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  1. BookieMonster, BookieMonster, paging BookieMonster…
  2. Book Watch for 25 March 2012
  3. Today on Daily Read
  4. Book Review: Tea with Miss Tilly, Written by Justine Payen, Illustrated by Philip Webb
  5. Book Review: A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
  6. Looking for great books without the hefty price tag?
  7. Book Review: The Half Life of Ryan Davis by Melinda Szymanik
  8. Sh*t Book Reviewers Say
  9. Book Review: More Six Feet Down Under by Chris Mann
  10. Book Review: Gangsta Granny by David Walliams
  11. Win a Jane Eyre DVD thanks to Universal Home Pictures!
  12. My first Book Watch column for 2012
  13. Book Review: Ruby Blues by Jessica Rudd
  14. 2011: A Year in Books
  15. Merry Christmas My Friends!
  16. Book Review: 21st Century Dodos by Steve Stack
  17. Exclusive ‘Down-Under’ create a character competition from Derek Landy!
  18. 2012 NZ Post Book Awards judges announced
  19. Book Review: Snuff by Terry Pratchett
  20. The beauty of age
  21. Book review: The Glass Harmonica – a sensualist’s tale by Dorothee E. Kocks
  23. Book Reviews – Three Picture Books for the Little Kids (and Big Kids)
  24. What I Finished Reading Last Night
  25. Book Review: The Tiny Wife by Andrew Kaufman
  26. Book Review: Ragnarok by A.S. Byatt
  27. Book Review : Brother/Sister by Sean Olin
  28. Book Watch – Herald on Sunday, October 16 2011
  29. Guest Post: Steve Stack on Copyright Pages
  30. What’s BookieMonster Been Reading: Octopus Pie: There Are No Stars in Brooklyn by Meredith Gran
  31. Frivolous Non-Book Post : Simon’s Cat has a new video!
  32. Book Review: The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung
  33. Book Review: Calling the Gods by Jack Lasenby
  34. George R. R. Martin – the pirate edition
  35. Not that I’m trying to make you jealous…
  36. Winners of the Cowboys & Aliens graphic novels are…
  37. Win a copy of Brimstone by Alan Skinner!
  38. Book Review: The Fly Papers Book One : The Flytrap Snaps by Johanna Knox, Illustrated by Sabrina Malcolm
  39. Book Watch – Herald on Sunday, 21 August 2011
  40. Win a copy of Cowboys & Aliens!
  41. Quick Reviews for Busy People: Grow Up and When God Spoke English
  42. Book Review: Brimstone by Alan Skinner
  43. Book Review: Graveminder by Melissa Marr
  44. Book Review: Tupaia by Joan Druett
  45. What’s BookieMonster Reading? Coffee at Lukes : An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest
  46. Book Review: Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen
  47. Book Review: La Rochelle’s Road by Tanya Moir
  48. Book Watch – Herald on Sunday July 3, 2011
  49. What’s BookieMonster Reading? I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett
  50. If you happen to be reading the Herald on Sunday…
  51. Bookie friends
  52. “Breaking the Silence” and silencing others.
  53. Book Review: Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
  54. Book Review: The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place : The Hidden Gallery by Maryrose Wood
  55. Anzac Day Book Review: Nice Day for a War by Chris Slane and Matt Elliott
  56. Book Review: Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done by Oliver Burkeman
  57. From around the interwebs
  58. Book Review: August by Bernard Beckett
  59. Book Review: Fosterling by Emma Neale
  60. Winners of the Blurb competition
  61. Book Review: Private Bestiary: Selected Unpublished Poems, 1944-1993 by Kendrick Smithyman, edited by Scott Hamilton
  62. Book Review: One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash
  63. Competition: Create your own book with Blurb!
  64. Competition: Know Someone Who Deserves a New Book?
  65. Book Review: Wulf by Hamish Clayton
  66. Book Review: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  67. Book Review: The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan
  68. It is I, BookieMonster!
  69. Book Review: The Secret of Chanel No. 5 by Tilar J. Mazzeo
  70. Book Review: A Waltz for Matilda by Jackie French
  71. Get your hands dirty with Yates Young Gardener
  72. Book Review: The Murder Room by Michael Capuzzo
  73. Dear Readers… It’s been too long…
  74. Book Review: Billionaire Boy by David Walliams
  75. TP : The Life and Times of Sir Terry McLean by Paul Lewis with Jock McLean
  76. Last chance to buy books before Christmas!
  77. Last Days of our Moving Sale! Last $1 Reserves!
  78. Book Review: The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
  79. BookieMonster’s Moving – and You Get the Sale!
  80. Book Review: Serena by Ron Rash
  81. We have winners!
  82. 100 Best Books – Bibliophiles Anonymous
  83. BookieMonster’s getting a new look – you can win books!
  84. Book Review : Simon’s Cat : Beyond the Fence by Simon Tofield
  85. Book Review: The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock
  86. Guest Post : Mr Monster reviews!
  87. Changes at BookieMonster
  88. Book Review: The Project by Brian Falkner
  89. NaNoWriMo – Just say no?
  90. BookieMonster link love
  91. Book Review: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor by Jerry Della Femina
  92. The winner of Fierce September is…
  93. Book Review: Smoking in Antarctica by Steve Braunias
  94. Win a copy of Fierce September by Fleur Beale!
  95. BookieMonster and the NZ Post Book Awards
  96. Book Review : The Great Wrong War by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
  97. Book Review: Fierce September by Fleur Beale
  98. The inside of BookieMonster’s brain
  99. What’s BookieMonster Reading? Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
  100. 2010 Waiheke Book Festival
  101. BookieMonster’s Catch-up Post About Nothing In Particular
  102. Book Review : Sparrow’s Flight by Richard Armitt (and a cautionary tale by BookieMonster)
  103. Book Review : Myth New Zealand by Justin Brown
  104. BookieMonster gains a new contributor!
  105. Ask BookieMonster a question
  106. Winter, begone! Hello sunshine…
  107. What’s BookieMonster Reading? The Scandal of the Season by Sophie Gee
  108. BookieMonster’s Father’s Day Gift Generator!
  109. Win books with BookieMonster! What the Dog Saw or Cannibal Jack or Family Album
  110. BookieMonster’s sales and sympathy pitch
  111. This just in: books are selling!
  112. The Widow’s Daughter – a different perspective
  113. Beautiful book covers
  114. Cabbage Patch Kids (and Awful Library Books)
  115. Fun with Dick and Fanny
  116. What’s BookieMonster reading? Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
  117. Life changing moments in reading… Growing up.
  118. BookieMonster freaks out
  119. Can’t talk. Reading.
  120. Lots of links for you to love
  121. The Booker goes bonkers
  122. Book Review: Cannibal Jack by Trevor Bentley
  123. What’s BookieMonster reading? Changeless by Gail Carriger
  124. What’s BookieMonster Reading? Flim-flammery! (lots of things)
  125. Book Review: The Widow’s Daughter by Nicholas Edlin
  126. And the winner is…
  127. What’s BookieMonster reading? Quite a few things actually
  128. The winner of Gunshot Road is…
  129. Winners!
  130. Win a copy of The Crime of Huey Dunstan by James McNeish
  131. Win Gunshot Road by Adrian Hyland!
  132. The crime writing book giveaway!
  133. Competitions and giggles
  134. My name’s BookieMonster and I’m a bookaholic
  135. Happy Birthday Americans!
  136. My recent reading list
  137. I’d agree with that
  138. Calling New Zealand and Australian book bloggers
  139. Book Review: Gunshot Road by Adrian Hyland
  140. Book Review: The Crime of Huey Dunstan by James McNeish
  141. BookieMonster’s Bookshop
