Otago Boys' High School

66,329 pages read and 4,814 team points

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Chloe - a novel of secrets and lues

By Connie Briscoe

3 stars
The Secret Life of Cows

By Rosamund Young

4 stars
Hyperion

By Dan Simmons

4 stars
A Rare Book of Cunning Devices

By Ben Aaronovitch

5 stars
The Herb Knot

By Jane Loftus

1 stars
Skysong

By C. A. Wright

4 stars
Cold Earth

By Ann Cleeves

4 stars
Free range knitter

By S. Pearl-McPhee

3 stars

A collection of short stories, essays, on knitting, knitters, yarn etc. The kind of book you pick up in the holidays from an Op shop and then put in the Lilliput library once you are done. Pleasant and distracting but not one to keep on the shelves.
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday

By Saad Z Hossain

3 stars

The title was better than the story.
Charity Girl

By Georgette Heyer

4 stars

Delightfully silly farce. No stress, it will all work out fine in the end, you simply need to be patient and wait to find out how. Georgette Heyer is the foundation for all Bridgerton-alike flippertygibberty novels.
Collision

By Joanna Orwin

3 stars

Collision refers to both the event which resulted in the crews of two French ships arriving, in 1772, to the Bay of Islands, and to the subsequent collision of two cultures. There is a great deal of misunderstanding - not knowing what you don't know and that there might be things that you didn't even think to ask about.
The Lido

By Libby Page

3 stars

Easy summer read about the value of community spaces, old/young relationships and swimming.
The League of Gentlewoman Witches

By India Holton

4 stars

Delightfully silly mixture of faux late -Regency romance and magical fantasy. The lady gets her man - he should be warned. No shrinking violets or delicate creatures here, female pirates and witches.
Harvest: a novel

By Christine Carrell

4 stars

Tells the NZ farming story from a woman's perspective. Most interestingly as the story developed and the main character realized that her own life, whilst chosen and fulfilled, did not have to be the same for her daughters.
The Castle in the Pyrenees

By Jostein Gaarder

1 stars

I'm sure it is very clever but it just smacked too much of adolescent philosophy without the refreshing light of actually being written by an adolescent whose view of the world is fresh and new. I couldn't be bothered to finish.
The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater

By Alanna Okun

4 stars
The Enchantress of Florence

By Salman Rushdie

4 stars

I will come back to this. Too tired to give it energy. I really love Salman Rushdie and this looks like it has all the hallmarks of one of his classical magical, historical novels.
The Institute

By Stephen King

3 stars

My first Stephen King. Started strong, interesting relationships, ended meh, felt inconclusive - more to explore, like he'd run out of steam. Maybe he's prepared for a sequel?
The Hallmarked Man

By Robert Galbraith

3 stars

Meh. I wanted to like this more. I felt invested in the relationship between Strike and whatshername but they just can't get it together so I felt like I couldn't be bothered either
Raven Black

By Ann Cleeves

4 stars

Slightly odd listening to the story with the mental image of Jimmy Perez in ones head, but I prefer the story to the TV series. Will listen to more.
Can you forgive her?

By Anthony Trollope

1 stars

Only marginally less god awful dirge than Anna Karenina. This never gets anywhere. The pitiful whinings of 1860's middle class English - for the love of Gods, there are children dying in mines and up chimneys, get a grip! Can you believe that there is a Trollop Society who admire this man? Maybe they just joined for the name?
The Great When

By Alan Moore

5 stars

I really only got this audio book to be able to listen to Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, whose voice is divine (he narrates the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch). However, I was pleasantly surprised. Moore knows London and I felt connected and engaged in the story of an alternative reality, magical realism, fantasy, YA. I am waiting for the next book.
The Second Sleep

By Robert Harris

3 stars

Started interestingly, got better, engaging and kept me wanting more - a really interesting concept - but I felt rather "meh" by the ending. The ending was just rather, "oh, that's that then".
Skipshock

By Caroline O'Donaghue

4 stars

If you like YA fantasy fiction this is a great easy read - keeps you engaged and wanting to know more. UNTIL the last page which comes as a blow - I understand that a second book is on it's way though and can't wait.

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