Friday Update: The Reading Queue (1st May)
Still juggling, still not getting enough books read. Not the worst problem, I've got, but apologies, as always to the authors and...Read more
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Jessica Howland Kany
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
Friday Update: The Reading Queue (3rd March)
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
Friday Update: The Reading Queue (10th April)
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
Friday Update: The Reading Queue (13th March)
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
Friday Update: The Reading Queue (17th April)
The days are definitely shortening now which means the Spring Classics bike racing is in full swing, which means no sleep and a freaked...Read more
Friday Update: The Reading Queue (19th June)
I missed posting the last couple of Friday updates due to other unplanned commitments, and given...Read more
Friday Update: The Reading Queue (20th March)
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
Friday Update: The Reading Queue (22nd May)
This update hasn't been happening recently - I've been dealing with a tsunami of elderly animal health challenges which have just chewed...Read more
Friday Update: The Reading Queue (24th April)
Still juggling, still not getting enough books read. What a "dreadful" problem to have.
#JustFinished
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Friday Update: The Reading Queue (29th May)
There's not going to be a lot of posting here over the next few days. ...Read more
Just Finished Reading
Another one of those weeks although a wet Sunday did make for some reading catchup, although last night's torrential downpour is probably going to mean some time lost to cleaning up (and washing up muddy dog footprints that are from one end of the house to the other now).
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Just Finished Reading
As expected, last week was chaotic, with absolutely no updates posted, one ailing pig plus a now ailing cat, as well as the new cat who is ... overactive, and two elderly dogs who insist on not being quite right. Now we've got bird flu on our minds.
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Just Finished Reading
Whole household is still a minor chaos machine - with himself going to be away for 4 days at the end of this week putting a dent in any reading plans. But I persist ....
Finished off:
The Ledge by Christian White (FINALLY! and worth...Read more
Parrot Heaven, Jessica Howland Kany
Because I'd read (and loved) A RUNNERS GUIDE TO RAKIURA by Jessica Howland Kany first I was prepared for PARROT HEAVEN. Which was handy because the slightly chaotic styling of the first novel is ramped up even more in...Read more
A Runner's Guide to Rakiura
“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
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A Runner's Guide to Rakiura, Jessica Howland Kany
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