Book Reviews

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 Book Review: Private Bestiary: Selected Unpublished Poems, 1944-1993 by Kendrick Smithyman, edited by Scott Hamilton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