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Life…

Christmas Shopping Update: 12/15

It’s been quite a week! School is done for the year, hubby is now on holidays, and Aleah got excellent results for her HSC/ATAR and is now officially enrolled in university for 2021. The Christmas tree is up, I’ve done all the food shopping for the holidays, but I still have a few presents to pick up, including something for my husband’s birthday this Wednesday.

And *Sigh* It seems I spoke to soon last week. After weeks without a case of COVID in our state, we now have an outbreak in Sydney. It appears while our government has been strict with international arrivals and quarantine, they’ve given some leeway to international airline staff. In the last four days, contact tracing and testing has found 68 cases all linked to one breach. At the moment the cluster seems to be confined to a particular region of Sydney, which has now gone into lockdown, but it’s likely to grow given that school holidays started last week and lots of people had already travelled near and far. While we are about 350km (220miles) north of Sydney, people are worried it could already be here as a couple that tested positive visited the next town over (where my husband works), dining at two local establishments, and visiting local stores.

We won’t risk visiting family for Christmas in Sydney while there are active cases, but my parents live close enough that we should still be able to meet for Christmas lunch, as long as no spread is detected in our area.

I only have two books on my reading list this week, I just have too much to do, hopefully both will help me finish off some challenges before the end of the year.

Wishing you and yours a wonderful Christmas/Holiday Celebration x

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What I’ve Read Since I last Posted…

Sunshine by Samantha C. Ross

Hideout by Jack Heath

The Grand Tour by Olivia Wearne

The Last Truehart by Darry Fraser

Something Like This by Karly Lane

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Review: The Valley of Lost Stories by Vanessa McCausland

Review: Sunshine by Samantha C. Ross

Review: Hideout by Jack Heath

Review: The Grand Tour by Olivia Wearne

Review: The Last Truehart by Darry Fraser

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What I’m Reading This Week…

On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as firebugs. But the detectives soon found themselves on the trail of a man they didn’t know.

The Arsonist takes readers on the hunt for this man, and inside the strange puzzle of his mind. It is also the story of fire in this country, and of a community that owed its existence to that very element. The command of fire has defined and sustained us as a species – understanding its abuse will define our future.

A powerful real-life thriller written with Hooper’s trademark lyric detail and nuance, The Arsonist is a reminder that in an age of fire, all of us are gatekeepers.

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In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.

Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined.

Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic—the Red Church. If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. But a killer is loose within the Church’s halls, the bloody secrets of Mia’s past return to haunt her, and a plot to bring down the entire congregation is unfolding in the shadows she so loves.

Will she even survive to initiation, let alone have her revenge?

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