In this episode we give advice on how to tackle the ever growing tower that is the 'To Be Read' pile, discuss a recent release that didn't quite hit the spot, and bring you our usual book reviews and raves.
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DISCUSSED IN THIS PODCAST:
Book News
An Evening with Arundhati Roy
http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/look-and-listen/videos/Page1/an-evening-with-arundhati-roy-2019
New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards-for-children-and-young-adults
KD's interview with Tracey Thorn for Canvas, NZ Herald
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/canvas-magazine/news/article.cfm?c_id=532&objectid=12248811
Book Reviews
LK
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Fourth Estate)
JT
Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza (Harvill Secker)
JT/KD
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo (Bloomsbury)
KD
Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth (Canongate)
https://www.nziff.co.nz/2019/auckland/animals/
Murmur by Will Eaves (Canongate)
Not Books
JT
Euphoria (HBO)
Blown Away (Netflix)
KD
Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky
https://www.nziff.co.nz/2019/auckland/andrei-rublev/
LK
RuPaul: What's the Tee?
The TBR Pile
JT
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith (Bloomsbury, September)
The Porpoise by Mark Haddon (Penguin)
LK
Juliet the Maniac by Juliet Escoria (Melville House)
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (Faber)
KD
Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World by Nell Stevens (Picador)
Coventry by Rachel Cusk (Faber, October)
Also mentioned
My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy
Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia by Tracey Thorn
Withnail and I https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2011/nov/14/favourite-film-withnail-and-i
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Furious Hours by Casey Cep
The Long...
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