  142. Life changing moment in reading: Dune by Frank Herbert
  143. Link love and library lure
  144. E-Books : “Hope rather than reality”
  145. Cute cat photo, or BookieMonster Squee
  146. What’s BookieMonster reading? Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes
  147. An interview with David Levithan
  148. The greatest links… of all…
  149. Book Review: The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps by Michel Faber
  150. More changes at BookieMonster
  151. Reading habits – what are yours?
  152. The Kitty Needs a New Collar Sale!
  153. And the winner of Home by Alison Parr is…
  154. What’s BookieMonster reading? Little Hands Clapping by Dan Rhodes
  155. The Big Bookie Blowout Sale is here!
  156. Big Bookie Blowout Sale – this week!
  157. Win a copy of Home by Alison Parr!
  158. Book Review: Home : Civilian New Zealanders Remember the Second World War by Alison Parr
  159. Book Review: The Quest for Justice by Ken Crispin
  160. Book Review: Shadow Sister by Simone van der Vlugt
  161. The temporary book
  162. What’s BookieMonster reading? Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
  163. BookieMonster’s Recommended Reads
  164. Winners of the Will Grayson, Will Grayson Competition!
  165. A life changing moment confession
  166. What’s BookieMonster reading? Stiff : The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
  167. Win a copy of Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan and John Green!
  168. Happy Mother’s Day
  169. What’s BookieMonster reading? The graphic novel binge
  170. We have a winner!
  171. Book Review : Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan and John Green
  172. Competition reminder!
  173. Book Review: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
  174. Why I read books (and why everyone should)
  175. Competition time! Win a copy of Naming the Bones by Louise Welsh
  176. Secondhand books just spread the love
  177. Them burlesque ladies and their decorations
  178. A sale and some really really really really cool used books
  179. What’s BookieMonster currently reading? The Future Homemakers of America by Laurie Graham
  180. Site is back!
  181. Site housekeeping 2
  182. Site housekeeping
  183. A pic for Mr Monster
  184. Cats. That is all.
  185. Another life-changing moment in reading
  186. Book Review: The Gathering by Anne Enright
  187. Hello again!
  188. BookieMonster News
  189. Neil Gaiman : Guest Post by Tosca Waerea
  190. A link to the Slate Audio Book Club’s discussion of Wolf Hall
  191. Books to Buy!: The Great Escape : Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
  192. A week’s worth of reading
  193. Morning giggle
  194. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics: Mog the Forgetful Cat
  195. A link to the Herald on Sunday story
  196. BookieMonster makes the news
  197. Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
  198. Books to Buy!: Build Your Own Contemporary Furniture
  199. My reading mood
  200. An interview with New Zealand author Rachael King
  201. What’s BookieMonster Reading? Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
  202. My reading habits
  203. Books for sale – do we have them? Yes, we do!
  204. Books to Buy! : Great Parties for Kids Aged 0 – 10
  205. What’s BookieMonster reading? When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
  206. Kitteh so helpful
  207. What’s BookieMonster reading? Sydney Bridge Upside Down by David Ballantyne
  208. What’s BookieMonster reading? The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  209. BookieMonster has some suggestions for you…
  210. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics: Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
