Welcome to Lit Illuminated! Today we're exploring The Book of I by David Greig
Join me as I pull this delightful book off the shelf and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you're a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this episode celebrates honesty, humor, and the courage to be vulnerable in our storytelling.
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated! Today we're exploring the Spiral of Time and the Connection to Books.
Join me as I pull this delightful book off the shelf and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you're a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this episode celebrates honesty, humor, and thecourage to be vulnerable in our storytelling.
BOOKS FEATURED:
Remembering Our Intimacies by JamaicaHeolimeleikalani Osorio
The Healers by Kimo Armitage
Pele and Hi’iaka by Nathanial B. Emerson
Special shout out to Basically Books in Hilo
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated! Today we're exploring All ThatWe Know by Shilo Kino. Where is dive into the way literature is here for us to understand ourselves. It is also here for us to see the world in a different way.
There is a reflection. It is a mirror. It allows us to delve deep into self in this space.
Join me as I pull this delightful book off the shelf and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you're a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this episode celebrates honesty, humor, and the courage to be vulnerable in our storytelling.
BOOK FEATURED:
All That We Know by Shilo Kino
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated! Today we're exploring Scotland: The Story of a Nation by Magnus Magnusson
Join me as I pull this delightful book off the shelf and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you're a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this episode celebrates honesty, humor, and the courage to be vulnerable in our storytelling.
BOOK FEATURED:
Scotland: The Story of a Nation by Magnus Magnusson
We are the Ocean by Epeli Hau’ofa
The Forgotten Coast by Richard Shaw
The Unfurling Frond by Rebecca Beardsall
A links from bookshop.org – please support local, independent bookstores when you can.
Hamster bookmark by Bellinghamsters
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated. Join me as I pull a book off theshelf of my library and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you’re a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this podcast takes you on an enlightening journey through the pages of classics and contemporary gems.
As a fellow book lover, I know the joy of being lost in theworld of books. I’m thrilled to have you join me on this journey with Lit Illuminated, where we celebrate the sheer pleasure of reading and exploring literature.
Today, we are looking I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest withYou by Miranda Hart
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated. Join me as I pull a book off theshelf of my library and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you’re a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this podcast takes you on an enlightening journey through the pages of classics and contemporary gems.
As a fellow book lover, I know the joy of being lost in theworld of books. I’m thrilled to have you join me on this journey with Lit Illuminated, where we celebrate the sheer pleasure of reading and exploring literature.
Today, we are looking at Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated. Join me as I pull a book off theshelf of my library and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you’re a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this podcast takes you on an enlightening journey through the pages of classics and contemporary gems.
As a fellow book lover, I know the joy of being lost in theworld of books. I’m thrilled to have you join me on this journey with Lit Illuminated, where we celebrate the sheer pleasure of reading and exploring literature.
Today, we are looking at Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir byTessa Hulls
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated. Join me as I pull a book off theshelf of my library and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you’re a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this podcast takes you on an enlightening journey through the pages of classics and contemporary gems.
As a fellow book lover, I know the joy of being lost in theworld of books. I’m thrilled to have you join me on this journey with Lit Illuminated, where we celebrate the sheer pleasure of reading and exploring literature.
Today, we are looking at Gabriële by Anne Berest and Claire Berest
A book with a message for me about the arts and being an illuminator as well as the important work of understanding the stories of our great-grandmothers.
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated. Join me as I pull a book off theshelf of my library and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you’re a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this podcast takes you on an enlightening journey through the pages of classics and contemporary gems.
As a fellow book lover, I know the joy of being lost in theworld of books. I’m thrilled to have you join me on this journey with Lit Illuminated, where we celebrate the sheer pleasure of reading and exploring literature.
Today, we are looking at Summer by Ali Smith
A book that delves into time that I just love. Swoon:
"Time is dimensional. Robert Greenlaw has just demonstrated not just the curve and dimensionality of time, but also its multiple nature and given himself a total high by affixing, irremovably, a piece of curved and dimensional time into the curved and dimension of a mortal hand."
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated. Join me as I pull a book off theshelf of my library and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you’re a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this podcast takes you on an enlightening journey through the pages of classics and contemporary gems.
As a fellow book lover, I know the joy of being lost in theworld of books. I’m thrilled to have you join me on this journey with Lit Illuminated, where we celebrate the sheer pleasure of reading and exploring literature.
Today, I am sharing with you a range of books that I readduring my time in Aotearoa. You can find the list of books mentioned here:
Tightrope by Selina Tusitala Marsh
All Sorts of Lives by Claire Harman
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated. Join me as I pull a book off theshelf of my library and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you’re a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this podcast takes you on an enlightening journey through the pages of classics and contemporary gems.
As a fellow book lover, I know the joy of being lost in theworld of books. I’m thrilled to have you join me on this journey with Lit Illuminated, where we celebrate the sheer pleasure of reading and exploring literature.
Today, I wanted to change course a little to talk to you about how I see this podcast as a space to help us heal, grow, and share our stories. And at the heart of that is building the muscle memory.
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated. Join me as I pull a book off theshelf of my library and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you’re a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this podcast takes you on an enlightening journey through the pages of classics and contemporary gems.
As a fellow book lover, I know the joy of being lost in theworld of books. I’m thrilled to have you join me on this journey with Lit Illuminated, where we celebrate the sheer pleasure of reading and exploring literature.
Today, we are looking at Black Woods Blue Sky byEowyn Ivey
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated. Join me as I pull a book off theshelf of my library and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you’re a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this podcast takes you on an enlightening journey through the pages of classics and contemporary gems.
As a fellow book lover, I know the joy of being lost in theworld of books. I’m thrilled to have you join me on this journey with Lit Illuminated, where we celebrate the sheer pleasure of reading and exploring literature.
