{"id":2822,"date":"2016-01-24T11:50:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2017-03-04T21:34:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T11:34:07","slug":"australian-women-writers-reading-challenge-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=2822","title":{"rendered":"Australian Women Writers’ Reading Challenge – 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, after good years in 2012, 13 and 14, my 2015 Australian Women Writers’ Reading Challenge<\/a> was a bit of a disaster. I had my books selected\"Australian<\/a>, but only read 7 by Australian women writers in total, and of those only reviewed 4<\/a>. This was in the context of a very bad reading year for me, especially in the second half. Still, I am disappointed in myself – I made a commitment and utterly failed to meet it.<\/p>\n

So, I approach 2016 with a guilt-fuelled renewed sense of energy. I’ll be trying to read 10 books, and to review all 10. I will sound a note of caution though – the work and life pressures that took me away from reading last year are still in play.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t done the AWWC before, I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to diversify your reading and get exposure to some wonderful new authors. And if you are looking for reading suggestions, the AWWC website has a great library of book reviews<\/a>. My own reviews are here on this\u00a0website, from 2012<\/a>, 2013<\/a>, 2014<\/a> and 2015<\/a>. My 2016 reviews will be at this link<\/a> throughout the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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<\/p>Hi,\n

Welcome to Mark Webb’s author website. At this point the site is rather sparse – I’ve only recently started writing and there isn’t a lot to show for it right now. You can check out\u00a0my biography<\/a>, see …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,21,15],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-awwc2016","tag-news-2","tag-specfic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2825,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}