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    I enjoyed this but goodness me people need to invent new IPs

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    She remembered the dread and disappointment when her mother would leave a store without buying something. It seemed unspeakably rude. Oh, buy something please, won't you?

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    Oh Tom, she said, you centralize yourself in everything.

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    Reading this on a sunny day at the beach was an utterly deranged experience and I think this book could have had more fun

  • Bones

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    "like he always told me, it is time that makes a family, not just blood" Reverse chronology novel. The structure lends to a sense of embedded time, trauma, family history and sort of denies the reader pathos. It echoes the puzzled, sick of-your-thoughts intractability of family problems.

  • Delirious

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  • When I Open the Shop

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    dissanayake pushes the right buttons to propel the reader forward in a diverse text about immigrant experiences and mourning. I enjoyed it as a Wellingtonian because of its depiction of local landmarks. That's enough to give one pause and reflect on the differences in experience between the protagonist and a pākeha reader. Every detail feels true; msn messenger chats, working in a shoebox cafe, the dialogue.

  • The Swimming Pool Library

    By Allan Hollinghurst
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    A brilliant narrative voice. You want to spend time in his world and he's a self-aware louche. Angry and amicable. Melancholy and fun.

  • The Chthonic Cycle

    By Una Cruickshank
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    Cruickshank takes the extremely dry - geologically ancient minerals - and makes them rich and personal. The big trick is taking an ornament like amber or pearls and diving in the ways humans extracted, and valued this. She contrasts the natural world with our own self-destructive anthropocene and makes the reader humble.

  • Slam dunk

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  • Dragon ball

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    5 stars

    A cultural touchstone and personal source of nostalgia. There isn't much to say about the ur-example of shonen manga. I noticed this time the transition from a humour based adaptation of the Monkey King to a galactic formulaic battle story. The fourth wall goes up hard around the 150th chapter ad stays up until Majin Boo starts wrecking havoc.

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