Status Updates From Slowing the Sun

stunning, beautiful, gorgeous, astoundingly easy to read for a non fiction. for anyone who loved braided sweetgrass, this is for you. love the blend of poetry and essays and memoir, not many people do the cross-discipline writing in a way i enjoy but nadine has nailed it. definitely will read again.

this feels like the most impactful pukapuka I picked up in 2025. It was so ātaahua, moving (cried lots), inspiring, challenging, hopeful. I cannot recommend this enough to anyone who calls Aotearoa home - it tied climate justice so tightly to how we all live/love/lose. “We are lucky in this life if we get the chance to say some things. And to let some things remain unsaid also”

‘I am tangata whenua. I am not Māori, I am tangata whenua. What makes me tangata whenua? The whenua. If I have no relationship with the whenua, then I’m just tangata. That doesn’t make any sense. We are nothing without the land’ - this pukapuka has laid down an awesome wero in regards to learning more about the whenua I call my kainga!

“This country is big, powerful and exciting. In the raw it is rough, formidable, awe-inspiring - absolutely beautiful. Let us have these impressions soak steadily in, making us newer for what we do have. Then and only then, will we begin to work in a vital way” quote from Barry Brickell in this pukapuka

Really really enjoying this book about te ao Māori + climate justice. So nice to have someone talking about climate adaptation/mitigation in a way that actually makes comprehensible sense to the reader rather than in science jargon. Is making me feel like my job at MfE is a little evil, but I think that’s good. Gotta keep questioning !

Ps everyone post long reviews on goodreads pls this is my social media rn