#LoveOzYA Throwback Thursday (#12)
Throwback
Thursday #LoveOzYA
edition is our way of spreading the love of backlist Aussie books that you
might have missed. We'll hopefully be posting a new book each week, and we'd
love you to join us!
Jade’s pick
Title: Jasper Jones
Author: Craig Silvey
Late on a hot summer night in 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan.
Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of danger and intrigue for Charlie. So when Jasper begs for his help, Charlie eagerly steals into the night by his side, terribly afraid but desperate to impress. Jasper takes him to his secret glade in the bush, and it's here that Charlie bears witness to Jasper's horrible discovery.
With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fear and suspicion as he locks horns with his tempestuous mother; falls nervously in love and battles to keep a lid on his zealous best friend, Jeffrey Lu.
And in vainly attempting to restore the parts that have been shaken loose, Charlie learns to discern the truth from the myth, and why white lies creep like a curse.
In the simmering summer where everything changes, Charlie learns why the truth of things is so hard to know, and even harder to hold in his heart.
why I chose it
I first read this book for my
year twelve theatre class and I wasn’t the biggest fan, it was good, but it wasn’t
until I saw the live show that I understood many of the themes that are in this
book. There’s mystery, deceit, racism, friendship and first love, all told in
the point of view of a thirteen-year-old – which the author does a great job of giving Charlie a unique voice and incorporating these into what life in Australia was like in the 1960’s.
The unique writing style of
the author appeals to all readers while the dramatic opening and dark insight
to Australian society makes readers want to find out what happens next.
As you take on this coming of
age journey with Charlie you remember your own curiosities and adventures as a child,
which is why I chose this as my pick for this week’s Throwback Thursday! Happy reading 💖
What's
your pick for this week? Share on your blog, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, or in
the comments below! Make sure you tag your posts with #AusYABloggers so we can
share the love.
Fierce Fragile Hearts: Blog Tour
The #AusYABloggers in collaboration with Pan Macmillan Australia, bring you the Fierce Fragile Hearts by Sara Barnard blog tour.
The tour runs from February 11th until February 15th 2019 and includes some of our Australian and New Zealand bloggers, Instagrammers and Youtubers.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Fierce Fragile Hearts is the stunning companion novel to Sara Barnard’s YA bestseller Beautiful Broken Things. It is about leaving the past behind, the friends who form your future, and learning to find love, in all its forms.
Two years after a downward spiral took her as low as you can possibly go, Suzanne is starting again. Again. She’s back in Brighton, the only place she felt she belonged, back with her best friends Caddy and Rosie. But they’re about to leave for university. When your friends have been your light in the darkness, what happens when you’re the one left behind?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Sara Barnard lives in Brighton and does all her best writing on trains. She loves books, book people and book things. She has been writing ever since she was too small to reach the 'on' switch on the family's Amstrad computer. She gets her love of words from her dad, who made sure she always had books to read and introduced her to the wonders of second-hand bookshops at a young age.
⇓ ⇓ ⇓ TOUR STOPS ⇓ ⇓ ⇓
MONDAY 11 FEBRUARY
MONDAY 11 FEBRUARY
Jasper and Spice Interview
Gilly Reads, Giveaway
Emma Etc, Review
Sara Jane Reading, Review
@shelle_reads, Review
TUESDAY 12 FEBRUARY
Paperback Brii, Giveaway
@bookishuniversee, Review
Allie Reads, Review
@aussiebookbandit, Review
Cindy Ran Reviews, Review
WEDNESDAY 13 FEBRUARY
Jessica’s Bookworld, Interview
That Bibliophile Franklin, Giveaway
Trish Talks Texts, Review
Raathi Writes, Review
Escape into YA, Review
Bookish Kirra, Review
THURSDAY 14 FEBRUARY
Brooklyn the Bookworm, Interview
Elle’s Book Blog, Giveaway
Belle of the Books, Review
@divabooknerd, Promo
Foureyed Fangirl, Review
Thoughts by Tash, Review
FRIDAY 15 FEBRUARY
@theowlerader, Giveaway
Escape in a Book, Review
The Moonlight Library, Review
Someone Took It, Review
Nuggets of Niamh, Review
@fotinireads, Review
Emergency Contact: Blog Tour
The
AusYABloggers in collaboration with Simon & Schuster Australia, bring you
the Emergency Contact Blog Tour by Korean-American author Mary H.K. Choi.
The tour
runs from January 15th until January 19th 2019 and includes some of our
Australian and New Zealand bloggers, Instagrammers and Youtubers.
Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi
Publication: January 1st, 2019 by
Simon Schuster Australia
“Smart and funny, with characters
so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this
book.” —Rainbow Rowell
From debut author Mary H.K. Choi
comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward
glory—perfect for fans of Eleanor & Park and To All the Boys I’ve Loved
Before.
For Penny Lee, high school was a
total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she’d
somehow landed a boyfriend, they never managed to know much about each other.
Now Penny is heading to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a
writer. It’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything
she can’t wait to leave behind.
Sam’s stuck. Literally,
figuratively, emotionally, financially. He works at a café and sleeps there
too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. He knows
that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration
for when he’s a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks
in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him.
When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s
less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. Still, they swap
numbers and stay in touch—via text—and soon become digitally inseparable,
sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating
weirdness of having to, you know, see each other.
---- ---- ---- ----
Mary H.K. Choi is a writer for The
New York Times, GQ, Wired, and The Atlantic. She has written comics for Marvel
and DC, as well as a collection of essays called Oh, Never Mind. She is the
host of Hey, Cool Job!, a podcast about jobs, and is a culture correspondent
for VICE News Tonight on HBO. Emergency Contact is her first novel. Mary grew
up in Hong Kong and Texas and now lives in New York.
