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Jennifer

jennifilm@bookwyrm.social

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Poet, photographer, etc from Ōtautahi, Aotearoa.

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reviewed Swing Time: LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017 by Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith: Swing Time: LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017 (2016, Penguin Press) 4 stars

"An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the …

Review of 'Swing Time: LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

This is maybe my favourite Zadie Smith novel I've read so far! She continues to blow me away with her characterisation and how well her characters exist, and in Swing Time, focussing more on one narrator than her other books do, I really appreciated the chance to get to know one main character real well. I started this at about ten in the morning and finished it at eleven at night, I enjoyed it so much!

reviewed ransack by essa may ranapiri

essa may ranapiri: ransack (Paperback, 2020, Victoria University Press) 5 stars

Review of 'ransack' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Absolutely gorgeous. I heard Essa’s interview on Standing Room Only and placed a hold at the library the next day. They have such an incredible way with words, so many lines in ransack felt like a punch directly to the heart in the best possible way. Really means a lot to read such gorgeous, specific, perfectly articulated poetry about non-binary identity.

reviewed Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (The Machineries of Empire, #1)

Yoon Ha Lee: Ninefox Gambit (2016) 4 stars

Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle …

Review of 'Ninefox Gambit' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This one took me a while to really get into it, but god I was so hooked by the end! Very excited to start the next. The interaction between Jedao & Cheris is just so so good.