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Posted by Bel. The time is 1.07pm here in Wellington, NZ. My husband comes from Irish stock, as he likes to remind us all, any time any pa...

The time is 5.10pm here in Wellington, NZ. Sometimes the quotes on the front of a book can be immediately heartening. Excellent Women (an ...

Posted by Bel. The time is 7.53pm here in Wellington, NZ. A short story collection makes great summer reading. If you drop off to sleep in a...

Posted by Bel. The time is 4.30pm here in Wellington, NZ. The search results on Wellington Central Library's computer told me that I had...

Posted by Bel. The time is 3.30pm here in Wellington, NZ. I was looking forward to this book, as I recalled hearing of Doris Lessing's c...

Posted by Bel. The time is 6:52pm here in Wellington, NZ. I spent my Christmas break doing a whole lot of nothing. We watched DVD after DVD,...

Posted by Bel. The time is 11:20am here in Wellington, NZ. This book is a romance of the sort of absurd proportions that it seems only the h...

Posted by Bel. The time is 4:38pm here in Wellington, NZ. Many fruitless times I have typed The Face of War into the Wellington City Librar...

Posted by Bel. The time is 2:03pm here in Wellington, NZ. This is the first time I've read The Bell Jar , and although familiar with som...

Posted by Bel. The time is 4:05pm here in Wellington, NZ. Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings is an autobiographical story o...

Posted by Bel. The time is 1:49pm here in Wellington, NZ. As always, I was influenced by the cover and was not hopeful about this book. I ha...

Posted by Bel. The time is 1:35pm here in Wellington, NZ. To truly succeed, a graphic novel must work on both levels - appealing on a visual...

Posted by Bel. The time is 4:13pm here in Wellington, NZ. For one whole year now I have read nothing but books from 'The List'. Okay...

Posted by Bel. The time is 5:15pm here in Wellington, NZ. A double up book review, because I read these very quickly and as they were both s...

Posted by Bel. The time is 5:00pm here in Wellington, NZ. Filled with magical realism and historical details, this compelling story plays ou...

Posted by Bel. The time is 8:01am here in Wellington, NZ. I've found it's quite good to get out a novel and some short stories simu...

Posted by Bel. The time is 4:09pm here in Wellington, NZ. Brooklyn is somewhere I associate more with the Beastie Boys, Mos Def and hipsters...

Posted by Bel. The time is 4:15pm here in Wellington, NZ. I'm doubling this one up because they were both quite little books and I bange...

Posted by Bel. The time is 3:35pm here in Wellington, NZ. When I began reading this, I thought it was a short story collection. It begins wi...

Posted by Bel. The time is 7:45pm here in Wellington, NZ. Judging the cover (as I do), I thought this was going to be a winner. Stark, strik...