Be sure to
check out all the stops!
⇊ January 15th ⇊
Happy
Indulgence - Blog review + GIVEAWAY
Diva Booknerd - Blog review
@aussiebookbandit - Instagram review
Angel
Reads - Blog review
@Frankenbookie - Instagram review
Paperback Princess - Blog review
⇊ January 16th ⇊
@bookishuniversee - Instagram review + GIVEAWAY
Paperback & Flick Chick - Blog review
Thoughts
by Tash - Blog review
@shelle_reads_books - Instagram
review
Triple
M Bookclub / Bitches Know Books - Facebook
review
⇊ January 17th ⇊
@theliterarycasanova - Instagram review +
GIVEAWAY
Alliee
reads - Blog review
1 girl….2 many books! - Blog review
Noveltea Corner - YouTube
review
Foureyed Fangirl - Blog review
That Bibliophile Franklin - Blog review
⇊ January 18th ⇊
@bookbookowl - Instagram review +
GIVEAWAY
The Chronic Bookworm Blog - Blog review
Jessica's Bookworld - Blog
review
@lifeofinkandwords - Instagram review
Bookish Kirra - Blog review
readctbooks - Blog review
⇊ January 19th ⇊
Paper Fury - Blog review + GIVEAWAY
Read at
Midnight - Blog review
Wild Heart Reads - Blog review
Looking for the Panacea - Blog review
Doddy
about Books - Blog review
Truffle
reads - Blog review
AusYABloggers 2019 Reading Challenge
Hey there Australian and New Zealand young adult readers - New year, new reading challenge!
How does it work?
2019’s challenge will be based on two YA book prompts each month. We are going to carry out a buddy read each month, that will cover one out of the two prompts.You can choose to read the buddy book with us and then pick one other book to read to meet the months requirements. We will have a Goodreads discussion post for each buddy read and are planning to hold group chats on twitter at the end of each month to discuss the buddy reads. Alternatively, you can pick two books of your own.
You do not have to take part in the buddy reads to complete the challenge. Each month one of your reads must be either an OZ or NZ title and each book can only count towards one prompt.
Example A
Each Month
#1 book prompt (own choice Aussie or NZ YA title)
#2 book prompt (partake in buddy read)
Example B
Each Month
#1 book prompt (own choice title)
#2 book prompt (own choice Aussie or NZ YA title)
Example C
Each Month
#1 book prompt (own choice title)
#2 book prompt (partake in buddy read, which is an Aussie or NZ YA title)
I hope that was enough examples for you to catch my drift :-)
Complete the challenge and be entered into the draw to win prizes!!!
To register, click HERE. Feel free to invite friends, readers and bloggers as long as they're either Australian or New Zealand to be eligible to win.
You won’t be able to complete every prompt using OZ and NZ YA books, but for each prompt you manage to complete using only OZ and NZ YA books you will gain our amazement at your awesomeness.
We will release the monthly prompts three months in advance, so you can plan your reads and try to include any review copies or ARC editions. Please read only the prompts provided for that month or months prior within that month. We ask that you please be honest not skip ahead.
For Example
If you miss two prompts in February and it's now March, you may read the march prompts plus those you've missed during February. Do not read April prompts during March. Simples!
How Do I report What I've read?
Are you excited? I’m excited!!At the end of the month simply reply in the report post HERE with the prompt and title of the book you've read.
For Example
JAN #1 Book title
JAN #2 Book title
To make it easier to keep track of your reads for the challenge please just edit your original reply post each time. Clicking the edit button will allow you to add books, remove them and add new prompts to your reply as you go along. Doing the reporting this way will stop the thread ending up being over full and make it easier to keep track of your own and everyone else’s reads :-).
Of course if you have any questions or need help with prompts, feel free to contact us on Goodreads or Twitter.
Prizes
First prize: a $30 Booktopia gift certificate.Second prize: a book of your choice up to the value of $15.
PROMPTS
January#1: New year, new me - or - New Beginnings
#2: Indigenous Australian Protagonist
Buddy Read: Songs That Sound Like Blood by Jared Thomas (#LoveOzYA title)
February
#1: Translated work
#2: East Asian protagonist (China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, and South Korea)
Buddy Read: Freedom Swimmer by Wai Chim (#LoveOzYA title)
March
#1: A protagonist with PTSD
#2: Zombie apocalypse
Buddy Read: Highway Bodies by Alison Evans (#LoveOzYA title)
April
#1: Pansexual protagonist
#2: Food, glorious food
Buddy Read: A Thousand Perfect Notes by CG Drews (#LoveOzYA title)
May
#1: A protagonist with bipolar disorder
#2: South Asian protagonist (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka)
Buddy Read: When Michael Met Mina by Randa Abdel-Fattah (#LoveOzYA title)
June
#1: A feel good read
#2: Protagonist or Author with a physical disability
Buddy read: Meet Me at the Intersection - anthology (#LoveOzYA)
July
#1: Fun in the sun
#2: West Asian protagonist (the Levant, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Iran, the Armenian Highlands, the South Caucasus, the Arabian peninsula as well as the Sinai Peninsula)
Buddy read: The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury
August
#1: Book that’s been on your TBR shelf the longest
#2: Māori protagonist
Buddy read: Legacy by Whiti Hereaka (#LoveNzYA)
September
#1: Short Story Anthology
#2: Social Media
Buddy read: Risk by Fleur Ferris (#LoveOzYA)
October
#1: Time travel
#2: Black Lives Matter
Buddy read: Dear Martin by Nic Stone
November
#1: Queer pride
#2: Transgender protagonist (#LoveOzYA)
Buddy read: Finding Nevo by Nevo Zisin
December
#1: Epic conclusions
#2: Verse novel
Buddy read: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
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