  211. Book Spotlight: The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
  212. What’s BookieMonster Reading? Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  213. A BookieMonster roundup
  214. Are you wondering where I am?
  215. E-readers vs readers – I rant for you.
  216. What’s BookieMonster Reading? Magpie Hall by Rachael King
  217. What’s BookieMonster Reading? The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrow
  218. Recommendations and specials for this week! Get your read on…
  219. What’s BookieMonster Reading? The Unburied by Charles Palliser
  220. What’s BookieMonster Reading? Dear Fatty by Dawn French
  221. What’s BookieMonster Reading? The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
  222. Merry Christmas, my friends!
  223. What’s BookieMonster Reading? The Unadulterated Cat by Terry Pratchett & Gary Joliffe
  224. My day was awesome, how was yours?
  225. What’s BookieMonster reading? The Brimstone Wedding by Barbara Vine
  226. Present Idea No. 20: Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
  227. Present Idea No. 19: The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
  228. Present Idea No. 18: INXS Story to Story : The Official Autobiography
  229. These are a few more of my favourite things…
  230. Present Idea No. 17: Why Do Pirates Love Parrots? by David Feldman
  231. A Terry Pratchett challenge, whatever SHALL I do?
  232. Present Idea No. 16: Steak Lover’s Cookbook
  233. These are a few of my favourite things
  234. Present Idea No. 15: Avoiding Prison & Other Noble Vacation Goals by Wendy Dale
  235. What’s BookieMonster..er..Listening To?: The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
  236. Present Idea No. 14: About Time : Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution by Paul Davies
  237. Present Idea No. 13: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
  238. What’s BookieMonster reading? Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
  239. Present Idea No. 12: Seeing in the Dark by Timothy Ferris
  240. Present Idea No. 12: The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
  241. A reading update with added Weeeeee!
  242. Present Idea No. 11: Saving Planet Earth by Tony Juniper
  243. Present Idea No. 10 : Abarat – The Illustrated Edition by Clive Barker
  244. What’s BookieMonster Reading?: The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy by Barbara Vine
  245. Present Idea No. 9: The Unpublished Spike Milligan : Box 18
  246. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics : The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  247. Present Idea No. 8: For fans of the TV show Medium
  248. That old punny business
  249. Present Idea No. 7: Let them eat cake… mmm… cake…
  250. And moving on…
  251. Present Idea No. 6: Does Anything Eat Wasps?
  252. We are not amused
  253. Ihimaera saga continues to continue
  254. Present Idea No. 5: We don’t like cricket… oh no…
  255. What’s BookieMonster Reading? Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
  256. Grassy top notes and do I detect a hunt of mustiness?
  257. A BookieMonster update on her current reading
  258. Present Idea No. 4: Aucklanders – this is for you and perfect for summer!
  259. “It begins with ‘p’ and it isn’t poetry.”
  260. A very special LOL
  261. Present Idea No. 3: This one’s for the doggy owners!
  262. Kindle – yours to own, or not.
  263. Present Idea No. 1: Families of the Vine by Michael Sanders
  264. Book Spotlight: Madonna : Like an Icon by Lucy O’Brien
  265. Hello bookie chums
  266. Birthday Goodness
  267. Book Spotlight : Weekends for Trout Fishing in New Zealand
  268. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 10: The Boy Who Kicked Pigs by Tom Baker
  269. Book porn! The good kind!
  270. Book Spotlight: Maddigan’s Fantasia by Margaret Mahy
  271. Summer is coming (truly)!
  272. Give a book a home today!
  273. Book Spotlight : Dick Scott – A Radical Writer’s Life
  274. New Zealand Book Month continues with BookieMonster…
  275. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
  276. Book Spotlight : Freyberg’s War by Matthew Wright
  277. Book Spotlight : Daylight by Elizabeth Knox
  278. NZ Book Month: In My Father’s Den by Maurice Gee
  279. New Zealand Book Month – all books, all the time
  280. What’s BookieMonster currently reading? The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams
  281. Book Spotlight: Ancestral Images : The Iconography of Human Origins
  282. What’s BookieMonster Currently Reading? Affinity by Sarah Waters
  283. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 9: Number9Dream by David Mitchell
  284. Book Spotlight: Twenty-First Century Design by Marcus Fairs
  285. LOLs and added awesomeness
  286. Mr Monster rules, okay? BookieMonster is happy.
  287. TradeMe Netiquette, a small guide
  288. Do you like BookieMonster’s posts? You’ll love our books!
  289. Book Spotlight: Inside Little Britain by David Walliams, Matt Lucas and Boyd Hilton
  290. The normal service of cute LOLs resumes
  291. Final Pratchett thoughts
  292. Discworld paraphernalia
  293. Some Favourite Terry Pratchett quotes!
  294. BBAW Reading Meme
  295. What’s BookieMonster Currently Reading? Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
  296. Pratchett Week : Top 5 Discworld human-ish species
  297. Pratchett Week : My 5 favourite Discworld locations
  298. Book Spotlight : Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World by Steven D. Stark
  299. Hard list #3 : My 5 favourite Terry Pratchett one-time characters
  300. Hard list #2 : Top 5 Favourite Terry Pratchett Characters
  301. Hard list time : 5 Favourite Terry Pratchett books
  302. Book Spotlight: So Farewell Then : The Untold Life of Peter Cook
  303. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 8: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  304. Book Spotlight: Venus in the Kitchen by Norman Douglas
