Hands up the booklovers! Yes, I see you all there. There is something all encompassing about books. Maybe because they’ve been around for a good 2000 years (in some form or another) that it really doesn’t matter who you are - a book lover or not - you can still underst...

I have read over 200 books last year. That’s not counting the ones I started and only got a third of the way in before deciding I wouldn’t continue.

‘But that’s your job! To read books!’ I hear you cry. 

Well unfortunately that is not actually a primary part of my job an...

As it is nearing the end of the year and those Goodreads challenges are looking very far behind or you just haven’t gotten to that stack of books you resolved to read this year and it’s looking like there is no hope do not fear! Here are Georgia’s Top 10 foolproof, 100...

I've never been able to complete a reading challenge before. It's obviously not because I don't read enough books, but because I get distracted and go on a reading spree of a particular genre and never quite make it through every genre every year (i.e business books......

There is so much more discussion about Disabilities and Mental Health than there ever was when I was a child. In general media, in kids media - everywhere, these topics are open in a way that I think is terrific and healthy. We need to be able to talk about these often...

Penguin Clothbound Classics are a classic example of this. I originally started collecting these editions purely for joy of running my fingers along their cloth spines every time I walked down the hallway at home. It’s rare for me to walk past without my eyes at least...

Most book-lovers poo-poo any film or television adaptation of their favourite books. It is objectively often true that adaptions are a much lesser version of the books, due to various factors. But I’m not here to take about the pros and cons of adapting books - I want...

A few months ago I did a post about the favourite first lines of favourite books. However lots of people love quoting from the meat of the book itself. With the rise of social media, we begin to see more and more quotes bandied about on pretty backgrounds. Sometimes th...

I can’t believe I actually completed this list! Do you know how long I’ve been working on it? Three years! You read that correctly - three years. This was the first ever blog post I started writing back in the first weeks of my time at Dog Eared Books. I had no idea ho...

A few weeks ago I did a post about different books to read when you’re travelling around a foreign country. Then I realised that more often than not, we end up visiting other cities here in Australia. Thanks to family who spread out, friends and even theatre encouragin...