Shannan’s Reviews > Birnam Wood > Status Update

It hadn’t been until he’d gone abroad that he’d been able to identify this trait as itself peculiarly Kiwi, to do a thing with effort was always more respectable than to have it done with ease; inconvenience, in New Zealand, tended to be treated as a test of character, such that it was a point of national pride to be able to withstand discomfort or poor service without giving in to the temptation to complain

Only something that a person didn’t want to see in print was news, and everything else was advertising.

Definitely a ‘finish next year’ Book.