Happy 2026! In 2025 I joined a reading challenge for the first time. Partway through the year I wandered off from it. I didn't enjoy structuring my reading that way. I went back to my usual method - read all the NetGalley review books, and then grab something that somehow found it's way onto my Kobo. According to my (not entirely reliable) records I reviewed 84 books for NetGalley this year, of a total of 121 books. That seems high, but I did listen and well as eye read on NetGalley. I discovered some new to me authors, including Lily King and Taylor Gray, and read lots of delicious fantasy, sci-fi, romance and plain ordinary fiction. We had some fun holidays, including Sri Lanka, Queensland , hiking twice once by the mountains and once by the sea, Bendigo twice (once for knitting and once for beer) two running weekends (Marysville and Warburton) Sydney and Adelaide in one trip, I knit 19,490 meters of yarn over 40 projects. Only 9 were for charity, w...
My adventures in knitting, spinning, dyeing, reading and living life the best way I know how.