Bought this yesterday from Matilda's bookshop in Mount Waverley.

I couldn't resist getting this when I found it 2nd hand in a local thrift shop just as I was about to release another book.

Hope you like it.

Somehow missed doing a JE for this.
Just checking it in, its still with me...unread!

This sat on my 'To Be Read Mountain' for almost 3 years.
Thought it was a good plot for a book, and the fact that it isn't a long drawn out book kept me pretty engaged throughout. Read it in less than 12 hours.

This book is off to the winner of 2013 Australian Literature Sweepstakes

I hope it is enjoyed!

Thank you for both the book and for organising the sweepstakes.. This looks good.

Grace Lisa Vandenburg, the narrator of this pleasant neurotic-girl-meets-boy debut, is 35 years old and has been addicted to counting since she was eight. She lives alone in Melbourne, Australia, and is on sick leave from her teaching job, filling her weeks with counting—steps and syllables and bites and things—and sticking to her rigid routines, which include trips to the cafe and phone calls from her mother and self-absorbed younger sister. The only person in her life Grace relates to is her 10-year-old niece, Hilary, who is as quirky and charming as Grace is. Things are fine until Grace meets Seamus Joseph O'Reilly, an Irish transplant who works at the local movie theater. Grace has not been on a date in two years and six months and hasn't been in love in forever, but as things progress with Seamus, she realizes what she has been missing. With some gentle encouragement, Grace agrees to test her boundaries and tries to find a happy medium between her obsession and living a full life.

Taking to the meet-up.

Whoops! Forgot to journal when I picked this up