Friday Update: The Reading Queue (3rd April) (although it's Thursday the 2nd)

This update is bought to you a day early because of the Easter Break which, this year, I hope will be focused on reading, in the spirit of...Read more
Sorted on book title (not in series order)

This update is bought to you a day early because of the Easter Break which, this year, I hope will be focused on reading, in the spirit of...Read more

Took a break over the first week in March so I'll backdate this post but it's not going live until Tuesday the 10th. So the reader need...Read more

This update is bought to you in the aftermath of an Easter break where not enough reading got done. To be honest, not a lot of anything...Read more

I hope that, because it's Friday the 13th, my current streak of looking vaguely like I'm catching up doesn't end in a screaming heap....Read more

Still managing to not read enough books. The silver lining of the current fuel price / shortage problems is for us that may mean less...Read more

BDTH! The Foveaux Fisherman Facebook page posts this acronym to advise Rakiura Stewart Islanders to ‘batten down the hatches’ before severe weather events.
New Zealand’s southernmost librarian Maudie Sanderson reckons this warning could be applied to her life...Read more

“A Millennial New Yorker, a Stewart Island fisherman, and a WW II veteran walk into a bar...”
Maudie’s on the run – from New York and from her past – but she runs headlong into her future when she ends up on Rakiura Stewart Island on assignment to cover Aotearoa New Zealand’s...Read more
Started this book with absolutely no idea what I was going to get, got through the first quarter with no idea what was going on, ended the whole thing thoroughly enjoying every word of it.
Maudie is the central character of this novel, a millenial New Yorker who, on assigment...Read more