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  • Toitū Te Whenua

    By Lauren Keenan
    5 stars

    This is my jam. Since university days when I was fortunate to have had Jim belich as a lecturer, my interest in the NZ Wars has been an unwaning interest. This book is like a field guide to where incidents took place- a "where it went down" guide so to speak. It's not a detailed history so it wont give you everything that happened. But it does bring the people and the locations to life. Useful to have when preparing holidays and the like. It also has a small section on how to engage kids in their history as well. NB the East Coast/Tairawhiti section is a little light on detail.

  • Dirt Music

    By Tim Winton
    4 stars

    This was the only Tim Winton I had not read. Now I've read them all and enjoyed them all, except Breath, which, like this book, has been made into a movie. (a good one at that). The reviews for the movie of this book are very poor so I dont think I'll bother watching.I love his writing style, and the references/location have a lot for me to relate to, with a lot of "Australian" in me and my life experience. Set in Western Australia, north of Perth, Luther Fox lives alone and survives by illegal fishing. Years earlier, he lost his wife and children in an accident. He once played music, but stopped because it held too much pain. Georgie Jutland meets Luther while living with Jim Buckridge, a wealthy fisherman who hates poachers. Georgie feels trapped in Jim’s world and drawn to Luther. Their relationship is risky, but hard to resist. Dirt Music explores grief, escape, and the power of music. Luther calls dirt music “anything you can play on a verandah or porch, without electricity,” and realises there is no true silence in nature. Interesting to read a book told from a woman's point of view, but written by a man! I have an NZ book on the list for next = try to double the points!

  • Stone Yard Devotional

    By Charlotte Wood
    5 stars

    The Stone Yard Devotional is a quiet, thoughtful novel. I was particularly drawn to its exploration of forgiveness — not as something neat or redemptive, but as something slow, uneasy, and deeply human. The narrator’s voice felt familiar and grounded; her questioning, her retreat from noise, and her careful attention to the inner world were easy to relate to. (50-something woman, effectively separated from her husband). I appreciated the restraint of the writing and the way meaning is allowed to emerge gradually. Easy to read, with lots to think about. Recommend reading it in short bursts with thinking between.

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