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.
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?
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.
Jenna reviews Stan Walker's autobiography, Impossible: My Storyand 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.
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.
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