Books and Bites Bingo - Category 3 #BooksandBitesBingo2020

This bingo challenge is with Facebook group Books and Bites with Monique Mulligan

This week I will be completing the 'That book you keep putting off' category.

That book you keep putting off

For this category I have chosen 'Cassandra's Secret'   

I haven't technically been putting off reading this book. It was more I'd forgotten to read it as the book was on my Kindle and they seem to hide there.

Cassandra's Secret is the story of Cassandra and how an incident in her teens set her up for a life of mistrust. The story explains how this mistrust ruled her life.

You can read my full review here

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Books and Bites Bingo - Category 2 #BooksandBitesBingo2020

This bingo challenge is with Facebook group Books and Bites with Monique Mulligan

It's still early days in my reading year but I was lucky enough to read a fabulous book that fit perfectly with this challenge.

This week I will be completing the 'A book with a door on the cover' category.

A book with a door on the cover

For this category I have chosen "Saving Missy".  

I initially thought this would be a hard one to fill. How often do you see doors on the cover of books! But here we have a book with several doors. It was a fabulous read as well.

Saving Missy teaches us it is never too late to change, grow and make new friends.

You can read my full review here 

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Books and Bites Bingo - Category 1 #BooksandBitesBingo2020

This bingo challenge is with Facebook group Books and Bites with Monique Mulligan

I've only read and reviewed one book so far this year so I will need to double up on my bingo choices.

This week I will be completing the 'Debut Novel' category.

A Debut Novel

For this category I have chosen "Such a Fun Age".  

This was an interesting book about race, class, white saviour complex and do-gooders.  However it also had themes of growing up and at 25 Emira was still uncertain what she wanted to do with her life. She was currently hired as a babysitter, a job that was usually associated with 16 year olds. A roller coaster series of events cause Emira to take stock of her life and force her to take action. This is the debut novel of Kiley Reid. I'm looking forward to seeing what Kiley comes out with next.

You can read my full review here  

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Book Bingo - Round 1 #BookBingo2020

Welcome back to Book Bingo for 2020. This year I am completing two book bingo challenges so I'm assuming that a few of the books will crossover with both challenges.

Book Bingo is a reading challenge hosted by Theresa Smith Writes , Mrs B’s Book Reviews and The Book Muse. The second Saturday of each month book bingo participants reveal which bingo category they have read and what book they chose. 

This week I have chosen the category ''Coming of Age"

A Coming of Age

For this category I have chosen "Such a Fun Age".  

This was an interesting book about race, class, white saviour complex and do-gooders.  However it also had themes of growing up and at 25 Emira was still uncertain what she wanted to do with her life. She was currently hired as a babysitter, a job that was usually associated with 16 year olds. A roller coaster series of events cause Emira to take stock of her life and force her to take action.

You can read my full review here 

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My 2020 Reading Challenges

 

It's no secret I love reading challenges and this year I have decided to sign up for a couple of new challenges that I've seen mentioned around the blogosphere and on Facebook.

I will again be joining the Book Lover Book Review Aussie Author Challenge

The objective of this reading challenge is to showcase the quality and diversity of the books being produced by Australian authors.

I will again sign up for KANGAROO level:
Read and review 12 titles written by Australian Authors of which at least 4 of those authors are female, at least 4 of those authors are male, and at least 4 of those authors are new to you; Fiction or non-fiction, at least 3 different genre.

However if I can increase my male Aussie authors I may acheive the new level of EMU
Read and review 24 titles written by Australian Authors of which at least 10 of those authors are female, at least 10 of those authors are male, and at least 10 of those authors are new to you; Fiction or non-fiction, at least 4 different genre.

To see the full details and to sign up please visit 

https://bookloverbookreviews.com/reading-challenges/aussie-author-reading-challenge-2020

Another favourite of mine is the Australian Women Writers challenge which I will be participating in again in 2020. 
I chose to nominate my own goal to read and review 30 books. 

You can find the full details and sign up links here 

http://australianwomenwriters.com/sign-up/

2020 Book Bingo challenge.

This is a collaboration between Mrs B’s Book reviews, Theresa Smith Writes & The Book Muse. However these lovely bloggers are more than  happy for other readers to join in.

Fill one square on the second Saturday of each month.

 You can find the full details at Theresa Smith Writes.

https://theresasmithwrites.com/2019/12/22/bookbingo2020-the-big-reveal/

New challenges I will be joining this year are:

The 2020 Nonfiction Reader Challenge hosted by Book'd Out

There are three challenges levels and as I am not a huge Nonfiction reader I will be joining Nipper level.

Nonfiction Nipper : Read 3 books, from any category
Nonfiction Nibbler : Read 6 books, from any category
Nonfiction Know-It-All : Read 12 books, one for each category

To get more information or join please visit Book'd Out

https://bookdout.wordpress.com/2019/12/23/2020-nonfiction-reader-challenge/ 

Another new to me is the Historical Fiction Challenge hosted by Passages to the Past. I found this challenge via Carpe Librum, thanks Tracey.

 

There are 6 levels and I will be joining Victorian Reader level

20th Century Reader - 2 books
Victorian Reader - 5 books
Renaissance Reader - 10 books
Medieval - 15 books
Ancient History - 25 books
Prehistoric - 50+ books

You can find out the full details at Passages to the Past

http://www.passagestothepast.com/2019/12/2020-historical-fiction-reading.html

And my last one is another bingo challenge with Facebook group Books and Bites with Monique Mulligan