Loop Tracks | 
so-soAbortion is illegal in New Zealand and clearly sex ed isn‘t the best, as 16 year old Charlie sits on a plane waiting to go to Australia for her abortion. But the plane is long delayed and her choices, which she doesn‘t truly understand, reverberate. Parts of this book were great, but it delved into COVID in a way that felt got it off track from the otherwise tight narrative. Ultimately, I found it uneven.
Friday Reads September 29: Orange Shirt Day; Shorty September; picture books; NZ fiction
https://youtu.be/VP7P1VUU3VQ
https://youtu.be/UvXj47kX5WI?si=KOg2uTd8OtpcHI34
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Intro
Weekly Highlights
Loop Tracks by Sue Orr
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
Cecily by Annie Garthwaite
Dot & Ralfie by Amy Hoffman
The Rider by Tim Krabbé, Sam Garrett (Translator)
Pearl by Siân Hughes
https://youtu.be/AjePaaBiUng
A playlist of all episodes in the Bite-sized Book Chat series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-61cZp1pQdBH5V0Zb9q-2ujl4PY8nhf
Chat #1: with Olivia from Auckland
Loop Tracks by Sue Orr
pickWell well well, New Zealand fiction, and pandemic literature truly is alive and well. Orr‘s novel is at its heart about choices and connection. Against two stark political backdrops (1978 abortion debate, and 2020 pandemic and general election referenda) Orr explores the impact that the loss of choice has on individual human experience. The concepts of autonomy and the greater good are weighty ones and Orr grapples with them authentically.
