Tag: NZ book recs
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The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone is a Fantastic, Light-Hearted Kiwi Mystery
What a fun, amusing Kiwi crime mystery! Gareth and Louise Ward’s The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone is a humorous, entertaining firecracker of a book with an incredible selection of eclectic and lively characters. With a cosy small-town vibe, a cold case demanding answers, a dark secret hidden in the shadows, and a lovely doggo…
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Undertaking Down Under in Deborah Challinor’s Black Silk and Sympathy
The cover got me to request this book from the library in the first place. Once I found out New Zealand author Deborah Challinor wrote Black Silk and Sympathy, I knew I needed to read it and do it quickly! What better concoction can you make up? Kiwi author, a historical fiction novel centred around…
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Charlotte Lobb’s Hannah and Huia – A Novel of Utter Heartache
A book hasn’t made as much of an impact on me as this in such a long time. I mean it with my whole heart and soul when I say Charlotte Lobb’s Hannah and Huia is something words cannot describe. It is a story of such deep emotional investment and love, such endless love that…
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My February 2024 Reading Summary
Overall mood this month: eager but distracted. This month, I have been working on something that has taken precedence over reading, as you’ll see in my reads for the month. It’s a shame because this month was the Aotearoa New Zealand Readathon which has been a wonderful opportunity for readers, authors and literary agents to…
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Andrea Hotere’s The Vanishing Point is an Art Historian’s Dream
As part of my NZ reading goal, I added The Vanishing Point by Andrea Hotere to my library requests. Coincidentally, a New Zealand reading initiative started setting itself up for February, the Aotearoa New Zealand Readathon. Perfect timing! So, as my first NZ read for the NZ Readathon and #FebruaryinNZ I read The Vanishing Point…
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The Aotearoa New Zealand Readathon Part Two
Aotearoa NZ Readathon is still alive and kicking and with ten days left in February, I have a few more books to add to my list. Above, we have Cousins by Patricia Grace but I’ll actually be reading her new short story collection Bird Child and other stories which I am very excited to get…
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My February NZ Reading Plans
February is the month to support NZ authors and NZ stories with this year’s Aotearoa New Zealand Readathon! I’m so happy that this is the time to celebrate NZ authors as it is a reading goal I have for 2024 to read more NZ stories and this month gives me the opportunity to do so…