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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.

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Loose Reads w/ Surinam Reddy: January 25, 2021

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Mon 25 Jan 2021

Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen is Suri's pick for this week, after a dense read that captures the political environment in Russia and the USA over the last few years all the way up to the latest news in 2020. A heavy but important read.

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: January 18, 2021

 Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: January 18, 2021 Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: January 18, 2021, 12.25 MB
Mon 18 Jan 2021

Jenna returns after a glorious summer break to review one of the books she's whizzed through in the holidays. Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey follows the narratives of a number of characters during the second world war, and how they intertwine. Jenna reckons this is a must read for your summer list.

Loose Reads w/ Surinam Reddy: December 14, 2020

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Mon 14 Dec 2020

Suri is here to round up some of her favourite books for you to get your hands on for the summer. Featuring  Hiakai: Modern Māori Cuisine by Monique Fiso, The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey, Railways Studios by Neill Peter Atkinson Alsop, What We'll Build: Plans for Our Together Future by Oliver Jeffers, Summer by Ali Smith, and Magnolia 木蘭 by Nina Mingya Powles.

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: December 7, 2020

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Mon 7 Dec 2020

It's had Jenna humming Pulp's 'Common People', and contains a universal tale of class difference via a particularly Aotearoa lens. So, what else should we know about Rachel Kerr's Victory Park?

Loose Reads w/ Surinam Reddy: November 30, 2020

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Mon 30 Nov 2020

Suri's been reading more non-fiction this week, and brings us Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis. A book about what a fair and equal society might look like in a post-capitalist universe.

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: November 23, 2020

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Mon 23 Nov 2020

Jenna reviews Stan Walker's autobiography, Impossible: My Story and she reckons this is definitely an important read for Aotearoa. Stan writes about his family, abuse, success, forgiveness and redemption, this is one that you will pick up and not be able to put back down.

Loose Reads w/ Surinam Reddy: November 16, 2020

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Mon 16 Nov 2020

Suri pops in with a review of Red Pill by Hari Kunzru, and although this is certainly not light reading, it's very good and worth diving into. Red Pill is a novel about the alt-right, online culture, creativity, sanity, history, and how love can endure through everything else.

Loose Reads w/ Surinam Reddy: November 9, 2020

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Mon 9 Nov 2020

Suri's been diving deep into the non-fictions and thoroughly enjoyed Jill Lepore's If Then. A novel about The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, Jill tackles the heavy topics of mined data and voter profiles.

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: November 2, 2020

 Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: November 2, 2020 Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: November 2, 2020, 23.35 MB
Mon 2 Nov 2020

Kiran joins us for her last review on bFM before she leaves the big smoke. As usual, we have a lovely review from Kiran, this week on Brandon Taylor's debut novel, Real Life. It's shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2020, and definitely stands up as a fantastic read. 

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: October 19, 2020

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Mon 19 Oct 2020

Jenna's been getting into ghost stories, this week she reviews The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale. The true story of Nandor Fodor, a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical research. Spooky.