As if I wasn’t already busy with upcoming folio and exhibition preparation, and any leftover freelancing projects to complete, I have decided in my funny head to read as much as possible this month (from the 7th to 30th September) in the spirit of the Books Alive campaign, which is supported by Book Thingo, from which I’m drawing inspiration.

The last time I participated in a reading challenge was in my final year of high school, for the Australian Readers’ Challenge to encourage literacy in Aborigine communities, but back then I had a generous time span of 6 months to read 10 books. Quite a cinch, right? Wrong! VCE did not allow me to read much other than set Literature texts. Anyway. The same holds for uni, unfortunately.

Now I have a shitload on my to-read list. I keep buying and buying and accumulating and accumulating, until my house nearly tumbles from too many books crammed into too few crevasses. (OK I love to embellish my words, but it’s true, my balcony was on the verge of collapsing at one point but probably not for reasons I imagined…)

Anyway, I’m going to post my progress here periodically during September. So wotcher! Without …