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The Introduction is interesting because of its feminist angle.

I read a few more pages of this, and I really don't like the style. It's going back to the library and I really don't care if they shortlist it or not.

There's confronting details about the sort of content online moderators have to deal with in this novel. I'm not sure that I'll be continuing with it.

The 2026 Ockham New Zealand fiction awards shortlist has been announced: https://anzlitlovers.com/2026/03/04/2...

One more week to go and I'll be finished The Divine Comedy! https://anzlitlovers.com/2026/01/17/t...

https://www.rachelcaplin.com/p/trailer

https://anzlitlovers.com/2026/01/10/t...

Progress so far: https://anzlitlovers.com/2026/01/03/t...

4 cantos to go!

https://anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/18/2...

https://anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/13/t...

Oh my, I don't know if I'm up for this. I love reading Stead, but there are five (5) pages in her list of characters and one and a half in her list of firms, and all the characters I've come across so far have long, unpronounceable names to keep track of.

I have never before read an autobiography that conveyed such dislike for the subject. There is a complete lack of empathy for a teenage girl being shunted about by a father's career, and for her desire to be somewhere more interesting than 1950s Australia and New Zealand.

Nice to see Antigone Kefala has two poems included. I read some of her writing before and she seemed to resent being sidelined as an 'ethnic' writer. But in this collection (from 1981), she is just one of the poets.