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• My July 2026 Reading Summary

  Overall mood: nervous. As I have entered my third and final year for my PhD, I have found less and less time to read. I pushed through it this month as there were several Māori nonfiction books I wanted to read amidst Matariki celebrations, but I don’t think that will be possible over the next…

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  July 31, 2026

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• A Phenomenally Tense Thriller in Zoe Rankin’s The Vanishing Place

  New Zealand crime thriller fiction is a genre that is alive and well, unlike some of the characters in the many stories at our fingertips, and I can think of no better example of such literary brilliance as Zoe Rankin’s The Vanishing Place. To think she is only a debut author with this exceptional novel…

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  July 25, 2026

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