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.
This week on Loose Reads, Suri brings up Funkhaus, a collection of poetry by the sharp and warm Hinemoana Baker. Whakarongo mai nei to hear about it and listen to a poem from the book.
This morning on Loose Reads Jenna brought in 'Bug Week & Other Stories' by Airini Beautrais, the fourth finalist for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2021. Whakarongo mai nei to learn more!
Level 3 might be a massive bummer but at least it's a good excuse to read a few good books. This week Jenna reviews Una Mannion's unsettling coming of age story 'A Crooked Tree'.
Jenna's just read Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu and highly recommends it. If Charles' work on HBO series, Westworld, isn't enough to entice you to read this book, perhaps winning the Fiction prize in the National Book Awards for 2020 will.
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.
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.
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?
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