Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 27/01/2024📚🇳🇿 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! 040 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 16/01/2024🇳🇿📚 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. 040 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 12/01/2024📚🇳🇿 First book finished of 2024. Exceptional. Beautifully written with compassion and “lightness” despite heavy historical context. Highly recommend. 050 0
Reposted by Laura GiddeyVictoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 10/01/2024Today 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. 54951 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 15/12/2023📚🇳🇿 Very much enjoyed this novella. How good are short books?! 180 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 30/11/2023Let’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! 361 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 27/11/2023I’ve just started State of Wonder by Ann Patchett. So far, so great! 010 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 21/11/2023Oh wow, strong memories of reading this as a teen too. 010 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 10/11/2023“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 👌🏻 110 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 08/11/2023If you find our page on insta or fb I can message you there? Sorry for using the other social medias 🙃 000 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 08/11/2023Yay! So it’s the Green Dolphin on Pitt Street in Auckland cbd otherwise we can post. All second hand by the way but tidy copies. 000 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 08/11/2023@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! 000 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 26/10/2023📚🇳🇿 Good finds today from the local little free libraries! I love discovering wee book boxes, do you have one near you? 050 0
Reposted by Laura GiddeyClaire Mabey @clairemabey.bsky.social · 25/10/2023Nicole 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-...thespinoff.co.nz99 Problems – text choice ain’t oneA response to the apparent shortage of Aotearoa novels being taught in our high schools. 0209 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 23/10/2023Yes, loved Erotic Stories and would be interested in her backlist! 010 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 22/10/2023📚🇳🇿stuff.co.nz'A way of ensuring our survival': Kiwi booksellers band together to take on AmazonIn bookshops throughout the country, a small band of booksellers has decided to take on Amazon in their very own David v Goliath fight. 0305 0
Reposted by Laura GiddeyGOOD BOOKS @goodbookshopnz.bsky.social · 17/10/2023Pay 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... 02821 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 19/10/2023🐶🇳🇿 Saw this pupper today taking a break from tufting on Dominion Road. 060 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 19/10/2023📚🇳🇿 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. 0114 0
Reposted by Laura GiddeyRachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 18/10/2023Christchurch! 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. 22583234 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 17/10/2023This was also a “like” not a “love” for me. Interested in reading more tho! 000 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 17/10/2023📚🇳🇿 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 🤣 030 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 17/10/2023📚🇳🇿 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. 150 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 13/10/2023📚🇳🇿 #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? 020 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 13/10/2023📚🇳🇿 #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. 040 0
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social · 13/10/2023📚🇳🇿 #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. 150 0