Top Ten Tuesday: Last 10 Author Events I Have Been To!

Welcome to this week's edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week the theme is Thanksgiving/Thankful Freebie. It took me a little while to think of something, but I got there in the end.

I am very lucky and yes, thankful, to live in a city with a very active book scene. There are always events on. Some times they are big named authors who attract a crowd of thousands, and sometimes it is a small event at a local library with just a handful of people. Then there are multiple festivals in various country towns and suburban areas. Sometimes I know lots of people in the room and other times not. One thing you do know when you go to an author event is that if nothing else you can talk about books! 

My post this week is the last ten author events I have been too. Usually if I attend an event I will buy the book and get it signed. Sometimes there are goodies, sometimes tasty treats, but the events are always fun!

Holly Brunbauuer - Just last week Bree from All the Books I Can Read went to our local library to hear this author talk about her debut novel, What Did I Miss? It was a very interactive session!

Rachael Johns (twice) - A couple of weeks ago I went to see Rachael Johns talk about The Lucky Sisters (my review) both at my even localler local library and then to a Books in Bars events in a regional city about an hour away from me.

Helen Goh - This was an event in the city where we not only got to listen to the conversation but also got to try some of the recipes from her latest cookbook, Baking and the Meaning of Life.

Steph Vizard - It was standing room only at this event which was the launch of her latest book,  A Smart Girl's Guide to Second Chances. 

January Gilchrist - By contrast, this was a very intimate conversation about January Gilchrist's debut novel,  The Final Chapter, which was held in what is in effect a sales office at a new residential development. This night was so much fun because it was such a small gathering! I took a friend with me who had never been to an author event before.

Madeleine Cleary and Anne Freeman - This was a fun night where these two authors spoke about their two books which both feature sex workers. One was set in 1850s Melbourne, The Butterfly Women (my review) and the other is a modern story about an online sex worker, Me That You See.

Emma Mugglestone - This launch for In the Long Run was held in a bar around half an hour or so away from me. There was even a delicious cocktail!

Alli Sinclair - This was a drive up the highway for an hour or so to an event in Ballarat to hear Alli Sinclair talk about her new book, A Woman's Voice.

Joanne Miller (The Eights), Chloe Adams (The Occupation) and Michelle See-Toh (Jade and Emerald) - This was an event held in a library about half an hour away from me, and featured three debut authors from Penguin. 

Alli Parker - This was a fun launch for Until the Red Leave Fall. It was held in a super cool bar. The mood was set with 1950s music and the crowd was buzzing! And there were these super cute cupcakes

Wow, that has surprised me. That only takes me back to the end of July this year. Oh, and I just realised I missed one too! Sorry Christine Newel! I suspect that there will be only one more event this year which I am going to on Thursday, but bring on next year, when it will start all over again!

This week....

I'm reading

The highlight of my reading week this week was finishing The Whisky Widow by Karen Brooks. I have no idea why I have never read her before but I really wish I had! I have several of her books on my Kindle and I will now be trying to read them because I loved The Whisky Widow so much!!! This was a 5/5 read for me.

Another book that I finished reading this week was The Friendship List by Beth Miller which I reviewed here. 

I also read So This is Christmas by Helen Rolfe, which I am due to review this week. This is my second Christmassy novel already this year and I have a few more lined up to read too!

I mentioned last week that I was very late in starting my book club book. I finished the book late on the Friday night before our meeting on Saturday morning. Normally we are a read on a theme book club but this month we all agreed to read Butter by Asako Yuzuki. It's fair to say that this was not a popular choice with one of the members declaring it her most hated book ever! It definitely made for a lively discussion! We are going back to our normal format next month with the theme being romance. I am pretty sure I am going to have no trouble finding books to read for that theme!

Now I just have to figure out what I will read next! I have a number of books out from the library at the moment, so I think I will start with Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson. I have only found out recently that he is Australian so it will count as a last minue read for Aussie  August 2025. (Edited to add - I did indeed start this book!)

I did go to an author event this week. It was a library sponsored event and there were maybe 10 of us in the room, so it was just like we were just chatting with author January Gilchrist about her book The Final Chapter. The book is a murder mystery set at a writer's retreat. It was a really fun evening with lots of laughs even though there were just a few of us. I invited a friend who is now engaged to one of my friends that I have had for years. It was the first author event she has ever been too, but I think she will come to another one! I may have converted someone to the joys of author events! One convert at a time!

I'm watching

Nothing new really!


Life

Not a lot here either


Posts from the last week

Top Ten Tuesday: Big Books!
Blog Tour: The Girl from the War Room by Catherine Law
Blog Tour: The Friendship List by Beth Miller
Your Friend and Mine by Jessica Dettman
Weekend Cooking: The Convenience Store by the Sea by Sonoko Machida
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett



I've linked this post to It's Monday, what are you reading? as hosted by Book Date, Sunday Salon hosted at Readerbuzz and the Good Book and a Cup of Tea link up hosted at Boondock Ramblings