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  • Zhu Mao

    By Mark Sweet
    3 stars

  • The History Speech

    By Mark Sweet
    4 stars

  • Huia Come Home

    By J. Ruka
    3 stars

  • The Bean Trees

    By Barbara Kingsolver
    5 stars

  • Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began

    By Art Spiegelman
    5 stars

  • Maus I: My Father Bleeds History

    By Art Spiegelman
    5 stars

  • Quiet Girl in a Noisy World

    By Debbie Tung
    5 stars

    A beautifully drawn collection of observations of the introvert life. Perfectly perfect.

  • The Colossus of New York

    By Colson Whitehead
    3 stars

    Lively, vivid, quick writing describing New York city. Loved it for its mosaic of images.

  • The Captain Class

    By Sam Walker
    4 stars

    Sports journalist researches the world's elite sports teams to discover what makes them so good - finds its the captain. Not a spoiler; the clue is in the title :). For someone not into sports at all I really enjoyed this read for its cracking descriptions of players, personell, and memorable sporting moments, as well as the insights into leadership, teams and success. As an added bonus, I learnt some stuff about NHL, AFL, football, hockey, NBA, rugby and what not. I still wouldn't recommend myself as an addition to your quiz team for the sports questions but I know a bit more than I did last week so, hey, all good.

  • The Resilience Shield

    By Dan Pronk
    4 stars

    Pretty quick read covering great practical material for building resilience. Nothing much new here but nice to have all in one place, and held together with vivid stories of Australian SAS derring-do.

  • The Book of Secrets

    By Fiona Kidman
    4 stars

    I wanted to like this more than I actually did. The past and the secrets and the hidden things...all turned out to be a bit boring. Sorry, Fiona Kidman, I do love your work. There is also a lot of descriptions of flowers.

  • Star of the Sea

    By Joseph O'Connor
    5 stars

    Wow, best pick ever from the Sallies secondhand shop. I loved every lively sentence of this. Historical fiction of Irish famine refugees fleeing to New York via ship.

  • Sashenka

    By Simon montefiore
    4 stars

    Eek - stick to writing history, Simon Sebag Montefiore! Fabulous details of the Russian revolution through to WWII but the characters were quite thin.

  • Cane River

    By Lalita Tademy
    3 stars

    Novel based on the author's family history through three generations of Southern US slavery. Average as a read, but since it's someone's real life in print you kinda feel like you can't run it down too much...

  • The Crimson Petal and the White

    By Michel Faber
    4 stars

    Another Michel Faber. Historical fiction set in Victorian London. Great details in everything from grime and grub to silk-stockinged opulence. I'd read it again, but at 922 pages it takes forever and could use a good edit imho...

  • A Traveller at the Gates of wisdom

    By John Boyne
    3 stars

    A pretty quirky but cool idea of tracing the same character (sort of) through time and across places but the plot was repetitive and I lost a bit of interest near the end...

  • Wilderness Tips

    By Margaret Atwood
    3 stars

    Margaret Atwood short stories. I prefer her speculative fiction; these stories left me feeling a bit depressed for some reason.

  • The Axeman's Carnival

    By Catherine Chidgey
    5 stars

    Set in Central Otago with a magpie as a narrator - I thought I'd love the setting and dislike the narration but I was wrong. I loved all of it. So good!

  • Don't Just Do Something, Sit There

    By Wallace Chapman
    4 stars

    Yes. Everyone who works incessantly should read this book and become inspired to slow the heck down.

  • 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

    By Elif Shafak
    4 stars

    I loved loved loved the first part of this book. Penguin writes "A vivid carnival of life and death, cruelty and kindness, love, politics and deep humanity." It's told from the point of view of a just-deceased sex worker in Istanbul. Weirdly the tone changed midway through to some kind of B-rated movie script, though, so at the end I was left wondering if it was as good as I first thought.

  • The Mountain Story

    By Lori Lansens
    4 stars

    I found this book in the Sallies secondhand shop, too, and it's been on my GoodReads "Want to Read" list for ages. Set in a mountain range, four hikers get lost. A bit 'yeah right' in places where the believable becomes not-so-very believable, but overall I liked it. Mostly for its mountain setting and people trying to survive in the great outdoors, which I always like.

  • Where Three Roads Meet

    By Sally Vickers
    4 stars

    A retelling of Oedipus, in the format of a conversation between Freud and Tiresias. A bit of prior knowledge of Freudian psychology and Greek myth would be useful in reading this. But even as it stands it's a fascinating take on the Oedipus story.

  • The Fire Gospel

    By Michel Faber
    3 stars

    Another in the Canongate Books Myth series, like 'The Penelopiad' and Where Three Roads Meet. This one is funny as. A copy of another gospel is discovered in an Iraqi museum, and published by its finder who encounters both fame and fury from his readers. Apparently it is a satirical take on Da Vinci et al. Based on the Prometheus myth.

  • The Penelopiad

    By Margaret Atwood
    5 stars

    Atwood novella, the first of the Canongate Myth Series. Penelope and her twelve handmaidens tell the story of life with Odysseus away at Troy, and the leadup to the hanging of the twelve when he gets back. Much to enjoy in this retelling.

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