95bFM: Loose Reads

This week on Loose Reads, Suri brings up Funkhaus, a collection of poetry by the sharp and warm Hinemoana Baker. Whakarongo mai nei to hear about it and listen to a poem from the book. 

This morning on Loose Reads Jenna brought in 'Bug Week & Other Stories' by Airini Beautrais, the fourth finalist for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2021. Whakarongo mai nei to learn more! 

This morning on Loose Reads Jenna brought in 'Bug Week & Other Stories' by Airini Beautrais, the fourth finalist for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2021. Whakarongo mai nei to learn more! 

Level 3 might be a massive bummer but at least it's a good excuse to read a few good books. This week Jenna reviews Una Mannion's unsettling coming of age story 'A Crooked Tree'. 

Suri's still into her non-fiction books, this week talking about the very informative, Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester. 

Jenna's just read Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu and highly recommends it. If Charles' work on HBO series, Westworld, isn't enough to entice you to read this book, perhaps winning the Fiction prize in the National Book Awards for 2020 will. 

Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen is Suri's pick for this week, after a dense read that captures the political environment in Russia and the USA over the last few years all the way up to the latest news in 2020. A heavy but important read.

Jenna returns after a glorious summer break to review one of the books she's whizzed through in the holidays. Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey follows the narratives of a number of characters during the second world war, and how they intertwine. Jenna reckons this is a must read for your summer list.

Suri is here to round up some of her favourite books for you to get your hands on for the summer. Featuring  Hiakai: Modern Māori Cuisine by Monique Fiso, The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey, Railways Studios by Neill Peter Atkinson Alsop, What We'll Build: Plans for Our Together Future by Oliver Jeffers, Summer by Ali Smith, and Magnolia 木蘭 by Nina Mingya Powles.

It's had Jenna humming Pulp's 'Common People', and contains a universal tale of class difference via a particularly Aotearoa lens. So, what else should we know about Rachel Kerr's Victory Park?