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Described as “a children’s book for adults”<\/em>, it certainly appears intriguing. I hope to enjoy a mini-Q&A about it with Nick sometime in the near future.<\/p>\n .<\/span><\/p>\n I met Marisa at the recent National Writers’ Forum and and learned that she had recently completed a novel set in post-earthquake Christchurch, hence the title. The tagline is, “After the natural disaster comes the manmade tragedy.”<\/em><\/p>\n As far as I know little fiction has yet been written about the 2010-11 earthquakes and their aftermath, and it is always challenging to fictionalise events one is close to, so this should be an interesting read — although being very much in aftermath mode still, I am not sure whether I am up to reading about it for entertainment yet!<\/p>\n .<\/span><\/p>\n Lee Murray is a friend and fellow member of SpecFicNZ and I discussed her junior novel, Battle of the Birds<\/em><\/a>, here in 2013. More recently Lee has focused on writing Horror for adults and Into the Mist<\/em> was published this year. It already has a significant number of reviews on Amazon, over that magic 50 mark that I discussed recently<\/a>, with an overall 4.4 rating, which is pretty impressive.<\/p>\n .<\/span><\/p>\n Needless to say, the TBR table is groaning — but I do not<\/em> say that like it is a bad thing. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes, reader-Helen chugs along quietly for months, working her way through the TBR table — and then, suddenly, there’ll be an inrush of new books. Last week was one of those weeks and here’s what the “new books, new books” fairy bought me: . The Curious Story of Harris and His Near Death Experience by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justarrived"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33402"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33413,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33402\/revisions\/33413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"harris-front-cover\"](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Harris-front-cover-150x150.jpg\")
<\/a>The Curious Story of Harris and His Near Death Experience<\/em><\/strong> by Christchurch poet and artist, Nick Williamson.<\/p>\n![\"bleak-city\"](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bleak-City-100x150.jpg\")
<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/span>
\n<\/em>Bleak City<\/em><\/strong> by Marisa Taylor<\/p>\n![\"into-the-mist\"](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Into-The-Mist-97x150.jpg\")
<\/a>Into The Mist<\/em><\/strong> by Lee Murray<\/p>\n