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I am currently staying at the Melbourne Hotel in Perth, which is confusing enough that I put "Perth Hotel, Melbourne" on all my arrival documentation and had to change it. Anyway. I have seen quokkas in the wild (so cute!) so this definitely must be Perth. I am also still hopeful that I might manage to catch up on at least books read this year...

Wintersong, S Jae-Jones
Peasprout Chen: Future Legend of Skate and Sword, Henry Lien
Bad Judgment, Sidney Bell
Bookworm, Lucy Mangan
Salt Magic, Skin Magic, Lee Welch
L’Appart, David Lebovitz
Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night, Katherine Fabian and Iona Datt
The Wolf at the Door, Charlie Adhara
The Epic Crush of Genie Lo, FC Yee
Object of Desire, Dal Maclean
Everything Changes, Annabeth Albert
Pretty Delicious Café, Danielle Hawkins
Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee
A Cut Above, Cara Malone
For Love of a Horse, Patricia Leitch
A Girl from Yamhill, Beverly Cleary
Passing Through, Jay Norcliffe
Bad Bachelors, Stefanie London
The War that Saved My Life, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
The War I Finally Won, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Come What May, AM Arthur
The Poppy War, RF Kuang

This month my best reads were Lucy Mangan’s Bookworm, a memoir of her childhood in reading (pretty much a sure thing, given we’re very close in age and in childhood reading tastes, although I hadn’t read the Gwen Grants and Mangan is not all that fussed by fantasy and never disappeared off into detective stories, sf, and novels about the second Jacobite rebellion) and Kimberly Brubaker Bradley’s The War duology. The second of Dal Maclean’s books was very very good, but just not as good as the first.( Assorted March. )