Gaming Review: Rocksmith

If Lorde has inspired you to unleash your inner musician, then look no further than the awesome video game “Rocksmith”.  Available from ... Read more »

Anzac Inspired Reading

Anzac Day (Friday 25 April) is our annual day of remembrance for the Kiwi and Australian soldiers who fought at Gallipoli during World War ... Read more »

Get off the couch: Stuff to do at Auckland Libraries these holidays

While many of us could lie on the couch and watch movies or sit and play Xbox for the whole school holidays, if that’s not your thing (or i... Read more »

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Based on Marvel's 1981   Uncanny X-Men  storyline  Days of Future Past  by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, this time-travelling film... Read more »

The Fault in Our Stars Sounds Like

The Fault in Our Stars soundtrack listing is out ! And if I wasn't already crazy excited about this movie, this might just push me o... Read more »

Book vs Film - Catching Fire

Talk to many (any) readers and eventually the question will come up.  Is the book better than the movie?  Do the pictures in your own imagi... Read more »

Mini-reviews - The 2014 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards Finalists

We got our reviewing groove on and here, for your reading pleasure, are our thoughts on all five finalists in the Best Young Adult Fiction... Read more »

The Winter Soldier

Two years since Captain America graced our screens in The Avengers  and three since Captain America: The First Avenger , we are again tr... Read more »

Recommendation: The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney

As a kid I always felt kind of special because I was one of four brothers and sisters.  That was until I read Susan Cooper’s series The Da... Read more »