Book Reviews

  1. Book Watch for 25 March 2012
  2. Book Review: Total Blueprint for World Domination by Jolene Stockman, ISBN 1466359307, Available now.
  3. Book Review: Tea with Miss Tilly, Written by Justine Payen, Illustrated by Philip Webb
  4. Book Review: Generation, by William Knight
  5. Book Review: The Half Life of Ryan Davis by Melinda Szymanik
  6. Sh*t Book Reviewers Say
  7. Book Review: More Six Feet Down Under by Chris Mann
  8. Book Review: Gangsta Granny by David Walliams
  9. My first Book Watch column for 2012
  10. Book Review: Ruby Blues by Jessica Rudd
  11. 2011: A Year in Books
  12. Three Short Book Reviews – History, Loudmouths and More History
  13. Book Review: Snuff by Terry Pratchett
  14. Book review: The Glass Harmonica – a sensualist’s tale by Dorothee E. Kocks
  15. Book Review – Slightly Peculiar Love Stories
  16. Book Review: The Tiny Wife by Andrew Kaufman
  17. Book Watch – Herald on Sunday, October 16 2011
  18. Book Review: The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung
  19. Book Review: Calling the Gods by Jack Lasenby
  20. My reading for the near future
  21. Book Review: The Fly Papers Book One : The Flytrap Snaps by Johanna Knox, Illustrated by Sabrina Malcolm
  22. Book Watch – Herald on Sunday, 21 August 2011
  23. Quick Reviews for Busy People: Grow Up and When God Spoke English
  24. Book Review: Brimstone by Alan Skinner
  25. Book Review: The Lost Tohunga by David Hair
  26. Book Review: Graveminder by Melissa Marr
  27. Book Review: Tupaia by Joan Druett
  28. Book Review: A Tiny Bit Marvellous by Dawn French
  29. Book Review: La Rochelle’s Road by Tanya Moir
  30. Book Watch – Herald on Sunday July 3, 2011
  31. If you happen to be reading the Herald on Sunday…
  32. Book Review: The Gallow’s Bird by Camilla Lackberg
  33. Book Review: Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
  34. Book Review: The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
  35. Book Review: The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place : The Hidden Gallery by Maryrose Wood
  36. Book Review: A Shore Thing by Nicole Snooki Polizzi
  37. Anzac Day Book Review: Nice Day for a War by Chris Slane and Matt Elliott
  38. Book Review: Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness by Neil Strauss
  39. Book Review: Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done by Oliver Burkeman
  40. Book Review: Sizing up the City: Urban form and transport in New Zealand
  41. Book Review: August by Bernard Beckett
  42. Book Review: Fosterling by Emma Neale
  43. Book Review: Private Bestiary: Selected Unpublished Poems, 1944-1993 by Kendrick Smithyman, edited by Scott Hamilton
  44. Random House announces final book in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle
  45. Book Review: One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash
  46. Book Review: Livin’ Ina Aucklan’ by Michael O’Leary
  47. Book Review: what the world will look like when all the water leaves us by Laura van den Berg
  48. Book Review: Married With Zombies by Jesse Petersen
  49. Book Review: Wulf by Hamish Clayton
  50. Book Review: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  51. Book Review: Bound by Vanda Symon
  52. Book Review: The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan
  53. Book Review: Belle by Lesley Pearse
  54. Book Review: Across the Universe by Beth Revis
  55. Book Review: Too Many Zeros by Geoff Palmer
  56. Book Review: Give Me A Chance: My Eight Days With John And Yoko by Gail Renard
  57. Book Review: A Waltz for Matilda by Jackie French
  58. Book Review: The Pericles Commission by Gary Corby
  59. Book Review: The Murder Room by Michael Capuzzo
  60. Book Review: Billionaire Boy by David Walliams
  61. TP : The Life and Times of Sir Terry McLean by Paul Lewis with Jock McLean
  62. Paul And The Magic Pencil by John Parker and Room 15 of Waiau Pa School
  63. Book Review – Slinky Malinki’s Christmas Crackers by Lynley Dodd
  64. Book Review: Their Faces Were Shining by Tim Wilson
  65. Guest Book Review: The Rosie Black Chronicles Book 1 : Genesis by Lara Morgan
  66. Book Review: The Chocolate Wars by Deborah Cadbury
  67. Book Review: The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
  68. Book Review: The Women in Black by Madeline St John
  69. Book Review : Simon’s Cat : Beyond the Fence by Simon Tofield
  70. Book Review: Wyatt by Gary Disher
  71. Book Review: The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock
  72. Guest Post : Mr Monster reviews!
  73. Book Review: The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
  74. Book Review: F2M: The Boy Within by Hazel Edwards and Ryan Kennedy
