Wellington Girls' College

121,350 pages read and 6,148 team points

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The frozen river

By Ariel Lawhon

0 stars
The Bone Tiki

By David Hair

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

By Mark Haddon

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The Parihaka Woman

By Witi Ihamaera

0 stars
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life

By Anna Funder

0 stars
Broken

By Jenny Lawson

4 stars

'Awkwarding brings us together' chapter: 20 pages of pithy stories of people confessing their awkward moments. I'm reading in an airport and laughing out loud. People are staring. Glorious.
Ara

By Dr Hinemoa Elder

0 stars
Ideals are like Stars

By Angela Walker

4 stars

Nice short chapters which keep the pace going. Appropriate for a biography about an athlete! Yvette Williams was an extraordinary and determined athlete, and one of our houses is named for her. It's been inspirational learning about her achievements.
Question 7

By Richard Flanagan

0 stars
The Pillars of the Earth

By Ken Follett

5 stars

Again, so good! Follett uses the backdrop of history to examine the stories of fairly ordinary people, rather than rulers or heroes, but absolutely focused on the very human struggle of ambition vs ethics/justice/morality.
The evening and the morning

By Ken Follett

5 stars

I was chatting to a friend about Follett's writing, and we managed to come up with this: Follett is a master storyteller, writing engaging historical fiction, but what sets him apart is that he is able to show you how the major events and players of history could have plausibly affected the lives of ordinary people. Like the monk and boat builder and noblewoman in this story.
The Essex serpent

By Sarah Perry

0 stars
The vanishing half

By Brit Bennett

4 stars

My colleague said this was a very good read, and I have to say that I agree. Now I really want to watch 'Passing' .
Maths on the back of an envelope

By Rob Eastaway

0 stars
Prince of Darkness

By Sharon Penman

3 stars

Crime historical fiction blend. I like both genres, but I'm not so sure about the blend.

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