  305. What’s BookieMonster Currently Reading? The Arcanum by Janet Gleeson
  306. BookieMonster’s Further Do Likes
  307. Book giveaway tonight on Twitter!
  308. Happy LOLs Day!
  309. What’s BookieMonster currently reading? Cities of the Red Night by William Burroughs
  310. Book Spotlight: Lucky : A Memoir by Alice Sebold
  311. What’s BookieMonster Currently Reading? The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
  312. Book Spotlight: In the Cockpit – 50 History Making Aircraft
  313. Book Spotlight : Michael Palin – The Python Years, & a Great Father’s Day Deal!
  314. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 7: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
  315. Better than a mug, more useful than socks – It’s BookieMonster’s Father’s Day Sale! (sticky post)
  316. BookieMonster’s What Not to Do With Books
  317. Ginger Crunch recipe for Tweeps
  318. We sell some weird stuff sometimes… Book Spotlight: The Official Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide
  319. Better than a mug, more useful than socks – It’s BookieMonster’s Father’s Day Sale!
  320. Don’t hate them because they’re new… and shiny…
  321. BookieMonster’s dancing kitteh lols continue…
  322. What’s BookieMonster Currently Reading? Spook by Mary Roach
  323. Testing…Testing… Is this thing on?
  324. BookieMonster pat themselves on the back, and a Book Spotlight
  325. What’s BookieMonster Currently Reading? Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
  326. Book Spotlight: The Book of Lost Books by Stuart Kelly
  327. BookieMonster shares lots of lols
  328. Book Spotlight: The Handbag: An Illustrated History by Caroline Cox
  329. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 6: Shores of Darkness by Diana Norman
  330. Remember – Secondhand books need love too
  331. Trade Me Tips : Searching – How to find what you want
  332. 15 Books
  333. BookieMonster begins the list of Do Likes
  334. Book Spotlight : Weird Ideas that Work : How to Build a Creative Company by Robert Sutton
  335. What’s BookieMonster currently reading? The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, or the Murder at the Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
  336. BookieMonster prizes and other stuff!
  337. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 5 : Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
  338. A new small entry to BookieMonster’s List of Do Not Likes
  339. What’s BookieMonster Currently Reading? March by Geraldine Brooks
  340. In Which BookieMonster recommends Wellreadkitty
  341. Win some awesome prizes from Mums on Top, including books from BookieMonster!
  342. Book Spotlight: A Long Strange Trip : The Inside History of the Grateful Dead by Dennis McNally
  343. Adopt a cute, friendly book today!
  344. Book Spotlight: The Not So Log Cabin by Robbin Obomsawin
  345. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 4 : And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
  346. BookieMonster’s List of Do Not Likes
  347. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 3 : The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
  348. What’s BookieMonster reading? The Messenger by Marcus Zusak
  349. A Word to Our Australian Friends
  350. Spoiler Alert! BookieMonster likes to ***SPOILER***
  351. Digital Publishing – In which BookieMonster proposes an idea
  352. Trade Me – Change is in the air
  353. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 2 : Under the Skin by Michel Faber
  354. Digital publishing : BookieMonster has an opinion, oh yes she does.
  355. Bookie-normous week ahead!
  356. BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 1: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
  357. Book Spotlight: The New Face of War by Bruce Berkovitz
  358. BookieMonster’s cookbook offerings – yummy winter warmers!
  359. Book Spotlight: 21 Dog Years : A cube dweller’s tale by Mike Daisey
  360. Book Spotlight: Girl Sleuth : Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak
  361. New book listings going up
  362. We’re Twits… and a subscription reminder
  363. What’s BookieMonster reading? Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom
  364. Buying from Trade Me? Here’s BookieMonster’s top tips!
  365. Important note to subscribers!
  366. Nocturnes reviewed…but don’t look for it online…
  367. Book Spotlight: Underneath It All by Traci Lords
  368. What’s BookieMonster reading? The Bolter by Frances Osborne
  369. A progress report…
  370. Book Spotlight: The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
  371. Three joys
  372. Sale extended for month of May!
  373. What’s BookieMonster reading?
  374. BookieMonster May Sale ON NOW!
  375. Book spotlight : A Perfect World by David Cohen
  376. Don’t forget our sale next week!
  377. What kind of books does BookieMonster sell?
  378. Celebrate with a SALE!
  379. Welcome to the new BookieMonster website!