/6
#7. Title: Read a book that has any of these summer themed words in the title; 'Sun', 'Summer', 'Heat' or 'Hot'.
Kimberley Sun / Di Morrissey AA 3*
#8. 25th December: Read a novel with a Christmas setting.
Christmas with the Boss / Annie Seaton AA 4*
#9. New Years Eve: What better way to say goodbye to 2018 than by reading a book that was published this year!
The Lucky Galah / Tracy Sorensen 4*AA
#10. Cover - Read a book with EITHER a snow scene OR a beach scene on the cover
Beartown / Fredrik Backman 4*
#11. Holiday - Read a book where the MC (main character) is on holidays
Death in Cyprus / M.M. Kaye 4*
#12. Reader's Choice: Read any book of your choice
Carson of Venus / Edgar Rice Burroughs 3*

Finished part A!

Well done Trish and Nicola. Also Jazzy :)

I failed sadly, I did get 3 of the 6 read and loved them :)

Congrats to everyone

have Fun

Helen

Thank you Brenda, enjoyed the challenge and the variety that I read.
Helen, the important thing is that we enjoy our reading more than the quantity.

Helen wrote: "I failed sadly, I did get 3 of the 6 read and loved them :)

Congrats to everyone

have Fun

Helen"

Never a fail in our challenges Helen :) And Trish is right! So well done on what you read..

Finished part A :)
#1. Yellow
The Peppercorn Tree - Jill Lovett *AA ★★★★★
#2. Orange
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith - Peter Carey *AA ★★★
#3. Red
What Happened to the Corbetts - Nevil Shute *AA ★★★★★
#4. Green
The Sound Of One Hand Clapping - Richard Flanagan *AA ★★★★★
#5. Blue
Seriously...You Have to Laugh: Great yarns and tall tales from the sporting fields, dressing rooms and commentary boxes of Australia - Peter FitzSimons *AA ★★★
#6. Purple
4:50 from Paddington - Agatha Christie ★★★★★

Thanks Brenda!

For anyone who read any books, well done!

Brenda wrote: "Helen wrote: "I failed sadly, I did get 3 of the 6 read and loved them :)

Congrats to everyone

have Fun

Helen"


Thanks I did love what I read and have been reading lots but still behind

Never a fail in our challenges Helen :) And Trish is right! So well done on what y..."

Finally finished ...two days late! Last book I read was a book with the word "summer" in the title...Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer. YA fantasy, demi-god bit of fun.

WF wrote: "Finally finished ...two days late! Last book I read was a book with the word "summer" in the title...Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer. YA fantasy, demi-god bit of fun."

Well done!!

Read a Rainbow - It's the colour on the cover that counts! (Minimum 50% colour coverage essential!)

6/6

I finished the Summer Challenge a few days before the end of the month. I was happy with my final two books.
#1. Yellow: Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe by Nancy Goldstone.
Review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... 4 ☆.
#5. Blue: Origin by Dan Brown.
Review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... Also 4 ☆.

How is it March already???

Well done Megan! And I don't know - I think we must have skipped a couple of months!!

I didn't quite get there 😔read 8/12. The challenge did really get me reading more than usual and I read some great books that have been on my shelves for too long & wouldn't have been first on my to-read-list this summer! Thanks for the great challenge 📚😄

Progress: 8/12

Read a Rainbow
#1. Yellow - Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts(AA)
✅#2.Orange - The Lucky One by Caroline Overington(AA) 2★
#3. Red - Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
#4. Green - The Code of the Woosters by P. G Wodehouse
✅#5. Blue - Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood 5★
✅#6. Purple - How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much by Samantha Ellis 4★



Part B:

#7. I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson (word 'sun' in title)
✅#8. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie (Christmas setting) 4★
✅#9. The Lost Man by Jane Harper Published Oct, 2018 (AA) 5★
✅#10. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson (beach scene) 5★
✅#11. Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser(MC goes on holidays) (AA) 4★
✅#12. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (reader choice) 4★

Well done Melissa! At least you had some enjoyable reads in what you did read :)