Saturday 15 March 2014

Postal reading challenge 2014 Book1

The first (and only so far this year) book I have read for the Postal Reading Challenge is "That Part was true" by Deborah McKinlay.
Someone posted about this book in the forum at Lettermo and I thought it sounded great.
I went to Bigw and bought a new copy.
I started it straight away thinking I would love it. However I found it a bit dull and it just sort of tumbled around until the end. Mostly about Jackson's love life really and not as much about the relationship between him and Eve.
It was good but not great like I was expecting. People comparing books to "The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society" doesn't necessarily mean they will come close to being that good. 

Saturday 25 January 2014

Rise To The Challenge, Time is a ticking so you'd better start linking

This year I am participating in 2 reading challenges. The first is the Australia Women Writers Challenge.
http://australianwomenwriters.com/
I already read a lot of Australia books anyway, and I found the challenge while looking for something else so decided to join it.

The second challenge is the Postal Reading Challenge hosted by TheIndextriousreader.
http://indextrious.blogspot.ca/2013/12/postal-reading-challenge-2014-gateway.html



Monday 6 January 2014

Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmm, I feel lucky today (wins for 2013) $4362.80

Feb-
$55 Hearing Life Voucher
$50 Guilt trip pack
$100 woolies giftcard
$20 playschool dvd
March-
$8 Sippah straws
$10 Boardgame
April-
$20 Ebook
$60 Guess how much I love you dvds
$5 babywipes
$550 Rozibaby pram
$24 magazine subscription
$24 magazine subscription
May-
$110 Red Balloon voucher
$28 cd
$10 babywipes x 2
$5 vaccination app
$20 southern comfort shirt
June-
$80 picnic basket
$30 wellaby's pack
$25 book
$10 ebook
$10 snackpocket
$5 block chocolate
July-
$25 book
$20 shirt
$20 shirt
$25 book
$20 hat
$5 masterfoods pack
August-
$12 Stationery pack
$254 scooter and helmet
$150 Aden and Anais pack
$80 Brauer hamper
$20 Lust have it box
$10 Lipbalm
$20 naty nappies and wipes
September-
$100 coles voucher
$50 Target voucher
$28 lunchbox
$399 Robomaid
$200 bigw voucher
October
$25 book
$60 zoomba animal
$25 cups
$40 2 dvds
$60 4 books
$318 kettle and toaster
$32 Necklace
$15 Method pink your sink pack
$5 masterfoods pack
November-
$25 cd
$30 movie tickets
$20 2 e cookbooks
$150 Disney pack
December-
$399 highchair
$40 wax kit
$ 68.85 Bizzy box x 3 
$15.95 Chocolate sardines
$80 Offspring box set
$40 Staedtler pack
$35 Cookbook
$112 Disney Live tickets
$20 Things ripcurl
$20 Bowl

Got to tell you 'bout the book I read Can't wait to tell you 'bout the book I read... (Books I read in 2013)

1 Summer at Mt Hope
2 Indigo Sky
3 A Distant Land
4 Invisible
5 A History of Love
6 Jasper Jones
7 Every Boy's Got One
8 Next to Love
9 Feeling Sorry for Celia
10 Fiveways
11 The Storyteller
12 The prodigal Sister
13 Lighthouse Bay
14 Second Chances
15 13 Little Blue Envelopes
16 The Last Little Blue Envelope
17 Tom the Outback Mailman
18 Stitched Postcards
19 The Boy Next Door
20 Daddy Long legs
21 Cruel Summer
22 Pictures of you
23 The scrapbook of Frankie Platt
24 Tsunami Countdown
25 The Captain's Daughter
26 A Stranger in my street
27 The Baker street Letters
28 Poets Cottage
29 Absolution Creek
30 The Perks of being a Wallflower
31 Gone Girl
32 Jillaroo
33 The Farmers Wife
34 Bloody Valentine
35 Sleeping Around
36 Trip of a Lifetime
37 Going Postal
38 Three Hours Late
39 The Accidental Husband
40 What to do when someone dies
41 This Red Earth
42 The Brothers of Baker Street
43 Dark Places
44 Salem's Lot
45 Wonder
46 Love, Aubrey
47 Sticks and Stones
48 Return to Sender
49 Into the darkest Corner
50 Close My eyes
51 Letters from Skye
52 Burley Street Postbox Theft
53 Airmail
54 Half Moon Bay
55 The Household guide to Dying
56 Back to Blossom Street
57 Guilty Wives
58 Doctor Sleep
59 Twenty Wishes
60 Worldwide Adventures in Love
61 Slippin on the lino
62 Reconstructing Amelia
63 Death Mask
64 Finding Colin Firth
65 10 short stories you should read
66 Currawong Creek
67 "S"
68 Tempting Fate
69 The Husband's Secret
70 The One and Only Boggo Road

 https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/172233-wendy?read_at=2013&view=covers