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Issue 4: Be gay, do books

Nau mai, haere mai ki te fourth and (so far) gayest edition of Scuttlebook, celebrating Pūmahara Ia Te Wā, Queer History Month. If you would like to make it even gayer, please consider donating to Rainbow Youth. (Scuttlebook usually comes out in the second week of the month, but this

negative book review

Issue 3: Review of a bad historical novel

Welcome to the third issue of Scuttlebook, and the first to be paywalled. This is an experiment so we’ll see how it goes. Why are so many of our historical novels so mediocre? I’ve been reviewing books professionally now for a dozen years. When I was looking over

positive book review

Issue 2: Review of Pet (not that one)

Welcome to the second ever issue of Scuttlebook! This issue features a republication of one of my older book reviews; part of my kaupapa of bringing to your attention some gems you might have missed. (When I say gems I'm referring to the books in question, not the

Welcome to Scuttlebook

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Scuttlebook, all about book reviewing in Aotearoa New Zealand. (The person who came up with the name wished to be acknowledged without being identified, so I hope this suffices.) What is Scuttlebook? My thoughts so far are that Scuttlebook will be a combination of