Australian Women Writers Reading and Reviewing Challenge

It strikes me that I haven’t actually written a post about the Australian Women Writers 2012 Reading and Reviewing Challenge which I have decided to participate in this year.

I’ve joined the group on GoodReads, where I can post details of my progress, and chat with other participants, but I think it might be worth keeping a record here too. In any case, I will definitely be posting any reviews I manage to write here.

There’s more detail about the challenge at GoodReads or at the Australian Women Writers blog, but I need to summarise for myself what I hope to do, so the gist:

Goal: Read and review books written by Australian women writers – hard copies, ebooks and audiobooks, new, borrowed or stumbled upon by book-crossing. [I suspect most of my reads will be ebooks. I am not an audiobook fan.]

Genre challenges: 
Purist: one genre only
Dabbler: more than one genre [I’ll try to dabble. I do read fantasy, although have to be in the mood to read fantasy. And I have never read a romance I’ve enjoyed. Granted, the last time I tried a romance was decades ago. Maybe time to try again?]
Devoted eclectic: as many genres as you can find
  
Challenge levels: 
Casual:
Stella (read 3 and review at least 2 books) [I suspect I can read at least six but am not confident in my ability to review, therefore will set a target of two reviews. If I exceed this, great.]
Miles (read 6 and review at least 3)*
Franklin-fantastic (read 10 and review at least 4 books)*
* The higher levels should include at least one substantial length review

I’m still in holiday mode and utterly enjoying myself. Started Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career this morning, and began Ros Moriarty’s Listening to Country: A Journey to the Heart of What It Means to Belong yesterday.

Still working on my 2011 reading roundup, will post this soon.