#AusReadingMonth23 Sign-up Post

Green Island Reef, Carins Australia
- Oh, Brona…my Australian TBR is out of control!
- Every year I participate in your #AusReadingMonth Challenge
- …but there are always books that I don’t get around to reading.
- Now, I’m going to read Aussie from 21 September – 31 December (14 weeks).
- Yes, I’m starting a little early but I MUST make a dent in the Aussie TBR!
- Reviews that I upload this month
- …I’ll link to your master post on 01 October 2023.
- I had a wonderful summer (no blogposts) for 3 months
- …but is time to get back to reading.
- I’ve made a list for
- ….my literary trip Down Under
- reading some great Australian authors.
- More information about #AusReadingMonth
- … can be found by This Reading Life (aka)
- Bronasbooks
My Australian TBR ( …as reference for myself)
- The Timeless Land – Eleanor Dark
- The Commandant – Jessica Anderson
- Danger Music – Eddie Ayres
- The Kindness of Birds – M. Bobis
- Lake Malibu – Su-May Tan
- Lies, Damned Lies – C. Coleman
- If You’re Happy – F. Robertson
- This I Know To Be True – A. Bovell (play)
- The Secret River – A. Bovell (play)
- The Element of Need – J. Badley
- Blue Fin – C. Thiele
- The Turning – T. Winton
- When the Rain Stops Falling – A. Bovell (play)
- Under the Cold Bright Lights – G. Disher
- Unreliable Memoirs – C. James
- Hell West and Crooked – T. Cole
- Bodies of Men – N. Featherstone
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida – S. Karunatilaka
- West Block – S. Dowse
- Salt Creek – Lucy Treloar
- See What I Have Done – S. Schmidt
- The Timeless Land – E. Dark
- Honor – J. Murray-Smith (play)
- Remembered Presences – A. Croggon
- Coal Creek – A. Miller
- Accidental Feminists – J. Caro
- Buckley’s Chance – G. Linnell
- The Stranger Artist – Q. Sprague
- The Hilton Bombing – I. Salusinszky
- Noho Wisdom Tree 5 – N. Earls
- Comfort Food – E. van Neerven
- Another Love Another Life – G. Hetherington
- Murmurations – C. Lefevre
- A Life Underwater – C. Veron
- Waiting For Elijah – K. Wild
- Offshore – M. Gleeson
- My Name Is Revenge – A. K. Blunt
- Revolutinary Spring – Christopher Clark
- Fishing for Lightning – S. Holland-Batt
- See What I Have Done – S. Schmidt
- Killing for Country – David Marr
READ:
- The Man on the Headland – Kylie Tennant
- Ghosts of the Orphanage – Christine Kenneally
- The Dead Still Cry Out: Story of a Combat Cameraman – Helen Lewis
- The Burnished Sun – M. Riwoe
- The Winter Road – K. Holden
- Where the Water Ends – Z. Holman
- Witness – L. Milligan
- Flesh Made New – J. Risk/C. Power
- Toxic – R. Flanagan
- Kultitja – L. Wells
- Island Home – T. Winton
- The Biggest Estate of Earth – B. Gammage
- Bearing Witness – Peter Rees
- Silent Invasion – C. Hamilton
- The Palestine Laboratory – Antony Loewenstein
- Bedlam at Botany Bay – J. Dunk
- Flawed Hero: Truth Lies and War Crimes – Chris Masters
- Currowan – B. Adcock
- The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow (1996)
- Bulldozed – Niki Savva
- Crossing the Line – Nick McKenzie
- The Passion of Private White – Don Watson
- Australia’s China Odyssey – James Curran
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You are always so ambitious!! My dad would have been proud to have you as a “daughter” with your thirst for knowledge!
Kath, I read a lot….you cook a lot…together we can conquer the world and enjoy a great meal at the end of the day! XO Nancy
You can call me anything but “late for supper”!! With you around it always took the pressure off of “quiz night”!
I remember….I’ll always be your ‘firewall’!
Pressure? I always felt pressure on Sunday night 05:30 PM ….sitting between my father and sister…watching College Bowl. I knew NOTHING! Ha!
I find that hard to believe but I guess it’s a bit like watching Jeopardy!
I think you have made up for it since!
:)
Thank you for joining in again Nancy and in your usual enthusaistic way :-)
I read The Commandant a few years ago and really enjoyed it. I’m keen to read more books by Tennant after reading The Battlers earlier this year.
Lots of interesting non-fiction in there too.
I currently have one Aust fiction and two non-fiction books on the go atm, so hopefully I will hit the ground running on the 1st Oct for my own reading event!!
Brona, good to be back “Down Under”! I took a prolonged vacation from reading/blogging this summer. It was the best thing I could do after a reading slump. September was a month with a few short reviews on Goodreads to get me going again. Now I firing on all 4 cylinders! I’ve a long list to read…it will take me months…but I’m determined to reduce my TBR on Kindle. All this Aussie reading started way back in 2015 when you recommended Ruth Park’s “The Harp in the South”. Thanks for hosting all these years through ups and downs!
It is your enthusiasm and support that has helped me through the down times for sure – so thank you Nancy xoxo
Brona, now the hard part….which book to being this journey?
Brona, I’m just going to pick a number out of a hat!
I love your enthusiasm and, I think I’ve said this before but, the structure of your blog posts with the line numbering system makes me SO happy, and I have no idea why. No one else reviews books in such a way!
My AusReadingMonth list is tiny, but even one book is a success, right?
So glad to see your sign-up post! There are so many great Australian books that stay under the radar in America. One of my first books was the classic “On the Beach” by N. Shute. The Kindle version costs less than a Hershey Bar…0,99 cents. It is a subtle slow-burner…but you feel the doom approaching! Ther is also a great list of Australian writers on the right-side of blog page….you can check out any review to see if there is a book you may like. Reading Australian non-fiction…got #NonFicNov23. See post with images of the Walkley Awards ans Australian Political Book Awards…or check out the book awards website. Short stories…quick and easy…check out Tony Bitch’s “Dark As Last Night”….amazing. My layout? I write the posts the in the way that people can quick-scan my thoughts. I cannot tell you how many book blogpost I never end up reading b/c they are too long…too many long quotes and my eyes just glaze over it all. Write concise…to the point and make yor reviews personal. That’s the interesting part b/c we all can read a book blurb. Thanks for stopping by!