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Loose Reads

Get your bookworm on with a rotating roster of, um, bookworms. Including Jenna Todd & Kiran Dass from Time Out Bookstore, bringing us a different book to talk about each week.

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: November 18, 2024

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: November 18, 2024 Loose Reads w/ Jenna: November 18, 2024, 13.33 MB
Mon 18 Nov 2024

Jenna reviews Samantha Harvey's sixth book and winner of the Booker Prize 2024 Orbit. Whakarongo mai nei!

Loose Reads w/ Suri: November 11, 2024

Loose Reads w/ Suri: November 11, 2024 Loose Reads w/ Suri: November 11, 2024, 18.04 MB
Mon 11 Nov 2024

Suri reviews Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: November 4, 2024

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: November 4, 2024 Loose Reads w/ Jenna: November 4, 2024, 14.99 MB
Mon 4 Nov 2024

On Loose Reads this week, Jenna recommends a summer read and potential Christmas present, The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. This novel also happens to be nominated for the 2024 Booker Prize! Whakarongo mai nei~

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: October 21, 2024

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: October 21, 2024 Loose Reads w/ Jenna: October 21, 2024, 8.2 MB
Mon 21 Oct 2024

Jenna phones in from Time Out in Maungawhai to talk about New Zealand author Damien Wilkins' new book Delirious.

Whakarongo mai nei!

Loose Reads w/ Suri: October 14, 2024

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: October 14, 2024 Loose Reads w/ Jenna: October 14, 2024, 12.76 MB
Mon 14 Oct 2024

Suri from Time Out Bookstore talks to us about A Sunny Place for Shady People from Argentinian writer Mariana Enríquez. This is Enríquez's first short story collection since The Dangers of Smoking in Bed was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. The stories in this most recent collection weave the occult, ghosts, love, queer counterculture and Argentina's turbulent and brutal past. 

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: October 7, 2024

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: October 7, 2024 Loose Reads w/ Jenna: October 7, 2024, 14.93 MB
Mon 7 Oct 2024

Jenna from Time Out Bookstore talks to us about the new book from Becky Manawatu called Kataraina - it's an intense read and follows on from Aue, whilst taking a different stylistic tack. 

This Saturday is also Aotearoa New Zealand Bookshop Day and it's happening all across local bookstores in Tāmaki Makaurau in 12th October 2024!

Loose Reads w/ Suri: September 30, 2024

Loose Reads w/ Suri: September 30, 2024 Loose Reads w/ Suri: September 30, 2024, 17.56 MB
Mon 30 Sep 2024

Suri chats to Aneeka about the new novel from 2018 Booker Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk titled The Empusiam - a centenarian response to Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. For lovers of folkloric horror with a touch of comedy, and feminist parables.Whakarongo mai nei! 

Loose Reads w/ Abby: 23 September, 2024

Loose Reads w/ Abby: 23 September, 2024 Loose Reads w/ Abby: 23 September, 2024, 12.02 MB
Mon 23 Sep 2024

Abby chats to Jonny about the new book from Airana Ngarewa (Ngāti Ruanui, Nga Rauru, Ngāruahine). Ngāti Pātea/Pātea Boys is a bilingual book in reo Māori and English about a group of boys growing up in Pātea and is a fantastic resource for those on their reo Māori journey - perfect for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. 

Thanks to Time Out Bookstore!

Loose Reads w/ Suri: 16 September, 2024

Loose Reads w/ Suri: 16 September, 2024 Loose Reads w/ Suri: 16 September, 2024, 13.43 MB
Mon 16 Sep 2024

Suri from Time Out joins Jonny to chat about a brand new book - Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman. A workplace satire set in a dystopian alternate reality, it follows the underling employees of an Amazon-type workplace and the daily minutae that dictate the experience of the working class strata.

Loose Reads w/ Abby: 9 September, 2024

Loose Reads w/ Abby: 9 September, 2024 Loose Reads w/ Abby: 9 September, 2024, 14.45 MB
Mon 9 Sep 2024

Abby from Time Out brings up Brat by Gabriel Smith! Autofiction, ghost stories, not like anything you’ve ever read before.