Tonight I attended the Hachette Australia Brisbane Roadshow and it was lots of fun. We kicked off the night with some drinks and nibbles as we chatted all things books and bookselling.

So many publishers have stunning lists of books coming up in the next few months and Hachette is no exception! I’ve added so many books to my wishlist tonight and I’m super excited to get reading some of these fabulous books.

Here are a few books that are hot on my wish list:

• Fantastic Beasts: The Original Screen Play by J.K. Rowling - released in a gorgeous hardcover edition this is J.K’s screenwriting debut and I’m always hanging out for more in the world of Harry Potter!
• The Woman on the Stairs by Bernhard Schlink - I haven’t read anything by Bernhard before but this story sounds incredible. I love fiction about art and the teaser for this book really excited me!
• NEW illustrated Neil Gaiman titles - Not much was revealed about these but I’m a big Gaiman fan and I don’t own most of his books so I may be swayed to own some of these gorgeous new covers. Perhaps I need a newer copy of American Gods while I’m at it.
• Hygge by Charlotte Abrahams - I was pretty excited when I saw this book on the screen as on the weekend we’d opened a rather lovely gift pack at work that was from the publisher filled with things relating to this book. I raided some delicious Japanese green tea and the world’s most comfortable pair of socks I have ever worn! I’m still not entirely sure how to pronounce this word but it’s a Danish way of living that incorporates life’s simple pleasures, the “everyday essential experiences”. I’m curious to discover more about this way of life.
• Pounce by Seth Casteel - Super cute kittens caught in mid-air pouncing with such creative photography from the creator of Underwater Puppies. The photos speak for themselves!
• The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney - This debut novel was “The Book” of Frankfurt Book Fair and is a psychological suspense thriller dealing with the darkest shades of obsession… Definitely one of the reading copies we received tonight that I’ll be delving into with the lights on!
  

Picture: Justin discussing Hygge by Charlotte Abrahams.

It was a great night spending time with friends from work and also catching up with the lovely Jeann from @happyindulgencebooks! These evenings are such a valuable opportunity to talk about books and I definitely got a lot out of it.

Picture: Book bloggers and booksellers having a fantastic night together.

Thank you to Hachette Australia for a fabulous night and for showcasing some amazing titles that I can’t wait to read and share with others!

It’s time to set a TBR List & Reading Goals!

Prompts for creating your TBR List:

• Photo/s and/or a list of the book/s you plan to read
• Why did you choose these books?
• What do you look forward to reading the most?
• Are any of these books for a read-a-long, part of a book club, etc.?

Prompts for creating your Reading Goals:

• How much do you plan on reading? This may include a certain number of pages or hours of reading that you’d like to achieve.
• Your goals. This can be as general or specific as you’d like.
• Daily updates. You may wish to add your daily updates to the initial post or create a new post for each day. These updates may include: books read today, total number of books read, number of pages read, cumulative total of pages read, reading and daily bookish challenges completed, other goal updates, etc. What you include in the daily updates is entirely up to you.

Note: If you don’t wish to create one big post, you may add two different entries in the InLinkz entry below. If you do so, please make sure you list which part you are linking to in the description.

Please make sure that the URL you submit links directly to a blog post, tweet, etc.

Daily Bookish Challenges
Trees of Reverie June 25 - July 03 2016 Read-A-Thon
Day Four: Tuesday, June 28

Prompts:

• Share a quote or create a list of quotes that you’d like to share with others. There is no minimum or maximum number of quotes that you need to share.
• You must site where the quote has come from. If the quote is from a book, film etc. please site the relevant details.
• It doesn’t have to be a well-known quote.

The prompts are to be used as a guide so you may respond to this Bookish Challenge in any way you like.

Responses can be posted on any form of social media, but PLEASE include a link back to this original post so that others may also take part.

