A whole clutch of novels have been turned into movies and TV series, or are due for release soon. Here's what to read, either in advance of watching on screen, or as a tasty, more fleshed-out mains to the movie or TV appetiser. Comedy Catch-22 - Joseph Heller's classic WWII satire is now a 6…
Cycling cinematically
It's nearly that time again. Time to get on yer bike for the Aotearoa Bike Challenge. During February workplaces, organisations and teams of all sizes will be competing to see who can get the most cycling in, and rack up the mileage (or kilometrage?). There are also some great prizes up for grabs. For stalwart…
Kā Huru Manu: Mapping, memories, meaning
Christchurch City Libraries are proud to be hosting a very special exhibition in Te Pito Huarewa/Southbase Gallery, Tūranga. From 4pm Saturday 26 January, visitors to our new central library, Tūranga, will be able to explore the history, landscape and names of Canterbury and Banks Peninsula through an exhibition of the Ngāi Tahu Cultural Mapping Project…
Ready, steady…relax
If you're like me then the prelude to Christmas is a hectic blur of to-do lists, gift-wrap flapping, and sugar. Yes, I have started to hoe into the Christmas treats already but I need to keep my strength up. But it's good to know that after this last flurry of activity there will be a…
Before Tūranga – The Coachman Inn
The fourth in a series of posts that looks at the history of the central Christchurch sites on which your new library, Tūranga, has been built. If you were standing in front of the spot now taken up by Tūranga's Goods Entrance on Gloucester Street on the evening of 6 November 1872 you would have been looking across…
The Nerd Degree: WORD Christchurch Festival 2018
The thing I really enjoy about comedy podcast, The Nerd Degree, is that though there's generally a theme running through the episodes, you really never know what you're going to get. And neither do the panelists, for the most part. But a safe bet is that there'll be amazing facts, nerdy knowledge and plenty of…
Ted Chiang – Arrival: WORD Christchurch
American science fiction writer Ted Chiang has a very particular way of speaking. He pauses a lot to gather his thoughts, and the intonation, or melody, of his voice doesn't vary much. This can have the effect of making it feel that he is taking a very long time to get to the point. Fortunately…
Paraweta, Poo Bum, and stories in te reo
Like most kids my son enjoys stories before bedtime (which is just as well because his mum is a librarian and he was going to be getting them regardless). Like a lot of Kiwi parents I do my best to add some te reo Māori into the mix where I can, but my own Māori…
Mortification: WORD Christchurch Festival 2018
There are few things I enjoy as much as a true tale of shame and embarrassment told by a gifted spinner of yarns. Even better if the story in question doesn't have me as its protagonist, though this isn't compulsory. In fact, many's the time I've found myself in some ridiculous predicament only to think…
Timey-wimey stuff: WORD Christchurch Festival 2018
Last year, as part of WORD Christchurch's Autumn Season, James Gleick spoke on his wide-ranging cultural history of Time Travel. If you have any interest in, as Doctor Who puts it, "wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff" it's a great read. This WORD Christchurch Festival session brought together American author, Ted Chiang (whose novella, The Story of Your Life…
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