Laura Giddey
@lauragiddey.bsky.social
Celebrant, bookworm, dinosaur lover, dog fan, homebody. I work sporadically at The Green Dolphin Second Hand Bookshop on Pitt Street, Auckland city.
📚🇳🇿 I really enjoy all of Miriam Toews’ books. She often explores themes of mental health, Mennonite experiences, and family, both given and chosen. She also manages to be funny and serious without sacrificing either! Women Talking is quite different but v important. An author I’ll always read!
January 27, 2024 at 12:04 AM
📚🇳🇿 I really enjoy all of Miriam Toews’ books. She often explores themes of mental health, Mennonite experiences, and family, both given and chosen. She also manages to be funny and serious without sacrificing either! Women Talking is quite different but v important. An author I’ll always read!
🇳🇿📚 Just finished this very good memoir. Young writer who interviews her dad, a rural GP. But it’s more than that and hopeful despite content.
January 16, 2024 at 5:58 AM
🇳🇿📚 Just finished this very good memoir. Young writer who interviews her dad, a rural GP. But it’s more than that and hopeful despite content.
📚🇳🇿 First book finished of 2024. Exceptional. Beautifully written with compassion and “lightness” despite heavy historical context. Highly recommend.
January 12, 2024 at 5:29 AM
📚🇳🇿 First book finished of 2024. Exceptional. Beautifully written with compassion and “lightness” despite heavy historical context. Highly recommend.
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Today in Tāmaki, an Israel supporter crashed a peaceful demonstration in support of Palestine. He grabbed a flag off a protestor, threw the flag away and then used the metal pole to attack my friend in the face. Police dogs were trying to track him down tonight. Please share these photos of him.
January 10, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Today in Tāmaki, an Israel supporter crashed a peaceful demonstration in support of Palestine. He grabbed a flag off a protestor, threw the flag away and then used the metal pole to attack my friend in the face. Police dogs were trying to track him down tonight. Please share these photos of him.
📚🇳🇿 Very much enjoyed this novella. How good are short books?!
December 15, 2023 at 4:04 AM
📚🇳🇿 Very much enjoyed this novella. How good are short books?!
Let’s get some book matchmaking happening. 🇳🇿📚Tell us a book you’ve loved and we’ll try recommend something equally wonderful. Or if you’re on the lookout for a particular copy of a book, let’s all keep an eye out!
November 30, 2023 at 10:57 PM
Let’s get some book matchmaking happening. 🇳🇿📚Tell us a book you’ve loved and we’ll try recommend something equally wonderful. Or if you’re on the lookout for a particular copy of a book, let’s all keep an eye out!
“So much violence and lack waiting on the other end of the violence and lack that people poured out of the South to escape, and still they kept believing there was someplace in this country where they could be Black and be safe and make a home.”
TheOffice of HistoricalCorrections - Danielle Evans 👌🏻
TheOffice of HistoricalCorrections - Danielle Evans 👌🏻
November 10, 2023 at 3:22 AM
“So much violence and lack waiting on the other end of the violence and lack that people poured out of the South to escape, and still they kept believing there was someplace in this country where they could be Black and be safe and make a home.”
TheOffice of HistoricalCorrections - Danielle Evans 👌🏻
TheOffice of HistoricalCorrections - Danielle Evans 👌🏻
@chloeandcats.bsky.social I’ve just been back at the bookshop I work at periodically and we have these books from the list you posted a while ago. Let me know if you’re interested in any!
November 8, 2023 at 3:53 AM
@chloeandcats.bsky.social I’ve just been back at the bookshop I work at periodically and we have these books from the list you posted a while ago. Let me know if you’re interested in any!
📚🇳🇿 Good finds today from the local little free libraries! I love discovering wee book boxes, do you have one near you?
October 26, 2023 at 4:47 AM
📚🇳🇿 Good finds today from the local little free libraries! I love discovering wee book boxes, do you have one near you?
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Nicole writes so well and with brilliant insight in this important piece on why schools insist on teaching the same books decade after decade, and why that needs to change thespinoff.co.nz/books/25-10-...
99 Problems – text choice ain’t one
A response to the apparent shortage of Aotearoa novels being taught in our high schools.
thespinoff.co.nz
October 25, 2023 at 4:57 AM
Nicole writes so well and with brilliant insight in this important piece on why schools insist on teaching the same books decade after decade, and why that needs to change thespinoff.co.nz/books/25-10-...
Reposted by Laura Giddey
Pay It Forward is a GOOD BOOKS initiative where our customers can buy book vouchers for very deserving local schools.
Visit us in store or see our website to buy a Pay It Forward voucher or find out more: shop.goodbookshop.nz/c/pay-it-for...
