Esther N
@kakasnest.bsky.social
Binge reader (anything and everything but predominantly fantasy, sci-fi, thriller). Occasionally review books. Enchanted by native birds and insects (especially kākā and wētā) visiting the garden.
Just back from my first reading retreat hosted by www.busywithbooks.com/wairarapa-se... Powered through a stack of titles on my TBR! Fantastic weekend.
September 7, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Just back from my first reading retreat hosted by www.busywithbooks.com/wairarapa-se... Powered through a stack of titles on my TBR! Fantastic weekend.
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The last few years have been pretty hard & I’ve largely become a bit of a hermit. But I’ve briefly emerged to talk about the thing that’s reignited my spark - menstrual cups! Thanks to NZ Women’s Weekly and Elizabeth Easther for coaxing me out of my shell. www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/si...
Dr Siouxsie Wiles' Covid curse: ‘Abuse changed my world’
Pandemic fallout turned her into a hermit, but her future’s looking brighter.
www.nzherald.co.nz
May 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The last few years have been pretty hard & I’ve largely become a bit of a hermit. But I’ve briefly emerged to talk about the thing that’s reignited my spark - menstrual cups! Thanks to NZ Women’s Weekly and Elizabeth Easther for coaxing me out of my shell. www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/si...
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Corrected! Thank you RNZ.
May 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Corrected! Thank you RNZ.
Fabulous session with at the #AWF2025 this afternoon. What a privilege. Thrilled to meet Kaliane (and the wonderful ‘book people’ in the signing queue). 📚💙
www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...
www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...
Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time • Auckland Writers Festival
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May 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Fabulous session with at the #AWF2025 this afternoon. What a privilege. Thrilled to meet Kaliane (and the wonderful ‘book people’ in the signing queue). 📚💙
www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...
www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...
Foyer’s humming at Aotea Centre, Auckland. 📚💙 In the queue #AWF2025 for www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...
Space: Nature Writing’s New Frontier? • Auckland Writers Festival
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May 16, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Foyer’s humming at Aotea Centre, Auckland. 📚💙 In the queue #AWF2025 for www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...
Next up on my schedule for #aucklandwritersfestival, #AWF25 📚💙
www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...
www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...
The Happiest Places on Earth? • Auckland Writers Festival
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May 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Next up on my schedule for #aucklandwritersfestival, #AWF25 📚💙
www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...
www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...
#AucklandWritersFestival privilege to hear Ruth speak. Met some terrific folks waiting for a signing. Lovely to share stories with Ruth’s fans. 📚💙
www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...
www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...
Ruth Shaw: A Life at the End of the World • Auckland Writers Festival
www.writersfestival.co.nz
May 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
#AucklandWritersFestival privilege to hear Ruth speak. Met some terrific folks waiting for a signing. Lovely to share stories with Ruth’s fans. 📚💙
www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...
www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...
Ruth Shaw: A Life at the End of the World • Auckland Writers Festival
www.writersfestival.co.nz
May 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Congratulations to all the writers recognised at tonight’s Ockham Book Awards in Auckland! www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainmen...
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Ockham Book Awards: All the winners from local literature's biggest night
Wellington author takes fiction's richest prize for a second time.
www.nzherald.co.nz
May 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Congratulations to all the writers recognised at tonight’s Ockham Book Awards in Auckland! www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainmen...
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Just had a lovely chat with the nephew of the
original owner of this Thompson’s Chain Reference Bible. A bit of sleuthing, tracking improvised bookmarks, and the bush telegraph - we managed to track them down within 24 hours. Will be returning this treasure asap. 🇳🇿📚💙
original owner of this Thompson’s Chain Reference Bible. A bit of sleuthing, tracking improvised bookmarks, and the bush telegraph - we managed to track them down within 24 hours. Will be returning this treasure asap. 🇳🇿📚💙
March 31, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Just had a lovely chat with the nephew of the
original owner of this Thompson’s Chain Reference Bible. A bit of sleuthing, tracking improvised bookmarks, and the bush telegraph - we managed to track them down within 24 hours. Will be returning this treasure asap. 🇳🇿📚💙
original owner of this Thompson’s Chain Reference Bible. A bit of sleuthing, tracking improvised bookmarks, and the bush telegraph - we managed to track them down within 24 hours. Will be returning this treasure asap. 🇳🇿📚💙
Physical TBR Bookchallenge 💙📚
1: Stunning cover ✅
2: Insta-buy author
3: First in a series ✅
4: Been avoiding it
5: Recent purchase
6: New-to-you author
7: One-word title ✅
8: Favorite trope
9: Outside your comfort zone
10: # in the title
Show off your shelves! #bookchallenge #booksky 📚💙
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1: Stunning cover ✅
2: Insta-buy author
3: First in a series ✅
4: Been avoiding it
5: Recent purchase
6: New-to-you author
7: One-word title ✅
8: Favorite trope
9: Outside your comfort zone
10: # in the title
Show off your shelves! #bookchallenge #booksky 📚💙
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March 17, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Physical TBR Bookchallenge 💙📚
1: Stunning cover ✅
2: Insta-buy author
3: First in a series ✅
4: Been avoiding it
5: Recent purchase
6: New-to-you author
7: One-word title ✅
8: Favorite trope
9: Outside your comfort zone
10: # in the title
Show off your shelves! #bookchallenge #booksky 📚💙
📚🪐 📚🌶️
1: Stunning cover ✅
2: Insta-buy author
3: First in a series ✅
4: Been avoiding it
5: Recent purchase
6: New-to-you author
7: One-word title ✅
8: Favorite trope
9: Outside your comfort zone
10: # in the title
Show off your shelves! #bookchallenge #booksky 📚💙
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March 4, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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March 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Here are some nice mushrooms
March 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
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Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock.
Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay
Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay
March 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock.
Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay
Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay
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Please please ALT TEXT YOUR IMAGES.
I'm seeing so many cool things lately that I can't share because they don't have alt text.
If you want your art, your screenshots, your message to get to a wider audience on here, the simple action of writing alt text for it will help.
I'm seeing so many cool things lately that I can't share because they don't have alt text.
If you want your art, your screenshots, your message to get to a wider audience on here, the simple action of writing alt text for it will help.
March 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Please please ALT TEXT YOUR IMAGES.
I'm seeing so many cool things lately that I can't share because they don't have alt text.
If you want your art, your screenshots, your message to get to a wider audience on here, the simple action of writing alt text for it will help.
I'm seeing so many cool things lately that I can't share because they don't have alt text.
If you want your art, your screenshots, your message to get to a wider audience on here, the simple action of writing alt text for it will help.
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"Can you explain this gap in your résumé?"
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
February 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"Can you explain this gap in your résumé?"
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
Still too scared 😱 to write in the margins!
Generous application of post-its instead. So many reasons to love the The Book Swap. 📚💙
Generous application of post-its instead. So many reasons to love the The Book Swap. 📚💙
February 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Still too scared 😱 to write in the margins!
Generous application of post-its instead. So many reasons to love the The Book Swap. 📚💙
Generous application of post-its instead. So many reasons to love the The Book Swap. 📚💙
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I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...
Apple’s new sci-fi series “Murderbot” to make global debut May 16, 2025
Today, Apple TV+ unveiled a first look at “Murderbot,” created by Chris and Paul Weitz and starring Alexander Skarsgård
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February 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 20/20
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February 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 20/20
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 19/20
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February 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 19/20
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