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Tag: In Review

2022 in Review

5 January 2023 ~ Brona's Books ~ 31 Comments

2022 ended up being a curious reading and blogging year. I lost my mojo a couple of times, but never both at once - there were some weeks I was lucky to publish one post, then other times I posted every second day. I read a similar number of books to last year - 100 … Continue reading 2022 in Review

2021 in Review

5 January 20224 January 2023 ~ Brona's Books ~ 51 Comments

Not much to say about 2021 really. Lots of intimate family time at home, lots of walking every street and byway in my suburb, again and again and again as well as a hard slog at work. A quick two week driving tour to Melbourne and back (between lockdowns) to see family at Easter was … Continue reading 2021 in Review

2020: The Stats

6 January 20214 January 2023 ~ Brona's Books ~ 30 Comments

  Putting together a 2020 review post was something that had me feeling rather churlish. But as the week has progressed, a desire to honour the big blogging change I've just made, has crept in.    Moving from Blogger to WP was, at one level, done very spontaneously and in a fit of frustration. But … Continue reading 2020: The Stats

  • The Classics Club 10 Year Celebration Questionaire (a little late).
  • The Mabinogion: The Second Branch of the Mabinogi | Sioned Davies #Dewithon23
  • Classics Club Spin #33
  • Stories & Shout Outs #58
  • Marrying Damian | William Trevor #Begorrathon23
  • Spell the Month in Books | March
  • How To Be Remembered | Michael Thompson #AUSfiction
  • Infidelity and Other Affairs | Kate Legge #AWWmemoir
  • February 2023 | The Books
  • A Difficult Young Man | Martin Boyd #AUSfiction
  • A Year With William Trevor

  • Nordic FINDS (Jan)

  • The Japanese Literature Challenge 16 (Jan - Feb)

  • Eliot Readalong - Adam Bede (1 Jan – 24 Feb)

  • Australian Women Writer’s Gen 5 Week (15 -22 Jan)

  • Reading Wales Dewithon (March)

  • Reading Ireland Month (March)

  • Zoladdiction (April)

  • 1940 Club (10 - 16 April)

  • Eliot Readalong - Silas Marner (24 April - 14 May)

  • Paris in July

  • First Nations Literature Reading Week (2 - July)

  • Austen in August

  • AusReadingMonth (Oct)

  • Novellas in November

  • Dean Street December

  • A Literary Christmas

  • Rumer Godden Reading Week (3 -10 Dec)

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