A project I worked on earlier this year in collaboration with NZ Post and Giselle Clarkson has been released! A series of stamps on native pollinator species!! The end result looks awesome, and it was such a fun project to be involved with! 😁 Collectables.nzpost.co.nz/pollinators

Native Pollinators

Celebrating the crucial critters that pollinate plants in Aotearoa New Zealand.

I have reached a total of 50 reserved books at Wellington City Library. I really think the system should time me out now …

I wish though the book had centred on the teenage characters of Part One and lingered there, where the emotional connection ruin was far stronger

A terrific premise (spec fiction where a bucolic small town set in a valley is mirrored, east & west, by identical small towns 20 years in the past & future, repeating outwards, and a “counseil” coldly controls people’s ability to travel across the patrolled borders to manage interference)

I was luke-warm, luke-warm, luke-warm in this one (too mannerly, too contained) and then fell deep at the turning point

Honestly, I only come here to post these (and that’s mostly to be able to use the images easily at the end of the year) 😂 I’m reading fast this year & not judging myself for what I read. Over summer I want to slow down, re-read a few things and really *think* about why they worked.

This however — fantastic.

This was fine

This year I am increasingly finding myself drawn to gentle books like this - Millet’s set up has drama aplenty but instead she focuses on tentative and slowly deepening relationships and the restoration of loving connection

Great cover, great setting, but thinly drawn characters: stylistically the gently eliding tone made sense but I wanted to grapple with more