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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/ Jenna: Rāhina August 18, 2025

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Mon 18 Aug 2025

Today on Loose Reads, Jenna is chatting about The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine: in which three women from very different families are brought together when their sons are accused of assaulting a young woman whose social standing they see as far below their own. Whakarongo mai nei!

Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!

Loose Reads w/ Suri: Rāhina August 11, 2025

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Mon 11 Aug 2025

Today on Loose Reads, Suri is up in the studio to chat about Among Friends by Hal Ebbott - A betrayal that should shatter their seemingly perfect lives. But will they let it? Whakarongo mai nei!

Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: Rāhina August 4, 2025

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Mon 4 Aug 2025

Jenna is up for a chat about some exciting book news - including a new book from NZ music expert Gareth Shute, the Bookers Prize Shortlist, and more! Jenna also chats with Milly and Rosetta about Neil Blackmore's Objects of Desire. Whakarongo mai nei!

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: Rāhina July 21, 2025

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Mon 21 Jul 2025

Today on Loose Reads, Jenna is up in the studio to chat about Susan Choi's novel Flashlight - a story of the lives of the three people who make a family, the one moment in history that shatters what held them together, and the reverberations of that event that last a lifetime. Whakarongo mai nei!

Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!

Loose Reads w/ Suri: Rāhina July 14, 2025

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Mon 14 Jul 2025

Suri is up in the studio to chat about Mary McCarthy's 1957 memoir Memories of a Catholic Girlhood: a witty, scathing, piercingly insightful and stylishly written reflection on the author's 1920s upbringing. Whakarongo mai nei!

Thanks to TimeOut Bookstore! 

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: July 7, 2025

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Mon 7 Jul 2025

This week Jenna reviews the new novel from Jamaican/U.K. author William Rayfet Hunter, Sunstruck. It's a sun-drenched yet turbulent novel and marks a bold debut for Hunter. Whakarongo mai nei!

Loose Reads w/ Suri: June 30, 2025

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Mon 30 Jun 2025

Thanks to TimeOut Bookstore

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: June 23, 2025

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Mon 23 Jun 2025

Thanks to Time Out Bookstore!

Loose Reads w/ Suri: June 16, 2025

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Mon 16 Jun 2025

Milly and Tuva'a chat to Suri from the Time Out book store about a book that follows a water droplet throughout time! From a Mesopotamian King all the way to modern day..

Thanks to Time Out Bookstore!

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: June 9, 2025

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Mon 9 Jun 2025

Jenna reviews the first two volumes from On The Calculation of Volumes by Solvej Balle. The first book in the septology by the Danish author has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. 

Thanks to Time Out Bookstore!