You may wish to tag your response with the official hashtags for the Read-A-Thon and Daily Bookish Challenges:

| #treesofreveriereadathon | #treesofreveriebookishchallenge |

Please make sure that the URL you submit links directly to a blog post, tweet, etc.

Daily Bookish Challenges
Trees of Reverie June 25 - July 03 2016 Read-A-Thon
Day Three: Monday, June 27

Prompts:

• Create a poem using a minimum of three books. There is no maximum.
• You must use all of the words in the title of the book towards your poem.
• The poem does not have to rhyme or make sense.
• If you are struggling to create a poem, you may use one free word of your choice for each book that features in your poem. The word can be anything that you’d like and can feature in any part of your poem.

The prompts are to be used as a guide so you may respond to this Bookish Challenge in any way you like.

Responses can be posted on any form of social media, but PLEASE include a link back to this original post so that others may also take part.

You may wish to tag your response with the official hashtags for the Read-A-Thon and Daily Bookish Challenges:

| #treesofreveriereadathon | #treesofreveriebookishchallenge |

Please make sure that the URL you submit links directly to a blog post, tweet, etc.

Daily Bookish Challenges
Trees of Reverie June 25 - July 03 2016 Read-A-Thon
Day Two: Sunday, June 26

If you liked this… You should try this…

Prompts:

• Recommend a book based on another book.
• The structure of your recommend should be as follows: If you liked ______, you should try ______ because ______.
• Please include the title and author of both books.
• You may choose your books from any topic, genre or reading level, so long as you outline the connection and basis for the recommendation between the two books.

The prompts are to be used as a guide so you may respond to this Bookish Challenge in any way you like.

Responses can be posted on any form of social media, but PLEASE include a link back to this original post so that others may also take part.

You may wish to tag your response with the official hashtags for the Read-A-Thon and Daily Bookish Challenges:

| #treesofreveriereadathon | #treesofreveriebookishchallenge |

Please make sure that the URL you submit links directly to a blog post, tweet, etc.

Daily Bookish Challenges
Trees of Reverie June 25 - July 03 2016 Read-A-Thon
Day One: Saturday, June 25

Set a TBR List & Reading Goals

Prompts for creating your TBR List:

• Photo/s and/or a list of the book/s you plan to read
• Why did you choose these books?
• What do you look forward to reading the most?
• Are any of these books for a read-a-long, part of a book club, etc.?

Prompts for creating your Reading Goals:

• How much do you plan on reading? This may include a certain number of pages or hours of reading that you’d like to achieve.
• Your goals. This can be as general or specific as you’d like.
• Daily updates. You may wish to add your daily updates to the initial post or create a new post for each day. These updates may include: books read today, total number of books read, number of pages read, cumulative total of pages read, reading and daily bookish challenges completed, other goal updates, etc. What you include in the daily updates is entirely up to you.

Note: If you don’t wish to create one big post, you may add two different entries in the InLinkz entry below. If you do so, please make sure you list which part you are linking to in the description.

Please make sure that the URL you submit links directly to a blog post, tweet, etc.

The official time zone for the Trees of Reverie Read-A-Thon events is Brisbane, Australia, GMT +10. To view time differences around the world more easily or to find out the current time in the official time zone (Brisbane), here is a world clock widget:

You can also access a world clock through an app on your smart phone or other electronic devices so that you can keep track of the day/time in the Read-A-Thon when you’re on the go. To find out the current official time for the Trees of Reverie Read-A-Thon, all you need to do is create a new world clock for Brisbane, Australia (GMT +10) if you do not already have one available.

Here is a list of the each day in the Trees of Reverie Read-A-Thon event for June 25 2016 - July 03 2016

01. Saturday, June 25
02. Sunday, June 26
03. Monday, June 27
04. Tuesday, June 28
05. Wednesday, June 29
06. Thursday, June 30
07. Friday, July 01
08. Saturday, July 02
09. Sunday, July 03

If you have any further questions, you may contact me directly.