Visit us in store or see our website to buy a Pay It Forward voucher or find out more: shop.goodbookshop.nz/c/pay-it-for...
October 17, 2023 at 12:29 AM
Pay It Forward is a GOOD BOOKS initiative where our customers can buy book vouchers for very deserving local schools.
Visit us in store or see our website to buy a Pay It Forward voucher or find out more: shop.goodbookshop.nz/c/pay-it-for...
Visit us in store or see our website to buy a Pay It Forward voucher or find out more: shop.goodbookshop.nz/c/pay-it-for...
🐶🇳🇿 Saw this pupper today taking a break from tufting on Dominion Road.
October 19, 2023 at 11:32 AM
🐶🇳🇿 Saw this pupper today taking a break from tufting on Dominion Road.
📚🇳🇿 Had to support a recent Bookety Book Books sale and get this. Excellent first essay. And reviewed on the back by @rachaelking70.bsky.social I see.
October 19, 2023 at 1:35 AM
📚🇳🇿 Had to support a recent Bookety Book Books sale and get this. Excellent first essay. And reviewed on the back by @rachaelking70.bsky.social I see.
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Christchurch! Please email your local councillor to let them know how much our small community libraries are valued. They are not, as our mayor describes them, “just a building with some books in it.” The council is considering closing small libraries to cut costs. Please share.
October 17, 2023 at 11:08 PM
Christchurch! Please email your local councillor to let them know how much our small community libraries are valued. They are not, as our mayor describes them, “just a building with some books in it.” The council is considering closing small libraries to cut costs. Please share.
📚🇳🇿 Also started this excellent book of short stories. I love having a book of ss or essays on the go so I can feel like I’ve achieved something by finishing one a day 🤣
October 17, 2023 at 4:31 AM
📚🇳🇿 Also started this excellent book of short stories. I love having a book of ss or essays on the go so I can feel like I’ve achieved something by finishing one a day 🤣
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Time for a fun, queer romp. I wanted something easy to read but I love it when “easy to read” also equates to heartfelt and genuine.
Time for a fun, queer romp. I wanted something easy to read but I love it when “easy to read” also equates to heartfelt and genuine.
October 17, 2023 at 4:27 AM
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Time for a fun, queer romp. I wanted something easy to read but I love it when “easy to read” also equates to heartfelt and genuine.
Time for a fun, queer romp. I wanted something easy to read but I love it when “easy to read” also equates to heartfelt and genuine.
📚🇳🇿 #aonzbooks
Finished this recently and feel conflicted. Some parts were so well written and smart and other parts felt contrived. It also should be marketed as a horror imho. Anyone else read it?
Finished this recently and feel conflicted. Some parts were so well written and smart and other parts felt contrived. It also should be marketed as a horror imho. Anyone else read it?
October 13, 2023 at 12:13 AM
📚🇳🇿 #aonzbooks
Finished this recently and feel conflicted. Some parts were so well written and smart and other parts felt contrived. It also should be marketed as a horror imho. Anyone else read it?
Finished this recently and feel conflicted. Some parts were so well written and smart and other parts felt contrived. It also should be marketed as a horror imho. Anyone else read it?
📚🇳🇿 #aonzbooks
Finished this yesterday and loved it. Each book in this series has improved on the last and this has a compulsive plot and also genuine characters. Definitely heartbreaking too, proceed with caution.
Finished this yesterday and loved it. Each book in this series has improved on the last and this has a compulsive plot and also genuine characters. Definitely heartbreaking too, proceed with caution.
October 13, 2023 at 12:12 AM
📚🇳🇿 #aonzbooks
Finished this yesterday and loved it. Each book in this series has improved on the last and this has a compulsive plot and also genuine characters. Definitely heartbreaking too, proceed with caution.
Finished this yesterday and loved it. Each book in this series has improved on the last and this has a compulsive plot and also genuine characters. Definitely heartbreaking too, proceed with caution.
📚🇳🇿 #aonzbooks
Highly recommend donating blood or plasma so you can get free biscuits and KitKats and get immersed in a new book! This is the first J.P Pomare I’ve read.
Highly recommend donating blood or plasma so you can get free biscuits and KitKats and get immersed in a new book! This is the first J.P Pomare I’ve read.
October 13, 2023 at 12:10 AM
📚🇳🇿 #aonzbooks
Highly recommend donating blood or plasma so you can get free biscuits and KitKats and get immersed in a new book! This is the first J.P Pomare I’ve read.
Highly recommend donating blood or plasma so you can get free biscuits and KitKats and get immersed in a new book! This is the first J.P Pomare I’ve read.