AWW Challenge 2013: Week Five

Follow my journey through the AWW 2013 challenge here

After a slower week last week, I absolutely raced through this week, reading 7 books – all of them childrens or young adult books. I slipped through a couple of different genres, from contemporary to fantasy and through a bit of historical fiction, and thoroughly enjoyed all of them. I’m now in the middle of a crime novel and getting terribly excited about an upcoming crime release – which is a bit of a shock to me on its own!

My favourite discovery this week would be the Our Australian Girls books which I’d dismissed before this year (probably because there was a horse charm on the cover of the first book. I am not a horse book person!) I have thoughts about these books and why they are so important, but they just got bigger and bigger until I realised that they deserved a post all of their very own.

The Squirm reading challenge chugged along too, but I’m still thinking about how to properly include it in the AWW challenge. I don’t want to include those books with my own, as I review them quite differently, but I’m not sure if I should add in Squirm as a different participant . . . any ideas of how to make sure picture books are represented?

Subversive Reader Books Read and Reviewed

• 14. Whisper by Chrissie Keighery
  
• 15. Froi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetta
• 16. Meet Grace by Sofie Laguna
• 17. Meet Poppy by Gabrielle Wang
• 18. Meet Letty by Alison Lloyd
• 19. Meet Rose by Sherryl Clark
• 20. Chess Nuts by Julia Lawrinson

Squirm’s Books Read (Week Two and Three)

• 12. Come Down, Cat! by Sonya Hartnett (Reviewed this week)
• 14. Maximilian Jones by Elise Hurst
• 15. Outback Countout by Norah Kersh
• 16. Button Boy by Rebecca Young
• 17. Dancing with Grandma by Rosemary Mastnak