Review Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit – Michael Godfrey

First a disclaimer. I know the author. We’re Facebook friends and we’ve even met in unpixellated life. We worked on a common project without knowing each other, and met subsequently. Her coffee is great, and was it pecan pie? Something magnificent. Aotearoa New Zealand is a small country. So small. Years ago I worked in […]

Review – The Clapperton Diaries by John Clapperton with Crispin Caldicott

A charming story right from the beginning, The Clapperton Diaries is at once gentle, good-humoured, and quintessentially New Zealand. Written virtually as a monologue with judicious editing by Crispin Caldicott, the well-paced story starts with a transcription of the original journal of John (Jack) Clapperton’s grandfather, William Nicol Clapperton. Eloquent, witty, observant, and an excellent […]

A Review and New Information on Yvonne Rust, QSM

This combination of a review and an offering of information on the life and times of Yvonne Rust, recently recieved from John Ball, speaks for itself. The image shows detail of a large statue designed and created by Yvonne Rust with help in the construction from others, which stands at the entrance to the Quarry […]

Review – A Time of Angels by Patricia Schonstein

A Time of Angels is one for the dreamers, the ones with an exquisite palate, who feel the taste of their food before touching it. It’s for the ones who know magic happens, that pain exists but love wins. And it’s for the ones who know that love might come in disguise, a shadow of […]

Review – A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hossieni

  A Thousand Splendid Suns NOT…but a brilliantly written epic following two Afghan women’s lives. If you like your emotional pain to feel real, to sit like a swollen lump in your chest, and to get lots of it…read this book. It is utterly masterful. So much so that I’m reluctant to open the next […]