Laura Giddey

📚🇳🇿 I really enjoy all of Miriam Toews’ books. She often explores themes of mental health, Mennonite experiences, and family, both given and chosen. She also manages to be funny and serious without sacrificing either! Women Talking is quite different but v important. An author I’ll always read!

🇳🇿📚 Just finished this very good memoir. Young writer who interviews her dad, a rural GP. But it’s more than that and hopeful despite content.

📚🇳🇿 First book finished of 2024. Exceptional. Beautifully written with compassion and “lightness” despite heavy historical context. Highly recommend.

Man in light blue shirt attacks the camera holder with a metal flag pole.

White man in black cap and light blue shirt.

Today in Tāmaki, an Israel supporter crashed a peaceful demonstration in support of Palestine. He grabbed a flag off a protestor, threw the flag away and then used the metal pole to attack my friend in the face. Police dogs were trying to track him down tonight. Please share these photos of him.

📚🇳🇿 Very much enjoyed this novella. How good are short books?!

Let’s get some book matchmaking happening. 🇳🇿📚Tell us a book you’ve loved and we’ll try recommend something equally wonderful. Or if you’re on the lookout for a particular copy of a book, let’s all keep an eye out!

I’ve just started State of Wonder by Ann Patchett. So far, so great!

I loved Ducks! So unique.

Oh wow, strong memories of reading this as a teen too.

I also appreciated this one.

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“So much violence and lack waiting on the other end of the violence and lack that people poured out of the South to escape, and still they kept believing there was someplace in this country where they could be Black and be safe and make a home.”
TheOffice of HistoricalCorrections - Danielle Evans 👌🏻

That was quick! Yay! Enjoy 😍📚

No pressure either way!

If you find our page on insta or fb I can message you there? Sorry for using the other social medias 🙃

Yay! So it’s the Green Dolphin on Pitt Street in Auckland cbd otherwise we can post. All second hand by the way but tidy copies.

@chloeandcats.bsky.social I’ve just been back at the bookshop I work at periodically and we have these books from the list you posted a while ago. Let me know if you’re interested in any!

How is it?!

What are you looking for?

📚🇳🇿 Good finds today from the local little free libraries! I love discovering wee book boxes, do you have one near you?

99 Problems – text choice ain’t one A response to the apparent shortage of Aotearoa novels being taught in our high schools.

Nicole writes so well and with brilliant insight in this important piece on why schools insist on teaching the same books decade after decade, and why that needs to change thespinoff.co.nz/books/25-10-...

Yes, loved Erotic Stories and would be interested in her backlist!

How has it aged, or not?

'A way of ensuring our survival': Kiwi booksellers band together to take on Amazon In bookshops throughout the country, a small band of booksellers has decided to take on Amazon in their very own David v Goliath fight.

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'Pay It Forward' is a GOOD BOOKS initiative where our customers can buy book vouchers for very deserving local schools.

The two schools that benefit are Mt Cook School (up the road from the shop) and Titiro Whakamua Hutt Valley Teen Parent School. Twice a year, we divvy up the credit equally for the schools to spend on books for their students, all thanks to the generosity and kindness of GOOD BOOKS customers!

Visit us in store or see our website to buy a Pay It Forward voucher or find out more.

ākonga from Mt Cook School at the first Pay It Forward pay-out earlier in the year

Pay It Forward is a GOOD BOOKS initiative where our customers can buy book vouchers for very deserving local schools.

Visit us in store or see our website to buy a Pay It Forward voucher or find out more: shop.goodbookshop.nz/c/pay-it-for...

🐶🇳🇿 Saw this pupper today taking a break from tufting on Dominion Road.

📚🇳🇿 Had to support a recent Bookety Book Books sale and get this. Excellent first essay. And reviewed on the back by @rachaelking70.bsky.social I see.

It’s interesting! Report back!

An illustration of a grandmother and a small child entering a public library with the words “just a building with some books in it”. The roof of the library is a book on its side with an explosion of colour and beauty to symbolise knowledge, curiosity and creativity.

Christchurch! Please email your local councillor to let them know how much our small community libraries are valued. They are not, as our mayor describes them, “just a building with some books in it.” The council is considering closing small libraries to cut costs. Please share.

This was also a “like” not a “love” for me. Interested in reading more tho!