Today, we are looking at Reading the Waves by LidiaYuknavitch
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated. Join me as I pull a book off theshelf of my library and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you’re a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this podcast takes you on an enlightening journey through the pages of classics and contemporary gems.
As a fellow book lover, I know the joy of being lost in theworld of books. I’m thrilled to have you join me on this journey with Lit Illuminated, where we celebrate the sheer pleasure of reading and exploring literature.
Today, we are looking at From Under the Truck by Josh Brolin
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated. Join me as I pull a book off the shelf of my library and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you’re a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this podcast takes you on an enlightening journey through the pages of classics and contemporary gems.
As a fellow book lover, I know the joy of being lost in the world of books. I’m thrilled to have you join me on this journey with Lit Illuminated, where we celebrate the sheer pleasure of reading and exploring literature.
Today, we are looking at Kataraina by Becky Manawatu
Throughout the novel, we glimpse moments that are layering and creating a story a moment at a time. This layering makes Kataraina a marvelous work of fiction, bringing together multiple lives into a single storyline. The First-Person ,Plural point of view is a brilliant way for Manawatu to weave time and
generations within a single novel.
Book blurb:
In Auē eight-year-old Ārama was taken by his brother, Taukiri, to live with Kat and Stu at the farm in Kaikōura, setting in train the tragedy that unfolded. Ārama’s aunty Kat was at the centre of events, but silenced by abuse her voice was absent from the story.
In Kataraina, Kat and her whānau take over the telling. As one, they return to her childhood and the time when she first began to feel the greenness of the swamp in her veins – the swamp that holds her tears and the tears of her tīpuna, the swamp on the land owned by Stu that has been growing since the girl shot the man.
Becky Manawatu’s new novel is the much-awaited sequel to award-winning bestseller Auē and is unflinching in its portrayal of the destructive ways people love one another and the ancestral whenua on which they stand.
New Zealand book retailer that ships to the US - https://www.mightyape.co.nz/mn/buy/mighty-ape-kataraina-38920778/
Looks like it comes out September 2025 in the USA, and you can pre-order it on Bookshop.org
Note: Kataraina is a sequel to Becky Manawatu’s Auē
Other books quoted:
John Gardner The Art of Fiction
James Wood How Fiction Works
Robert Boswell The Half-Known World on Writing Fiction
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated. Join me as I pull a book off the shelf of my library and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you’re a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this podcast takes you on an enlightening journey through the pages of classics and contemporary gems.
As a fellow book lover, I know the joy of being lost in the world of books. I’m thrilled to have you join me on this journey with Lit lluminated, where we celebrate the sheer pleasure of reading and exploring literature.
Today we are looking at The Serviceberry: Abundance and reciprocity in the natural world
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (author of the much-loved and read, Braiding Sweetgrass)
This Lit Illuminated is going to be slightly different to my other posts, but I love it when literature reaches out into a life and connects the dots. This is part of the message I’ve been talking about here on this platform and on Instagram – the way that books connect us, help us understand ourselves and the world around us.
Two other podcasts/posts mentioned in this episode are linked below:
Āio: a road to peace – Episode 17: Education & Decolonisation
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0FX6zqOhK6Xr7dHuePXB40?si=c4385dcaa84e4cf3
Apple- https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/17-education-decolonisation/id1633753649?i=1000615851872
Āio: a road to peace website - https://www.aiothepodcast.com
Soul33 Monday Mantra (Dec 9)
YouTube - https://youtu.be/12OA-ZKdWvY?si=aNRaZLrgPlHXReYE
Soul33 Website - https://www.soul33.com/
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated. Join me as I pull a book off the shelf of my library and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you’re a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this podcast takes you on an enlightening journey through the pages of classics and contemporary gems.
As a fellow book lover, I know the joy of being lost in the world of books. I’m thrilled to have you join me on this journey with Lit Illuminated, where we celebrate the sheer pleasure of reading and exploring literature.
Today we are exploring and discussing Cacophony of Bone: The Circle of a Year by Kerri ni Dochartaigh. We look at themes, form, and the ways that we are connected as writers.
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated. Join me as I pull a book off the shelf of my library and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you’re a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this podcast takes you on an enlightening journey through the pages of classics and contemporary gems.
As a fellow book lover, I know the joy of being lost in the world of books. I’m thrilled to have you join me on this journey with Lit Illuminated, where we celebrate the sheer pleasure of reading and exploring literature.
Today, we are exploring and discussing Real Ones by Katherena Vermette. I wanted to take a moment to share the insights I had recently on Vermette’s book and the concept of how literature connects us to ourselves and the world around us.
Thank you, Massy Books, for shipping to the USA so I could get my hands on this fabulous book.
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated. Join me as I pull a book off the shelf of my library and share my study of patterns and insights with you.
Whether you’re a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this podcast takes you on an enlightening journey through the pages of classics and contemporary gems.
As a fellow book lover, I know the joy of being lost in the world of books. I’m thrilled to have you join me on this journey with Lit Illuminated, where we celebrate the sheer pleasure of reading and exploring literature.
Today we are exploring and discussing How to Know a Person by David Brooks. I wanted to take a moment to share the insights I had recently on Brooks’ book and the concept of how literature connects us to ourselves and the world around us.
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Welcome to Lit Illuminated. Join me as I pull a book off the shelf of my library and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you’re a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this podcast takes you on an enlightening journey through the pages of classics and contemporary gems.
As a fellow book lover, I know the joy of being lost in the world of books. I’m thrilled to have you join me on this journey with Lit Illuminated, where we celebrate the sheer pleasure of reading and exploring literature.
Today we are exploring and discussing Bad Indians by Deborah A. Miranda. I wanted to take a moment to share the insights I had recently on Miranda’s book and the concept of story-bridges and the spiral of time.
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