St Andrew's College (Christchurch)

118,573 pages read and 4,552 team points

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MargieB

3,347 pts

(2,646 pages read)

The Ornament of the World

By María Rosa Menocal

4 stars

Only 65 pages in, but excellent so far - the history of medieval Al-Andalus.
Silver Spoon, vol. 1

By Hiromu Arakawa

4 stars

A different sort of manga: academically-driven but directionless city boy Hachiken transfers to an agricultural high school and deals with animals and people and physical work. No heroic or supernatural events, just a guy finding his way and experiencing a totally different kind of life. I liked it.
The Mires

By Tina Makereti

3 stars

I wanted to like this book more than I did. Some of the multiple voices were very good, but some of the more prominent voices were clumsy.
A Different Kind of Power

By Jacinda Ardern

4 stars
Slow Horses

By Mick Herron

5 stars

A spy novel (or detective?) - not my usual genre, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. My summer reading surprise: how invested I became. Loved the characters, the supposed "losers" who have been relegated to Slough House, and what a bunch they were. I'd read the next in a flash (except that I have other things I want to read first, usual story).
Driving Over Lemons - An Optimist in Andalucia

By Chris Stewart

3 stars
All the Birds In the Sky

By Charlie Jane Anders

5 stars

I loved this book. SciFi - fantasy, packed full of quirky whimsical details and very big ideas; maybe science and nature and the uncanny and technology are big enemies, or maybe they can't do without each other. (If a person believes Goodreads readers, this is either the best book ever written or the worst. But it won the Nebula Award anyway.)
One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn

By Eiichiro Oda

4 stars
Don Quixote

By Miguel de Cervantes

0 stars

I read exactly as much as I intended: 112 pages out of 892 - just a taster. It was not at all what I expected (much funnier, for one thing) but I don't feel up to giving a star rating to "a founding work of Western literature" (so says Wikipedia). What do I know?
Frankly in Love

By David Yoon

5 stars
Pakiaka

By Gabrielle Huria

4 stars

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