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Loose Reads

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.

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Loose Reads w/ Suri: 20 January, 2025

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Mon 20 Jan 2025

This week on Loose Reads, Suri discusses the reprint of Barbara Kingsolver's 1989 novel Holding The Line. The novel, which kickstarted her writing career, traces the women-led Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983. Whakarongo mai nei! 

Thanks to our friends at Time Out Bookstore.

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: January 13, 2025

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Mon 13 Jan 2025

The first Loose Reads of 2025! Thanks to our friends at Time Out Bookstore

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: December 16, 2024

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Mon 16 Dec 2024

Jenna and Jonny take requests from listeners for book recommendations for Christmas presents and summer reading. Whakarongo mai nei!

Loose Reads w/ Suri: December 9, 2024

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Mon 9 Dec 2024

This week Jonny gets some sci-fi fantasy summer reading recommendations from Suri. Including a new comic from the creator of Watchmen Alan Moore, Rebecca Yarros's new book Onyx Storm and more!

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: December 2, 2024

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Mon 2 Dec 2024

Jenna chats some of the staff picks from Time Out in time for Christmas - first up is Juice by Australian author Tim Winton. Whakarongo mai nei!

Loose Reads w/ Suri: October 25, 2024

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Mon 25 Nov 2024

Jonny chats to Suri about the book recommendation of the week. The latest book from Ta-Nehisi Coates titled The Message. The book contains three interweaving essays that investigate how fictional and factual narrations distort and expose our realities.

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: November 18, 2024

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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

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Mon 11 Nov 2024

Suri reviews Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru. 

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: November 4, 2024

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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

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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!