Recs if you like The Animals in That Country...

forced into unending sleep or perilous insomnia, repeating tedious daily routines until your body rots, watching as your skin starts to glow or your hands sprout scales - these novels feature illnesses that are far from typical

if you enjoyed / find yourself enjoying my strange plagues quest, you’ll find even more suggestions for further reading within the niche here!!!

i love when animals get the chance to yap and/or narrate their own stories :)

recommendations welcome!

If we are going to do Qwordy's the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 - we should probably get some Pagebound badges along the way! I'm specifically going to be adding books from Quests and readalongs that go past the July start date and match at least one of these title prompts: Periodic Table, Familial Terms, Rainbow of Words (also Joseph's coat), Numerical Titles, Titular Counting 5+, Pun in the Title, and First & Last Name in the Title. Recommendations welcome!

If we are going to do Qwordy's the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 - we should probably get some Pagebound badges along the way! I'm specifically going to be adding books from Quests and readalongs that I think matches at least one of these cover prompts: craft, food, motion, biomes/landscapes, animals, weather.

I think more books should be about old people getting into shenanigans. There is this small part of the book space with the stories of people who find the meaning of their life or mess others up because they don't care anymore. These are their stories , hilarious, emotional, heartwarming and heartbreaking, each unique...

Hope they make you feel alive!

every book that has ever been longlisted for the stella prize, from 2013-present. the stella prize awards works across poetry, memoir, fiction, non-fiction and graphic works by australian women and non-binary storytellers.

Books with bizarre concepts

Co-created with @doddyaboutbooks

Science fiction, fantasy, and horror from the land down under. A mix of old faves and fresh blood.

Some great fiction from Down Under

Idea from @belvis Welcome to the land down under!

Still under construction 🚧 Suggestions welcome and please!

Enjoy my newest lit series, ‘Reading the World’, in an attempt to diversify your own reading and broaden horizons, I have included a mix of genres. Sensitive topics often lie ahead as history, social and political issues are usually the centre of this writing. Enjoy!

An Australian prize that celebrates women and non-binary writers, sign me up. The Stella prize is doing stellar things for the Australian literary scene and that is something I want to get around.