  75. Book Review: Blood Lines by T. K. Roxborogh
  76. Book Review: Fall Girl by Toni Jordan
  77. Book Review: The Countesses of Castello by Milena Agus
  78. Book Review: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor by Jerry Della Femina
  79. Book Review: Smoking in Antarctica by Steve Braunias
  80. Book Review: Villa Pacifica by Kapka Kassabova
  81. Book Review : The Great Wrong War by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
  82. Book Review: Select Cuts by JA Robinson
  83. Book Review: An Exclusive Love by Johanna Adorján
  84. Book Review: The Collectors Dream by Pierre Furlan
  85. Book Review: It’s a Book by Lane Smith
  86. Book Review: Fierce September by Fleur Beale
  87. Book Review: War Dances by Sherman Alexie
  88. Guest Book Review : Evil in Return by Elena Forbes
  89. Book Review: Bereft by Chris Womersley
  90. What’s BookieMonster Reading? Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
  91. Book Review: Campaign Ruby by Jessica Rudd
  92. Book Review: The Vintage and the Gleaning by Jeremy Chambers
  93. Book Review: A Foreign Country – New Zealand Speculative Fiction edited by Anna Caro and Juliet Buchanan
  94. BookieMonster gains a new contributor!
  95. Winners of the book giveaways!
  96. What’s BookieMonster Reading? The Scandal of the Season by Sophie Gee
  97. Book Review: What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
  98. The Widow’s Daughter – a different perspective
  99. Book Review: Family Album by Penelope Lively
  100. What’s BookieMonster reading? Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
  101. Lots of links for you to love
  102. What’s BookieMonster reading? Changeless by Gail Carriger
  103. What’s BookieMonster Reading? Flim-flammery! (lots of things)
  104. Book Review: The Widow’s Daughter by Nicholas Edlin
  105. What’s BookieMonster reading? Quite a few things actually
  106. Win Gunshot Road by Adrian Hyland!
  107. The crime writing book giveaway!
  108. My recent reading list
  109. Book Review: Gunshot Road by Adrian Hyland
  110. Book Review: The Crime of Huey Dunstan by James McNeish
  111. What’s BookieMonster reading? More graphic novels, it turns out
  112. What’s BookieMonster reading? Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes
  113. Book Review: The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps by Michel Faber
  114. What’s BookieMonster reading? The Sound of Butterflies by Rachael King
  115. What’s BookieMonster reading? Little Hands Clapping by Dan Rhodes
  116. What’s BookieMonster reading? The Eternals by Neil Gaiman & John Romita, Jr.
  117. Book Review: Home : Civilian New Zealanders Remember the Second World War by Alison Parr
  118. Book Review: The Quest for Justice by Ken Crispin
  119. Book Review: Shadow Sister by Simone van der Vlugt
  120. Graphic Novel rampage : The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 2
  121. The Graphic Novel rampage: The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr Punch
  122. What’s BookieMonster reading? Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
  123. What’s BookieMonster reading? The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 1
  124. What’s BookieMonster reading? Bonk : The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
  125. What’s BookieMonster reading? Stiff : The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
  126. What’s BookieMonster reading? The graphic novel binge
  127. Book Review : Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan and John Green
  128. Book Review: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
  129. What’s BookieMonster currently reading? The Future Homemakers of America by Laurie Graham
  130. Advice required, dear Readers
  131. Book Review: Thief by Maureen Gibbon
  132. Book Review: The Gathering by Anne Enright
  133. A link to the Slate Audio Book Club’s discussion of Wolf Hall
  134. What’s BookieMonster Reading? Naming the Bones by Louise Welsh
  135. A week’s worth of reading
  136. Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
  137. What’s BookieMonster Reading? Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
  138. What’s BookieMonster reading? When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
  139. What’s BookieMonster reading? Sydney Bridge Upside Down by David Ballantyne
  140. What’s BookieMonster reading? The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  141. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics: Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
  142. What’s BookieMonster Reading? Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  143. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
