Baradene College

105,718 pages read and 3,344 team points

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6,053 pts

(5,113 pages read)

Catching Teller Crow

By Ambelin Kwaymullina Ezekiel Kwaymullina

5 stars

Love this book and my 15yo is reading it too. A ghost murder mystery set in the Australian Outback. Clever plotting, great structure. Thoroughly recommend
The Scarecrow

By Ronald Hugh Morrieson

0 stars
Gilead

By Marilynne Robinson

3 stars

This is a fascinating book and I'm not sure I was in the right head space for it. It is rambling, circuitous, plotless, meandering and deeply philosophical. If you want an obvious story this is not the book for you. If you want a quiet meditation on the meaning of life then give it a go
Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By Josie Shapiro

4 stars

A saga about family and finding your purpose in a pair of running shoes. I'm from Taranaki, live in Auckland and have run 2 marathons so it ticked a lot of boxes for me. Some details felt a tad improbable but overall a well-crafted book that I couldn't put down once I got into it
Emergency Weather

By Tim Jones

4 stars

Three characters grapple with the impacts of climate change as a mega-storm barrels towards Wellington. Very good - well written, tightly edited.
Never Let Me Go

By Kazuo Ishiguro

4 stars

A weird, unsettling dystopian book. The stilted, desultory tone takes a while to get into at first. "Poor creatures."
Book of Dust - The Rose Field

By Philip Pullman

4 stars

Listened to the amazing audiobook read brilliantly by Michael Sheen. Like the 3rd book in the Northern Lights series, it is long and gets quite meandering, which made it hard to follow at times, but I just love being immersed in the world of Lyra and co. I'll go back and read it i think
The Book of Dust - The Secret Commonwealth

By Philip Pullman

5 stars

My second time immersing myself in this sequel to Northern Lights - this time the audiobook, read brilliantly by Michael Sheen. So many different accents! I listened to it at the pool, in bed, while doing jigsaws, and on my long drive back to Auckland. Thank goodness for the Libby app!
An Emotion of Great Delight

By Tahereh Mafi

4 stars

A well-constructed tale of first-generation teenage Iranians in a New York neighbourhood in the years after 9/11. Love, family, culture, school.
Ambition Monster

By Jennifer Romolini

5 stars

Jennifer Romolini - brilliant podcaster (Everything is Fine, Extended Scenes, Stiffed), journalist, writer, editor - wrote this memoir of work as a follow up to her fantastic Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups and Failures). An engaging, honest, soul-searching read, it examines the roots of her workaholism in her working-class childhood. I couldn't put it down!
Quietly Hostile

By Samantha Irby

5 stars

A highly bingeable book of essays by black, gay And Just Like That writer/actor Sam Irby. Very funny, somewhat dirty!
Flight of the Fantail

By Steph Matuku

3 stars

More of 7/10. A gripping piece of speculative fiction about teens lost in the wilds of NZ after a bus crash. Could have done with better editing re structure and style.
Orbiting Jupiter

By Gary D Schmidt

4 stars

A well-written, moving coming-of-age story about teenage pregnancy, rural life and redemption in Maine.
The Mermaid of the Black Conch

By Monique Roffey

5 stars

Loved this book. Reminded me a little of one of my favourites, The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock. Set in the Caribbean so you have to get used to the idiom at times - it helped listening to a West Indian cricket commentator while reading!
The Unwanteds

By Lisa McMann

3 stars

I've been reading this book to my 12 yo over the holidays and finished it tonight. She really enjoyed it - I thought it was OK. Would be a good supplement/ extension to The Giver
Long Bright River

By Liz Moore

4 stars

Loved Liz Moore's The God of the Woods so suggested this one for our book club. Our group was a bit 'meh' about it, but I finished it today and found it engrossing and well written. re TV adaptation I honestly can't imagine Amanda Seyfried as the lead role - she's not that pretty-perfect!

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