A goal is to get through the 17 I have in a box under my desk before the next longlist announce. Been doing the Stella Project for years now, love it but am terrible at it 😂

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/62ede1ed-e640-42c6-b384-aa2da7e...

One of my 2025 goals was to finish the UQP First Nations Classics series and I came very close, with only The Window Seat left to go. Although I believe they will be releasing new titles later this year.

Pretty good reading year for me.

An incredibly open-hearted memoir. At times utterly heart-wrenching but also hopeful look at the cycles of disadvantage and injustice faced by Indigenous people.

StoryGraph stats

August

An excellent collection of spec-fic short stories

July stack. Also read two ebooks, wallflower and the wicked and brazen and the beast by Sarah Maclean.

July

A belated #ReadTheStella but I love Melanie Chen‘s writing and The Burrow did not disappoint.

December reads. Plus these ebooks:
Why no women on the streets at night ~ Sarona Abuaker
And Still We Write ~ Publishers for Palestine
Palestine in a World on Fire ~ Katherine Natanel and Ilan Pappé (ed)
We Grow The World Together ~ Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson (ed)

Almost forgot to post my November reads

Physical books read in October

14 library books, 4 new books, 15 from tbr pile and 2 netgalley

September physical reads

Physical books read this month

Pretty good reading month in august

Read rather a lot this month plus 7 ebooks

Favourite was definitely the tagged book, one of my favourite authors‘ best series!

Pretty good book to read for my 100th this year

Books I read in June plus ebook of The Palestine Laboratory

This was such a good book I regret not picking it up earlier (got it a few years ago).
Insightful, well researched and clearly articulated, it is a substantial analysis of the experiences of young people in Australia born in the years immediately after 9/11, particularly in educational institutions. Very easy to read. Definitely worth picking up.

May reads

In an attempt to get back into writing I‘ve done a few blog posts of some of our favourite board books over the past year and thought I‘d share here too. First is from when the baby was 0-3 months https://www.gillyreads.com/favourite-board-books-0-3-months/

Been a while. Here are some books I got recently

March haul. I bought three of these, the rest are my mum getting a bit carried away

March reads

Current read

February haul

February reads

January book haul

January reads

December reads

December book haul

November book haul

November reads

A review 😱 https://www.gillyreads.com/review-the-house-at-the-edge-of-magic-by-amy-sparkes/

Books I got in October

October reads

September book haul

Managed some September reading

Still buying books

August reads. Still struggling to read much but I did get through some

Forgot to say I actually managed some reading in July

Haven‘t read anything in 2 months but I did get a lot of books in June

Just finished. Highly recommend

Started a new audiobook

Morning poetry

Read some books

Oops