  144. Laid Bare : A no-holds-barred expose of prostitution in New Zealand by Rachel Francis
  145. What’s BookieMonster Reading? Magpie Hall by Rachael King
  146. What’s BookieMonster Reading? The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrow
  147. What’s BookieMonster Reading? Six Feet Down Under by Chris Mann
  148. What’s BookieMonster Reading? The Unburied by Charles Palliser
  149. What’s BookieMonster Reading? Dear Fatty by Dawn French
  150. What’s BookieMonster Reading? The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
  151. What’s BookieMonster reading? The Brimstone Wedding by Barbara Vine
  152. These are a few of my favourite things
  153. What’s BookieMonster..er..Listening To?: The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
  154. What’s BookieMonster reading? Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
  155. More Unseen Academicals praise
  156. What’s BookieMonster Reading?: The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy by Barbara Vine
  157. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics : The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  158. And moving on…
  159. What’s BookieMonster Reading? Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
  160. What’s BookieMonster Currently Reading?: July, July by Tim O’Brien
  161. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 10: The Boy Who Kicked Pigs by Tom Baker
  162. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
  163. Book Spotlight : Daylight by Elizabeth Knox
  164. NZ Book Month: In My Father’s Den by Maurice Gee
  165. What’s BookieMonster currently reading? The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams
  166. What’s BookieMonster Currently Reading? Affinity by Sarah Waters
  167. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 9: Number9Dream by David Mitchell
  168. Book Spotlight: Inside Little Britain by David Walliams, Matt Lucas and Boyd Hilton
  169. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 8: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  170. What’s BookieMonster Currently Reading? The Arcanum by Janet Gleeson
  171. What’s BookieMonster currently reading? Cities of the Red Night by William Burroughs
  172. What’s BookieMonster Currently Reading? The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
  173. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 7: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
  174. What’s BookieMonster Currently Reading? Spook by Mary Roach
  175. What’s BookieMonster Currently Reading? Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
  176. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 6: Shores of Darkness by Diana Norman
  177. BookieMonster begins the list of Do Likes
  178. Book Spotlight : Weird Ideas that Work : How to Build a Creative Company by Robert Sutton
  179. What’s BookieMonster currently reading? The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, or the Murder at the Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
  180. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 5 : Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
  181. A new small entry to BookieMonster’s List of Do Not Likes
  182. What’s BookieMonster Currently Reading? March by Geraldine Brooks
  183. In Which BookieMonster recommends Wellreadkitty
  184. Book Spotlight: The Not So Log Cabin by Robbin Obomsawin
  185. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 4 : And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
  186. BookieMonster’s List of Do Not Likes
  187. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 3 : The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
  188. What’s BookieMonster reading? The Messenger by Marcus Zusak
  189. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 2 : Under the Skin by Michel Faber
  190. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 1: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
  191. Book Spotlight: 21 Dog Years : A cube dweller’s tale by Mike Daisey
  192. Book Spotlight: Girl Sleuth : Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak
  193. What’s BookieMonster reading? Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom
  194. Nocturnes reviewed…but don’t look for it online…
  195. Book Spotlight: Underneath It All by Traci Lords
  196. What’s BookieMonster reading? The Bolter by Frances Osborne
  197. A progress report…
  198. Book Spotlight: The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
  199. What’s BookieMonster reading?
  200. Book spotlight : A Perfect World by David Cohen
  201. Welcome to the new BookieMonster website!