Rangiora High School

33,676 pages read and 1,186 team points

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Making Peoples

By James Belich

5 stars

First read this at university and usually re-read it each year. Just finished it again recently and still never fails to inspire and inform.
Paradise Reforged

By James Belich

5 stars

Wonderful book, as good as the Penguin History of NZ is by Michael King, I still prefer reading this potted history of Aotearoa. Best gifted to those special souls who claim NZ has no history!
Into thin air

By Jon Krakauer

4 stars

Great but tough read of the 1996 Everest climbing season and the tragic loss of eight climbers including kiwi legend Rod Hall.
Heinrich Harrer

By White Spider

4 stars

Good book if climbing is something that interests you or if you like wondering what dangerous pursuits are like!
The New Zealand Wars

By James Belich

5 stars

Essential reading for anyone mildly interested in the history of Aotearoa, Māori/Pakeha race relations and how we got to where we are as a nation.
The God Boy

By Ian Cross

5 stars

Life-changing.
The Book Thief

By Markus Zusak

5 stars

I was raised in the UK, my father was in the RAF during WWII, as such I was told of the privations and terrors of the blitz and beyond. To read about Germany's own privations and terrors during the same conflict changed me and my biases, I am better for having read this book.
A Promised Land

By Barak Obama

4 stars

Intimate, visionary, non-Muslim, leader, some will read this to find fault, some to be inspired, perhaps both! I find him to be the best leader the western world has produced in my lifetime and an exceptional writer too.
Four seasons in Japan

By Nick Bradley

5 stars

I read this as one of my daughters was living in Japan for 5 seasons and I wanted to experience some of what she was experiencing. Instead I was taken on a gentle and enchanting collision between the eastern and western worlds seen through the eyes of two twenty somethings who experience life in different yet similar ways. The friction between multi-generations, culture stresses felt by foreigners and wonderful insights into Japanese life, familial relationships and history was beguiling. I was genuinely sad when this book ended, I wanted it to keep going!
Drive your plow over the bones of the dead

By Olga Tokarczuk

4 stars

Janina is engaging, thoughtful, intelligent, solitary and someone I'd like to meet, in a public place! Her experiences are so far-fetched and unbelievable they instantly fall into the credible, especially when read in the age of firsts we live in! This book will leave the reader considering their own place in the world and their own motivations for what they do in life. Read it twice to gain the maximum from Janina's wisdom and creativeness.

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