I continued blogging, but between illness and deadlines, did not manage to blog nearly as much as last year. I'm hoping to do better in 2016.

The acclaim for Razorhurst means even more to me than usual because, let's be honest, Razorhurst is weird.

I decided to read something I normally hate: a cosy mystery. You know one of those mysteries where everything is tidily wrapped up at the end and everyone lives happily ever after? An Agatha Christie kind of mystery. They are so not my thing. But then someone was raving about Barbara Neely's Blanche White books and they sounded interesting.

The only reason I've ever had to wear a hat is to avoid skin cancer.

Lungs, they do not like to be messed with. I give pneumonia one star and that's for the silent p.

Iloved Ashley Hope Perez's heartbreaking Out of Darkness set in late the 1930s in a small town Texas. It should win all the YA awards.

We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.