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• My June 2025 Reading Summary

  Overall mood: busy – it has been a little hectic this month with PhD work, exams, my reading schedule, and looking after myself in the switch over to winter. Thankfully, I have managed well and made it out the other side healthy, happy, and ready to dig into the nitty gritty stuff for my presentation…

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  June 30, 2025

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• Kirsty Gunn’s Pretty Ugly – A Short Story Collection Full of Human Emotion

  Would it be fair if I only reviewed one short story collection this month? Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn is a darkly-fascinating, ominously-enticing read, and I felt myself being drawn into the writing with no desire to pull back. Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn is the inaugural title in a new series of short story…

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  June 27, 2025

  NZ Fiction, Poetry and Short Stories

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