Glendowie College

130,935 pages read and 4,803 team points

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The Wedding People

By Alison Epspach

5 stars
No Words for This

By Alison Mau

5 stars
Eggshell Skull

By Bri Lee

5 stars
Buckeye

By Patrick Ryan

4 stars
Falling into Rarohenga

By Steph Matuku

4 stars
Tom Lake

By Ann Patchett

3 stars

The story of a former actress’s love affair with a famous movie star before he is famous. She tells the story to her three daughters while they are together during Covid on their cherry farm. A beautifully written story with well rounded characters. You get a real sense of time and place. It feels very nostalgic. It is a slow, gentle story but it was a little bit too slow for me until quite near the end where it comes together and you find out more about how the affair ends. I enjoyed it, but it took me a long time to read it because I would put it down and not feel compelled to pick it up again. Quite a lovely story though.
Chosen Family

By Madeleine Gray

4 stars
Book Lovers

By Emily Henry

4 stars
Shark Heart

By Emily Habeck

4 stars

A book about a woman who loses her husband because he turns into a Great White Shark. A very human, sometimes amusing, and moving story.
The Mushroom Tapes

By Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper, and Sarah Krasnostein

4 stars
Heart the Lover

By Lily King

5 stars

So good. Inhaled it in a day. Such a captivating story about love and heartbreak. Beautiful writing. Destroyed me at the end.
Middlesex

By Jeffery Eugenides

4 stars

Have been meaning to read this for ages because it’s a classic. Took me a long time - it’s very dense. I mostly enjoyed the ride though - a sprawling family story told like a memoir.
I’m Glad My Mum Died

By Jenette McCurdy

4 stars
1985

By Dominic Hoey

5 stars

This is such a great story - funny and sad about a boy growing up poor in a dysfunctional family in Grey Lynn during the 1980s. The writing is vivid and poetic in places. Richly drawn characters and a very Kiwi setting.
The Ballerina of Auschwitz

By Edith Eger

4 stars
Small Things Like These

By Claire Keegan

4 stars

Short and sweet. Lovely prose.
Flesh

By David Szalay

4 stars

Not sure what to think about this. Read it to see whether I would like this more than Orbital (the last Booker winner), and I did. It’s a propulsive read (or at least I found it to be), but it’s bleak, strange, and filled with tragedy and trauma. I can see why it’s polarising. I think I will be thinking about it for a while. Giving it 4 stars because I can appreciate what the author has done, but I feel very uncertain about this book. Probably won’t be at the top of my list of recommendations.
I Love My Stupid Life

By Albert Cho

2 stars

Was curious. He has led an interesting life, but the writing was not amazing. Some good recipes included.
Good Things Come and Go

By Josie Sharpiro

4 stars

Loved her first book. Loved this one. Beautiful prose. Flawed characters who you get invested in.
Flashlight

By Susan Choi

4 stars

A sad, slow unravelling story about a family torn apart which stretches over decades. I was compelled to keep reading to find out what happened!

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