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References to New Zealand in Fiction
Now, I am not generally given over to excitement, but Neutral Milk Hotel sort of changed my life. They released this absolutely fantastic album called In the Aeroplane Over the Sea in 1998 and haven’t...
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Helpful Unhelpful Tips For Women
A guy walks into a bar, slips a pill into a woman’s drink. But it’s okay you see, because he’s set up cameras. Surprise! This is a public service announcement. “I wouldn’t drink that if I were you,” he...
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Diary of a Goth Girl (free iBook)
If you have an iPad and/or a Mac and an offbeat sense of humour you may be interested in downloading Diary of a Goth Girl, an illustrated short story for YA. I wrote it in 2009, it was published in...
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Why are those girls even friends?
Helen Garner writes of the real life friendship between Anu Singh and Madhavi Rao in her book Joe Cinque’s Consolation: Perhaps they are most flagrant in adolescence: one girl is wild, bossy, selfish,...
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Crap I’ve Been Watching On Netflix
There’s this study where people are asked which movies off a list they want to watch. People pick the movie equivalent of Literature, the good films they think they should watch in order to be...
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The Wire Ruined Me For Other TV (For A Little While)
The Wire Is NOT Like Dickens from Salon A poster with all the main characters from The Wire on it, from co.Design What Stringer Bell Can Teach Us About Gangs, from The Society Pages An interview on...
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Weird Humans: Not actually the Internet’s fault
If you’re in the habit of second hand shopping for books at the Mitchell Dump you end up with a rather strange collection on your reading pile. One of my finds is a falling-apart Penguin paperback...
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In Which I Now Have A Mobile Phone And Nobody Is Confused
My love of online shopping correlates exactly with my hatred of going to the actual shops. Why do I dislike shops so much? I don’t know. It’s crowded. I can never find stuff because shops keep...
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PSA For Ladies In Particular: The heavier you are the stronger your bones.
Scientists at the University of Auckland have been studying bones and calcium supplements, and I think it’s of interest to all women, in particular, not just for bone reasons. Prof Ian Reid talks to...
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Best Stuff Of 2015
BEST MOVIES I watched a lot of movies this year because: Netflix. What Maisie Knew: I showed this to my seven-year-old because she was complaining that her parents always ‘agree with each other’ (and...
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