Loose Reads

Jenna has just finished up at the Auckland Writer's Festival, and is still digesting it all, so today she's reviewing Ruby Porter's Attraction, which was launched on Saturday. Attraction tells the story of a road trip through Aotearoa, the significance of the land we live on and colonial history, and the shifting of relationships in the narrators life. As this story weaves through past, and present, Jenna reckons this is one very relatable novel that you don't wanna miss out on.

Jenna joins Rachel to talk about the a book inspired the rise and fall story of bands, Daisy Jones and the Six is the fiction version of this narrative. A novel built out of interviews with the fictional bands and song lyrics, Jenna reckons this is something you'll pick up and won't put down.

Who's excited for Auckland Writers Festival?! We are! Especially Jenna, and luckily we're joined by Anne O'Brien to run us through the line-up, she reckons there's someone for everyone to see. From boomers to the millennials, it's time to sort yr timetable out and get your tickets.

Jenna brings in the book that got her out of a reading funk, The Library Book by Susan Orlean, this novel records the LA Public Library fire as well as the larger role that libraries play in our lives. Who doesn't like a book about the wholesome instituiton that is libraries?