Sometimes a book is so pretty you have to buy it even if you don't read the language. (Though Shadowed Summer is fab in the original English)

Sexy, sweet and fiercely feminist, Summer Skin straddles the YA/NA gap with ease.

Josie Browning, I love you

An old childhood fave. I should reread this at some point.

You know a book is good when you come out of it feeling like the world has been shaken and nothing is real.

Will's Yiayia signed my copy of The First Third, this is so unspeakably cool. (Sorry Will, you have been outclassed)

Beautifully written Australian literary YA with a relatable queer heroine.

Can't wait to get to this one!!

the strength of Melina's writing is that her characters are vivid, flawed and real in a way that leaps off the page.

This month's YA Chronicles book. Can't wait to get to this one!

Dr Kate Forsyth talking about story structure at UNE Future Campus

Reading on the train to see Kate Forsyth speak about story structure

Photo from the launch of Summer Skin a few weeks ago with the fabulous Kirsty Eagar.

Passenger is detailed, evocative, beautiful. The various settings across time and place are incredibly vivid. And that ending is breathtaking.

Faking It is so cute. Josie is totally relatable, and I love that while there is a soupçon of romance it never overshadows the book's focus on Josie's growth into becoming her own person.