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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.

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.

Loose Reads w/ Suri: 2 September, 2024

Loose Reads w/ Suri: 2 September, 2024 Loose Reads w/ Suri: 2 September, 2024, 10.99 MB
Mon 2 Sep 2024

Suri from Time Out joins Jonny for Loose Reads today! Suri reviews Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti, an experimental take on the memoir format. In Alphabetical Diaries, Heti alphabetically orders 10 years worth of journalled sentences (with the aid of an Excel spreadsheet). The book is the product of a decade of editing, so that only Heti's favourite sentences remained. Whilst some letters contain many entries, others such as Q only contain one. It's a blend of literary criticism and a peep into an author's most intimate thoughts. 

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: August 26, 2024

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: August 26, 2024 Loose Reads w/ Jenna: August 26, 2024, 8.65 MB
Mon 26 Aug 2024

Jenna from Time Out Bookstore chats about the new book from Megan Dunn - The Mermaid Memoirs.

Loose Reads w/ Suri: August 22, 2024

Loose Reads w/ Suri: August 22, 2024 Loose Reads w/ Suri: August 22, 2024, 13.05 MB
Tue 20 Aug 2024

Suri from Time Out Bookstore visits the studio to chat about Blackouts by Justin Torres!

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: August 12, 2024

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: August 12, 2024 Loose Reads w/ Jenna: August 12, 2024, 17.35 MB
Mon 12 Aug 2024

Jenna reviews The Survivors by Steve Braunias.

Thanks Time Out Bookstore!

Loose Reads w/ Suri: August 5, 2024

Loose Reads w/ Suri: August 5, 2024 Loose Reads w/ Suri: August 5, 2024, 10.96 MB
Mon 5 Aug 2024

Suri from Time Out Bookstore reviews Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner.

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: July 29, 2024

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: July 29, 2024 Loose Reads w/ Jenna: July 29, 2024, 15.74 MB
Mon 29 Jul 2024

Jenna from Time Out Bookstore visits the bFM studio to review Behind you is the sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj.