Get your bookworm on with a rotating roster of, um, bookworms. Including Jenna Todd & Suri Reddy from Time Out Bookstore, bringing us a different book to talk about each week.
Jenna has just finished up at the Auckland Writer's Festival, and is still digesting it all, so today she's reviewing Ruby Porter's Attraction, which was launched on Saturday. Attraction tells the story of a road trip through Aotearoa, the significance of the land we live on and colonial history, and the shifting of relationships in the narrators life. As this story weaves through past, and present, Jenna reckons this is one very relatable novel that you don't wanna miss out on.
Kiran's been hyped about this one for months and it rocks her socks. Dead People I have Known by Shayne Carter has been highly anticipated, and lucky for us here in Tāmaki Makaurau Shayne is talking as a part of the Auckland Writers Festival, get your tickets here.
Jenna joins Rachel to talk about the a book inspired the rise and fall story of bands, Daisy Jones and the Six is the fiction version of this narrative. A novel built out of interviews with the fictional bands and song lyrics, Jenna reckons this is something you'll pick up and won't put down.
Kiran's prepping for Auckland big Writer's Festival, and in theme with this upcoming celebration of novels, we're talking America Is Not the Heartby Elaine Castillo. Kiran will be hosting this talk so grab yourself a copy, get reading and go check it out.
Who's excited for Auckland Writers Festival?! We are! Especially Jenna, and luckily we're joined by Anne O'Brien to run us through the line-up, she reckons there's someone for everyone to see. From boomers to the millennials, it's time to sort yr timetable out and get your tickets.
Kiran reckons Tess will like this one, The New Me, by Halle Butler is of similar manner to the very popular My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh. Perhaps even better? The New Me follows Millie in what she describes as her dull existance, but will Millie find a new and enriched life? Stay tuned.
Jenna brings in the book that got her out of a reading funk, The Library Book by Susan Orlean, this novel records the LA Public Library fire as well as the larger role that libraries play in our lives. Who doesn't like a book about the wholesome instituiton that is libraries?
Kiran's got a memoir this week, Tracey Thorn's Another Planet - A Teenager in Suburbia consists of a number of diary entries she is reflecting on. The novel narrates the mudane life of growing up, teenagehood and discovering punk-rock, from suburbia.
Jenna's in studio and here to talk about few of her favourite Muslim authors. Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2018 and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2017, and was one of Jenna's personal favourites, as well as some special mentions, The Things I Would Tell You - Writings by British Muslim Women, edited by Sabrina Mahfouz, and No Country Woman by Zoya Patel. Jenna says reading's special in how it helps you with see things from other people's perspectives and cultures.
Kiran's got a real page turner this week, The Wall by John Lanchester is Time Out's Book of the Month for March. Looking forwards to a dystopia reality where climate change is in full force, this thrilling new novel is about why the young are right to hate the old. And as Kiran said, Tess already can't put it down.
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