It's a good day when you learn something new, and Philip Durkin's "Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English" has already surprised me. The attached graph shows loanwords listed in OED3 as of November 2012 from the letters M-R and A-ALZ, and it was a surprise to me to see Māori contributing more than Hindi in that dataset. #AmReading#ebooks#linguistics#TeReoMāori#Aotearoa@bookstodon
"Oh damn those mince-pies!" "Yes - to hell with the beastly things!" Rupert Latimer's very amusing "Murder After Christmas" expressing my view of the fraudulently named fruit filled abominations which sully the good name (& taste) of REAL mince pies, which #Aotearoa makes very well thank indeed. #AmReading@bookstodon#Mystery
Why do I love my #Kobo? Not just because I can read 1-handed, though that's critical. When I am on holiday far from home with long passages of passenger travel ahead, I have a diverse library at my fingertips, as my "currently reading" list @thestorygraph shows
Regency Romance, Golden Age style locked room mystery, indigenous Māori/Pasifika shorts, physics popsci and however one categorises @scalzi 😁#AmReading#ebooks@bookstodon#Aotearoa#Mystery#ScienceFiction#Science#Romance
OK, it's official - 37% in and I love @scalzi KPS. Even if the last 2/3 is worse than anything Dan Brown ever inflicted on the world, the sheer delight of seeing a Māori character using the Māori name for his homeland in a book written by someone neither tangata whenua nor tangata Tiriti guarantees KPS a whole heap of aroha from me. #Aotearoa#TeReo#AmReading#ebooks@bookstodon
Crossing Raukawa Moana next week to visit Te Wai Pounamu. Lots of reading time, so loading up on a theme. Cats are evil mass murderers, so @scalzi s Starter Villain & Tom Mead's Murder Wheel are both apt, and the unique ancient fauna of #Aotearoa needs to be saved from them, so KPS also fits.
There's a problem with "Starter Villain" though. How could anyone claim that the idea of cats as macchiavellian murderous managers is FICTION? 🤔 #ebooks#sf#mystery#AmReading@bookstodon
Reading Marsh as a teen, NZ's low profile in her novels irked me, as it left me feeling she was not fond of her birthplace. Reading her shorts atm, NZ is EVERYWHERE, even reminding me of details I'd forgotten - such as calling Palmerston "Palmerston South". This one was named after a bird I tooted about last week. The lady w/ the mispronounced Māori name includes ITS Māori name. Tino pai! #AmReading@bookstodon#books#ebooks#GoldenAgeMysteries#Aotearoa
In her description of the 'arrival' of Alleyn, Ngaio (the g is NOT silent, folks) Marsh unintentionally highlights why I love Allingham's Campion. For him, tempus really did fugit, at more or less real pace. #AmReading#Aotearoa#GoldenAgeMysteries@bookstodon#ebooks
A love letter to Auckland’s small but mighty inner-city Pasifika community
Still Here is the latest all-female Pasifika production which celebrates the small but mighty #Pasifika community of inner-city #Auckland who have remained despite decades of rampant gentrification.
With four episodes lasting 15-20mins long, Still Here weaves intergenerational stories of Pasifika families, community, and culture dispelling the myth that “all the Islanders have left”.