Good storage solution. No cloying pine scent. Easily disposed of. A book tree has much to recommend it.
Come check ours out. Tick tock.
What a difference a year makes.
Before and after in the kitchen. Espresso coming soon ish.
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After
What are you doing Rynn!
found inside a secondhand book that washed in from america. the envelope was unopened.
Floored
The long quest to make myself an espresso in store got a step closer this week. Up came the lino. Then sanding and varnish et voila.
Next step: French doors instead of those three windows you can see. Work starts tomorrow!
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After
Surprise
A beautiful and amazing pop-up book from 1937. $40
It began in Taranaki
Book of the day: Twenty stories by acclaimed New Zealand writer and educator Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Delightful in hardback. $15
Daily since age seven
Book of the day: The comedic and interesting life of an obsessive diarist. Biography. $16
Smile
Book of the day: Two hundred and thirty two black and white photographs from the back page of Life. $16
Surprise
George Saunders' first children's book (before he wrote the 2017 Man Booker Prize winning novel). A delight. $8
Hic
Book of the day: Cheers for that. $12
A straight bat
Book of the day: This one's a keeper. A history of cricket in India. $14
Peep peep
New poetry from local, Bryan Walpert. $25
Listen to our podcast interview with him here:
https://theopenbook.co.nz/ears-wide-open/2018/8/9/21-bryan-walpert
Get amongst it
Book of the day: Multi-award-winning account of families living in a makeshift settlement in Mumbai and striving for a better life. $10
Hard scrabble
A 2017 novel from award-winning Australia author Sofie Laguna. The troubles of a young girl growing up in rural Victoria. Gets rave reviews. $14
Poetry mofo
It's National Poetry Day!
Celebrate by marvelling at the shortlisted poems from the Geometry | Open Book National Poetry Competition.
Kinda like Kitty
A famed novella Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Not as bleak as the title suggests, even if it was inspired by real events. Yours for $8.
New
New poetry from New Zealand writer, Gina Cole. $30
Listen to our podcast with her here:
https://theopenbook.co.nz/ears-wide-open/2018/8/3/20-gina-cole
Misled
Three 2011 essays from the famed Arundhati Roy on a group of Maoist rebels fighting the Indian government. $22
The what now?
https://en.wikipedia.org/…/Naxalite%E2%80%93Maoist_insurgen…
Heavy man
A retelling of the myth of Atlas. You know, the one who is holding up the world? $8
Chin chin
Book of the day: Tales of life in a Marlborough vineyard. Micro-history, some true. $12