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  • The Mess of our Lives

    By Mary-Anne Scott
    4 stars

    The tough lives of Jordan and Tabitha with their seriously unwell mother kept me turning the pages. It made me wonder about the sort of reality too many children struggle with and hope that someone finds a way to get through to them and provide some help.

  • Turncoat

    By Tigema Baker
    3 stars

    Probably 3 and a half stars. I understand where the writer is coming from but it was all incredibly familiar despite te tiriti being the covenant and the aliens being the colonisers. I also get the frustration of not being able to change things from within but instead feeling one has become a turncoat when the intention was to be an agent for justice and radical change.

  • Mrs Christie at the Mystery Guild Library

    By Amanda Chapman
    3 stars

    Probably 3 and a half stars . Read a few of Agatha Christie's books over 50 years ago but this novel made me think that perhaps I should check out a few of them at this stage of my life since I've become such a fan of this genre in the last 15 years

  • This Mortal Boy

    By Fiona Kidman
    5 stars

    I've appreciated Kidman's poetry for years but this is the first of her novels I've read. It won't be the last because she drew me in to Albert's world and helped me see his ordinary youthful mistakes in a sympathetic light. He was the victim of the over reaction of a powerful minority in government who chose to see the youth of the 1950s as degenerate and dangerous and the return of the death penalty. Poor Albert who'd come to NZ from Belfast at 18 suffered the consequences of the mistrust of immigrants and readiness to treat them as outsiders.

  • The Correspondent

    By Virginia Evans
    5 stars

    I have both thoroughly enjoyed this book and been moved by it. I was a prolific letter writer in the 1990s and so know from experience how the rhythm of sitting down to share the little and/or deeper things of life in a letter can help us understand ourselves and others so much better. How fabulous to read this book of letters and discover the great character of Sybil: flawed, gifted, vulnerable, stubborn, wounded, hurtful, intolerant, courageous, honest, prone to denial and self deceit but oh so lovable. As most of us are to varying degrees. Sybil is a woman after my own heart

  • View from Lake Como

    By Adriana Trigiani
    3 stars

    Typical light summer read but made me want to visit Milan

  • The book of guilt

    By Catherine Chidgey
    5 stars

    Creepy and compelling exploration of life in an alternative England in the late 1970s where WWII ended with a treaty and a sharing of 'scientific' experimental approaches. Ironic having a Minister of Loneliness in the government!

  • Silent Voices

    By Anne Cleeves
    4 stars

    I definitely didn't have a clue as to who the killer was in this one!!

  • No words for this

    By Ali Mau
    4 stars

    This memoir is written sensitively and powerfully.

  • Playground

    By Richard Powers
    5 stars

    Took me a while to get into...literary fiction not usually my thing during holidays but I got caught up in the characters and the ideas. Amazing descriptions of life under the sea and frightening description of gaming and AI influence on many many aspects of life

  • The book of Hat

    By Harriet Rowland
    4 stars

    Harriet was an extraordinary young woman who wrote blogs about living life to the full when diagnosed with cancer. Her ability to connect with people, find joy and gratitude in both simple and amazing experiences inspired me. I was surprised that she related so deeply to John Green's The Fault in our Stars...she found her journey reflected accurately in it.

  • The pretty delicious cafe

    By Danielle Hawkins
    4 stars

    Ideal summer reading with quirky laid-back kiwi characters. I love the way she does family dynamics.

  • At midnight comes the cry

    By Julia Spencer-Fleming
    4 stars

    A white supremacist militia, a controlling husband, a rabbi and an Episcopalian priest - both women- calming the crowd and love blooming in a couple that gives the lie to like seeking like!

  • One of Us is dead

    By Peter James
    3 stars

    I was rather disappointed in this. The eye of God approach tracking so many characters didn't grab me the way the TV adaptations of his novels have with the focus on the detectives

  • Tea and cake and death

    By Gareth Ward and Louise Ward
    3 stars

    It grew on me but despite knowing the setting well it didn't stop me from falling asleep many times while reading it!

  • They thought I was dead

    By Peter James
    2 stars

    Enjoyed the drama series but was annoyed by key character in this. Shouldn't have finished the book...old habits die hard

  • Without Fail

    By Lee Child
    3 stars

    Probably 3 and a half stars! Typical Jack Reacher but more enjoyable than his later novels..more twists and less violence.

  • Good things come and go

    By Josie Shapiro
    4 stars

    An intense read...

  • The Black Wolf

    By Louise Penny
    5 stars

    Another great read (the 20th!) from one of my favourite authors. Marvellous characters and the plot twists keep coming

  • Sunrise on the reaping

    By Suzanne Collins
    4 stars

    There is an addictive quality to the madness of these novels filled with violence against teens. I did get a better appreciation of poor Haymitch and his need to drink. They're all very depressing though...

  • The Rose Field

    By Philip Pullman
    5 stars

    Loved the way this pulled so many threads together. Here's to making sure the threads and connections remaining strong.

  • The book lover's retreat

    By Heidi Swain
    2 stars

    A more unrealistic than usual summer romance! Mind you I would have liked to see some of the patchwork designs one of the characters created.

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